Unlike the Super Bowl and Final Four of recent years, the tourism bump required no upfront investment from the city having to bid and prepare for a big sporting event.
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You don't have to tell Meet Minneapolis that volleyball is big. When the Minneapolis Convention Center hosted the USA Volleyball Girls Junior National Championships, 11- to 13-year-olds in June, hotels set occupancy records for the weekend. Crowds of about 500,000 swarmed downtown later that month for the Twin Cities Pride Festival weekend, the Taylor Swift concerts and the Kiwanis .
Hennepin Theatre Trust welcomes Josh Howard, chief investment officer of Bremer Bank, to its board of directors, bringing over 20 years of financial services experience to the nonprofit.