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The Seattle Convention Center can't survive on Comic Con alone

The Seattle Convention Center can't survive on Comic Con alone

Seattle Now · KUOW News and Information

February 18, 202615m 47s

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The Seattle Convention Center takes up more than one-point-five million square feet of real estate downtown.

It brings the possibility of year-round tourism, and extra business for the surrounding hotels, bars and restaurants.

Despite hosting more events than ever before, the corporation behind the convention center says the financial situation is “fragile.”

Seattle Times Reporter David Kroman will tell us why.

Read David’s story in the Seattle Times here.

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