ClevelandDesignCity

“Brian Smith, the Clinic’s director of construction management, said the 144,000-square-foot building, one of the few remaining examples of the Art Deco style in the city, couldn’t be renovated easily for offices, clinical space, educational purposes or research.

Because the building has narrow column bays and low ceiling heights, it would forever be substandard in comparison with other Clinic buildings, Smith said.

If renovated, it would yield 50 percent less usable space than other Clinic buildings. And it would still feel darker, more cramped and more chopped up by columns and service cores for elevators, stairs and utilities…” (go to article)