Detroit Auto Show could leave Detroit?
By Andrew C., 30 Aug, 2010. 0 Comments
ers‚Äô attention. If plans for a conference hall push through in Novi, a suburb of Detroit just 25 miles outside the city, the Detroit auto show might have a venue for 2011. However, the facility, the 300,000 sq. ft. Rock Financial Showplace, is about 400,000 sq. ft. short of Cobo‚ floor area, and Cobo has already been deemed too small for the auto show. The move now is to expand the facility in order to accommodate the show in Novi. The expansion is to be significant, requiring about $120 to $180 million. But according to sources the land has already assembled the land. To make this expansion Oakland County will be working through legislation. With the threat of the Detroit event moving to another state, the lawmakers of Michigan will be more than willing to work with Oakland County since the renovation of Cobo has fallen through. Detroit organizers say that they could transfer the show to Chicago or L.A. if and when it came to that. Rock Financial Showplace will be hearing from the organizers very soon if the latter have finalized their decision to move the auto show to Novi.
[via detroitfreepress]
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