Just as a reminder that there is plenty of room for meetings without a new convention center. Why doesn’t Cleveland Positively sell out of these venues? Quoting from a Cleveland Crain’s Business listings here are convention and meeting spaces available in Cleveland and its near suburbs. Lest we forget in order to build another structure for the Forest City Gang: - Cleveland Convention Center – 124,067 square feet of meeting space. - I-X Center – 101,045 square feet. - Playhouse Square Center – 90,000 square feet. - Renaissance Cleveland Hotel – 62,000 square feet. - House of Blues – 45,000 square feet. - Wolstein Center at CSU - 43,676 square feet. - Corporate College (CCC) East – 35,300 square feet. - International Hotel and Conference Center at Cleveland Clinic – 35,000 square feet. - Executive Caterers at Landerhaven – 28,000 square feet. - Crown Plaza Hotel – 27,000 square feet. - La Centre Conference 26,000 square feet. - Forum Conference Center – 25,000 square feet. - John Carroll University – 24,548. - Ritz-Carlton Hotel – 24,466 square feet. - Quicken Arena – 24,000 square feet. - Sheraton Cleveland at Airport – 22,000 square feet. Seems to me a lot of space to fill with visitors rather than spend $1 billion more on a new convention center with no assurance that it can be filled enough days to pay for the cost.
Links:
[1] http://smtp.realneo.us/content/health-care-reform-must-be-passed
[2] http://smtp.realneo.us/content/roldo-bartimole-0
[3] http://smtp.realneo.us/blog/roldo/here-we-go-again