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Convention Center Recommendations Near

DETROIT-A report on a possible new convention center for the metro region is due to be released this week. Options include upgrading and expanding Cobo Center Downtown.

By Dan Heaton | Updated on June 07, 2004

DETROIT-A report from the Detroit Metro Convention & Visitors Bureau on the future of the region’s major convention center is due early next month, says a local hotelier who sits on the bureau’s board. Victor Martin, an owner and general manager at the Sterling Inn in Sterling Heights, says the bureau is expected to issue a report this week outlining four possible options for a major convention center in Detroit and will recommend which of the options to follow.

Martin spoke about the convention plan with GlobeSt.com minutes after Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick had left the banquet center at the Sterling Inn, where he spoke to a Sterling Heights Area Chamber of Commerce luncheon crowd. Kilpatrick says a convention center that can accommodate the needs of the North American International Auto Show is one key area–public transportation the other–where regional cooperation is needed between Detroit and the suburbs.

Martin says four scenarios were studied by the Convention & Visitors Bureau: doing nothing; doing repair and upgrade work at the existing Cobo Center in Downtown Detroit; upgrading and expanding Cobo; or building a new facility. “It can’t be left alone,” Martin said, declining to offer any further personal opinion on what the best course of action is.

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