{"id":1217972,"date":"2023-04-14T04:11:39","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T09:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1217972"},"modified":"2023-04-15T13:22:08","modified_gmt":"2023-04-15T18:22:08","slug":"tyler-celebrates-grand-opening-of-w-t-brookshire-conference-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1217972","title":{"rendered":"Tyler celebrates grand opening of W.T. Brookshire Conference Center"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"TYLER — The W.T. Brookshire Conference Center Grand Opening took place Thursday. The event featured a ribbon-cutting ceremony and fireworks, celebrating the building\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s grand opening that is 30 years in the making. Mayor Don Warren and four former Tyler mayors came together to celebrate the momentous occasion, our news partner KETK reports. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The WT Brookshire Conference Center is the centerpiece and offers this community a conference experience like no other,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Warren. From start to finish, Warren explained that the project wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t easy, but worth it for the City of Tyler. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Getting a project of this magnitude off the ground is challenging at anytime but doing it during a pandemic is a whole new ball game,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Warren.<\/p>\n

The previous conference center on the lot was known as Harvey Hall, which became ingrained in Tyler\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s culture.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Harvey convention center is a special part of our memories,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Warren said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Being a native Tylerite and growing up here, I have come to so many functions at Harvey Hall. I have a ton of memories, and I know many of you do as well, so thank you to the Harvey family.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

Brad Brookshire, Chairman\/CEO of Brookshire Grocery Co., came to the podium to express his excitement that his family feels for this grand opening as the Brookshire name started as a small grocery store with four employees in 1928 in Tyler. They now have 19,000 employees, with 2,700 employees in Tyler and Smith County. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fantastic. I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t wait for y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all to see it,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Brookshire said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Making this partnership between the city of Tyler and Brookshire\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Grocery Company is really the perfect match. My grandfather would be very, very proud of this magnificent new building made in his honor.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

Warren rejoined the podium for some final words before the ribbon cutting to give one final goodbye to Harvey Hall and welcome in the new conference center. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153When we said goodbye to Harvey Hall, we had a drone in the sky and we turned and waved,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Warren said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We have another drone out tonight, so let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s turn and say hello to the W.T. Brookshire Conference Center.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

The event had food donated by FRESH by Brookshire\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s along with a small firework ceremony to cap off the event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TYLER — The W.T. Brookshire Conference Center Grand Opening took place Thursday. The event featured a ribbon-cutting ceremony and fireworks, celebrating the building\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s grand opening that is 30 years in the making. Mayor Don Warren and four former Tyler mayors came together to celebrate the momentous occasion, our news partner KETK reports. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The WT Brookshire … Continue reading Tyler celebrates grand opening of W.T. Brookshire Conference Center<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":1217975,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/04\/wtb-e1681463492972-150x150.png","fifu_image_alt":"Tyler celebrates grand opening of W.T. Brookshire Conference Center","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1217972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-09 02:35:00","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/04\/wtb-e1681463492972-150x150.png","fifu_image_alt":"Tyler celebrates grand opening of W.T. Brookshire Conference Center","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1217972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1217974,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217972\/revisions\/1217974"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1217975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1217972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1217972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1217972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}