Submitted by Guester (not verified) on Fri, 05/25/2012 - 10:57am.
That convention center is not making money nor will it. Why would anyone want to book a convention in Wilmington? Because it's on the Cape Fear River lined with fuel tanks, a State Port, a view of the smoke stacks of Sutton Steam Plant, WW II Battleship, chemical plants up river, miles from the ocean at Wrightsville and Carolina beaches, Historic Downtown with a few overpriced shops, restaurants and bars with a drunken college crowd that take over after the sun goes down?
Myrtle Beach is only an hour or so away with a convention center closer to the ocean, House of Blues, on the waterway...and it is even losing money.
They knew this Josh
That convention center is not making money nor will it. Why would anyone want to book a convention in Wilmington? Because it's on the Cape Fear River lined with fuel tanks, a State Port, a view of the smoke stacks of Sutton Steam Plant, WW II Battleship, chemical plants up river, miles from the ocean at Wrightsville and Carolina beaches, Historic Downtown with a few overpriced shops, restaurants and bars with a drunken college crowd that take over after the sun goes down?
Myrtle Beach is only an hour or so away with a convention center closer to the ocean, House of Blues, on the waterway...and it is even losing money.