Au Bon Pain, Starbucks, Conference Rooms and Vacant Space — The Sorry State of the Global Center for Health and Innovation

The Global Center for Health and Innovation, the $465-million, four-year-old, publicly financed complex is a) 20-percent vacant, b) unable to draw new tenants and c) without a leader, as it has been since June of 2016, thirteen months ago, when Fred DeGrandis departed the managing director position.
If you think that the frustratingly dumb misuse of Cuyahoga County taxpayer money is a failure, you’d be right. The Cuyahoga County Convention Facilities Development Corporation, the nonprofit that technically manages the Global Center and the Convention Center, might argue differently, but they’d be wrong.…

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