By Evelyn Theiss, The Plain Dealer
Cleveland’s casino will be a $600 million investment.
That’s what casino developer Dan Gilbert’s representative told the crowd of more than 100 at a public dialogue on casino design, held at Cleveland’s City Club Friday evening.
Len Komoroski, representing Gilbert’s Rock Ventures LLC, said that Gilbert and his partners want to make sure “this is a first class destination and entity. We are committed to investing more than $600 million here in the Cleveland casino project.”
View full sizeKomoroski was one of four panelists at the discussion organized by a group of young professionals calling itself the Cleveland Coalition.
The other speakers were Christopher Diehl, a professor at the Kent State Urban Design Collaborative; Tom Chema, president of Hiram College and former chief executive of the Gateway Economic Development Corp., and David M. Schwarz of Washington, D.C., a well-known architect who designed the expansion of Severance Hall in Cleveland in the late 1990s. Schwarz is currently working on a project for Harrah’s Entertainment Inc. in Las Vegas.
