America's Cup: Work begins on creating a world class event venue

11:14 AM Mon 3 Jan 2011 GMT

'An earlier artist?s impression of viewing in the public hub for 34th America?s Cup, San Francisco' .

New Zealand born journalist, Michelle Slade, now based in San Francisco, interviews Craig Thompson, CEO of America's Cup Event Management for the Marin Journal: With perhaps the biggest challenge for the AC34 out of the way now that San Francisco has been named as venue for the 2013America's Cup, Craig Thompson, CEO of the America's Cup Event Authority (ACEA), confirms that indeed, his team will begin setting up shop in San Francisco this month to start work on the mammoth task ahead of building a world-class waterfront event venue. Thompson, who is married with two children ...

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by Michelle Slade