by State House News Service | Oct 30, 2024
The Massachusetts Convention Center Authority Board voted Monday to appoint Marcel Vernon Sr. to lead the quasi-public agency into its next chapter, choosing the chief financial officer of a Boston-based social services organization with experience in state government over a leader from Washington D.C.’s convention center authority.
by State House News Service | Oct 28, 2024
After almost a full year without a permanent director at the helm, the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority is down to two candidates to lead it into its next chapter: the CFO of a Boston-based social services organization, or the senior vice president of operations of D.C.’s conventions and entertainment authority.
by State House News Service | Aug 20, 2024
State Auditor Diana DiZoglio’s office published a 45-page report Monday about an audit it conducted at the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority
by Steve Adams | May 26, 2024
Dismissed as an obsolete money pit by former Gov. Charlie Baker, the revived Hynes Convention Center is forging new relationships with Back Bay hotel owners to ensure future meeting attendees can find convenient lodgings.
by State House News Service | Apr 1, 2024
The quasi-public authority that runs the state’s convention centers has a five-year plan to “keep the lights on” at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston’s Back Bay, as it stares down over $100 million in deferred maintenance and other costs.
by Banker & Tradesman | Mar 31, 2024
The Massachusetts Convention Center Authority has a chance to make a dent in several problems problem by rethinking what it does with its 6.5 acres of empty D Street and E Street lots.
by State House News Service | Jan 23, 2024
Boston’s limited number of hotel rooms makes the city one of the country’s most expensive convention destinations, state officials were told last week. That information could weigh on an in-limbo process to redevelop parking lots near the city’s biggest convention center.
by Steve Adams | Nov 21, 2023
David Gibbons is out as Massachusetts Convention Center Authority’s executive director following an 8-year tenure that attracted recent criticism of management’s handling of real estate development and diversity efforts.
by State House News Service | Nov 20, 2023
Staff at the state convention center authority got pushback from its board for recommending a developer for a 6-acre South Boston site through an allegedly opaque process. Now, it’s unclear when a project team will be chosen.
by State House News Service | Feb 17, 2023
City officials and a state senator representing South Boston raised concerns Thursday that the independent convention center authority may be planning under “false pretenses” to develop land taken by eminent domain for mixed use rather than convention-related purposes.
by State House News Service | Jan 16, 2020
In addition to a planned $500 million expansion at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, officials are planning at least four other requests to find developers interested in putting hotels, parking or both on MCCA-owned land around the BCEC.
by Bram Berkowitz | Aug 2, 2017
Plans for a greatly expanded Boston Convention and Exhibition Center are moving forward for the first time in more than two years.