New Orleans, LA. – Readers of New Orleans CityBusiness, a weekly business newspaper, have named the New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center as the top winner of the Best Event & Meeting Facility category in the 2023 Reader Ranking Awards. Now in their seventh year, the awards provide a look at the companies and services that CityBusiness readers rate highly across a wide variety of categories.
“This award inspires us to keep raising the bar and exceeding expectations in the events industry,” said Convention Center President Michael J. Sawaya. “We would like to thank the thousands of business professionals who voted to recognize us as the premiere event destination in New Orleans. From our new LEED Gold certification to the creation of new safety-focused teams within the Convention Center, to our continued financial strength, we appreciate the recognition for our strides in improving our facility and showing what it truly means to be Built to Host.”
The New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center is an eight-time recipient of New Orleans Top Workplace honors by NOLA.com / Times-Picayune, as well as four-time recipients of the New Orleans Citybusiness Best Places to Work Award.
CityBusiness published the complete list of Reader Rankings in the June 30th issue.
New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center
About the New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center (NOENMCC)
New Orleans is Built to Host! With 1.1 million square feet of prime exhibit space on one level, all under one roof, NOENMCC is the sixth largest Convention Center in the United States and provides the largest single exhibit space in the country. Our recent LEED Gold certification makes NOENMCC the largest LEED-certified project in Louisiana and the largest convention center project in the U.S. certified under LEED v4.1 Operations and Maintenance, as well as the first convention center in the world to be awarded initial certification under LEED Gold v4.1 O+MA. A leading contributor to the city’s robust tourism economy, NOENMCC event activity has produced $90.1 billion in economic impact since its 1985 opening.
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