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Consultant advises city to expand convention center

Associated Press — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 12:16:13 +0000

NATCHEZ — Natchez Convention Center managers say a multi-million-dollar expansion of the center will be needed in two years. The Natchez Democrat reports New Orleans Hotel Consultants president Warren Reuther told Mayor Butch Brown and aldermen at a meeting last week that the center is rapidly approaching 70-percent capacity. Convention center manager Walter Tipton said [...]

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Delta city officials ask lawmakers again for lodging tax

Associated Press — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 13:41:16 +0000

GREENWOOD — Officials have asked the Legislature to approve a 2-cent increase in the local lodging tax so the city of Greenwood can renovated a local warehouse into a convention center. It will be third time the city has asked for the increase. The Greenwood Commonwealth reports both previous times the request for a lodging [...]

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Brown Bottling gets contract extension for convention center

MBJ Staff — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 14:31:41 +0000

JACKSON and RIDGELAND — SMG, managers of the Jackson Convention Complex (JCC), has renewed its commercial rights marketing partnership with Brown Bottling Group, extending Brown’s designation as the exclusive beverage provider of the Jackson Convention Complex for an additional two years. Terms were not disclosed. Through the new agreement, Ridgeland-based Brown will retain its exclusive [...]

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Jackson Convention Complex, Trustmark extend marketing partnership

MBJ Staff — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 22:02:31 +0000

JACKSON — SMG, managers of the Jackson Convention Complex, reports the Jackson Convention Complex and Trustmark National Bank have renewed their commercial rights marketing partnership, extending Trustmark’s designation as the exclusive bank of the Jackson Convention Complex for an additional three years. SMG general manager Kelvin Moore said, “Trustmark was one of the original marketing [...]

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MBJ EDITORIAL: ‘Facilitate’ some sunshine on Jackson convention hotel deal

MBJ Staff — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 22:10:34 +0000

Our capital city wants to go into the hospitality business by co-signing a $96 million loan for a 16-floor convention headquarters hotel. Yet Jackson taxpayers — the exact same ones who’ll have to make up the difference if the hotel lands in the red — know few of the details of the deal and even [...]

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Bigger, better

Lynn Lofton — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 06:00:17 +0000

Coast now waiting for the masses to gather The multi-million-dollar expansion at the Mississippi Coast Convention Center is complete and ready to welcome large gatherings. The state-of-the-art facility expresses the flavor of the Coast in its design with shades of blue and a swooping roofline that resembles a wave. Space for meetings, conventions and trade [...]

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