Our priorities as a city/region/whatever are screwed up:
If you were going to raise and spend $400 million in public money to spur private economic activity in Cuyahoga County, would you buy a Convention Center?
Here are a few alternatives to consider:
* One Convention Center @ $400 million, or
* 400 megawatts of utility-scale wind generators (with no debt to pay off, so the power would be very cheap)
* Full-ride tuition at Cleveland State for more than ten thousand county residents
* 8,000 street miles of optical fiber at an average cost of $50,000 per mile (1,300 miles would cover the entire city of Cleveland)
* Major weatherization and furnace replacement for 60,000 to 80,000 homes. (While you’re at it, you could probably throw in lead paint abatement.)
