Why Lake Erie for the International Linear Collider?

Why should the "powers that be" consider the North Coast?

The immense salt beds pervading the Great Lakes should provide geologically sound and physically secure locations. Salt mines in Ohio are worked at 1500 feet (appr. 450 meters) depth. The mining and excavation process is largely known. Northern Ohio has a low cost of living; offices, lands, and buildings are readily attained. Hotel and convention space is more than adequate. The scientific and engineering community is significant.

And from what I have read, the location of a laboratory such as this should be equally inaccessible to all parties. Given that the primary proponents are on both coasts and Japan, I feel Cleveland is nearly ideal.