McCormick Place Losing Again
- Chicago has lost another trade show as the BIO International Convention announced Monday it is moving its 2016 convention to San Francisco, cancelling plans to hold the major biotech conference in Chicago that year.
The convention is the world's largest event for the biotechnology industry, regularly attracting more than 15,000 attendees from all over the world.
- Last Thursday, the body that manages McCormick Place and Navy Pier was informed of the Kitchen and Bath Industry Show's decision to move its 2014 show to Las Vegas, to coordinate with the International Builders show.
Chicago’s convention business has come under pressure in recent years as it has become known for high costs. Since easing union rules at McCormick Place in 2011, however, it has snared some new convention business, most recently the Dealernews International Powersports Dealer Expo.
We like to see some side-by-side comparisons of business/conventions lost versus replacement events. Do they even exist?
Labels: money questions
posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
27 Comments:
Isn't San Francisco one if the most expensive cities in the U.S.? When you're losing convention business to SF, that should tell you something.
Stop charging $100 for a case of soda! Asshole!
Where would you want to hold a convention? A place that's open 24 hours, has plenty of liquor, all kinds of gambling, and a shit load of hookers....yep, Vegas baby!!!!!!
Who am I kidding, I'm a Conservative, I want to go to Branson, MO.
chicago == detroit..
bus drivers strike.
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[...].. in the last two weeks, bus operators have been stabbed, shot at and had urine thrown on them. Officials with the city and the Detroit Police Department say they cannot find police reports backing up the claims.
[edit -- what report eh -- crime is down haha..]
“We’re frustrated that we can’t get protection on the buses to do our jobs,” Westbrook said at the rally. “We’re the ones getting shot at. And we can’t get anyone from the city to come out and fix the system.”
[...]...Michelle Zdrodowski, a Detroit Public Schools spokeswoman, said Martin Luther King Jr. Senior High School was half empty Monday morning as a result of the canceled bus service. Benjamin O. Davis Aerospace and Technical High School saw attendance drop by 73%. Parents of high school students in the system received calls Sunday warning them of the potential interruption in bus service.
“Because so many of our high school students ride the (DDOT) bus to school each day ... attendance at our high schools was greatly impacted,” she said.
Buses are expected to run normally today.
Edno D. Casey, 56, an 18-year bus operator, said he was working an overtime shift around 2:30 p.m. Sunday when a driver in another car shot at him on West Grand Boulevard. The driver, he said, had blocked the bus from proceeding in order to have a conversation with someone in another car. He honked to get the driver’s attention, then maneuvered past when he saw no progress. When he came up on the driver, the man had what Casey described as a 9 mm, “cocked and loaded.”
“I’ve had guns pulled on me before, but to be shot at? Really?” Casey said. “Is it that serious?”
Casey said more needs to be done to protect drivers from dangerous situations and to improve relations between drivers and riders.
“I could’ve been dead today,” he said.
Kelvin Hall, 50, a 12-year operator, recalled a situation in which a rider approached him while he was driving the bus last December. The man had a hand in his pocket like he was holding a weapon. Hall said he fought the man on the bus to ensure his own safety.
“I had to protect myself,” he said. “This happens all the time out there. We come to work every day. This is our livelihood.”
the entire story is here == http://www.freep.com/article/20131021/NEWS01/310210056/ddot-bus-sick-out-drivers-union
Put a casino in McCormick place East and watch the convention trade triple. Plus look at all the gambling revenue from out of towners. It's a no brainer.
Also, keep in mind, the tradesmen only work bringing in the show, and then taking it down and loading it out; when the show is running almost everyone is off, sans a skeleton crew to deliver their freight of flyers etc. It might take 3 days to bring in a show and set it up, and only two to take it down and get it out; thus, you lose a day of pay. Most of these guys are off more than they work...
I'm sure Rahm will spin it as a positive....BIO does not have Chicago values since they serve Chick-A-Fil at their events and support the 2nd amendment
National crime headlines contribute to business avoiding the City
Quality police protection is an investment. If you skimp on public safety you suffer - this is a prime example.
>>>> 'Chicago has lost another trade show...the BIO International Convention announced...it is moving its 2016 convention to San Francisco ....' <<<<
To San Francisco?...holy crap! You really, REALLY, have to suck as a city to lose business to that cesspool.
The place is an open sewer. The 'homeless' (aka Junkies, Crazies & 'diseased') have more rights than taxpayers. They can shit and piss on the streets and sidewalks as they see fit -- and they seem 'fit' to do it mostly in downtown SF around noon.
