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75 Lake Lanier Island Alpharetta Marietta College Park Atlanta 20 Augusta 85 Braselton Athens Peachtree City 85 75 Callaway Macon Gardens 185 Columbus GEORGIA Savannah 95 St. Simons Island Jekyll Island 16 Albany 75 Brunswick Valdosta Macon Readies to Debut First Convention Hotel ners in the Middle Georgia region, or for those coming here.” According to Horan, because of its central location in Middle Georgia, the Macon Marriott City Center will allow local and regional planners to increase meetings attendance from both northern and southern Georgia. “Middle Georgia will brand itself as the meetings mecca of Georgia with a rich cultural background and the epitome of Southern hospitality,” she said. Upon completion, the Macon Marriott City Center Hotel is expected to contribute over $33 million annually to the city. The city, which has added $7.3 million in funds to the hotel’s construction, will use some of that money to fund planned renovations to the Macon Centreplex, which itself boasts plenty of meeting spaces like a 9,000-seat arena, a 9,100-sf ballroom, and 19 breakout rooms. I Construction is under way in on what will be Macon, GA’s first convention hotel. Connected to the 120,000-sf Macon Centreplex— Georgia’s largest convention venue outside Atlanta—the Macon Marriott City Center Hotel will open in September 2009 with 220 rooms and 5,000 sf of meeting space, including a 1,400-sf exhibit hall adjoining the convention center’s existing 30,000-sf exhibit hall, for easy passage between facilities. “The Macon Marriott City Center will be the only hotel adjacent to the convention center,” said Pat Horan, director of sales and marketing for the new property. “This provides a ‘one-stop shop’ No longer lacking a convention hotel, Macon is group-friendly. for many meeting plan- www.meetingnews.com November 10, 2008 MeetingNews S7 http://WWW.GICC.COM http://WWW.GICC.COM http://www.meetingnews.com

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