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Originally Posted by umbria27
That's nonsense. There are plenty of downtown trade show facilities.
The Javits Center is 675,000 square feet in Manhattan. That's 3 times the CE Centre size. Philadelpia's is 600,200 square feet. If they can find the space in Manhattan, they can find it in Ottawa. This was just lazy planning.
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Its not so much lazy planning yes there is room it has more to do with the anti devlopement mind set by some if they said were going to build a 222,000 sqaure foot trade centre right downtown you would have a fair amount of people up in arms crying about traffic etc.