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With Debut Of Flashy Fountains, Convention Center Improvements Come Full Circle – So What’s Next?

Release Date: 2018-06-18

By: Samantha Mehlinger

The debut of the new Terrace Theater plaza fountains in mid-May represented the culmination of a master plan to transform the Long Beach Convention & Entertainment Center’s underutilized venues into turnkey event spaces that are not only contemporary, functional and visually unique, but that also offer a cost savings to clients.

Charlie Beirne, left, general manager of the Long Beach Convention & Entertainment Center, and Steve Goodling, president and CEO of the Long Beach Convention & Visitors Bureau, have collaborated over the past several years to position Long Beach as one of the top destination cities in the country.  (Photograph by Matt Fukushima)

As a result of the innovation behind these improvements, both the center itself and the Long Beach Convention & Visitors Bureau (CVB) have been recognized again and again for excellence in the convention industry. In 2017, the CVB was named “Best CVB in the West” at the Stella Awards, put on by two of the industry’s largest publications, Successful Meetings Magazine and Meetings & Conventions Magazine. 

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