By: Deborah Speer
Kim BedierKim Bedier, the director of Tacoma Venues & Events for the city of Tacoma, Wash., surveys the Greater Tacoma Convention Center before the building hosts its first event in a year, the Charity Choice Invitational gymnastics tournament Feb. 12-17. Kim Bedier, the City of Tacoma, Washington's Director of Venues and Events, added some new terms to her vocabulary this year. Terms like “bipolar ionization” and “UV light wand.”
She can joke about it now, with the light beginning to appear at the end of a very long, dark tunnel. Bedier oversees the 21,500-capacity Tacoma Dome and the Greater Tacoma Convention Center in Washington, located in one of the three counties where events of more than 250 people were ordered closed on March 11 because of an outbreak and first reported deaths in the U.S. from COVID-19.