Mayor Kevin Faulconer of San Diego is throwing his weight behind a plan to expand the existing San Diego Convention Center. There was another proposal out to instead build a new "campus" facility a few blocks away and the Mayor says that a new feasibility study has convinced him the better bet is to expand what's there — i.e., the building we fill each year for Comic-Con International.
One possible barrier to this happening is that local voters would have to approve an increase in the hotel tax. I'm not sure why they would vote that down since most of them would never pay it and there would be great benefits to the community to expand the city's convention. But voters did veto something of the sort a few years ago so maybe they would again.
In any case, expansion or no expansion, I continue to believe that Comic-Con ain't gonna relocate for a long time, if ever…and that the periodic rumors that it will move are about as likely as President Lincoln Chaffee. Thanks to Douglass Abramson for pointing me to this article which is all about that new study.