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Industry veteran named to lead TCF Center
Industry veteran named to lead TCF Center
Brings 30 years of experience in hospitality industry
Succeeds Claude Molinari, who left last year to lead Detroit Metro Convention & Visitors Bureau
ASM Global
Karen Totaro
ASM Global, the manager of TCF Center, has named hospitality veteran Karen Totaro as the site s new general manager.
She succeeds former general manager Claude Molinari, who left to lead the Detroit Metro Convention & Visitors Bureau and Detroit Sports Commission late last year.
In the new role, she will oversee the venue s operations and promotion, while working collaboratively with Molinari and the visitors bureau, community stakeholders and clients.
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Karen Totaro // Photo courtesy of ASM Global
ASM Global, which manages Detroit’s TCF Center, has announced Karen Totaro as general manager of the center. She will immediately assume leadership of the management, promotion, and operation of the facilities.
“I believe Karen Totaro is the best leader to continue to inspire TCF Center’s talented team in helping us sprint forward from the pandemic impact,” says Larry Alexander, board chairman of the Detroit Regional Convention Facility Authority in Detroit.
“TCF Center has earned a world-class reputation while making a major financial impact for our region and state. ASM Global is a critical component to the growth in our meetings and conventions, which became a driving force in tax revenues, jobs, and the improvement of the reputation of Detroit and southeast Michigan, all of which helped to secure one of the largest naming rights sponsorships anywhere in the industry.”
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In the latest month of the San Diego Convention Center’s unexpected role as a homeless shelter, the city paid $1.6 million in rent to its own nonprofit that runs the bayfront facility and $727,000 in operations and maintenance costs.
Other expenses for November included $1.5 million to the charities running the makeshift shelter, $915,000 to feed fewer than 1,000 clients, $343,000 for extra security and thousands of dollars in miscellaneous costs, city records show.
In total for November, San Diego taxpayers spent $5.7 million to temporarily house about 900 people just over $190,000 a day, or more than $6,000 per person. That’s more than $210 per day for each person living at the shelter.