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Downtown Needs Convention Center, Study Says

KALAMAZOO, MI-A feasibility study by Chicago-based Economics Research Associates suggests the city's Downtown needs a new $23-convention center to go after meetings drawing 1,000 to 3,000.

By Dan Heaton | Updated on October 19, 2004

KALAMAZOO, MI-A new feasibility study suggests the city’s Downtown desperately needs a new $23-million convention center. The nine-month study by Chicago-based Economics Research Associates suggests the city lacks significant meeting space, and recommends a new 100,000-sf structure that would take about four years to build.

“We don’t have an adequate amount of exhibit space in the county,” says Ken Fischang, executive director of the Kalamazoo County Convention and Visitors Bureau, which presented the results. “When you compare the amount of exhibit space [here] with other cities, we’re dead last.”

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