Very, very high-paying jobs in downtown Cleveland and the necessary support staff.  The actual construction activities cannot be moved to Cleveland, but high-level management can have there principal offices here.

 

"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

 

It will be interesting.  Hopefully this is even bigger than it sounds.

 

 

Medical community needs to import patients to revitalize Cleveland's economy, report says

 

http://www.cleveland.com/healthfit/index.ssf/2010/10/new_report_says_cleveland_must.html

 

CLEVELAND, Ohio — The Cleveland area is going to have to import more patients or export more medical care and research if it wants to see health care revitalize the region's limping economy.

 

I don't think this a huge insight, but important to understand.  Local employment growth in the medical field hasn't even been that spectacular- it's really just been a reshuffling, with several city hospitals closing and the remaining systems picking up the slack.  The real economic value in the Clinic is probably not its local growth, but in the spin-off start-ups and fees it collects from out of town visitors.

 

The article talks about the possibility that competing facility construction by UH and the Clinic may drive up costs, but it completely ignores the fact that our spreading out into outer suburbia is already doing this.  We tear down St. Lukes and then build new clinics in the exurbs.  I wonder how much facility costs add to health care costs.

When I had surgery performed at the CCF about 10 years ago, the waiting room looked like an international refugee camp.

^Wealthy refugees who can pay their medical bills, I hope!

I just realized that every time I see this page updated, I expect it to be good news.  How awesome is that

Medical community needs to import patients to revitalize Cleveland's economy, report says

 

http://www.cleveland.com/healthfit/index.ssf/2010/10/new_report_says_cleveland_must.html

 

CLEVELAND, Ohio — The Cleveland area is going to have to import more patients or export more medical care and research if it wants to see health care revitalize the region's limping economy.

 

I don't think this a huge insight, but important to understand.  Local employment growth in the medical field hasn't even been that spectacular- it's really just been a reshuffling, with several city hospitals closing and the remaining systems picking up the slack.   The real economic value in the Clinic is probably not its local growth, but in the spin-off start-ups and fees it collects from out of town visitors.

 

The article talks about the possibility that competing facility construction by UH and the Clinic may drive up costs, but it completely ignores the fact that our spreading out into outer suburbia is already doing this.  We tear down St. Lukes and then build new clinics in the exurbs.  I wonder how much facility costs add to health care costs.

 

According to the the BLS, Cleveland MSA "health and education" jobs have seen a 2-4% monthly increase compared to the same month of 2009. Also, unlike every sector outside of government jobs, this sector grew steadily during the Great Recession and continues to be at all time employment highs.

 

This overcapacity issue the report mentions, while interesting, dosen't seem to be affecting growth now. And the CCF even said it's not having these problems. As usual with the PD, positive stuff is buried and when highlighted is immediately countered.

 

Also, the Cleveland MSA has added 40000 jobs alone this year. The entire state of "almighty job growth" Texas has added only 179000 since the beginning of the year.

 

How is Cleveland limping? The PD sucks.

^ I think the "overcapacity" problem isn't an issue at all.  Cleveland is trying to be a national and a global medical center, not just a regional one.  Even New York City's financial sector is probably outsized for its population, but that's irrelevant for the same reason.  Same goes for Los Angeles and the entertainment industry.

Holla!

 

Cleveland port close to becoming U.S. home base and lone Great Lakes city for international container service

 

http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2010/10/cleveland_close_to_becoming_us.html

 

Cleveland could become the first international container service operating on the Great Lakes as soon as next spring, giving the city's shipping industry and economy a big boost.

 

 

 

 

Holla!

 

Cleveland port close to becoming U.S. home base and lone Great Lakes city for international container service

 

http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2010/10/cleveland_close_to_becoming_us.html

 

Cleveland could become the first international container service operating on the Great Lakes as soon as next spring, giving the city's shipping industry and economy a big boost.

 

 

 

 

 

That is great news economically, but let's hope this is not a Trojan Horse for more invasive species.

Holla!

 

Cleveland port close to becoming U.S. home base and lone Great Lakes city for international container service

 

http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2010/10/cleveland_close_to_becoming_us.html

 

Cleveland could become the first international container service operating on the Great Lakes as soon as next spring, giving the city's shipping industry and economy a big boost.

 

 

 

 

 

That is great news economically, but let's hope this is not a Trojan Horse for more invasive species.

 

HUH??

 

HUH??

 

Zebra Muscles, Gobys, Lamprey, Asian Carp, and so on.  The containers won't be brought up the seaway by the same ships that brought them across the ocean so the risk shouldn't increase that much.

 

HUH??

 

Zebra Muscles, Gobys, Lamprey, Asian Carp, and so on.  The containers won't be brought up the seaway by the same ships that brought them across the ocean so the risk shouldn't increase that much.