And don't even think of walking on or through the grass. That is, unless you want a HIV+ needle in your foot. You had less chance of running into a Punji Stick Pit while humpin' a ruck through the bush in Nam than you do a needle in an SF park. (the CDC should put a fucking Dome over the place)
High costs? Where ever could that come from? Surely not from the convention center workers sleeping on the job at 80$/hr, or from the 4 person unit wheeling around in a golf cart to put up signs on the front of the kiosks. Self absorbed, entitled pieces of shit they are.
No worries, those of us taking the Sgt's test will pick up the slack
way to go!!! we're the nations leader in all categories...inflation, taxes, crime and murders....you name it we beat it!!!!! if not we'll make sure we do in 24 hrs or less, rahmbo guarantee
And do not think that Chicago's reputation for violent crime is not an issue. Why would conventioneers want to come to a crime ridden city?
MS
That will be another run down future home to pissbums and raccoons. They can't attract business as it is and it's only getting worse. Why do you think they put the sgts exam there? And they want to charge everyone a coat check fee- what a scam!
That's why we need a new arena for a third rate college team
The convention business in Texas is booming. Dallas -Ft.Worth, Houston, San Antonio, even Corpus Christi. What have they got that Chicago doesn't? Ever been to Texas? 6 months of the year it Is hotter than the hinges of hell.
Branson Missouri kicks ASS!
Put a casino in McCormick place East and watch the convention trade triple. Plus look at all the gambling revenue from out of towners. It's a no brainer.
Agreed.
can recall years past when before we came the police we worked as a bricklayer on the 1stMcCormick place,we went on strike for some reason and had pickets all over the place,most tradesmen and truck delivery drivers honored our picket lines but not the city firemen who drove through the gate and gave us the finger and jag off sign and showed us their fire dept badges and laughed,somehow the rides of a few of these assholes mysteriously caught fire on the premises,during the fire strike we brought this up to the striking firemen but the stock answer was "well that was different",the unions chased the shows away you know it and so do we,,,,
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Put a casino in McCormick place East and watch the convention trade triple. Plus look at all the gambling revenue from out of towners. It's a no brainer.
... and re-open Meigs so that the high rollers can just fly in, park the jet, and head over to the casino.
Q: How many Teamster electricians does it take to change a light bulb at McCormick Place?
A: "Twenty six... you'se got a problem wit dat?"
all candidates taking the sgt exam will not park inside the mc cormick place garage and pay outrageous parking rate! park around the neighborhood for free!
don't bring a coat and hang it or any shoulder purse- screw trying to make money over the 300 successful candidates who will eventually become sgt and can afford these high coat room and parking lot rates at the mc cormick place!
Anonymous said...
Put a casino in McCormick place East and watch the convention trade triple. Plus look at all the gambling revenue from out of towners. It's a no brainer.
10/22/2013 03:22:00 AM
That pussy Quinn won't go for it.
He's too worried about gays being allowed to wed.
(I don't care if they do or not)
Creating jobs and revenue is too simple of an idea.
If dumbocrats can't tax or over charge somebody than they want nothing to do with it.
Q: How many Teamster electricians does it take to change a light bulb at McCormick Place?
A: "Twenty six... you'se got a problem wit dat?"
Or 13 firemen on their day off
Anonymous said...
Stop charging $100 for a case of soda! Asshole!
10/22/2013 12:35:00 AM
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Try $200 for case.
Wake UP CHICAGO!! We are losing real convention business due to the corrupt practices at McCormick Place.
Cut back on some of the unreasonable practices and also get rid of a lot of the patronage jobs where people get paid to test the oxygen level in the air.
Next case. (and not at $200 a case either)
Just A Citizen says: Shocking! People don't want to come to Chicago.. who would have guessed?
High costs? Where ever could that come from? Surely not from the convention center workers sleeping on the job at 80$/hr, or from the 4 person unit wheeling around in a golf cart to put up signs on the front of the kiosks. Self absorbed, entitled pieces of shit they are.
$80 an hour? sign me up! you obviously have no clue. The contractors, IE Freeman and others set the prices for floor space etc, and even the air space above the floor! charging twice for the same space! Yes, Levi inflates the prices of food and drink etc to exorbitant prices. The unions gave major concessions but the contractors did not pass along the savings to exhibitors!! it's all greed at Mccormick/McPier and they blame the little guy (union worker) who's actually off more than he works.. if people only knew..
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