The Venue and Stadium Management panel features four guests:

• Tim McManus, AECOM
• Dennis Robinson, NJSEA
• John Wentzell, President, TD Banknorth Garden
• Tim Romani Romani Group, built new Comiskey

Charles Wu of Baynorth Capital is the moderator.

Speakers
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Update: Sites are very important. Wu brings up San Diego and Baltimore and examples of changing an entire neighborhood. Dennis Robinson makes the point that the facilities are just one part of bigger redevelopment projects.

Update: They're talking about who should drive design in developing a stadium. There's a good story about architects wanting to do glass atriums, but there are security risks to that, and huge window washing costs!

Update: Ben Watson of the Patriots is at the conference. He's traveled to China promoting football.

Ben Watson
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There's a good bit about arenas becoming revenue obsolete. LED signage in 1999 made a number of newer arenas obsolete in that regard.

Update: Sal Baxamusa is also live blogging the conference.

Update: How do you make stadiums green? The best way is to pick a dirty site and clean it up. Venues, by their very nature, are difficult to make green just because you have a large number of people traveling by car to the event.