Heywood Sanders, the national ranking expert on convention centers, is in San Diego this week, scouting around. Sanders wrote a seminal paper for the Brookings Institution in 2005, predicting a destructive arms race in construction …
Heywood Sanders
Posted July 1, 2014
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Chargers or Comic-Con? SD can't get both (and needs neither)
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Chargers redeclare wish for downtown stadium
Chargers spokesman Mark Fabiani sent out an email this afternoon (February 23), stating that the Chargers are shooting for a combined stadium/convention center downtown. No surprise. As the team was trying to get to Los …
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New convention center study likely to fail test
The consulting firm of Convention, Sports and Leisure International has come out with a $90,000 study telling San Diego that if it builds a contiguous convention-center expansion, it will gain $157.1 million in direct convention-attendee …
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How can convention centers be so dumb?
Although their forecasts are usually wrong by 50 percent, cities keep hiring convention center consultants.
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