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Denver 2002: some of things you will experience at ASAE 2002. (ASAE 2002).


1 Thanks to Theatres & Arenas, City & County of Denver, the gala opening Saturday night reception will be staged at the spectacular Denver Performing Arts Complex Coordinates:  The Denver Performing Arts Complex (sometimes referred to locally as "The Plex" or simply, "Denver Center") located in Denver, Colorado, is the second largest performing arts center in the world after New York City's Lincoln Center, and  -- the second largest performing arts center A performing arts center, often abbreviated PAC, is a multi-use performance space that can be adapted for use by various types of the performing arts, including dance, music and theatre.  in America with nine theatres seating 10,000 people. Join us in a fantastic setting for an evening of entertainment, dancing, food, and fine wines from Ernest & Julio Gallo Julio Gallo (March 21, 1910 – May 2, 1993) is one of the founders of the E & J Gallo Winery, along with his brother Ernest Gallo. Joseph Gallo was married to Aileen Gallo (b.1913–d.1999).  Winery.

SPONSORS

Volume Services America is one of the leading providers of food, beverage, merchandise and management services for over 120 sports, convention and entertainment venues.

SMG SMG - Screen Management Guidelines. A VMS package of run-time library routines providing windows on DEC VT100 terminals.  professionally manages over 142 public assembly facilities including arenas, stadiums, theaters and convention, exhibition and trade centers.

2 On Sunday, your open evening, try dinner on the 16th Street Mall, Denver's mile long pedestrian promenade lined with shade trees, 50,000 flowers and a dozen outdoor cafes. Denver Pavilions is a two square block, $100 million shopping, dining and entertainment complex along the Mall. Nearby, Larimer Square is a restored section of Denver's oldest street. In walkable downtown, everything is easy to reach with more than 300 restaurants just a short stroll from the hotels.

3 Monday's Colorado Dine-Around will step up to the plate at Coors Field Coordinates:

    [
, the beautiful downtown home of Major League Baseball's Colorado Rockies For the National Hockey League team (1976 – 1982), now known as the New Jersey Devils, see .
The Colorado Rockies are a Major League Baseball team based in Denver, Colorado. They are in the West Division of the National League.
. Sample buffalo, Colorado beef, and beer from our "World Famous" Coors Brewing Company, or venture outside the stadium to explore LoDo by horse-drawn carriage. This 26 square block historic district is home to more than 90 sports bars, brewpubs, music clubs and nightspots. Club Energy and numerous private parties will all be staged just a short walk from downtown hotels.

For those who want to see the Colorado Rockies, there will be a home stand immediately following the ASAF ASAF Assistant Secretary of the Air Force
ASAF All Sales Are Final
ASAF Allied Sportsmen's Associations of Florida, Inc.
ASAF Amador Schools Arts Foundation (Amador County, CA) 
 meeting.

SPONSORS Coors Field, America's most popular 50,000-seat Major League stadium, and ARAMARK will make this a home run of an evening.

4 Again, thanks to Theatres & Arenas, City & County of Denver, the final evening concert will unfold under a Rocky Mountain star-studded sky at the legendary Red Rocks Amphitheatre Red Rocks Amphitheatre is a rock structure in Red Rocks Park near Morrison, Colorado (west of Denver), where concerts are given in the open air amphitheatre. There is a large, tilted, disc-shaped rock behind the stage, a huge vertical rock angled outwards from stage right, several . This incredible 9,000-seat amphitheatre is carved out of red rock cliffs, overlooking all the lights of Denver. Red Rocks is currently undergoing a $20 million refurbishing that will make the facility more impressive than ever. This will bean unforgettable evening of music in a magical setting.
Accommodations.


 1 Adam's Mark Hotel (*)            1,225 rooms
 2 Brown Palace Hotel (*)             230 rooms
 3 Burnsley All-Suite Hotel           80 suites
 4 Comfort Inn                        231 rooms
 5 Courtyard by Marriott              177 rooms
 6 Denver Marriott City Center (*)    613 rooms
 7 Embassy Suites                    337 suites
 8 Executive Tower Hotel              337 rooms
 9 Holiday Inn (*)                    395 rooms
10 Hotel Monaco                       189 rooms
11 Hotel Teatro (*)                   110 rooms
12 Hyatt Regency (*)                  511 rooms
13 The Magnolia Hotel                 244 rooms
14 Oxford Hotel                        80 rooms
15 Ramada Inn                         149 rooms
16 Red Lion Hotel                     171 rooms
17 Warwick Hotel (*)                  215 rooms
18 Westin - Tabor Center (*)          420 rooms
19 Hyatt Hotel (Opening 2006)       1,100 rooms

(*)Official ASAE Hotel


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* There are 70 golf courses in metro Denver, including the Inverness Hotel & Golf Club. The Omni Interlocken Resort, and Arrowhead where you play among gigantic 70 million year old red rock boulders.

