BOSTON
The American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance’s 127th annual meeting was meant to kick off March 13-17 at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, but most of the event now has been canceled after a nearby electrical transformer fire knocked out power to the building on the event’s opening day.
The power outage not only impacted the meeting in the city’s Back Bay neighborhood, but also more than 20,000 residences and several surrounding businesses, including the Hilton, Westin and Sheraton hotels.
When the power was still out the morning of March 15, the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority, which oversees the Hynes, and AAHPERD meeting representatives announced most aspects of the event, which had an expected 6,000 attendees and exhibit space at the Hynes, would be canceled because of health and safety issues.
AAHPERD’s annual meeting is on the books again in 2017 in Boston.
