It s new. It s shiny. But Sacramento s $245M convention center is stuck in COVID limbo
Sacramento Bee 3/10/2021 Dale Kasler, The Sacramento Bee
Mar. 9 In the hyper-competitive world of business conventions, Sacramento would seem to be sitting pretty.
The city s convention center is the newest and the shiniest, says Mike Testa of Visit Sacramento with a new ballroom and thousands of square feet in additional floor space, thanks to a $245 million renovation that s nearing completion after two years of work. It also has 14 conventions booked for later this year, events that could bring as many as 60,000 visitors to the city.
But what Sacramento s convention center lacks, like others in California, is permission from Gov. Gavin Newsom to reopen. The state s convention centers don t have guidelines from the California Department of Public Health on what it would take to allow conventioneers to begin strolling through their doors.
February 19, 2021
SACRAMENTO, Calif., February 18, 2021…Due to the strong interest in diversity and inclusion issues, and the very positive response to the two sessions on the topic at the 2021 Unified Wine and Grape Symposium, the Unified decided to make recordings of the sessions available to view for free.
The two sessions are: Strength in Diversity: Achieving Meaningful Change for Business Success in the Wine Industry, featuring Dorothy Gaiter of Grape Collective, Vinny Eng of SF New Deal, Theresa Heredia of Gary Farrell Winery, Carlton McCoy of Heitz Cellar and Dan Vu of E. & J. Gallo. Herstory: A Lesson in Leadership for the Wine Business, featuring Leticia Chacon-Rodriguez of UC Davis, Kimberly Charles of Charles Communications, Remi Cohen of Domaine Carneros, Mimi Casteel of Hope Well Wine and Karen Ross, Secretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture.