Advocates of a possible convention center expansion are threatening the waterfront connector project’s federal and state backing

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Talk about expanding the county-owned Huntington Convention Center north toward Lake Erie — into the same general area where Cleveland intends to build its land bridge -- threatens to complicate land bridge plans and funding just as the city of Cleveland was preparing to start evaluating potential designers and contractors. (John Pana, cleveland.com)

On many levels, it’s a bizarre tussle. On one side is a meticulously planned and already funded Cleveland waterfront connector to goose transformation of Cleveland’s waterfront into an enormous city asset. But on the other is the idea that, maybe, because Cuyahoga County might want a larger Huntington Convention Center to put it on a more even par with competitors -- an idea that, at this stage, lacks specifics, funding or timeline – all those plans should be set aside for now because the North Coast Connector location might interfere with any convention center expansion lakeward.



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