Article: Where to go from here?(Government)(Several city officials are board members of a conference center consortium)

Byline: Jack Moran The Register-Guard

SPRINGFIELD - A team of high-ranking city officials has been working quietly for about a year with local business leaders to pick a site for a conference and hotel center.

That's no surprise, considering the city's long-standing interest in luring visitors to Springfield by giving them a place to hold large business gatherings.

But the extensive degree of city participation to this point is significant, in part because city officials who are involved with the project might play pivotal roles in a pair of formal city decisions that could make or break the conference center concept.

The list of city ...

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