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Conference Center
built 87 days ago
Although the Conference Center is a modern steel truss and rebar-based design without need for masonry support, the LDS Church sought slabs of granite to clad all exterior walls. Specifically, the church wanted granite to match rock quarried one hundred years earlier to build the adjacent Salt Lake Temple. Therefore, the LDS Church requested a permit to quarry granite from Little Cottonwood Canyon southeast of Salt Lake City. The Salt Lake County Commission granted a two-year permit on condition that extraction not interfere with the ski season. Critics of the extraction argued that the quarry harmed the environment and burdened residents while endangering drivers through Little Cottonwood Canyon below.
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Opened in the summer of 2003, the Georgia Tech Hotel & Conference Center is one of Atlanta's finest IACC approved meeting facilities with 21,000 square feet of high-tech meeting space and 252 deluxe guestrooms. The upscale Hotel and Conference Center features executive meeting space supported by the most sophisticated and technologically advanced equipment including wireless and hard-wire Internet throughout the property. Additional features include: enhanced stationary continuous-break areas and upscale conference dining. The meeting and event space features 18 function rooms including a 7,200-square foot Ballroom that is divisible by six. In addition, the adjacent Global Learning and Conference Center offers three 75-seat amphitheatres, 125-seat amphitheater, 250-seat amphitheater, plus a selection of meeting rooms.
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This spring, Montreat Conference Center offers an exciting trio of conferences for church leaders and clergy. You still have time to register for the new Solo to Multi-Staff Conference, March 30-April 4, designed to help pastors transition from a smaller congregation to working with staff in a large program; Healthy Congregations Facilitator Training, March 31-April 2, preparing participants to lead a congregation through Healthy Congregations workshops and Family Systems Theory; and the new Associate Pastors Conference, March 31-April 3, geared toward the ministry and needs of associate pastors.
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The 1.4 million square foot (130,000 m2) Conference Center seats 21,200 people in its main auditorium. This includes the rostrum behind the pulpit facing the audience, which provides seating at general conference for 158 general authorities and general officers of the church and the 360-voice Mormon Tabernacle Choir. The auditorium is large enough to hold two Boeing 747s inside. All seats in the audience have an unobstructed view of the pulpit because the balcony is held up by radial trusses. This construction method allows the balcony to sink a full 6 inches under full capacity. Behind the podium is a 7,667-pipe and 130-rank pipe organ.
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Mohican Resort & Conference Center is operated by Xanterra Parks & Resorts, a park management company selected and contracted by the Ohio State Department of Natural Resources. Xanterra Parks & Resorts is the largest park-management company in the country, with operations spanning from the desert of Death Valley National Park to the swamplands of Everglades National Park.
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Mountainside is a purpose built Conference Center located on the campus of Bethany College, West Virginia, a short 50 minutes from Pittsburgh International Airport. Expertly equipped and professionally staffed, Mountainside is designed to host strategic planning training, development, retreats, conferences, and meetings of all types in a focused, educational setting. Mountainside features a 125-seat Amphitheater with 11 breakout rooms, a dining facility staffed with an executive chef, and a 40-room full service hotel.
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