The property developer behind the Cleveland medical mart has publicly identified 36 companies it considers “top-tier” prospects to lease showroom space in the mart.
The candidates were listed as part of a presentation on the project’s status by the president of the Chicago-based property developer, MMPI, to the Cuyahoga County Council.
“The biggest challenge in attracting the top-tier companies is that they have showrooms in their own facilities and are having difficulty justifying the investment in another showroom before the concept is proven,” said MMPI president Mark Falanga.
That may be another way of saying: “Don’t expect too many of these companies to be in the medical mart when it opens in 2013, but maybe we can land some of them a few years later.”
Regardless, it’ll be interesting to see how many of these names occupy space in the medical mart on its first day of operations — or ever.
Here’s the list:
3M
Abbott Laboratories
Advanced Surgical Products
Agfa
Airgas
Aloka
Allscrips
Baxa
Baxter
Beckman Coulter
Berchtold
Boston Scientific
Carestream Health
Carl Zeiss
Cerner
Cordis
Covidien
Datex
DePuy
Ethicon
Getinge
Healthcare Information Systems Management Society (Note: HIMSS has signed on for space in Nashville’s medical mart.)
Hewlett-Packard
Hill-Rom
Hitachi
Honeywell
Intuitive Surgical
McKesson
Medline
Medtronic
Olympus
Ortho Clinical Diagnostics
Philips
Stryker
Thermo-Fisher Scientific
Toshiba
By Brandon Glenn MedCity News
Brandon Glenn is the Ohio bureau chief for MedCity News.More posts by Author
So, they knew this before even the first shove of dirt? Talk about shooting from the hip. No aim whatsoever. Bet a private company would NEVER get even a dime loan for a similar project. The banks would laugh them right out of the building. But MMPI will get their guaranteed cut regardless of the sucess or failure of the venture.