Re: East Coast Conference -- MIDRANGE-L

Googling....

Yes, according to this:

http://www.xerox.com/go/xrx/template/019d.jsp?view=Factbook&id=Historical&Xcntry=USA&Xlang=en_US

Xerox built it in 1974 as the "Xerox International Center for Training
and Management Development," renamed it "Xerox Document University" in
1993, and in 2000 sold it to WXIII Oxford-DTC; and now leases back part
for its own training use.

Evidently, Oxford-DTC is related to Oxford Lodging Advisory & Investment
Group:

http://www.oxfordlodging.com

who list it as one of their properties, along with Potbelly Sandwich
Works in Chicago and DC.

On the other side from the river seems to be the Belmont Ridge Middle
School, which shares some facilities:

http://www.conferencecenter.com/downloads/belmont03.pdf

(That's what I did with *my* extra hour today :-)

--Dave

Glenn Ericson wrote:

Dave,
  from the  looks of the property on the  web, it  might have 
been  Xerox University before it  was  bought  by some  group.
Nice  place  super large campus.    Conference  and Education 
rooms  were  excellent.  Meals  and on-site  pub 
pizza  joint  were  cool  -  well  equipped

Many  of the guest rooms were like  dorm  sized  with  two  sharing a 
common  bathroom. Facility  backed  into Potomac river on one 
side  and  who  knows  were on  other sides. * HUGE with  live stock 
( Deer etal. running  about  at night).   You need a car to go any 
place off property.

Some local historian might validate  if this is true and if it  has 
been modernized.

Glenn.

At 06:02 PM 10/28/2006, Dave McKenzie wrote:

Sounds like the National Conference Center:

  http://www.conferencecenter.com

--Dave

Glenn Ericson wrote:

And the  name of that conference  center is??



At 01:27 PM 10/27/2006, Rebecca.Perdue@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

One more post! Did you all know that the largest conference center in the
US is in Leesburg, Virginia?  That's just a few miles from Dullas
International Airport outside of Washington DC. It has 950 rooms. Hotel
rooms in that area should not be too expensive.

For those in Maryland who don't want to use the bridges, they could even
take the hand poled ferry across the Potomac to get there.

Rebecca Perdue, Systems Programmer
City of Roanoke Department of Technology
215 W. Church Avenue, 4th Floor North
Roanoke, VA 24011
540/853-2942
Fax 540/853-6044