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List of Medical Mart Tenants and Convention Center Tenants http://www.onlinetmd.com/medical-device-design-manufacturing-cleveland-medical-mart-convention-11911-tmd.aspx

<a Href="http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2011/01/key_opening_steelyard_common_b.html" > Key opening Steelyard Commons branch, 4 others locally, creating 30 jobs </a> KeyCorp plans to open a branch at Steelyard Commons in Cleveland, as well as four other local branches in the next 15 months, which will create 30 jobs. The Steelyard Common branch is scheduled to open in October. The other four branches are slated for Concord (in February,) Lyndhurst (in July,) Eastlake (in August,) and Middleburg Heights (early next year). The five are among 32 that will open in the next year nationwide. Additionally, eight existing branches will be replaced with new buildings. Locally, that will give Key 122 branches in Northeast Ohio, up from 105 branches four years ago.

<a href="http://www.clevescene.com/scene-and-heard/archives/2011/01/19/another-food-truck-for-cleveland-umami-moto">Another Food Truck for Cleveland: Umami Moto</a> Jae Stulock and Sandy Madachik were packing their bags to move to Boulder to launch a food truck business. The business partners had heard how difficult it was to set up shop in Cleveland so they had no intent to even try. Before skipping town, however, they learned about the City of Cleveland's program to encourage more mobile dining options. In six short days they assembled the necessary application paperwork and were accepted into the program. Madachik, a former office manager at an IT firm, and Stulock, a carpenter for a construction company, launched Umami Moto in early November. "I have always wanted to get into the food business," explains Stulock. "Cooking has always been a passion of mine. Following the downturn in the construction business, I said, 'Now's the time

<a href="http://www.tennessean.com/article/20110119/COLUMNIST0304/101190337/Getahn+Ward++Cleveland+scores+first+in+medical+mart+race+with+Nashville">Getahn Ward: Cleveland scores first in medical mart race with Nashville </a> But in the public relations battle, Cleveland scored major points even if its initial lineup lacked a lot of big health-care names. "Cleveland is doing it. Nashville is talking about it," said Jorge Lagueruela, president of Trinity Furniture Inc. of Trinity, N.C., which leased space in the Cleveland Medical Mart and Convention Center. "From the standpoint of the health-care industry, Cleveland is going to become the hub in the United States, and this new center is going to be the beacon for that." Among the few big fish that Cleveland signed to letters of intent for permanent showroom space were $34 billion-a-year in revenues Johnson Controls Inc. and the well-known Cleveland Clinic.

<a href="http://www.newsnet5.com/dpp/news/local_news/cleveland_metro/cleveland-classic-college-football-game-coming-to-cleveland">Cleveland Classic college football game coming to Cleveland </a> CLEVELAND - This September, college football is coming back to Cleveland Browns Stadium. The Greater Cleveland Sports Commission announced Wednesday Central State University will play North Carolina Central University in the first annual Cleveland Classic presented by McDonald’s. The game will be part of a weekend of events, including a College and Career Fair and a Greek Step Show on Friday September 9. The football game will kickoff at noon the next day, Saturday, September 10, 2011.

Beer Blotter: Seattle Based. World Focused. 52 Weeks: Great Lakes Brewpub, Cleveland, Ohio Which part of the bar do you want first? How about the cave-like cellar? Why not the indoor/outdoor retractable roof patio -- or no -- the long bar lounge. Wait, but there is also a restaurant, wrapped around the small test batch brewing system. Get my drift -- there is a lot to this place. It has been about 6 years since I last truly explored the GLBC's Brewpub. I know that its supposed to be my first visit -- but the brewery has grown a lot since then. I need to give it another go. Located in Ohio City, its a mere 5 minute trek from downtown Cleveland. Its a "got to go" destination. The brewery is nestled back off the main roads, disconnected from the Brewpub. But, the pub is right down the alley, less than a 3 minute walk. No more than a block away is Cleveland's epic West Market. After visiting again, I'm fairly sure it blows Seattle's Pike Place Market out of the water, in terms of food offerings. I'm talking 30 places to grab a sausage, a dozen or more pierogi stands (a Cleveland fave) and the infamous Steve's Gyros (bring your cash and something to do for 45 minutes). This is also not far away from the home that housed Randy, Ralphie and the old man, stars of A Christmas Story. Though the movie took place in Inidiana, it was shot in Cleveland. The storefront next the Brewpub pays homage with its very own leg lamp. My brother was entranced. ........... http://blog.seattlepi.com/beerblotter/archives/233601.asp

