Going back to those innocent and optimistic days of 2009 when the three-city medical mart competition was just taking shape, one thing has always been clear: For any of the projects to succeed, the healthcare industry would have to buy into the untested medical mart concept.That is to say, the success of any medical mart [...]

The property development group behind Cleveland’s medical mart has hired a 30-year trade show and meetings industry veteran to be general manager of the Cleveland Medical Mart & Convention Center.Brian Casey’s duties will include attracting trade shows, clients and events to the medical mart and convention center, which is scheduled to open in 2013, according [...]

The property developers behind Nashville’s medical mart have released a virtual video tour of the proposed project. The video highlights the Nashville Medical Trade Center’s showrooms, exhibition hall, health information technology innovation center and training and education facilities.

Nashville’s medical mart project has announced its fourth tenant, which it’s calling the “China Pavilion” — a showroom that will feature products and services from yet-to-be-determined Chinese medical technology companies.

The initial list of tenants for Cleveland’s medical mart includes organizations from a wide variety of industries, with the heaviest concentration in furniture, design, information technology and nonprofits. Following is a breakdown of the major industries represented by medical mart tenants.

From hospitals to device manufacturers to health IT companies to furniture makers, the list of the Cleveland medical mart’s first announced tenants is impressive in breadth. But the lack of many big-name, high-profile national healthcare leaders makes the list seem, at first glance, underwhelming.

A list of the first announced tenants of the Cleveland Medical Mart & Convention Center.

When the backers of Cleveland’s medical mart finally announce the project’s tenants Friday at a ceremonial groundbreaking, savvy observers will scan the list for the identities of big-name “anchor tenants.” The reason is simple: Those anchor tenants will be crucial to the success of the $465-million project by luring buyers who’ll also visit the project’s smaller, lesser-known tenants.

Most people in Ohio’s biomedical industry would’ve considered 2010 a good year if just one key thing happened — voters renewed the state’s $1.35 billion, 10-year Third Frontier program, which is designed to energize Ohio’s economy by investing in cutting-edge technology. It happened and heads up MedCity News’ list of the biggest highlights of the year for Ohio’s biomedical industry.

The property development company behind Nashville’s medical mart have reached an agreement with its third tenant, New York-based mdi Consultants Inc.