Meeting News - May 5, 2008 - (Page 26)

Destination Insider: San Francisco Edited by Rayna Katz rayna.katz@nielsen.com Moscone Center Gets a New Neighbor Groups headed to the City by the Bay have a new lodging option at the convention center. The 550room InterContinental San Francisco has opened next to the Moscone Convention Center complex. San Francisco’s newest hotel plans to be a player in meetings, both for citywide conventions and self- contained programs. The property has 34,000 sf of meeting space indoors, and over 10,000 sf outdoors. “Group business is our predominant market, because of our location,” said Gail Gerber, director of sales and marketing. “In fact, the day before we opened, we checked in delegates for the American Association of Orthopaedic Surgeons’ convention.” Each floor of the 32-story blue glass skyscraper features 22 guest rooms, all outfitted with floor-toceiling windows, a flat-screen plasma television, three telephones, and wireless Internet access. The hotel’s indoor meeting space features natural lighting through floor-to-ceiling windows. It includes a 6,800-sf ballroom, a 5,400-sf junior ballroom, and 21 breakout rooms. Two outdoor terraces of 5,406 sf and 5,132 sf, with the latter space opening off of the hotel’s sixth-floor club lounge, are available for private functions. Also on the sixth floor is a full-service spa with 10 treatment rooms, a fitness center, and an indoor lap pool. The InterContinental’s fine-dining restaurant, Luce, sits next to Bar 888 on the main floor. New InterCon adds rooms for Moscone CC. Cultural Venue Next Month Will Offer New Event Spaces The new 63,000-sf Daniel Libeskind-designed home of the Contemporary Jewish Museum is set to open on June 8. The facility will feature an education center, cafe, and shop, and various spaces for special events. There will be the 2,500-sf Grand Lobby, a 3,300-sf high-tech multi-purpose room, and three galleries, including a 2,200-sf space that reaches 60 feet at its highest point. The latter gallery was built to feature ascending movement into a light-filled “yud” (a Hebrew letter like “Y” in English that begins the words Jew, God, and Jerusalem) shape. It is meant to represent the “yud,” and offer a source of inspiration. r —Section written by Heidi Waldrop Bay www.meetingnews.com 25,000 SQUARE FEET OF EVENT SPACE. HOTEL NIKKO IS THE ONLY HOTEL IN SAN FRANCISCO TO WIN BOTH THE 2007 PINNACLE AWARD AND THE 2007 GOLD KEY AWARD. 1.866.447.1183 :: 222 MASON STREET, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102 AAA FOUR DIAMOND AWARD :: WWW.HOTELNIKKOSF.COM 26 MeetingNews May 5, 2008 http://WWW.HOTELNIKKOSF.COM http://WWW.HOTELNIKKOSF.COM http://WWW.HOTELNIKKOSF.COM http://www.meetingnews.com http://www.meetingnews.com

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