* Cherry Creek Cherry Creek may refer to:
  • Cherry Creek Golf Links, Riverhead, New York
  • Cherry Creek, Columbus, Ohio
  • Cherry Creek, a tributary of the Cheyenne River in South Dakota in the United States
  • Cherry Creek, in Tuolumne County, California in the United States
 Shopping District is the largest shopping area in a 600-mile radius with 400 department stores This is a list of department stores. In the case of department store groups the location of the flagship store is given. This list does not include large specialist stores, which sometimes resemble department stores. , galleries, shops and boutiques in a pleasant setting.

* In Denver, you are never far from nature. The city's museums offer a wonderful look at the treasures of the world, from underwater exploration at Colorado's Ocean Journey to traveling back to the age of dinosaurs at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science.

Practical Stuff

* There are 5,300 hotel rooms and more than 300 restaurants within easy walking distance of the Colorado Convention Center The Colorado Convention Center is a multi-purpose convention center in downtown Denver, Colorado which recently underwent a major expansion. The expansion added 600,000 sq. feet of space and a 5,200 seat concert hall. The total area of the convention center is 1.2 million sq. feet. , staging point for ASAE ASAE American Society of Association Executives
ASAE American Society of Agricultural Engineers (Society for Engineering in Agricultural, Food, and Biological Systems)
ASAE Alkali-Sulfite-Anthraquinone-Ethanol
 2002. Official ASAE hotels are the Adam's Mark Adam's Mark is a chain of five upscale hotels in the United States. The chain was founded in the early 1970s by Fred Kummer and the chain is currently owned by HBE, Inc., which was also founded by Kummer. ; Hyatt Regency Downtown, Marriott City Center, Westin Tabor Center, Holiday Inn Downtown, Brown Palace Hotel Brown Palace Hotel is the second oldest hotel in Denver, Colorado and is now operated by Quorum Hotels and Resorts. It was built in 1892, one year later than the Oxford Hotel. , Warwick Hotel, and Hotel Teatro.

* August in Denver is sunny, dry and comfortable with average highs in the mid-80s. Evenings can be cool and require a light sweater or jacket, especially for the Red Rocks concert.

* Dress in Denver is Rocky Mountain casual.

* Remember sunglasses sunglasses  A tinted pair of glasses used to ↓ light arriving at the eye, which are labeled according to the amount of UV light blocked; nonprescription glasses are classified according to use and amount of UV radiation blocked

Sunglasses
. Denver has 300 days of sunshine a year and at the mile high altitude Conventionally, an altitude above 10,000 meters (33,000 feet). See also altitude. , there is less protection from the sun's rays.

* Bring a camera. The sky really is bluer in Denver due to the lack of moisture in the upper atmosphere. And sunsets over the Rocky Mountains Rocky Mountains, major mountain system of W North America and easternmost belt of the North American cordillera, extending more than 3,000 mi (4,800 km) from central N.Mex. to NW Alaska; Mt. Elbert (14,431 ft/4,399 m) in Colorado is the highest peak.  can be spectacular.

Denver's Doubling!

One of the largest convention center expansions in the country is underway at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver. The $268 million project will double the size of the existing building, creating 584,000 sq. ft. of contiguous exhibit space all on one level.

Scheduled to open in the fall of 2004, the expansion includes a new 50,000 sq. ft. ballroom, 35,000 sq. ft. of new meeting space, a new 1,000-car parking garage and a new 5,000-seat lecture hall lecture hall nsala de conferencias;
(UNIV) → aula

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.

Across the street will be a new $211 million, 1,100-room Hyatt Hotel, offering an additional 85,000 sq. ft. of meeting space.

Designed by Meeting Planners, for Meeting Planners

More than 100 of the nation's top meeting experts participated in focus groups meeting directly with architects Fentress Bradburn to help design the new expansion.

The results? Based on the advice from meeting professionals, the architects designed one of the most practical and user-friendly exhibition halls ever planned.

