Business View Magazine l November 2022

166 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 9, ISSUE 11 and bands on the history of what we’ve been able to do and to recap, show off the market, and really try to attract as much business as we can from that standpoint. Really, we market in two different ways, through events and then through our own internal marketing dollars,” maintains Aiello. Highlighting the community of Macon, the Centreplex also offers a preferred catering list to event planners, bolstering local restaurants and caterers whenever possible. With a new amphitheater in the planning stages, Macon Centreplex is looking forward to this 10,000-seat addition to their venue offerings. Half a mile from Downtown Macon, this new location will bring even more entertainment options to the city. Aiello boasts, “We are helping to design it, so it’s going to be state of the art when it comes to concession stands, access to patrons, and parking lots. It’s really going to open us up to a whole new genre and level of artists to attract them to Macon.” As for what he’s most looking forward to in the future, he says, “The amphitheater, seeing the renovations get done at the Auditorium and the Coliseum, and putting those into action. We are revitalizing the two facilities back to the way they were. It’s making them more efficient; it’s making them more consumer-friendly. Seeing that hard work over the last five years come to fruition is rewarding, it’s fun, and we’re looking forward to the shows coming in and seeing that work as well.” PREFERRED VENDORS/PARTNERS n Visit Macon www.maconga.org The mission of Visit Macon is to unify and lead our community in marketing the Macon-Bibb County area as a superior visitor and meeting destination. Visit Macon promotes Macon, Georgia to travel writers, meeting planners, group tour operators and leisure travelers to bring people and revenues into the community and area businesses.