* Previewing Pittsburgh's New Center

Meeting managers visiting the Pittsburgh booth at the American Society of Association Executives Annual Meeting in Orlando in August got a preview of the stunning new David L. Lawrence Convention Center, now under construction. The $328 million center will provide 335,000 square feet of exhibition space (250,000 square feet of which is column-free), 49 meeting rooms, 37 loading docks, and a 35,000-square-foot ballroom and is expected to be completed in March 2003. Among its notable design