Clefan98

Those things have happened in Crocker Park's parking lot too, what's your point?

Full stop because that's not happening. They'd have a hard time recruiting and retaining staff if they head off the burbs. Their talent acquisition folks know this.

Here’s a sneak peek of the view from Fahrenheit’s new rooftop!

The downtown shooter was arrested in Lorain earlier today.

It happens. Sherwin looked at sites in Atlanta because of lower corporate taxes and less overall levels of government to deal with.

That's not what happened to regions who have been through mergers though. What you're perpetuating is more fear.

Regardless, Avery Dennison is a bad example because they already had a large presence in Ohio. I specifically asked, "when was the last time a fortune 1000 enterprise from outside of Ohio moved their HQ or major operations to NEO?" Allow me to rephrase.....When was the last time a fortune 1000 company, with no current operations, moved to NEO? I'm genuinely curious.

Mergers are a great way to restrain government and cut red tape.

How do you quantify the savings we'd see from preventing future tax increases? Budgets aren't going down and eventually our entrenched sprawl and numerous fiefdoms will drain even more resources leading to more and more tax increases. How do I know this?? It's already happening! A true county level merger could eliminate 5,000 public sector jobs in Cuyahoga Co alone. I don't think many here realize how screwed we are if nothing changes.

Yes, for their Packaging and Containers Manufacturing HQ, which was poached from Willoughby Hills.

Why does their website still list Glendale as the corporate HQ? https://www.averydennison.com/fr/home/new-world-wide-offices.html

Not saying there isn't a labor shortage but the number of people holding government jobs in Cleveland's MSA is only down .96% since 2016.

I wonder how happy people will be when they see their county property taxes doubling over the next 12 years to sustain 59 municipalities and an ever growing budget.

To the detriment of another NEO community: The payroll is expected to exceed $40 million annually. The decision to move to Mentor is a loss for Willoughby Hills, which had offered incentives for Avery to locate at a site proposed by Snavely Development Co. at SOM Center Road and I-90. The new building means Concord Township will lose the headquarters of the two units of the adhesive materials maker. https://www.crainscleveland.com/article/20050411/REG/504110734/avery-taps-mentor-for-unit-hq

When was the last time a fortune 1000 enterprise from outside of Ohio moved their HQ or major operations to NEO? It doesn't happen despite our low COL, abundance of clean freshwater, and rail infrastructure because instead of collaborating to win, we compete against each other and lose. Cleveland/Akron could be the Atlanta of the north. Metro Atlanta’s labor market continued to grow through the end of 2022. Job numbers recovered rapidly from the effects of the global pandemic, and despite recent national economic headwinds, metro employment figures climbed steadily. By year-end 2022, Atlanta recorded 22.8% job growth since April 2020, outperforming the U.S. growth rate of 11.7%. https://www.cushmanwakefield.com/en/united-states/insights/us-articles/atlanta-employment-update Merge or continue to die a slow death. And if anyone thinks our property taxes are high now, wait til you see what's coming in the torrent future. PS. Fulton Co only has 15 municipalities despite a population of just under 1.1M

So you believe I'm wrong in that Allegheny and Franklin counties each have thousands of less public sector jobs than we do in Cuyahoga? I used these two counties as examples because they are very close to us population-wise.

Outliers do exist, of course.

What I find funny is we all want the same thing, I think. Improved services, less red tape and taxes. We should all be on the same side but it's the fear of losing power that's holding everyone back.

You haven't been involved in the same meetings as I. Unfortunately, hate and fear do exist.

In this case, attainable solutions aren't solutions at all. Until real mergers happen, NEO will lead the state in high tax rates and substandard levels of government service. That's a fact. Listen people, I know the likelihood of going from 59 municipalities to 25 are the same odds as me meeting Jesus tonight. That said, changes can slowly happen over time (decades) and will most likely need to start happening by the mid 2030's. Younger generations and voters do not have the same hatred and fear of cities as boomers do, so we wait.

Your dislikes and poison tags aren't appreciated either, so I guess we're even? My apologies if you've mistaken my boot strap mentality for disrespect. I put in the time and did copious amounts of research on this topic, so can you.

Anyone notice how job growth always explodes when a Democrat is in the White House? If you love America and jobs, vote blue. Historically, the United States economy did better on average when Democrats were US President than when Republicans were US President. This was certainly true over the last several decades. The reasons for this are uncertain and debated.[1][2] Ten of the 11 US recessions between 1953 and 2020 began under Republican US Presidents. https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._economic_performance_under_Democratic_and_Republican_presidents

I thought the screenshot I posted would be a damn good hint as to where to find the sourced data.

My assumptions are based on comparative data and trends. Central Ohio is more attractive to large employers due to a number of factors, and less municipalities in Franklin County is one of them.