ClevelandDesignCity

“With the Medical Mart now in the works as part of a hybrid facility, the stakes are even higher. The Medical Mart is expected to boost the city’s economy and pump visitors through the convention center and the city’s hotels.

Public input and oversight on the site selection is key, because the reverberations — financial, functional and aesthetic — will be felt for decades.

For now, however, the public will have to sit tight while the private, non-profit Greater Cleveland Partnership, which represents the city’s business interests, decides behind closed doors which site to recommend…” (go to article)