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Event planners have long admired mid-Michigan's selection of diverse meeting space. From small meeting rooms and banquet accommodations at area hotels, to the huge column-free open space of the Lansing Center, the region offers many options to private and public sector clients.
Versatile convention and special purpose rooms dot the region, according to the Greater Lansing Convention & Visitors Bureau. Meeting planners can choose from hundreds of thousands of square feet of meeting space.
Among those sites is the James B. Henry Center for Executive Development, on Forest Road near the campus of Michigan State University. The James B. Henry Center, which opened in 2001 and is named after a former dean of the Eli Broad College of Business, houses MSU's weekend MBA program and provides a professional environment for executive education and corporate learning.
Featuring a Fortune 500 executive-style boardroom, tiered classrooms and enough high-tech devices for even the most tech-savvy among us, the James B. Henry Center is versatile enough to host everything from focus groups and team-building retreats to corporate educational meetings.
"We have a lot of corporations who do training and educational events here. Some of the local insurance companies in the region have made conscience decisions to put dollars into employee training and retention," says Jeff Magnuson, manager of the James B. Henry Center.
The James B. Henry Center is a "unique conference center," Magnuson says, with up-to-date technology like video conferencing and Webcasting capabilities and over 1,700 Ethernet connections.
"Our technology is not bleeding edge though. It is very user friendly. It's...