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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Burton Strauss III, post: 26323259, member: 59677&quot;]You and everybody else keep missing the key point. NOBODY in the 1st tier WANTS the ANA Convention.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s not the convention center rental that pays for the room, it&#039;s the package... rental + room nights + catering... and, well, a bunch of coin dealers sleeping 3-to-a-room at the Motel 6 up the road? Or a bunch of Doctors doing CPE who are renting $600 a night suites and who buy (or are gifted) $100-a-plate meals?????</p><p><br /></p><p>Everybody whined about Rosemont, and the ANA board had to find an alternative on relatively short notice. </p><p><br /></p><p>It had to be a site that made an offer, met certain ANA conditions (an international airport, no sales tax, and affordable space).</p><p><br /></p><p>TNA (Texas Numismatic Association) went through the same thing. Arlington sold off the convention center,r and that torpedoed the TNA show. For many years, inertia had kept the rental rates affordable. The new ACC has rate in common with other sites in the area, 2 or 3x what TNA was paying.</p><p><br /></p><p>They ended up in a nice, but 3rd-tier site in Conroe, TX, for two years. 3 hours south.</p><p><br /></p><p>Don&#039;t get me wrong, the room in Conroe is nice, but there aren&#039;t the other facilities and attached hotels that would upgrade it to tier 2.</p><p><br /></p><p>Next year, TNA is back in DFW, but at the Will Rogers Center, which rents barns... alright, that&#039;s not fair, the Amon G. Carter, Jr. Exhibits Hall has 95,000-&gt;160,000 square feet of indoor exhibit space.</p><p><br /></p><p>And once-upon-a-time, the TNA show rotated around Texas.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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