* Delegates will enter the center through spectacular, two-block long, glass-enclosed pavilions located on both sides of the building. These two spaces (each 25,000 sq. ft.) offer outdoor decks with sweeping panoramic views of downtown Denver to the east or the snowcapped Rocky Mountains to the west.

* Four covered drop-off areas will ring the building.

* At ground level, there will be 100,000 sq. ft. of meeting space, all with state-of-the-art optics and sound.

* Sunken just below the ground floor will be the current 35,000 sq. ft. ballroom and a new incredibly flexible 50,000 sq. ft. ballroom that can be divided into 18 different rooms.

* On the second level, there will be 584,000 sq. ft. of contiguous exhibit space served by truck loading docks on both sides.

* A new 5,000-fixed seat lecture hall will be divisible DIVISIBLE. The susceptibility of being divided.
     2. A contract cannot, in general, be divided in such a manner that an action may be brought, or a right accrue, on a part of it. 2 Penna. R. 454.
 and will be served by its own truck loading dock.

* There will be 6,400 hotel rooms within easy walking distance of the center.

Colorado Convention Center Expansion

Existing Space

Expansion

ROOF 1,000 parking spaces

EXHIBIT HALL LEVEL 584,000 total square feet: (twice the original area)

HALLS A, C, D, & F 100,000 sq. ft. each

HALLS B & E 92,000 sq. ft. each

STREET LEVEL

EXISTING MEETING SPACE: 65,000 sq. ft.

EXPANSION MEETING SPACE: 35,000 sq. ft.
Cost: $268 million

Opening: FALL 2004

EXISTING COLORADO          EXPANSION
CONVENTION CENTER          OF THE CENTER

292,000 sq. ft. exhibit    292,000 sq. ft. exhibit
space on one level.        space on one level.

65,000 sq. ft. of meeting  35,000 sq. ft. of meeting
space on one level.        space on one level.

35,000 sq. ft. ballroom    50,000 sq. ft. ballroom


                           5,000-fixed seat lecture hall

EXISTING COLORADO          Total in
CONVENTION CENTER          2004

292,000 sq. ft. exhibit    584,000 sq. ft. exhibit
space on one level.        space on one level.

65,000 sq. ft. of meeting  100,000 sq. ft. of meeting
space on one level.        space on one level.

35,000 sq. ft. ballroom    35,000 sq. ft. ballroom
                           50,000 sq. ft. ballroom

                           5,000-fixed seat lecture hall


Colorful Colorado

Aspen/Snowmass

One of the world's most famous ski resorts is equally delightful in summer. The Victorian silver-mining town is filled with colorful old buildings that now house one-of-a-kind boutiques, elegant restaurants and chic nightspots. By day, the pretty village is bedecked with wildflowers and offers great shopping, beautiful parks and plazas and an array of outdoor cafes with mountain backdrops. The St. Regis Aspen brings a new element of luxury to town with 257 rooms and 25,000 sq. ft. of meeting space.

Nearby, Snowmass is a full-service resort with the state-of-the-art, 35,000 sq. ft. Snowmass Conference Center, one of the largest facilities of its kind in the Rocky Mountains. The service-oriented Silvertree Hotel has 411 rooms, 15 suites and 200 condos as well as 40,000 sq. ft. of meeting space.

All recreation possibilities, from fly fishing to mountain biking mountain biking Sports medicine A sport in which participants use specialized bicycles to navigate rough, steep trails covered with unforgiving rocks Injury risk Concussions, fractures, death. See Extreme sport, Novelty seeking behavior. , can be found within walking distance of your hotel room.

YOUR PRE & POST MEETING HOTELS IN ASPEN/SNOWMASS

St. Regis Aspen, 888-454-9005, www.stregisaspen.com; Snowmass Silvertree Hotel, 800-525-9402, www.silvertreehotel.com

FOR AREA INFORMATION

Snowmass Resort Association, www.snowmassvillage.com, (800) 598-2006;

StayAspenSnowmass, www.stayaspensnowmass.com, (888) 452-2409

Colorado Springs Colorado Springs, city (1990 pop. 281,140), seat of El Paso co., central Colo., on Monument and Fountain creeks, at the foot of Pikes Peak; inc. 1886. It is a year-round resort and a booming military, technological, and commercial city.  

Nestled at the base of towering 14,000-foot Pikes Peak Pikes Peak, 14,110 ft (4,301 m) high, central Colo., in the Front Range of the Rocky Mts.; discovered by U.S. explorer Zebulon Pike in 1806. There are many higher peaks in the Rockies, but this is the best known and most conspicuous because of its location on the , the city of Colorado Springs is home to more than forty natural and man-made attractions, including the spectacular Garden of the Gods with its brilliant red rock formations. From the highest cog railroad in the world to the striking modern architecture of the Air Force Academy, the area offers an array of adventures in a wonderful setting.

