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By Steven Litt, The Plain Dealer

Cavs owner and casino developer Dan Gilbert hasn’t yet announced the specific site or the design architect for the casino he’d like to build in downtown Cleveland.

But that isn’t stopping the Cleveland Coalition, a group of young professionals with an intense interest in the city’s future, from offering Gilbert some very specific free advice.

On Friday, the coalition will sponsor “Crooked River Gaming/2,” a public brainstorming session at the Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs, 1717 Euclid Ave. The “charrette,” as such meetings are called in architectural circles, will focus on everything from what the casino might look like to how it could affect future economic development.

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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.

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