Spooky Nook to include second-largest convention space in region

People shouldn’t think of the proposed Spooky Nook at Champion Mill gigantic indoor sports complex as only an athletic facility, City Manager Joshua Smith told an audience Thursday at his ninth annual State of the City speech.

Here’s another way to view it, he suggested: When completed in 2021, it will contain the region’s second-largest convention space, behind only the Duke Energy Convention Center in downtown Cincinnati — three times larger than the one in Sharonville.

“I want to make sure this is very, very clear,” Smith said. “It is a sports complex. But it is so much more than a sports complex. It is truly a mixed-use development.”

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