MEET’s Dan Maddux transformed an old downtown office building into a boutique convention space.
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233 S. Fourth St. as Las Vegas’ newest convention facility. MEET Las Vegas, which opened March 16, is a caterpillar-to-butterly transformation that owes its metamorphosis to Mayor Oscar Goodman. When CEO Dan Maddux was opening his previous executive-training facility, the White House behind the Convention Center, Goodman told him, “Downtown would be a better place for you.” (Hizzoner is nothing if not direct.) Maddux soon found himself scouting downtown for C2-zoned buildings that were conducive to hosting events and exhibits, and to which he could transfer White House’s training facilities. (The latter now operates from the top floor of MEET Las Vegas.) He needed a high-ceilinged building with few or no columns interdicting its floors. “In exhibitions, a column-free floor is desirable … Bank buildings tend to meet those requirements,” Maddux says, and he lucked into a 1974 structure. “That was the one building that had the ceiling heights I needed on the first floor,” he says, in addition to all continued on pg. 78
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