Once an early high-profile supporter of the medical mart concept, drug distributor Cardinal Health (NYSE:CAH) has had an apparent change of opinion.The giant drug distributor – and Ohio’s largest company – does not plan to lease space in the planned Cleveland medical mart or its counterpart in Nashville, spokeswoman Corey Kerr said. So don’t expect [...]

The Nashville medical mart has a signed five-year lease with another anchor tenant, publicly traded furniture maker Steelcase (NYSE:SCS).Nurture, the healthcare-focused brand of Grand Rapids, Michigan-based Steelcase, plans to occupy up to 4,000 square feet of space in the Nashville Medical Trade Center, which is slated for a 2013 opening, according to a report in [...]

The Chicago-based property developer behind Cleveland’s medical mart still hasn’t signed any of its 63 prospective tenants to binding leases.However, it’s a common practice to sign prospective tenants to nonbinding letters of intent (LOIs) in the early stages of projects, various industry experts told The Plain Dealer.“I think everybody is aware that we are just [...]

Going back to those innocent and optimistic days of 2009 when the three-city medical mart competition was just taking shape, one thing has always been clear: For any of the projects to succeed, the healthcare industry would have to buy into the untested medical mart concept.That is to say, the success of any medical mart [...]

The property development group behind Cleveland’s medical mart has hired a 30-year trade show and meetings industry veteran to be general manager of the Cleveland Medical Mart & Convention Center.Brian Casey’s duties will include attracting trade shows, clients and events to the medical mart and convention center, which is scheduled to open in 2013, according [...]

The property developers behind Nashville’s medical mart have released a virtual video tour of the proposed project. The video highlights the Nashville Medical Trade Center’s showrooms, exhibition hall, health information technology innovation center and training and education facilities.

Nashville’s medical mart project has announced its fourth tenant, which it’s calling the “China Pavilion” — a showroom that will feature products and services from yet-to-be-determined Chinese medical technology companies.

The initial list of tenants for Cleveland’s medical mart includes organizations from a wide variety of industries, with the heaviest concentration in furniture, design, information technology and nonprofits. Following is a breakdown of the major industries represented by medical mart tenants.

From hospitals to device manufacturers to health IT companies to furniture makers, the list of the Cleveland medical mart’s first announced tenants is impressive in breadth. But the lack of many big-name, high-profile national healthcare leaders makes the list seem, at first glance, underwhelming.

A list of the first announced tenants of the Cleveland Medical Mart & Convention Center.