Congratulations to Chef Allan Wambaa—who we featured in our December/January issue of FM magazine with his tips for venues to consider when setting up a farm-to-table program—on earning his ProChef III certification. Wambaa is the executive chef of the Oregon Convention Center (home o

The big Blue Bear has something new to look at in the Colorado Convention Center. In a public-private partnership between the City & County of Denver and SMG (the center’s management firm), $235,000 worth of new art has been installed in its halls. Local artists created all

TED 2014 started yesterday. The annual talk-fest takes places in Vancouver, British Columbia, this year instead of its regular home in Long Beach, California. Moving the event to a new venue caused it to try something new, namely, building its own 20,000-square-foot theater inside the

This news just came over the press wire (a fancy way of saying it arrived in my email inbox). The Oregon Convention Center has achieved LEED Platinum certification. This makes it only one of two U.S. convention centers to hold that distinction. “For the Oregon Convention Center to ach

The Anaheim Convention Center expansion was approved by the city council on Tuesday night. The 200,000-square-foot expansion will cost $180 million and will begin this summer. It is set to be completed by fall 2016. “The feedback from potential clients like the American Heart Associat