Convention Center

Minneapolis Convention Center officials were joined by Mayor R.T. Rybak in January to announce their progress toward resource conservation goals set last year for the 23-year-old facility.

Convention Center Executive Director Jeff Johnson last February announced a three-year plan to reduce water and energy use and increase recycling rates at the facility by 2015. On Jan. 4, Johnson said Convention Center staff already had “shattered” the energy efficiency goal, improving efficiency by 20 percent over the course of the year.