Cleveland Wants to Be a Health-Care Hub The city tries to rebrand itself by building a medical mart and convention center in hopes of attracting well-paying industry jobs to the region Cleveland, which has been losing manufacturing jobs for decades, has spent almost $1 billion on everything from new downtown sports stadiums to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in an attempt to rev up its economy, so far with mixed success. Next up: health care. In January construction will start on a $465 million Medical Mart & Convention Center targeted at manufacturers of health-care equipment and supplies. Backers of the mart say it suits the area's changing job mix. Since 2000, Cuyahoga County has lost 41 percent of its manufacturing jobs, a total now down to 68,500 in 2009. Meanwhile, employment in health care and social assistance increased 19 percent, to 118,000. The Medical Mart is the brainchild of Delos M. "Toby" Cosgrove, chief executive officer of Cleveland Clinic, a sprawling health-care complex east of downtown that ranked fourth this year on U.S. News & World Report's list of top U.S. hospitals. The medical center is the largest nongovernment employer in northern Ohio and the second-biggest in the state, with about 40,000 workers. "In order to build a hospital, I wound up traveling all over the country and the world to see various pieces of equipment," says Cosgrove. "It would be nice to have all those things in one place." http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_02/b4210021528835.htm

U.S. More nonstop Cincinnati-Cleveland flights comingDec 29, 2010 4:17 PM ET By The Associated Press CINCINNATI (AP) — The new year will bring more nonstop air service between two of Ohio's largest cities Officials at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport said Wednesday that Continental Airlines will launch new service to Cleveland starting Jan. 4. The airport says Continental's entry will increase the number of daily direct roundtrips between Cincinnati and Cleveland Hopkins airport from two to five In a statement, a Continental executive says the new service has been scheduled with business travelers in mind. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-29/more-nonstop-cincinnati-cleveland-flights-coming.html

Cleveland's going up: New projects, pioneers poised to give city a lift: Joe Frolik Official population figures for individual cities and counties will come early next year. But after a decade of job losses and a brutal wave of foreclosures that emptied out neighborhoods, its very possible that Cleveland will have fewer than 400,000 residents -- less than half its 1950 population peak. After the relative stability of the 1990s, that would be a huge symbolic blow. Population growth isn't necessarily the best measure of a region's health, but it is telling. Americans go where they believe they can find jobs and opportunities. That in-migration, in turn, replenishes the energy, creativity and wealth of those lucky places. For much of the last century, Greater Cleveland benefited from that dynamic. But for too long, as Brent Larkin noted in his column a few weeks ago, we have been getting older, smaller and poorer. That dynamic also feeds on itself. So why am I optimistic? Because even in this Great Recession, the seeds of positive change are beginning to sprout -- and collectively, they can be transformative. Some are easy to see -- or soon will be. By next Christmas, work on the medical mart and convention center, the Flats East Bank development, the Inner Belt Bridge and the downtown casino (provided its backers don't waste too much time trying to reroute the Cuyahoga River) should all be under way; that alone is more than $1 billion worth of investment and construction jobs. Together these projects will remake downtown. They have already inspired planning about how to connect these new pieces with usable and inviting public spaces that can make the city vibrant and attractive to people with options. A similar makeover is taking shape at University Circle, where the $300 million mixed-use Uptown project is rising from the ground along both sides of Euclid Avenue. It will help create a real neighborhood for people who are studying, doing research, treating patients, creating art or starting companies there -- and tie together other investments in and around the Circle and Little Italy. ........ http://www.cleveland.com/opinion/index.ssf/2010/12/clevelands_going_up_new_projec.html

Rock Gaming LLC and Caesars Entertainment Corp. have entered a joint agreement to develop and operate new casinos in Cincinnati and Cleveland. The companies announced the venture Wednesday, calling it Rock Ohio Caesars LLC. Detroit-based Rock and Las Vegas-based Caesars say a general manager for each casino is to be named in early 2011. Rock Ohio Caesars expects to invest $400 million in Cincinnati and $600 million in Cleveland and create a combined 12,700 direct and indirect jobs. Rock says it's hired two diversity consultants to assure a mix of construction contractors. http://www.fox8.com/news/wjw-news-caesars-to-manage-cleveland-casino,0,7197905.story

A few years back I actually wrote a long and indepth response to an article at Cleveland.com and it started a rolling effect of positive posts on that particular article. Someone responded that my post was the best post they had seen in a long time on cleveland.com and suggested Urbanohio.com for a more positive and indepth discussion on issues and well here I am :)

So it took me a little over 3 and 1/2 hours to get roughly from the Cleveland Clinic to Public Square yesterday but once I got to the Detroit-Superior Bridge there was one of the long RTA buses (accordion bus) that must have gotten stuck and tried to manuever out. The bus was blocking a good bit of the bridge and the entire bridge became basically 2 lanes but more like 1 and a half due to the snow for both directions. People leaving downtown almost made the bridge a one way bridge because one by one cars started using all the incoming lanes and other cars followed.

