Karl Schulz, senior project manager for general contractor Hoffman Construction, will speak on construction challenges, contracting options, innovative ideas, risk management. He will also address the history of the project and the need for the expansion.
The luncheon begins at 11:45 a.m. at the private athletic club adjacent PGE Park.Call Pat Fuller at (503)768-4299 for more details and reservations.
The expansion of the convention center, onto its own parking lot on the south side of the building, is adding 105,000 sf to the existing 150,000 sf of exhibition space, as well as an 800-slip underground parking lot. The regional government Metro owns the convention center and contracts out its operation to the Metropolitan Exposition-Recreation Commission.
The effort to enlarge the center--in order to attract larger conventions and not lose existing ones to other West Coast cities--has been ongoing for four or five years now. In November 1998, voters rejected a property tax measure for the expansion. Between then and the serendipitous failing of an anti-tax ballot measure in November 2000, the local hospitality industry came to the city and gave the nod to increase the tax on its patrons to cover the bill. Completion is scheduled for 2003.
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