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Cobo Center Feasibility Study Is on the Way

DETROIT-A plan for how to get more convention space in the city--and possibly ways to pay for it--is expected to be unveiled by the end of the month. The trick may be getting suburbs to kick in.

By Dan Heaton | Updated on January 11, 2005

DETROIT-A feasibility study of plans to expand Cobo Center, or possibly build a new, larger convention center in the city, is expected to be released by the end of January. The main Cobo exhibit floor has about 750,000 sf.

The North American International Auto Show opened at Cobo Sunday and the Detroit Auto Dealers Association as well as automakers have wanted more room at the show for years. “We’re running a couple of weeks late with that right now, but that that is a promise we made to the industry,” Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick says. Kilpatrick adds his administration has met and is working with the unions that represent the thousands of carpenters, electricians, Teamsters and others who spend three months a year creating the auto show about holding the line on wages to keep Detroit competitive with Chicago and other cities that would welcome the roughly $580 million in economic impact created annually by the show.

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