Downtown Cleveland's PlayhouseSquare district is safer than many think; with interactive map It's safer to attend "Billy Elliot," which officially opens tonight, than to live in some of the suburbs many of the theater district's patrons hail from. And to provide an accurate picture relevant to theater patrons, it counts only the number of visitors to PlayhouseSquare events last year, 850,343. It excludes thousands more who work or live in the district, or who visit for other purposes. Using those criteria, the violent-crime rate in PlayhouseSquare last year was five incidents per 100,000 visitors. The property-crime rate was 16 incidents per 100,000 visitors. Those statistics are infinitesimal compared with the FBI's national crime rate per 100,000 people for 2009: 429 for violent crime, 3,036 for property. Even when compared with Solon, which the FBI says is far safer than the country as a whole, PlayhouseSquare wins. The eastern Cuyahoga County suburb has a rate of 41 violent crimes per 100,000 residents. (Solon has only 22,000 actual residents, but crime rates are measured per 100,000 people, requiring an extrapolation.) Which means that, according to the analysis, a Solon resident would be eight times more likely to be a victim of a violent crime if he stayed in his hometown than he would be while seeing a show at PlayhouseSquare. But to further test The Plain Dealer analysis, let's say that all the crime reported in the theater district during 2009 took place over just two average months, when attendance would be about 142,000, one-sixth of the annual number of visitors. Doing that skews the PlayhouseSquare crime rate upward sixfold, lopsidedly tilting the playing field in favor of Solon. Even in that rigged comparison, a Solon resident would still be about a third more likely to be mugged, robbed, raped or killed in Solon than if he went to PlayhouseSquare. Any reasonable interpretation of the data leads to only one conclusion: If you want to avoid crime, seeing a show at PlayhouseSquare is a good bet. http://www.cleveland.com/onstage/index.ssf/2010/11/downtown_clevelands_playhouses.html

Investors plan $55 million hotel project in historic Euclid Ave. buildings Didn't know where to put it please move it if there is a more appropriate thread CLEVELAND, Ohio -- An out-of-state investor group plans to open a hotel on Euclid Avenue, in a $55 million project that could eliminate a dead zone in downtown Cleveland. JHB Hotel LLC, an entity tied to investors in New York, California and Colorado, expects to buy the John Hartness Brown Building at 1001-1021 Euclid Ave. and the neighboring building at 1101 Euclid Ave. before the end of the year. The vacant properties could be plucked from the early stages of foreclosure, thanks to a surge of interest in hotels to complement Cleveland's planned medical mart, new convention center and casino. 0Share 0 Comments Those large projects, more than $1 billion worth of development, have sparked a hospitality race. Real estate experts say only a few hotels -- ones that secure financing first -- will be built. http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2010/11/investors_plan_55_million_hote.html

Case Western Reserve University continues to make progress toward a multimillion-dollar wind energy research center. The first wind turbine, scheduled to be operational sometime during fall semester, will be near Veale Athletic Center and 121 Fitness Center. “Once it’s up and running, the university is going to provide energy directly into Veale Center,” said Nick Christie, project manager. The wind turbine will provide about 18.5 percent of the electricity on an annual basis. Last year, the Ohio Third Frontier Commission Wright Projects Program awarded a $3 million grant to the Case School of Engineering and the university’s Great Lakes Energy Institute. The funds, combined with contributions from Case Western Reserve and its industry partners, will comprise support for an overall $6 million Ohio Wind Energy Research and Commercialization Center (WERC) dedicated to wind turbine innovation and education. Case Western Reserve plans to install three wind turbines, possibly the largest university facility of its kind in the country dedicated to innovation and commercialization. In addition to research, the turbines will offer opportunities for local companies to create, test and commercialize wind energy-related technologies. The university recently received approval from city officials and planning commissions to erect the wind turbines. According to Christie, the smallest wind turbine—the one near Veale Center--will be a100-kilowatt unit that is 156 feet tall at the top of its upright blade. The medium and large turbines are expected to be in Euclid on one of the WERC Center’s industrial partners’ sites. All of the wind turbines will serve as a resource for faculty and student research. http://blog.case.edu/case-news/2010/09/08/wind_turbine_scheduled_to_power_up_this_fall

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B.S. in Computer Engineering from UD and will be working on getting an Electrical Engineering degree from CSU.

