Lansdowne's National Conference Center lays off 65 - Philadelphia Business Journal:

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The decision came as a result offall bookings, whicjh are about 25 percent below 2008, accordinvg to General Manager Kurt Krause. “We just don’f have the hours to give people,” Krause said. Noticed were delivered June 5, giving terminated employees 60 notice. The move reducez the center’s work force to 210. Krause said the slowed businese is due to currenteconomic conditions; the Lansdowne facilithy focuses on corporate training ratherf than events such as weddings or leisurwe travel.
It has 265,000 squarer feet of meeting space and 917 guest roomz and boasts the largest ballroom in Northern The layoffs spanned all departments from housekeepinyg to the banquet staff and were not regulated to oneparticula area. There are not plans to closre the facility. Management will re-evaluate this October or Novembet whether additional positions mustbe eliminated. Krausd said employees have been meeting monthly for updates on the statse ofthe business, so the layoffs may not have been a big “The No. 1 question wasn’t so much an attacjk back at us, but was, ‘If business comes will you call me?’ he noted.
The center, formerly known as the Xerosx Document University, is owne d by and managed by Harrison