Initially, the expansion, which was approved by voters in November 1999, was to open in 2003. Now, the city is saying it won't know when the center will open until April or May, but they expect it to open within the last four months of 2004.
The city already has lost three conventions that would have brought a 18,000 people to the city. The Christian Booksellers, with 10,000 attendees, and the American mathematical Society and F&W Publications, each with 4,000 attendees, cancelled because the expansion wouldn't be ready in time for their conventions.
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