RE: COMMON Conference locations.

In Denver, the convention center was so far from the hotel, that you had to
take a street car.

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How about:

Williamsburg, VA
Charleston, SC
Portland, OR
Seattle, WA
Corpus Christi, TX
Albuquerque, NM
Denver, CO
Raleigh, NC
St. Louis, MO
Jacksonville, FL

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: COMMON Conference locations.
> From: JOberholtzer@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Thu, July 14, 2005 12:00 pm
> To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> <snip>
> So, anyway, now that COMMON attendance is down, I wonder if it would be
> possible to have COMMON in an interesting location. Orlando and Anaheim
> have to be two of the blandest cities around. NOLA is always
> interesting, but it's old hat. Miami may be interesting though.
> </snip>
>
> OK, this is a question that the COMMON board and many of the rest of us
> have been struggling with.
>
> Definition:  Destination City:  A city that has several thousand hotel
> rooms within reasonable walking distance of a massive convention center,
> IE:  Las Vegas, Orlando, New Orleans, San Francisco, Boston, New York,
> Chicago etc..  These cities have a significant draw, but are expensive to
> stay in.
>
> We now have come to an attendance level at COMMON where many cities
outside
> of the "Destination Cities" criteria that has been used in the past to
> determine where to go is no longer valid.  We don't need as many meeting
> rooms and hotel rooms as we used to, so cities like (duck and run)
> Milwaukee, WI, Grand Rapids, MI, and many others can now support COMMON
> where once before they could not.  Even the NAACP is in Milwaukee this
> week.
>
> So, the question is:  Where should we look to put the conferences in the
> near future?  The contracts for the convention centers do not run out as
> far as they used to, so there is some flexibility in planning.
>
> Please speak up.  Contact me privately if you do not want to use the
list.
>
> BTW:  if you are a COMMON member, and have not yet voted in the COMMON
> board election, please do so.  The end of the voting is tomorrow.
> There are five candidates for the board: myself, Larry Bolhuis, Beverly
> Russell,  Bruce Collins, and Leo Lefebvre.  Please vote for three.
>
> Jim Oberholtzer
>
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