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  • Search results for: orleans "convention center"

124 Search Results Found For: "orleans "convention center""

  • A new riverfront hotel for New Orleans? Convention Center again touts the idea

    The Ernest N. Morial Convention Center’s management is making a renewed push for a riverfront hotel, arguing that a strong rebound in the hospitality sector this year helps underpin the project&
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  • New Orleans Convention Center to revive riverfront hotel project; here’s what it could look like

    The Ernest N. Morial Convention Center’s plans for a riverfront hotel crumbled in October when its financial backers pulled out, citing worries about the long-term health of the city’s tourism
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  • New Orleans Convention Center’s major $560M hotel project is in doubt; here’s why

    The financial backer of the 1,200-room hotel at the upriver end of the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center has pulled out of the project, putting the future of the development in doubt as the coronavir
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  • $1M donated by New Orleans’ convention center — but labor activists call for much more

    The Ernest N. Morial Convention Center’s oversight board on Wednesday approved a donation of $1 million to support programs for “needy hospitality workers due to COVID-19,” which wil
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  • Major labor union threatens to cancel convention in New Orleans if Convention Center doesn’t address local workers’ demands for relief

    The Communications Workers of America, the largest communications and media labor union in the country, is threatening to pull its August 2021 convention if the center doesn’t negotiate with local g
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  • Watchdog group in New Orleans calls for pause of Convention Center hotel project

    A new 1,200-room hotel at the Morial Convention Center downtown is a risky proposal now that the coronavirus has disrupted New Orleans’ tourism industry and its major business meeting schedule. That
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  • Why watchdog is urging Convention Center in New Orleans to rethink hotel project

    The Bureau of Governmental Research, a public policy watchdog, has called on leaders of the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center to rethink plans to build a large hotel, saying it is an especially bad u
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  • Controversial New Orleans convention center hotel bill gets OK; a look at what’s next

    The controversial 1,200-room hotel proposed for the upriver end of the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center passed a major milestone on Friday, when a hard-fought legislative bill laying out the terms
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  • Our Views: Non-transparent Topgolf deal lands New Orleans Convention Center in PR sand trap

    The Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, a major player in the New Orleans tourism industry, is sitting on some $200 million in tax money — funds generated for a center expansion that was scrapped a
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  • New Orleans Convention Center leaders say $1.1 billion investment will pay off, but will it?

    Build it and they will come. That’s the rosy forecast by officials from the New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, who are in the beginning stages of a $1.1 billion spending plan that they
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