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'Little Rock Convention and Visitors Bureau'

HB 1228 could have cost Little Rock a big convention

Gretchen Hall, director of the Little Rock Bureau of Convention and Visitors, said she was notified this week by a potential convention client in 2016 that it would cancel the plans if the legislature approved HB 1228, the bill aimed at allowing religion to be used as a pre-text for discrimination against gay people.
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Robinson Center renovation: Financing alternatives are limited

I shared yesterday restaurateur Mark Abernathy's critique of a plan for the Little Rock Board of Directors to vote next week on calling a bond issue election to pledge the two-cent hospitality tax to paying up to $73 million for a much-needed renovation of Robinson Center, the WPA-era auditorium/music hall that has been our small theater/performing arts space since forever.
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Here's the schedule for Movies in the Park

The 2013 lineup for Movies in the Park is out today.

Little Rock 'brands' an underpass

Above is a rendering of a project planned by by the Little Rock Convention and Visitors Bureau on River Market Avenue between 2nd and 3rd streets.
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Selling Little Rock: Its new 'Southern accent'

LR Convention Bureau choose finalists for Robinson Center renovation

The Little Rock Convention and Visitors Bureau has announced four finalists for designing the renovation and expansion of the Robinson Center, a music hall and meeting facility operated by LRCVB.
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Robinson Center plans revealed

Conceptual plans for a "radical" $64.5 million upgrade of the Robinson Center were presented this morning to the Little Rock Advertising and Promotion Commission.

Little Rock government payroll

Find the annual base salaries of more than 700 Little Rock government employees and the hourly wages of nearly 2,000 more.
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Gretchen Hall to head LR Convention Bureau

The Little Rock Advertising and Promotion Commission is meeting at this hour, a continuation of a Wednesday meeting and a subsequent conference call, to choose a new director of the Convention and Visitors Bureau.

Finalist list expands for LR convention bureau job

News coming on the selection of a new director of the head of the Little Rock Convention and Visitors Bureau.
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Tuesday topics now open

Funny day. Started strong, slowed quite a bit.

LRCVB CEO headed to Florida

Thanks to an Arkansas Business heads-up: Dan O'Byrne, chief executive officer of the Little Rock Convention and Visitors Bureau, has been chosen to head the tourism and convention effort in Jacksonville, Fla. That would appear to be a step up, not to mention a step away from an agency with growing revenue that is under steady pressure for bailout help from the beleaguered city government.
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