Byline: John Woolfolk
Oct. 10--While San Jose officials are preparing for a major expansion of the McEnery Convention Center, a report released Tuesday by the city auditor says bigger may not be better and suggests what the aging facility needs is not more square footage, but effective management.
The 125-page McEnery center performance assessment was produced by Kai-yan Lee for the city auditor's office and completed for his master's thesis in public policy at Harvard University and in city planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Lee gave the McEnery convention center, run since 2004 by the non-profit Team San Jose, middling marks overall. He said ...