District Energy - 2005 Second Quarter

Hotel Information – District Energy/CHP 2005

The Radisson Riverfront Hotel is the host hotel for the 96th Annual Conference & Trade Show. Seated atop the bluffs of the Mississippi River in the heart of downtown Saint Paul, the Radisson Riverfront Hotel offers the best of all worlds to travelers. The capital city of Minnesota is a nexus for business, cultural and governmental activities, and the Radisson offers easy access to all of them.

Please make room reservations
directly with the hotel.

For hotel reservations,
contact:
The Radisson Riverfront Hotel
11 East Kellogg Boulevard
St. Paul, MN 55101
(651) 292-1900 or
(800) 333-3333
(651) 224-8999 fax
www.Radisson.com/stpaulmn

IDEA has secured special room rates for its attendees. Single and double rates are $155. This block will be held until June 3, 2005. Be sure to identify yourself as part of the IDEA conference to receive this discounted guest room rate. Select guest rooms feature high-speed Internet access. (If you desire high-speed access, please specify you’d like a ‘wired room.’) Parking is available in a ramp adjacent to the hotel for $13 per day.

Attire

Saint Paul CVB

Attire for the conference sessions is business casual. Speakers and panelists are advised to wear business attire. The chairman’s banquet is the only event that requires business or semi-formal attire.

The average high temperature in St. Paul in June is
about 79 degrees F, with lows about 58 F.
Sunday, June 26 Twin Cities Tour: St. Paul and Minneapolis
2 p.m. – 4 p.m.
You will learn the Tale of Two Cities on this motor coach tour of Minneapolis, the City of Lakes,
and St. Paul, the Capital City. Highlights include St. Paul’s fabled Summit Avenue renowned as the
longest boulevard of magnificent restored Victorian homes in the United States. It’s here on
Summit Avenue that F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of The Great Gatsby, once resided.

While in Minneapolis, you’ll see the oldest pedestrian mall in the country, the Nicollet Mall, and the second-floor skyway system that connects more than 35 blocks throughout Minneapolis. The tour will stop at the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, an 11-acre urban garden that features some 40 sculptures by leading American and international artists, the Cowles Conservatory, and the Spoonbridge and Cherry, a giant fountain sculpture by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen.

Next, the tour will head through Kenwood, one of Minneapolis’ oldest and most beautiful residential areas and the location of Mary Tyler Moore’s television home. Then you will continue on your way around the famous Chain of Lakes. You’ll follow Minnehaha Creek to the legendary Minnehaha Falls. It is here that Longfellow wrote the famous poem about Hiawatha, the Indian brave. Then you will cross the Mississippi River back into St. Paul. This event is included in spouse/guest and children’s registrations, but is an extra fee for conference registrants.