 

Ah, thanks for clarifying!  ;)

The Cleveland MSA posted it's 4th straight month of year-over-year job growth. The longest streak since a 13-month positive growth period from Aug. '05-Aug. '06.

 

June - 0.6%

July - 1.0%

Aug. - 0.8% (final)

Sept. - 0.9% (prelim)

 

About 9000 jobs have been added from the same month last year and about 40000 jobs in total have been added since the beginning of the year.

 

In comparison, statewide about 600 jobs have been added since the same month last year and 15000 since the beginning of 2010.

 

 

Gilbert continues to invest in Cleveland  :clap:

 

Dan Gilbert to bring entrepreneurship boot camp to Cleveland

 

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Dan Gilbert, the majority owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers, announced today that he will bring a non-profit entrepreneurship boot camp called Bizdom U to downtown Cleveland next year.

 

Gilbert made the announcement while accepting the 2010 Ruth Ratner Miller Award from the Downtown Cleveland Alliance at the group's annual awards luncheon. The award recognizes people who have made major achievements in advancing and enhancing the center city.

 

Bizdom U is a four-month to six-month training program in subjects including marketing, sales and finance. During the training process, the entrepreneurs develop plans for businesses that must be located within the urban core. Gilbert founded the program in Detroit in 2007 and plans to open up the first Cleveland boot camp to as many as 20 entrepreneurs in 2011.

 

http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2010/10/dan_gilbert_to_bring_entrepren.html

I didnt see this posted anywhere, but a really nice win for the area.  It would use the model that the Evergreen Coopertives follow:

 

Living Cities to award $14.75 million to Cleveland to boost redevelopment effort masterminded by Cleveland Foundation

Cleveland has made the cut in a national philanthropic competition aimed at jump-starting fresh ideas about how to fight poverty, rebuild urban wastelands and build wealth in poor neighborhoods.

 

Living Cities, a consortium of the world's 22 largest foundations and banks, is set to announce today in Detroit that Cleveland is one of five U.S. metropolitan areas to share an $80 million basket of grants and loans.

 

http://blog.cleveland.com/architecture/2010/10/living_cities_to_award_1475_mi.html

 

The Cleveland MSA had it's 5th straight month of year-over-year job growth in October.

 

October year-over-year job growth was at 1.0%: about 10000 jobs added from October of '09.

In comparison, Ohio had a y-o-y growth rate of 0.1%: about 6000 jobs added from October of '09.

 

The job growth in the area has an effect on the unemployment rate:

 

Cleveland MSA's unemployment rate sits at 8.6% down .8% from September.

That rate declined despite the fact that the total labor force has grown by about 12000 for the MSA compared to the same month last year.

 

In comparison, Ohio's rate is at 9.9% down .1% from September.

The national rate held steady at 9.6%.

 

The Cleveland MSA unemployment rate for October is at the lowest since it was 8.5% in Jan. '09.

At that time the state rate was 8.6%, the national rate was 7.7%.

 

It's very positive news for the area. Cleveland is pulling faster out of the recession than the state and the nation as a whole.

 

Shockingly, the PD is quiet about this.

Shockingly, the PD is quiet about this.

 

Do I sense sarcasm in this statement??? The PD not printing an article that's positive in tone about Cleveland??? No!?!?!?!

 

Btw, that is super news!!

Greater Cleveland's recovery ranks in top of U.S. metro areas, study says

 

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Greater Cleveland's recovery is one of the strongest of the largest U.S. metro areas; and its economic rebound also ranks well globally, according to a report released this morning by the Brookings Institution and the London School of Economics.

 

Cleveland came in 10th among 50 U.S. metro areas ranked. The other Ohio metro areas ranked were Cincinnati, which placed 17th and Columbus, which came in at 31.

 

http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2010/11/greater_clevelands_recovery_ra.html

Greater Cleveland's recovery ranks in top of U.S. metro areas, study says

 

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Greater Cleveland's recovery is one of the strongest of the largest U.S. metro areas; and its economic rebound also ranks well globally, according to a report released this morning by the Brookings Institution and the London School of Economics.

 

Cleveland came in 10th among 50 U.S. metro areas ranked. The other Ohio metro areas ranked were Cincinnati, which placed 17th and Columbus, which came in at 31.

 

http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2010/11/greater_clevelands_recovery_ra.html

 

I take back my PD comment.

 

The study makes sense with the BLS numbers. Cleveland's got some momentum. Hopefully it can continue into next year.

Yes, we do have some momentum.... but let's not lose sight of the fact that we simply did not have as far to fall as some of the 'boom' cities.

Great article and much needed press by the PD.

Well, it's nice to see some positive press when we can get it.  But...

 

 

"In fact, during recovery employment actually fell by 0.1 percent in Greater Cleveland, the report stated..."

