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Minnesota
Pebblebrook Hotel Trust recently acquired The Grand Hotel Minneapolis for $33 million. The 140-room hotel, featuring the 58,000-square-foot Life Time Athletic Club and Life Spa, is located in downtown Minneapolis. The hotel will be managed by Kimpton Hotels and Restaurants and features 140 guest rooms, including 21 suites and a 3,500-square-foot presidential suite. The property has over 6,500 square feet of flexible meeting space as well as a lounge and business center. The company plans to invest approximately $4.5 million over the next 12 to 24 months in a refurbishment of guest rooms, the lobby and other various public area improvements. For more information, call 612.288.8888.
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F&B Strategies
The Meat of the Matter
By ARLENE SHEFF
As a veteran meeting planner, many of my colleagues ask me for tips about saving on F&B costs—often the second-largest budget item in a meeting. Following is a list I've compiled that planners can clip and save to use when organizing their next meeting.
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Doing good translates into a good reputation for your company or organization, a loyal customer base and the resulting boost to the bottom line. Join Meetings Media, the Hilton Head Island VCB and nationally acclaimed author and speaker Tim Sanders for an hour-long video webinar that demonstrates the value corporate social responsibility programs bring to your organization and best-practices for planning them.
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