Cleveland Auto Show moves downtown, plans 2021 event for December
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A crowd gathers at the 2019 Cleveland Auto Show at the I-X Center. The long-running show is moving downtown this year in the wake of I-X Center s closure. The 10-day event is set for Dec. 3-12 at the Huntington Convention Center of Cleveland.
The 2021 Cleveland Auto Show, in limbo since the I-X Center exited the event business, is moving downtown.
The Greater Cleveland Automobile Dealers Association confirmed Tuesday, Feb. 2, that the show will be staged at the Huntington Convention Center of Cleveland from Dec. 3 to Dec. 12. Those dates are a significant shift for the long-running show, which traditionally takes place in late February and early March, serving as the kickoff to the spring car-sales season.
I-X Center operator, mired in contract fights, sues Cleveland Boat Show organizer
Jeffrey L. Klaum/I-X Center
The private company that controls the I-X Center, a shuttered event venue on Cleveland s West Side, recently filed a lawsuit against the producer of the Progressive Cleveland Boat Show and Fishing Expo.
The operator of I-X Center, the massive Cleveland trade-show venue that shut its doors last year, is suing the group behind the Progressive Cleveland Boat Show and Fishing Expo in a move that could have bearing on a series of contract disputes.
In a lawsuit filed Friday, Jan. 29, I-X Center Corp. asserts that it has no obligations to the Lake Erie Marine Trades Association, an industry organization that produces boat shows across the region. The company is asking a Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court judge to affirm that I-X Center Corp. can t possibly host a boat show in the next few years and isn t responsible for a business shutdown that resulted from the coronavirus p
Tourism leaders say Ohio needs to ease gathering limits or risk losing business
By Susan Glaser - Advance Ohio Media, Cleveland (TNS)
CLEVELAND, Ohio Thousands of NCAA tournament-bound men’s college basketball players will descend on Indianapolis in March, plus coaching staff, family, media and more.
It’s an event that couldn’t occur in Cleveland, or anywhere in Ohio, which remains under strict coronavirus-related mass gathering limits. In Ohio, indoor gatherings are capped at a maximum of 300 people, no matter the size of the venue.
Numerous leaders in the state’s travel and tourism industry have been lobbying Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine to raise the limit or at least to link the size of the gathering to the size of the venue so that event planners have better guidance heading into the summer and fall, when the meeting and event industry is expected to slowly resume.
Tourism leaders say Ohio needs to ease mass gathering limits or risk losing business into the future
Updated Jan 30, 2021;
Posted Jan 30, 2021
Cleveland s convention center has largely been empty for the past 11 months. State tourism leaders are lobbying the governor to allow larger events to resume, safely. (Chuck Crow/The Plain Dealer)Chuck Crow/The Plain Dealer
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CLEVELAND, Ohio Thousands of NCAA tournament-bound men’s college basketball players will descend on Indianapolis in March, plus coaching staff, family, media and more.
It’s an event that couldn’t occur in Cleveland, or anywhere in Ohio, which remains under strict coronavirus-related mass gathering limits. In Ohio, indoor gatherings are capped at a maximum of 300 people, no matter the size of the venue.
Cleveland Heights League of Women Voters weighs in on 10-month City Council vacancy Thomas Jewell, cleveland.com
CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio The city’s League of Women Voters has taken City Council to task over its failure to fill a vacancy that will soon be entering its 11th month.
That comes after the advocacy group took on the considerable task of interviewing more than 20 applicants for the seat last year at council’s request LWV Cleveland Heights-University Heights Chapter Chair Maryann Barnes pointed out in a letter to the city last week.
Those interviews were completed April 30, less than two months after Councilwoman Melissa Yasinow stepped down with nearly two years left on her term.