Comic-Con International 2025 convenes in 58 days and I’ll be doing my usual sixteen-or-so panels…but that’s not what I want to talk about at the moment. Let’s talk about the San Diego Convention Center. It opened in In November of 1989 has since undergone a vast amount of renovation and expansion…but not enough. As this article explains, the place is going to need an awful lot of renovation in the coming years.
I think it’s a wonderful place to hold a convention. It’s well-designed, well-situated and surrounded by great hotels and great restaurants…but it’s getting on in years and as the article states, it’s going to need hundreds of millions of dollars in repair and upgrades. I do not think it’s going to close down. There’s too much commerce built around it. I don’t think Comic-Con is going to move elsewhere. The alternatives are not great. I just think an awful lot of money is going to be spent on it…and some of that, directly or indirectly, is going to come from attendees. Donald Trump may even slap one of his big, beautiful tariffs on the place.
We’ll keep an eye on this matter. I wouldn’t expect a major impact right away but something’s going to have to be done and it’s gonna cost someone a lot of money.
Thanks to my pal Douglass Abramson for keeping me up-to-date on the topic.
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