Hannah Drown
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Oct 9, 2026
Mike McIntyreHOST
They were conciliatory in that we don't need to slow things down, but we're certainly going to try to work with the county and accommodate it.
Mike McIntyreHOST
But on a follow-up story, Hannah Drown from Cleveland.com talked to the mayor, and he was pretty blunt.
Mike McIntyreHOST
He called this a pie-in-the-sky
Sean McDonnellPANELIST
project and said, I'm not going to change my lakefront plans for a convention center that isn't funded.
Layla AtassiHOST
And Bibb has pointed out that the region already faces a nearly half-billion-dollar funding gap at Gateway, not to mention enormous pressures on other public services.
Layla AtassiHOST
So when Han- when Hannah Drown spoke to the mayor this week, Bibb called the Convention Center proposal a pie-in-the-sky project and said he is not gonna squander a once-in-a-century o- opportunity to transform the Lakefront.
Layla AtassiHOST
Now the city isn't saying the Convention Center can never expand.
Layla AtassiHOST
It's saying that if the county eventually develops a credible funded proposal, it needs to work around the land bridge, not the other way around, and that's really the bottom line with Clev- Cleveland is not going to put a funded, shovel-bound vision for its Lakefront on hold for a convention center expansion that nobody has figured out how to build or pay for.