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Detroit auto show home gets new name

The renaming of Detroit's 59-year-old convention center marks the end of former Mayor Albert Cobo's name on the convention hall he worked to develop in the late 1950s. (CHAD LIVENGOOD\/CRAIN'S DETROIT BUSINESS)
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Crain's Detroit Business
August 29, 2019 07:58 AM

DETROIT -- The home of the Detroit auto show since 1965 was renamed TCF Center on Tuesday, with the first sale of its naming rights, after a years-long movement to disassociate the convention center with racially-charged policies of a 1950s Detroit mayor.

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