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CMP SERIES Getting In On the Ground Floor 44 The Irving Convention Center at Las Colinas opened its doors this past January. Philadelphia’s Pennsylvania Convention Center unveiled a huge expansion in March. Music City Center goes online in Nashville in 2013. Planners have booked meetings at all these facilities while they were under construction—and lived to talk about it. Here’s what you need to know about reserving space at a venue while it’s still on the drawing board. Hunter R. Slaton

Features 63 Blown Away

How did Lambert–St. Louis International Airport get itself up and running

within 24 hours of a tornado ripping off part of its roof? That’s a story for

St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay, Airports Director Rhonda Hamm-Niebruegge, and St. Louis CVC President Kathleen Ratcliffe to tell. Christopher Durso

CONVENING LEADERS PREVIEW Juan Enriquez 73 “We’re beginning to be able to read and write life code directly to suit our purposes,” according to gene-science evangelist and PCMA 2012 Convening Leaders general-ses- sion speaker Juan Enriquez. “That means that, in the same way we can program a computer, we can begin to program cells or other life forms.” Hunter R. Slaton

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