Colorado Springs has an assortment of non-hotel meeting facilities, including the 8,000-seat World Arena. The area also boasts two full-service resorts with international reputations. The Broadmoor is one of the few resorts in the country to have earned the Mobil Five Star and the AAA AAA: see American Automobile Association.


(Triple A) A common single-cell battery used in a myriad of electronic devices of all variety. Like its double A (AA) cousin, it provides 1.5 volts of DC power. When used in series, the voltage is multiplied.
 Five Diamond ratings every year since the awards were established. Here, turn-of-the-century elegance is matched by three golf courses, tennis courts and a spa in an unparalleled scenic location. The resort has 700 guest rooms and 110,000 sq. ft. of meeting and exhibition space. Nearby, the 316-room Cheyenne Mountain Cheyenne Mountain, c.9,565 ft (2,915 m), in the Front Range of the Rocky Mts., El Paso co., central Colo., SW of Colorado Springs. Halfway up the mountain, in North Cheyenne Park, is the Shrine of the Sun Memorial, erected in memory of Will Rogers.  Resort has 40,000 sq. ft. of meeting and exhibition space, a Pete Dye Pete Dye (born December 29 1925 in Urbana, Ohio) is a golf course designer and a member of a famous family of course designers. Dye has degrees from Rollins College, Stetson University, and Purdue University.  golf course and panoramic views of the mountains.

YOUR PRE & POST MEETING HOTELS IN COLORADO SPRINGS

The Broadmoor, 800-633-7711, www.broadmoor.com; Cheyenne Mountain Resort, 800-428-8886, www.cheyennemountain.com

FOR AREA INFORMATION

Colorado Springs Convention & Visitors Bureau, http://www.coloradosprings-travel.com, (800) 888-4748

Keystone, Breckenridge & Copper Mountain

Three resorts, three completely different experiences. Keystone is a full-service, year round conference resort with 225 hotel rooms, 1,350 condominium suites, 36 holes of golf, award winning restaurants, tennis, pools, horseback riding horseback riding: see equestrianism. , white water rafting, shopping, nightspots, and much more. Keystone Resort Keystone Resort is a ski resort located in Keystone, Colorado, United States. It was founded on November 21, 1970 by Max Dercum.

The resort consists of four mountains named Dercum Mountain, North Peak, the Outback, and Independence Bowl, with the first three mountains
 offers a total of 100,000 sq. ft. conference and exhibit space, including 50 meeting rooms; the largest meeting facility in the rocky mountains.

Nearby, Breckenridge has been a thriving town since 1859 - the oldest continually occupied community in the Colorado mountains. The Victorian town is filled with more than 170 historic buildings, many of which are painted a rainbow of colors and now house fine shops, restaurants and cafes. Meeting facilities include Beaver Run Resort with 525 guest rooms and meeting space for up to 700 and the 208-room Great Divide Lodge, located 50 yards from the base of the mountain and two blocks from Breckenridge's Victorian Main Street.

Copper Mountain completes the trio, offering another year-round resort in a magnificent setting. The village is surrounded by a Dye Championship golf course and recreation opportunities including hiking, horseback riding, river rafting and fly-fishing. The AAA fourdiamond accommodations include 940 guest units and 50,000 sq. ft. of meeting space.

YOUR PRE & POST MEETING HOTELS IN SUMMIT COUNTY

Keystone Resort (888) 222-9298, www.keystoneresort.com

Beaver Run Resort, (800) 525-2253, www.beaverrun.com

Great Divide Lodge, (888) 906-5698, www.greatdividelodge.com

Copper Mountain Resort, (800) 458-8386, coppercolorado.com

Vail Vail (vāl), town (1990 pop. 3,569), Eagle co., W central Colo., on Gore Creek, in the Gore Range of the Rocky Mts.; founded as a ski resort 1962, inc. as a town 1966.  

At the base of Vail mountain sits a pedestrian Village - as charismatic as it is cosmopolitan. You can grab a beer at a neighborhood pub, mingle with the crowd during weekly street concerts, or stroll down historic Bridge Street with its eclectic mix of boutiques, flower baskets, outdoor cafes, fountains and art galleries. There are more than 150 shops and nearly 100 restaurants throughout Vail, not to mention 11 area golf courses, 7 spas and health clubs and hundreds of miles of hiking and biking trails.

