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Article: Executive Helps Mold Las Vegas Convention Center into Meet Market Magnet.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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- August 31, 2003
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By ROD SMITH, Las Vegas Review-Journal Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Aug. 31--A big grease board dominates Richard Heller's board room deep in the bowels of the Sands Expo and Convention Center.
There, handwritten in big, bold letters, is a message: "I love you Daddy," with a huge valentine and a bunch of doodles about geometry classes and other teenage vexations.
Heller's 20-year-old daughter drew the message on the Peter Maxlike grease board years ago, and Heller said, "I just can't bear to erase it."
The otherwise sterile suite of executive offices bears little personal imprint, but conversations with Heller, president of ...