Resource Real Estate to acquire the Bingham apartments in downtown Cleveland CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A national real estate company will acquire the Bingham apartments in Cleveland's Warehouse District, after entering the only bid Monday at a foreclosure auction in federal court. Resource Real Estate, the note-holder on the historic warehouse building, bid $25 million for the property, which houses 340 apartments and a grocery store on West Ninth Street. Resource initiated a foreclosure after buying the note in March, during an auction of delinquent loans by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2010/11/resource_real_estate_to_acquir.html

Competition is about to heat up in the race to build a medical trade center, Nashville is in a race with Cleveland and New York City, which all want to be the first to build a one-stop-shopping solution for the health care industry. Cleveland will close Nov. 18 on the land for its $485 million project, and will begin converting tenant “letters of intent” into contracts, MedCityNews.com has been told. Dallas-based developer Market Center Management Co., which plans to build Nashville’s $250 million dismissed the Cleveland project’s letters of intent in August, saying “we are confident that until (Cleveland project developer) MMPI announces leases, not letters of intent from unknown companies, they won’t be breaking ground on a medical trade center in Cleveland,” he said. http://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/morning_call/2010/11/cleveland-medmart-may-take-a-lead.html

Tyrone Williams Named Project Manager for Cleveland Medical Mart & Convention Center CLEVELAND--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Tyrone Williams was named project manager for Cleveland Medical Mart & Convention Center, it was announced earlier today by MMPI. A Cleveland native, Williams began his job duties on November 1 and will be responsible for managing construction schedules and budgets, reviewing submittals, and general coordination with contractors and engineers. Williams has served in a variety of capacities with Hammond Construction Company in Canton, Ohio for the past seven years, including his current role as project engineer on the construction of two new Cleveland elementary/junior high public schools, Euclid Park and Charles Dickens. As project engineer for the $28 million construction management joint venture project totaling 135,000 square feet, Williams has been responsible for monthly schedule updates, change management, cost reporting, and contract compliance. Previously, Williams was the project engineer for the construction of the three new Cleveland public school buildings, Daniel E. Morgan, East Clark, and Wade Park, a $45 million project totaling 180,000 square feet. http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20101102006898/en/Tyrone-Williams-Named-Project-Manager-Cleveland-Medical

I agree. Limiting the Heat to 9 points in the first quarter with Bosh, Lebron and Wade on the floor is nuts. Hope the Cavs can show the Heat how its done tomorrow...

Cleveland up for Lingerie Football League team CLEVELAND - Football in the buckeye state is about to heat up. Cleveland or Columbus will get a Lingerie Football League team for the fall 2011 season, according to a news release from the league on Monday. The full-contact, indoor league features ladies in bras, underwear and shoulder pads in a seven-on-seven game of football. “We appreciate that football is part of the heartbeat of Ohio and we eagerly await next fall when we introduce LFL football in the state of Ohio,” said Mitchell S. Mortaza, founder of the Lingerie Football League, in a news release on Monday. Three other cities will get franchises next season, bringing the LFL to 14 teams. Lingerie football has been gaining popularity since the league was created last year. http://www.newsnet5.com/dpp/news/local_news/cleveland-up-for-lingerie-football-league-team

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Googling the Cleveland zoo? So are a lot of people. Google ranked the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo as the No. 1 summer travel destination search among Ohio residents. The zoo beat out the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, No. 2; the Cleveland Museum of Art, No. 3; and the Great Lakes Science Center, No. 4. The fastest-growing attraction searched by Ohioans was the West Side Market, a 98-year-old venue where vendors sell meats, fish, produce, pastries and ethnic food four days a week. The city-owned market ranked No. 5. Megan Danielson, Midwest manager of travel for Google, said the company studied the Google search trends by Ohioans over five weeks in August and September 2009 and five weeks in August and September of this year. The study determined that search volume for the zoo increased by 70 percent. Searches for the West Side Market jumped 191 percent. http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2010/10/ohioans_have_gone_google_over.html

Cleveland Ship LLC offers to buy Northrop Grumman Corp.'s shipbuilding unit CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A new company staffed by people left behind by the restructurings of several Cleveland businesses has made a bid to buy the largest military shipbuilding operation in the world. "It's a multibillion-dollar acquisition," Cleveland Ship LLC President and Chief Executive Edward Bartlett said of his newly formed company's bid to buy Northrop Grumman's shipyards in Louisiana, Mississippi and Virginia. Bartlett, a former Eaton Corp. executive who lost his job there when Eaton got out of the marine business, formed Cleveland Ship about three years ago to design new fuel ships for the Navy. Late last year, several former executives of iron ore shipping company Oglebay Norton came on board, as did a former National City and Ernst and Young executive. Cleveland Ship's headquarters are now in Independence, but if the deal goes through, Bartlett said the company has received incentive offers from the city and the state to move its offices to downtown Cleveland. http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2010/10/cleveland_ship_llc_offers_to_b.html

Here is one study that basically took into account the cost of living for city and metro areas and determined which ones were truly the poor areas. The only Ohio city to be listed in the top 50 was Lima at 42. They claim that a 45-year-old federal methodology for determining poverty is too simplistic, and potentially inaccurate. http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-08-23/recession-the-50-cities-feeling-the-economic-squeeze/