Omaha: A New Choice for Planners

Omaha, Nebraska's, new $281 million, 336,200-square-foot convention center and arena is scheduled to open in August 2003. The flexible main exhibition hall will offer 195,000 square feet of continuous flat floor area. The center's horseshoe-shaped arena will accommodate up to 17,000 people and the 30,500-square-foot grand ballroom will seat 2,183 banquet-style. The center will also offer more than a dozen meeting rooms that will total 32,700 square feet of space. A large pre-function area, as