Vail's lodging menu includes two deluxe properties. Vail Cascade Resort & Spa is Vail's only AAA Four-Diamond slopeside resort, featuring 291 guestrooms and suites and 78 condominiums. Enjoy the luxurious new Aria Spa & Club, the Four-Diamond rated Chap's Grill & Chophouse chop·house  
n.
A restaurant that specializes in serving steaks and chops of meat.

Noun 1. chophouse - a restaurant that specializes in steaks
steakhouse
 and the versatility of 50,000 sq. ft. of meeting space. The Vail Marriott Mountain Resort is a cozy See COSE.  50 suite, 349-room resort with over 16,000 sq. ft. of meeting space. Nestled at the base of Vail Mountain, the hotel is just a stroll from the Lionshead ski gondola. Enjor a full-service spa and salon just minutes from all the shopping, dining and recreation opportunities that Vail has to offer.

YOUR PRE & POST MEETING HOTELS IN VAIL

Vail Cascade Resort & Spa, (800) 420-2424, www.vailcascade.com

Vail Marriott Mountain Resort, (800) 228-9290, www.vailmarriott.com

FOR AREA INFORMATION

Vail Valley Tourism & Convention Bureau, www.visitvailvalley.com, (800) 525-3875

Asae denver

Denver is Easy to Reach

* Located just 340 miles west of the exact center of the Continental United States United States territory, including the adjacent territorial waters, located within North America between Canada and Mexico. Also called CONUS. . Denver is one of America's most central cities. Denver International Airport This article is about Denver International Airport. For other uses, see KDEN (disambiguation).

Denver International Airport (IATA: DEN, ICAO: KDEN, FAA LID: DEN), often called DIA
 is the sixth busiest in the nation (10th busiest in the world.)with 1,200 daily flights served by 20 airlines, including non-stops to 110 national and 12 international cities. It is the second largest hub for ASAE's official airline, United.

DENVER INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT

www.flydenver.com

UNITED AIRLINES, OFFICIAL ASAE 2002 CARRIER

www.ual.com

ASAE Denver

August 17-20, 2002

For more information: www.denver.org or asaenet.org

MORE SPONSORS TO THANK

Mayor Wellington E. Webb

Theatres & Arenas, city & Country of Denver

Elbra Wedgeworth, City Councilwoman, District 8

City Council, City & Country of Denver

Colorado Society of Association Executives

OUR DESTINATION MANAGEMENT COMPANIES

The Arrangers Official ASAE DMC DMC Devil May Cry (video game)
DMC Detroit Medical Center
DMC Darryl McDaniels (rapper)
DMC Destination Management Company
DMC Del Mar College (Corpus Christi, TX) 
 

Colorodo Event Organizers, Inc.

Convention Designs, Inc.

Denver & Beyond Inc.

Destination Services of Colorado, Inc.

Great Events/TEAMS Inc.

PGI PGI Protected Geographical Indication
PGI Progiciel de Gestion Intégré (French: Enterprise Resource Planning)
PGI Phosphoglucose Isomerase
PGI Polish Geological Institute (Warsaw, Poland) 
 

PRE & POST TRAVEL COORDINATION

Travel Organizers

THE MILE HIGH CITY

DENVER METRO CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU

1555 California St., Suite 300

Denver CO 80202

www.denver.org

* Denver's clean, safe downtown has more than 300 restaurants, all within easy walking distance of hotels. Within a short walk of the 16th Street Mall are a dozen attractions. Tour the Denver Art Museum The Denver Art Museum is an art museum in Denver, Colorado located in Denver's Civic Center. It is known for its collection of American Indian art, and has a comprehensive collection numbering more than 55,000 works from across the world. , learn how to make money at the U.S. Mint, or go back in time at the Colorado History Museum.

* In Denver, you are never far from nature. Denver has the largest city park system in America, many with gorgeous views of the snowcapped Rocky Mountains. City Park (above) is home to the Denver Zoo The Denver Zoo is an 80-acre [1] facility located in City Park of Denver, Colorado. Founded in 1896, it is owned by the City and County of Denver and funded in part by the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District (SCFD).  and Denver Museum of Nature & Science with the famous Denver Botanic Gardens The Denver Botanic Gardens 23 acres (9.3 hectares) has been recognized as one of the top five botanical gardens in the United States. The Gardens are operated by the City and County of Denver, and are open to the public.  nearby.
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