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Siemens displays fresh interest in Cleveland as a tech center and "healthcare hub" "In a day of encounters with university administrators and researchers, Spiegel shared details of new programs and investments Siemens envisions for the region. He and other executives revealed plans for: Investing nearly $2 million to outfit a space in the Global Center for Health Innovation, creating an "executive conference center" in a city it sees as a hub of the healthcare industry. Moving a regional headquarters focused on medical imaging from Pittsburgh to Cleveland and bringing about two dozen high-paying jobs downtown. Forming more partnerships with CWRU to tap its expertise in radiology, biomedical engineering and medical imaging. Until Tuesday, Siemens had been quiet about it plans for the Global Center. It's third floor space, at nearly 3,000 square feet, makes it one of the larger tenants. "This city has become quite a hub for the healthcare industry" and the global center make that more obvious, Spiegel said in an interview at CWRU's Adelbert Hall, where he had met with university President Barbara Snyder. "We're a leader in healthcare technology. To be part of this new institution is something we're really interested in." http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2014/11/siemens_shows_fresh_interest_i.html#incart_river

Anyone else gonna be at City Planning on Friday?

City Target?

Weird - I'm assuming that's where the utility shaft will be?

A crisis indeed:

The "point" was no mystery and should be assumed. Economics drive real estate development. Dan Gilbert is a lot of things but unprofitable is not among them. I'm still a little miffed that everyone seems to have concluded that the NEO market can so easily sustain another gambling operation, particularly one the size phase II is supposed to be. We now have the Horseshoe, the Rocksino, and the Racino. The Rocksino and Racino capture a lot of the suburban market that will not come downtown while the Horseshoe captures the downtown gaming crowd. The Horseshoe continues to post revenues below projections (the projections were probably too high anyways) probably because the latter 2 eat into the slot playing crowd. Given all of this, I probably wouldn't build a huge new casino either. This is why I think the end result will probably be more mixed use, but we still aren't at a point in the market that we can easily support new construction of such.

So according to Section 13 they offered $6.5 million in equity in the project and they have sold all but $20k. If that's not good news, I'm not sure what is.

Ain't she pretty.

Holy shit.

They may not even be that short/skinny for their age considering they don't look a day over 13 years old.

Whuh? I'm not sure where the quotations around "making excuses" and "diminishing" came from - I didn't use either. So everything in your comments above was just fluff? Besides of course, that her being attractive "was a good strategy to use." Sorry dude but I have to push back just a lil' bit. *You won't find any outrage here, I'm just trying to figure out what you're saying.

Indeed, but that doesn't make a difference, does it? Can we not have a bright-line rule that you should not be "hollering" at girls you don't know in public, regardless of their looks or clothes? That seems like a softball. Also, we can play the "what if" game all night. What if it was staged? What if she had a sign on her butt that read "ask me about my butt." There is nothing in the video to indicate she did anything but walk down the street. Doesn't mean that there wasn't more to it but that seems like the most likely scenario.

But what about the girl, her clothes, or her actions made her "bait?"

I don't understand this. She was wearing a crewneck and jeans...

^ I hope with every fiber of my being those numbers are accurate because they sound almost too good to be true. A 68% increase in college educated young adults in the City proper within a 6 years? You have to admit that almost sounds like an error.

E Rocc[/member], I agree. To be clear, the "issues" I was referring to in my original statement weren't an attribution of a behavior to one race or another. Instead, my experience in the Public Square thread has been that if you bring up the poor behavior on the square, accusations of racism start flying without merit and shut the whole conversation down. This happens regardless the real, objectively poor quality of behavior (the fight I saw last week, the fight in the entrance of Tower City the week before, the catcalling, the profanity screaming teenagers, etc). We seem to never be able to have this discussion because once we do, we get dangerously close to calling the criticism of antisocial behavior, racist.

Yeah, well, I feel for you. Street harassment just seems so bizarre/hostile that I can't even begin to understand it.

E Rocc[/member] Well, we've only been ahead of the curve recently. Our recent increase in educated young people has coincided with our increase in demand and supply in urban housing. Not saying the the former is the total cause of the former but I would be surprised if they weren't linked, somewhat.

^ Every time I bring this up in the Public Square discussion, there seems to be a contingent that dismisses the problem outright - for whatever reason. I agree that this is serious and my girlfriend and her friends have to deal with this crap way too much. I guess the next issue is what can be practically done about this? The people who will holler at a girl simply for walking past seem like they so far removed from most cultural norms that there is almost no way to reach them. Also, I think this brings up issues of class and race, which most people aren't comfortable talking about.

It's a general belief around here that younger people are increasingly urbanist minded. I've always been skeptical. Right, but what in the article contradicts "the idea that younger people are flocking to cities?"

^ What do you mean?

Cleveland's brain drain hysteria breeds bad policy Blog Entry: October 27, 2014 2:20 PM | Author: RICHEY PIIPARINEN ...For example, Greater Cleveland’s lack of a young adult brain gain from 2000 to 2012 resulted from a substantial decrease of nearly 16,000 25- to 34-year-olds with a four-year college degree from 2000 to 2006. The 2001 recession and subsequent jobless recovery hit Cleveland hard. However, my research at the Center for Population Dynamics at Cleveland State University showed that Greater Cleveland recouped the losses from earlier in the decade, gaining approximately 17,000 25- to 34-year-olds with a four-year degree from 2006 to 2012 — an increase of 23%. Moreover, the Census recently released data for 2013, which allows a comparison of the nation’s top big-city metros for 2011 to 2013: the current era of economic recovery. Put simply, what large metros have the momentum? Has there been a shift in where the “young and the restless” are attempting to settle down? The results are surprising (see table below). Cleveland ranks third in the nation, with a 19.85% increase in the number of young adults with a college degree, behind the Sun Belt metros Nashville and Orlando. And no, this percentage “pop” for the region is not simply due to the fact that Cleveland had a really small base of young college graduates. In fact, the region’s three-year gain of 15,557 ranks Cleveland 15th in total gains, despite being the 29th largest metro in the nation. To put this in perspective, Greater Cleveland had a larger total growth than Chicago, and nearly seven times the gain of Portland: the nation’s poster child for where the “young and restless” go to “live, work, play.” What gives? Part of the answer may be economic. For example, my colleagues Joel Kotkin and Aaron Renn recently analyzed the growth in per capita GDP from 2010 to 2013 for Forbes in a piece titled “The cities that are benefiting the most from the economic recovery.” Cleveland ranked 15th in the nation, with a 6% increase. In terms of income, the metro area is fifth in the nation in the total per capita income increase from 2010 to 2012, behind Houston, San Jose, Oklahoma and San Francisco.... http://www.crainscleveland.com/article/20141027/BLOGS05/141029817/clevelands-brain-drain-hysteria-breeds-bad-policy

^ I've been following her on instagram - she's awesome.

KJP[/member] thanks for keeping the pressure/focus on this, dude.

That looks like East 6th and Huron, no?