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Meeting Downtown Demolition Challenges in Cleveland When completed in the fall of 2013, the $465 million facility will consist of a four-story above-ground medical mart as well as a 230,000 sq. ft. (21,368 sq m) underground convention center with 60,000 sq. ft. (5,574 sq m) of meeting rooms and a 32,000 sq. ft. (2,973 sq m) grand ballroom.
The first-of-its kind Cleveland Medical Mart (MMCC) with 12,200 tons (11,067 t) of steel and more than 24,000 steel beams make the largest project in downtown Cleveland, Ohio history. When completed in the fall of 2013, the $465 million facility will consist of a four-story aboveground medical mart as well as a 230,000 sq. ft. (21,368 sq m) underground convention center with 60,000 sq. ft. (5,574 sq m) of meeting rooms and a 32,000 sq. ft. (2,973 sq m) grand ballroom. Nearly 100 tenants, including health care providers, medical device manufacturers, health care educational institutions and health care technology companies have already signed up for space in the new MMCC. As managed by Merchandise Mart Properties Inc., Chicago, the project is working to gain LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Silver Certification from the U.S. Green
Building Council. MPPI has completed one of the largest LEED projects in the world at Chicago’s Merchandise Mart. Five buildings were demolished last year to make room for the new 1 million sq. ft. facility. The five included a parking garage, Sportsman’s Restaurant, the Court Annex Building, the Chicago Title Building and the eight-story 113 Building, all in Cleveland’s central business district. Promptly at 6:00 a.m. on Jan. 3, 2011, crews fired up demolition machines and began work. Demolition remained on schedule and was completed under an aggressive schedule, despite the wind, cold, snow and rain that a Cleveland winter and spring can bring. More than the five aboveground buildings needed to be demolished. Much of the demolition took place down to 30 ft. (9 m) below grade at the old Cleveland Convention Center, Malls B and C,
and Exhibit Halls C and D on Lakeside Avenue. “The Cleveland Convention Center was basically a gigantic concrete bathtub on top of which was the Cleveland mall,” said Dave Johnson of MMCC. The first order of business was to scrape off the grass, dirt, sidewalks and trees that composed the top of the mall. When that was done, crews demolished within the building itself. They took down column after column and gutted the building. Independence Excavating, Independence, Ohio, was one of the primary demolition contractors. “Our main function was the demolition of the existing convention center,” said Ed Wilk, general superintendent with Independence. “At one time we had some 25 to 27 major excavators down there and 40 to 50 workers. We had a subcontractor helping us on some of the demolition, like the 113 see DEMOLITION page 7
Nearly 100 tenants, including health care providers, medical device manufacturers, health care educational institutions and health care technology companies have already signed up for space in the new MMCC.
“The Cleveland Convention Center was basically a gigantic concrete bathtub on top of which was the Cleveland mall.” Dave Johnson MMCC
Independence Excavating, Independence, Ohio, was one of the primary demolition contractors.