 A national magazine has recognized Bemidji Sanford Center and its management company Venue Works with the 2018 Prime Sight Award. Facilities and event management magazine give out the Prime Award to the top entertainment, sports and special event venues in the country. The award is given based on the physical and structural dynamics of the building, venue staff and level of technology of the facility's sound and lighting. Sanford Center officials say that winning this award will help them attract bigger events to the building in the future. This is really really big for us because this gets people in LA, Nashville and New York aware of the fact that this is a great building to do business in. That's really what this is about. So for us, you know, locally it's incredible, nationally it's phenomenal. The Sanford Center was nominated by one of the acts that has recently played the Sanford Center. Already the award has garnered some attention and the Sanford Center will be making a big announcement in the near future. We're working on our rock show for this summer and I'm feeling really good about our head bangers are going to be thrilled and I'm excited about it so I think we're going to have a wonderful rock show that we're going to announce which I know is a big part of our market. I know we do country very well but I know that the guys and gals out there that love the rock and this one's going to be a good one. Eight other Venue Works Managed Facilities also received the National Prime Sight Award. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.