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News Continued from page 8 Anaheim Gets Proposals for Expanded Exhibit, Meeting Space By Hil Anderson, senior editor Anaheim, CA – The Anaheim City Council will decide in June on a contractor for an expansion of the Anaheim Convention Center that will likely add around 200,000 square feet of flexible exhibit and meeting space. Three companies submitted bids for the project, which will also include a three-diamond hotel and is slated for completion in 2012. The expansion, the sixth for the building, is planned for four acres on the northeast corner of the convention center and will require demolition of a parking structure. Greg Smith, executive director of the convention center, told Trade Show Executive that the proposals all hovered around 200,000 square feet of exhibit and meeting space, 1,700 to 2,000 parking spaces and a 400 to 500 room hotel. “The meeting room and exhibit space allocation is not firm, but I expect that any meeting room space will be able to be converted to exhibit space,” Smith said. “One plan calls for a 60,000 square foot ballroom that would not be considered as swing space.” The convention center currently offers 815,000 square feet of prime exhibit space and 130,000 square feet of meeting space. A major goal of the expansion is to increase the ratio of exhibit to meeting space. “Many of the top conventions and trade shows require more meeting space than is currently available at the convention center,” the city said in its RFP. “An increase in flexible meeting space resulting in a higher ratio of exhibit space to meeting space will allow the convention center to attract more business by more easily overlapping separate events.” The project will be financed by public bonds that would pay for the hotel. Revenues from the hotel would be used to fund the actual expansion. Reach Greg Smith at (714) 765-8920 or gsmith@anaheim.net Wynn Envisions New Exhibit Space By Hil Anderson, senior editor Las Vegas, NV – Wynn Resorts is developing plans for a pair of new Las Vegas Strip hotels that will offer nearly 1.7 million square feet of new exhibit space and feature an underground tram running to the Las Vegas Convention Center. Casino mogul Stephen Wynn said in a May 1 conference call announcing First Quarter 2008 earnings that the project was on the drawing board for the 240-acre site currently occupied by Wynn Las Vegas, the soon-to-open Encore, and a 142-acre golf course. “We will have 4,800 to 4,900 rooms here in a few months and we want to go to 10,000 rooms,” Wynn told Wall St. analysts. “So we’re planning two new hotels of approximately 2,600 rooms apiece that will straddle 1.6 million to 1.8 million feet—it depends on how you count it—of exhibit space.” Wynn stressed that the exhibit space would be an easy 150-ft. stroll from the two envisioned hotels, sparing show organizers the need to arrange transportation for their attendees. In addition, Wynn said a subway was being planned that would whisk people from the hotels to the nearby Las Vegas Convention Center and Sands Expo & Convention Center free of charge. “Now everybody will be able to go from their 10,000 rooms into the exhibit space or to the Sands or to the Las Vegas Convention Center without having to get a taxi,” he said. The plans call for the back-of-thehouse operations to be underground, ensuring attendees of unobstructed views of the landscaped grounds and water features. No timetable was announced for the project. Wynn said preliminary drawings began earlier this Spring and that his company intends to take its time in the design phase of new development. However, he told the analysts that the time had come for Wynn to take advantage of the property’s prime location in the neighborhood of the sprawling Sands and Las Vegas Convention Center: “We’re going to flex a little Las Vegas muscle at the convention business,” he said. Reach Jeff Gloeb, vice president of hotel sales, at (702) 770-4433 or jgloeb@ wynnlasvegas.com Continued on page 12 10 June 2008 Trade Show Executive www.TradeShowExecutive.com
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