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CLEVELAND, Ohio — The Tower City location for Cleveland’s would-be convention center and medical mart picked up another endorsement in today’s Plain Dealer. Experient Inc. founder Bruce Harris said the site allows people to get to the airport, local hotels and restaurants while barely having to walk outside – and that would give Cleveland a major advantage in off-season convention times.
It comes days before executives from Medical Mart Properties Inc. arrive to give government officials an update on their progress on picking a location. There’s some debate whether the MMPI executives will provide the entire report, though. Dennis Madden, executive director of the Medical Mart, said last week it would be an update on the report’s progress.
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Harris’ vision of the almost-all-indoor convention center is an issue for Clevelanders – among them The Plain Dealer’s architecure critic Steven Litt. Harris says locating the new convention center at the old location would spell doom for the project. It’s worth reading both arguments.
Litt argued the opposite of Harris in August, saying taxpayers would be “skewered” by a Tower City convention center because it would effectively turn its back on a section of the downtown. Litt also wrote in his story that the notion of staying indoors for an entire trip runs counter to a long-held vision of Cleveland city planning:
Worse still, backers of the convention center and medical mart proposal want to build a large new system of underground and overhead walkways to connect the new facilities at Tower City Center to the rest of downtown.
That’s truly creepy.
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Harris told The Plain Dealer something else: Commissioners should not overlook that a convention center has to be built to live on its own, just in case the mart goes bust. There’s no elabortion on whether he’d consider that a real possibility. But it, too, is a pretty creepy thought.
