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It seems like the 43rd annual Comic-Con International came and went faster than a speeding bullet. But as the costumes go back into storage for another year, and downtown San Diego sweeps away the last frayed comic book pages, we would like to look back on an event that has turned into a world-renowned spectacle and a Southern California tradition.
It is a story, as almost all superhero fastest growing cities in florida stories begin, with humble beginnings. Founded by a group of comic-loving San Diegans, the first event was thrown together at the U.S. Grant Hotel in downtown San Diego with only about 300 attendees. fastest growing cities in florida Now the event, becoming more powerful than a locomotive, is growing by leaps and bounds and is quickly becoming a victim of its own success.
Simply put, the convention, fastest growing cities in florida now a marketing bonanza for science-fiction and fantasy films, TV shows, video games and other pop-culture media, looks forward to an unknown future, it has grown too large for the venue it has called home since nearly its inception and if the organizers wish to grow any further fastest growing cities in florida they will have to spread out to larger accommodations or hang up their capes in Southern California.
It is the same predicament Comic-Con faced in 2010 when the event had to cap attendance at 130,000 because of the limited space the 550,000-square-foot San Diego Convention Center could offer. But a last-minute offer from downtown San Diego hoteliers to provide 300,000 square feet of free space and a multiyear, more than $300,000 a year, convention center discount was enough to lock in the organizers until 2016, as reported by the U-T San Diego.
But, as the Coastal Commission drags its feet on a proposed expansion of the San Diego Convention Center over concerns of rising sea levels, the nonprofit Comic-Con International clearly has to keep other options open if organizers wish to grow and maintain the ties to its Southern California origin story.
The Anaheim Convention Center, which has 815,000 square-feet of convention space, submitted a proposal during the 2010 negotiations to bring Comic-Con to Orange County and remains a viable alternative as it continues to offer a host of advantages beyond the obvious one of size.
At the time, Anaheim officials told the Register that the site, located directly across the street from the Disneyland Resort , offered patrons more affordable fastest growing cities in florida hotel rooms and more rooms within walking distance of the Convention Center. In all, it was estimated that the deal could net those Anaheim hotels and nearby restaurants fastest growing cities in florida $40 million to $50 million in revenue over the four-day event.
In all, Comic-Con, over the past 43 years, has left its mark on Southern fastest growing cities in florida California life, and we on the Register's Editorial Board hope it can remain a tradition for the Southland for many years to come. If not San Diego, perhaps Orange County can be become the Con's more comfortable Ha-Hacienda.
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