 You need a financial advisor with the freedom to focus on your specific needs. Whatever your goals, Reeve Potter can create a game plan tailored to you. Call Reeve at 432-0777 at Pikeville, Kentucky to learn more. On Monday, March 13th, the Pikeville City Commission approved a $7,000 invoice toward researching interest for more convention space in the city. Demand estimation and site selection are the two main points of research. Once the research is completed, it will then be decided where the additional space will be constructed. The arena, Appalachian Memorial Serena is being forced to turn away 10-20 events a month because we don't have meeting space. So, you know, there's some service there that we can't provide because air building is booked. So we're looking at alternatives to how to increase additional space but also attract more conferences to Pikeville. So this study was designed to first of all determine if there was a need for additional conference space. A true need and whether having that would allow us to attract more conferences, host more events and things of that nature. The expansion of convention space is a long-term project. As of right now, the research and planning stage has just begun. Ellswick says the goal is to make Pikeville a destination for more regional conferences. Phase two of the study is looking at some site selection criteria where that space may be and it may be associated, it may be attached to Appalachian Memorial Serena or it may be a separate facility somewhere operated by Appalachian Memorial Serena, much like the overlook is, the Overlook Event Center. So we are in the very preliminary phases of looking at some expansion of conference space in Pikeville. Trade associations, professional associations, recreational associations that have conferences, have conventions, workshops, things of that nature that we become a destination for that in this part of the state. So we are hosting more conferences, more events of that nature which leads to the need for more hotels, for more restaurants, for more shopping. So this is part of an overall tourism strategy to make Pikeville a destination for events in this part of the state. Reporting from Mountain Top News, I'm Nick Collum.