Short Takes

Museums

• Charlotte’s Mint Museums are expanding and will anchor the Wachovia South Tryon project being developed, which will include condominiums, retail establishments and an office complex. There will be two floors of galleries, one dedicated to the Mint Museum of Craft + Design and one dedicated to the Mint Museum of Art. The Craft + Design museum will relocate from 10,000 square feet of gallery space in its current North Tryon Street facility into 18,000 square feet of gallery space in the new building on the Center City cultural campus. Also included in the cultural plaza will be the Bechtler Museum, the Afro-American Cultural Center and a 1,200-seat theater managed by the Performing Arts Center with the North Carolina Dance Theatre as a primary tenant. The new facility for the Mint Museums will encompass about 145,000 square feet and will host major traveling exhibitions. The new Center City building is slated for completion in early 2010 and a grand opening set for fall 2010. For more information, call 704.337.2000 or visit www.mintmuseum.org.

• Horseshoe Bay Resort is giving planners the opportunity to choose their reward for booking a meeting in Texas Hill Country. Planners who book a meeting with 100 or more room nights by Dec. 31 will receive a 15 percent discount on all in-house audiovisual, one complimentary room for every 25 to 35 rooms utilized per night, one suite upgrade, and a 10 percent discount on all food and beverage, among other benefits. The offer is valid for groups from Sunday through Thursday in September, October and November, or any day in December. For meetings, the resort offers 50,000 square feet of meeting space, including a 12,000-square-foot ballroom. For more information, call 830.598.2399 or visit www.hsbresort.com.

• The Hilton Miami Airport Hotel was recently designated a member of the State of Florida’s Green Lodging program. The 500-room hotel offers a small-plate reception of fresh Florida produce and fish as well as locally grown and organic products, among other initiatives. The Hilton recently unveiled a company-wide five-year sustainability commitment to helping reduce energy consumption by 20 percent; Co2 emissions by 20 percent; waste output by 20 percent; and water consumption by 10 percent. For more information, call 305.262.1000 or visit www1.hilton.com.