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Crain's Cleveland Business, September, 2005 by Miller, Jay
Talk is cheap, but it can be interesting * A casual conversation about an old idea might have helped to rekindle the interest of Forest City Enterprises Inc. in bringing a new convention center to the real estate giant's Tower City Center. Cuyahoga County Commissioner Tim Hagan said he recently shared with Forest City co-chairman Sam Miller a conversation Mr.
Hagan had with Christopher Kennedy, president of Merchandise Mart Properties Inc., about the possibility of attaching a medical merchandise mart to a new convention center in Cleveland. Mr. Kennedy is a longtime friend of Mr. Hagan and the son of former U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. If the concept sounds familiar to some readers, it should. In the 1980s, Forest City envisioned turning one of...
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