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GREENSBORO One of Greensboro’s newest attractions, the 11-acre Gateway Gardens, has completed its first phase of devel- opment, with a children’s garden, rain garden, heritage garden and public artworks ready for tours. The International Civil Rights Center & Museum is housed in the original downtown Woolworth’s store where four North Carolina A&T State University stu- dents staged their famous lunch counter sit-ins in the 1960s. The Charlotte Hawkins Brown Museum at Historic Palmer Institute is located at the site of the preparatory school for African-Americans that Brown founded in 1902. The newly renovated Kimball Hall on the site, which formerly served as a student dining hall, now offers space for family reunions, meetings and other events. Other local African-American historical and cul- tural sites include the African-American Atelier — one of four art galleries at the Greensboro Cultural Center at Festival Park — and Guilford College, the former loca- tion of a shelter for escaped slaves. Many of Greensboro’s downtown’s art galleries, stu- dios and museums are open for evening tours during the monthly First Friday Art Walk. The Sheraton Greensboro Hotel & Koury Convention along with its 1,106 guestrooms. African-American historical marker Center is the city’s largest meeting venue, providing 250,000 sq. ft. of meeting space and a business center 50 Black Meetings & Tourism May/June 2011: www.blackmeetingsandtourism.com Photo Credit: Greenbor CVB