San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York,
Washington, D.C., Seattle, Las Vegas, San
Diego, Boston, Fort Lauderdale, Orlando,
Dallas, Los Cabos and Cancun.
Expected to have approximately 330
guest rooms and nearly 20,000 square feet
of meeting space — including a
5,000-square-foot ballroom — The
Langham Chicago Hotel will be
Langham’s third U.S. property. Scheduled
to open in 2012, it will occupy floors two
through 13 of 330 N. Wabash, as well as a
portion of the 52-story building’s first
floor and riverfront plaza.
Under construction since 2008, the
$787 million annex to the Pennsylvania
Convention;Center in downtown
Philadelphia is finally complete. Officially
opened during a March 4 ribbon-cutting
ceremony, the expansion — which is one
of the largest public works projects ever
undertaken by the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania — increases the facility’s
footprint by 62 percent. It includes 935,000
square feet of brand-new usable space,
including more than 528,000 square feet
of new contiguous exhibit space, 23 new
meeting rooms, three new exhibit halls
and a new 56,000-square-foot ballroom, all
of which give the facility the rare ability to
simultaneously host two citywide conventions under one roof. The Pennsylvania
Convention Center Authority will host
an official national grand opening celebration for the expanded Pennsylvania
Convention Center next month.
Correction
In the March 2011 issue, “Who’s Going to Eat Your Lunch” is a condensed version
of a whitepaper prepared by the Association Forum of Chicagoland’s Key 25 Group
1 – Subgroup 1. All subgroup members should have been listed as contributing
authors. They are: Nancy L. Anderson, CPA, MBA, CAE, director of finance and
administration, American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons; Burt Blanchard,
director, business relations and solutions, Council of Supply Chain Management
Professionals; Karen A. Hurley, deputy executive director, Catholic Press
Association of the United States and Canada; Celeste G. Kirschner, CAE, director
of member services, American Society of Anesthesiologists; Eileen M. Murray, MM,
CFRE, CAE, deputy executive director, American Academy of Dermatology; Robert
Nelson, senior vice president, marketing and strategic business development, and
managing director, global operations, American Health Information Management
Association; and Evan Williams, vice president, external relations, Mechanical
Contractors Association. FORUM regrets the error.
Construction officially began early this
year on the new;Cleveland;Medical
Mart;&;Convention;Center in downtown
Cleveland. Scheduled for completion in
September 2013, the new facility will have
approximately 100,000 square feet of permanent showrooms available for lease
by medical manufacturers, as well as
230,000 square feet of exhibit space and
over 92,000 square feet of meeting space,
including a grand ballroom overlooking
Lake Erie.
One of the most architecturally significant
buildings on Chicago’s riverfront, architect Mies van der Rohe’s 330 N. Wabash,
will soon have a new luxury hotel inside
it, according to London-based Langham
Hotels;and;Resorts, which recently
announced plans to open a new hotel
inside the landmark Chicago office building.
