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Norfolk, Virginia: in the New Norfolk, your meeting takes center stage. (Hospitality).


Named a 2001 Great American Place by American Heritage American Heritage can refer to:
  • American Heritage (magazine)
  • American Heritage (band)
  • The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  • American Heritage Rivers
  • American Heritage School, a small private school in Broward County, Florida
 magazine and selected Best Big City in the South by Money magazine, the revitalized waterfront of New Norfolk offers meeting planners 2,600 committable guest rooms and 176,000 square feet of meeting space.

The Waterside Convention Connection consists of the Norfolk Waterside Marriott Hotel that houses the Waterside Convention Center and is connected by skywalk to the Waterside festival marketplace, and the Sheraton Norfolk Waterside. There are 700 committable first-class rooms and suites, and 300 more committable rooms within walking distance of the Waterside Convention Connection. The combined meeting and exhibit space totals 91,000 square feet and includes 55 flexible meeting rooms with built-in audiovisual capabilities.

Nearby, Norfolk Scope Arena offers an additional 85,000 square feet of meeting space, including 58,430 square feet of exhibit space, and accommodates 11,200 in theater seating. Other major hotels with meeting space include the Radisson Hotel Norfolk (30,000 square feet), Hilton Norfolk Airport (6,668 square feet), Clarion James Madison Hotel square feet), Double-tree Club Hotel (3,821 square feet), and Best Western Conference Center (3,094 square feet).

Norfolk International Airport Norfolk International Airport (IATA: ORF, ICAO: KORF, FAA LID: ORF) is a public airport located in Norfolk, Virginia, United States. It serves the entire Hampton Roads metropolitan area of southeast Virginia (along with Newport News/Williamsburg  offers 200 flights daily, including connections to i6 major hubs. Several meeting hotels are adjacent to the airport. Southwest Airlines This article is about the American airline. For the former Japanese airline, see Japan Transocean Air. For the British airline, see Air Southwest.
Southwest Airlines Co.
 has recently instituted nonstop service to several key destinations. Major interstates make driving to Norfolk easy. Within driving distance of two-thirds of the population of the East Coast, Norfolk is a centralized meeting spot.

Arts, history, and culture are hallmarks of Norfolk. The four-week Virginia Arts Festival An arts festival or art fair is a festival that focuses on the visual arts, but which may also focus on other arts.

Arts festivals in the visual arts are exhibitions.
 draws international artists, and the Chrysler Museum of Art Coordinates:

The Chrysler Museum of Art is an art museum in the Ghent district of Norfolk, Virginia.
 was named one of the top 10 museums in the South by the New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
 Times. World War II icon General Douglas MacArthur rests in a museum dedicated to his career. The USS Wisconsin Two ships of the United States Navy have been named USS Wisconsin in honor of the 30th state.
  • The first USS Wisconsin (BB-9) was an Illinois-class battleship.
  • The second USS Wisconsin (BB-64) is an Iowa-class battleship.
 is berthed next to Nauticus, the National Maritime Center. And the great Atlantic Fleet A number of countries currently have or previously had an Atlantic Fleet in their navies.
  • Atlantic Fleet (United Kingdom)
  • Canadian Atlantic Fleet
  • U.S. Atlantic Fleet, now the United States Fleet Forces Command
 of the U.S. Navy calls Norfolk home.

Our vibrant, walkable downtown area filled with restaurants, theaters, waterfront dining and dancing, and upscale shopping in the million-square-foot MacArthur Center, will keep your group entertained. Norfolk offers Southern charm and city nightlife in a peaceful waterfront setting.

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Date:Sep 1, 2002
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