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, […]
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.
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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.
The long-awaited groundbreaking for Cleveland's $465 million medical mart project will be... drum roll, please... Jan. 14, 2011. The ceremonial turning of the ground "on the historic Cleveland Malls" will happen at 11 a.m. that Friday, according to MMPI, the Chicago-based property developer that's leading the project. The event, which also will feature remarks from civic, business and government leaders, is free and open to the public.
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As Cleveland's $465 million medical mart project inches closer to a groundbreaking, critics still question whether the pricey investment is worth the risk. "It's a shot in the dark in some ways, in their ability to create a new economic diversity for their economy," said former Pittsburgh Mayor Tom Murphy, now a senior resident fellow at the Urban Land Institute.
City and county officials are expected to sign several key documents related to Cleveland's medical mart project Thursday, another milestone and sign of progress as the $465 million project marches on.
The identities of at least some future tenants for the planned Cleveland medical mart finally could come to light in November.
The estimated cost of building Cleveland's medical mart has risen $40 million to $465 million, due to design changes in the ballroom of the adjoining convention center.
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For Bill Winsor, building a successful medical mart is all about attracting a "critical mass" of healthcare products sellers. In Winsor's view, his Nashville project has what it takes to create that critical mass, and Cleveland's competing medical mart doesn't.
The property developers behind Cleveland's medical mart have signed letters of intent with 32 prospective showroom tenants and 16 conferences and trade shows. But who are they?
Updated 8:00 p.m. A citizens’ group is urging Cuyahoga County to delay the much-anticipated medical mart’s planned October groundbreaking, citing concerns about finances and what it sees as inadequate planning. Citizens Reform Association of Cuyahoga County urged county commissioners to put the project on hold to allow further time to study it, the Plain Dealer […]
It’s Greg Sanker‘s job to sell Cleveland’s medical mart to the world. Or at least that part of the world that needs to buy into the concept for it to be a success — medical device makers, health information technology vendors, and less-sexy members of the healthcare ecosystem like hospital bed manufacturers. Now that the […]
Cuyahoga County has struck a deal to buy the final piece of land needed to assemble the property for Cleveland’s proposed medical mart. The $3.1 million option to purchase the Sportsman Restaurant ends a lengthy process of negotiations and appears to pave the way for groundbreaking to begin in October, as scheduled. The purchase brings […]