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With 100,000 sq ft (9,300 m 2), it is the largest convention center in Western Massachusetts. It includes two exhibition halls, which total over 40,000 sq ft (3,700 m 2 ), three ballrooms that total 15,000 sq ft (1,400 m 2 ) with back of house kitchen, five meeting rooms that total some 9,000 sq ft (840 m 2 ), and 21,000 sq ft (2,000 m 2 ) of ...
The NAACP of Springfield is hosting its annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day March at 8:30 a.m. Monday, Jan. 15.
The Massachusetts Convention Center Authority's (MCCA) mission is to generate significant regional economic activity by attracting conventions, tradeshows, and other events to its world-class facilities while maximizing the investment return for the residents and businesses in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Lottie Moon. During the meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention in Richmond, Virginia, in May 1888, a group of women delegates from 12 states gathered at the Broad Street United Methodist Church and organized the Executive Committee of the Woman's Mission Societies, Auxiliary to Southern Baptist Convention.
Sep. 11—The diversity of Springfield and its residents' willingness to work together toward strengthening it are what make the city a great place to work and live, local women in leadership say.
By 1972, more than 60 local groups held monthly meetings around the US, [5] [7] and the Full Gospel Women's Fellowship was incorporated as the Women's Aglow Fellowship International. [8] Within the next year, groups began in Canada , New Zealand , and The Netherlands , making Aglow an international "network of caring women."
Metro Center includes Springfield's Central Business District, its Club Quarter, its government center, its convention headquarters, and in recent years, it has become an increasingly popular residential district, especially among young professionals, empty-nesters, and creative types, with a population of approximately 7,000 (2010.)
A manufacturing plant was set up on Hendee Street in Springfield, Massachusetts, at the former 'American Wire Wheel Company' building. Over the years, the factory's 1,200 employees produced 1,703 Silver Ghosts and 1,241 Phantoms, with the first Silver Ghost chassis finished in 1921. The 1929 stock market crash led to the plant's closure in 1931.