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completed its 45-story Waterfront Tower addition with 961 rooms, 80 suites and 18 super suites. The Water Club, a new prop- erty by Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa, offers 18,000 sq. ft. of meeting space along with 800 guest rooms and the 36,000-sq. ft. Immersion Spa. A favorite local shopping venue, Atlantic City Outlets-The Walk, has added 40 new stores. The city'sCivilRightsGarden features a reflecting pool and 11 columns of black African granite etched with quotes from civil rights leaders. Other points of interest include the Absecon Lighthouse, Ripley's Believe It or Not! Museum and the Atlantic City Aquarium, located in his- toric Gardener's Basin. The largest area meeting venue, the Atlantic City Convention Center, has 486,600 sq. ft. of contiguous exhibit space, 45 meeting rooms, a roof-top solar power system, a recycling pro- gram and other green initiatives. For lodging, the city offers approximately 20,000 hotel rooms. NEWARK Among the most interesting places to see in New Jersey's largest city are African-American heritage sites like the Polhemus House, which once served as anUnderground Railroad station, and the Kreuger ScottMansion,which was once owned by the city's first Black millionaire. The Newark Museum is the city's most prominent and prestigious cultural attraction, encompassing a planetarium, an 1784 schoolhouse, the Ballantine House—a restored 1885Victorian mansion once that once belonged to the beer-brew- ADAM'S MARK BUFFALO BUFFALO NIAGARA CONVENTION CENTER Call DIONNE WILLIAMSON at 888.228.3369 x245 or e-mail williamson@visitbuffaloniagara.com WWW.VISITBUFFALONIAGARA.COM Black Meetings & Tourism November/December 2011: www.blackmeetingsandtourism.com 75 e Atlantic City Convention Center – New Jersey