There is a broad consensus in the state capital Wiesbaden for the new Rhine-Main-Hallen: This is the result of a symposium that lasted for several hours at the Wiesbaden City Hall, during which experts presented the planning and funding concepts for the new building in front of more than 60 participants, consisting of city councillors and representatives from business and the hotel industry. The invited guests of the symposium made use of a digital voting to establish clear benchmarks for the new project: More than 90 percent supported the preservation of the urban character of the Rhein-Main-Hallen as an inner-city venue, they confirmed the need for a modern event building in the centre of Wiesbaden (86.2 percent), and they affirmed the expected cost of building a new Rhein-Main-Hallen building as a "legitimate investment" for the economic and cultural location Wiesbaden (80.4 percent). The vote also made the procedure for new development clear: 87.7 percent of the participants expressed the view that the closure of the Rhein-Main-Hallen for a period of two to three years was "not acceptable".

Locating the Rhein-Main-Halle in the Wilhelmstrasse, and adapting the required area to a new spatial program, would involve construction costs of at least 75 million Euros: That is the result of an analysis by the architectural company Albert Speer and Partners, which analysed a total of five variants. The technical renovation of the current Rhein-Main-Hallen, which will cost 42 million Euros, would not be able to fix the structural deficiencies of the convention centre and were not pursued any further. Plans for a new building on the current site, which would cost 126 million Euros and require a six-year construction period - during parallel operation and the plan to build a new building on the same site while closing down the house for a period of two and a half years should also be withdrawn.

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