It seems like the people who designed and built the hotel and convention center project have had no real-world experience with convention centers.
Cooper-Carry created all of the structural designs and layouts, includingthe appearance of the outside of the building. Interstate Hotels andResorts (IHR) selected ALL of the materials, patterns, and furnishings inside the entire facility.
The LCCCA board was told on many different occasion that all of this was done to Marriott standards, supposedly as contractually obligated.
There was absolutely positively never any opportunity for the Lancaster County Convention Center Authority to have ANY input whatsoever into thedesign or appearance of its own convention center. Even the Request For Proposal for artwork was taken away by IHR at nearly the last minute, and IHR employees still control the final selection process.
