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Published on April 29, 2008 at 3:51pm
Cities continue to amass new facilities and entertainment districts, even though the convention trade is stagnant. The insanity of this proposition seems obvious. "At some point, somebody has to jump off the merry-go-round," a financial consultant told a St. Louis Post-Dispatch business columnist last December.
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ERIC BARTON
The downtown Marriott just isn't good enough anymore.
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Convention hotels, Kansas City Council, Future Farmers of America, Marriott, Bartle HallAs for the FFA, the organization broke hearts again in January, when it omitted Kansas City from its list of possible convention sites for 2013-19. The FFA meets this fall in Indianapolis, having abandoned Louisville due to a lack of a hotel rooms.
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