 

"Many experts who follow the state's economy say that recent drops in Ohio's jobless rate are the result of an increase in discouraged workers who have given up looking for work because they believe finding a job is nearly impossible."

 

 

 

 

^Well who are these unknow "experts"....in post 511 above, quoting actual stats, it states unemployment is down in the Cleveland MSA despite the fact that the labor force grew during the relevant period by 12,000, which tends to refute the above in my mind.

can't we just for once not complain?  Contrary to popular belief our unemployment rate below the national average.  If it "sucks" here, I hate to think what that means for most other places (including the places where everyone is convinced the grass is greener and the streets are paved with gold).

Well, it's nice to see some positive press when we can get it.  But...

 

 

"In fact, during recovery employment actually fell by 0.1 percent in Greater Cleveland, the report stated..."

 

"Many experts who follow the state's economy say that recent drops in Ohio's jobless rate are the result of an increase in discouraged workers who have given up looking for work because they believe finding a job is nearly impossible."

 

 

 

 

 

The benefits issue dosen't apply to the Cleveland MSA. The labor force is actually LARGER than in Oct. '09 when unemployment was higher.

 

Cleveland hasn't had negative year-over-year job growth since May. I'm not sure what metric the study is using for "recovery". Comparing June of one year to October of another dosen't make sense because of the seasonal nature of certain employment.

 

Again a simple search of www.bls.gov will find this stuff.

 

Of course the PD is going to be negative without fact checking, it's an awful paper for local economic reporting. It had to be real hard for certain people in that "newsroom" to read the study.

The benefits issue dosen't apply to the Cleveland MSA. The labor force is actually LARGER than in Oct. '09 when unemployment was higher.

 

Cleveland hasn't had negative year-over-year job growth since May. I'm not sure what metric the study is using for "recovery". Comparing June of one year to October of another dosen't make sense because of the seasonal nature of certain employment.

 

Again a simple search of www.bls.gov will find this stuff.

 

Of course the PD is going to be negative without fact checking, it's an awful paper for local economic reporting. It had to be real hard for certain people in that "newsroom" to read the study.

 

The Brookings study that the PD linked to defined the "recovery period" as all of 2009-2010.  I imagine that our MSA showed a -0.1% change in employment over that period because the 12,000 jobs we've gained in the second half of 2010 haven't quite canceled out the losses in all of 2009 and the first part of 2010.

 

The report also said that our metro area was a "mixed decline/recovery" metro, like most of the ones they studied.  However, if we'd shown positive job growth over the 2009-2010 recovery period (which we almost did!), we would have been a "road to full recovery" metro, like Austin, TX, Dallas, Boston, and Minneapolis.

 

Yes, we do have some momentum.... but let's not lose sight of the fact that we simply did not have as far to fall as some of the 'boom' cities.

 

Not in the Great Recession, but remember that we never recovered from the first recession this decade.  The Brookings report has mini-reports on individual metro areas, and the two recessions this decade have set employment in Greater Cleveland back to 1993 levels.  That's almost 20 years wasted.

 

http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Files/rc/reports/2010/1130_global_metro_monitor/1130_global_metro_monitor_profiles/Cleveland.pdf

 

Las Vegas, despite the setbacks of the Great Recession, is still at almost twice its 1993 employment, and even Cincinnati managed to net 10% growth over that period.  Pittsburgh's employment is actually below 1993 levels, as is Detroit's (by almost 10%!)

 

I truly believe we've turned a corner in this region, but we have some serious catching up to do.  The numbers are sobering, but we have reason for optimism here.

^What McCleveland said.

^ Who's complaining?  The point of my post was "there's work to be done, but our recent progress is extremely heartening."

People on here not complain? I think they would stop breathing completely before that would ever happen. It's a given no matter what.

People on here not complain? I think they would stop breathing completely before that would ever happen. It's a given no matter what.

 

Same goes for people going off topic with personal opinions. ;)

From Crain's (subscription or Google required.)

 

Another global firm mulls exit from downtown

Ferro Corp. said to have targeted Mayfield Heights for relocation from East Ninth area

By STAN BULLARD

4:30 am, December 6, 2010

 

Ferro Corp., which owns its own corporate headquarters building at 1000 Lakeside Ave., is considering a move that may uproot 200 employees from downtown Cleveland's East Ninth Street corridor.

 

Mary Abood, spokeswoman for Ferro, confirmed the global specialty chemicals maker is in search mode but so far has made no definite plans.

 

“We are endeavoring to find space that would allow our 200 office employees to work on a collaborative basis,” Ms. Abood said in a voice mail response to queries from Crain's Cleveland Business. She did not return three calls with followup questions.

 

http://www.crainscleveland.com/article/20101206/SUB1/312069983

 

The article goes on to say that Ferro is interested in the former Novelis Corp. regional headquarters in Mayfield Heights.  The mayor of Mayfield Heights said that he hasn't talked to Ferro, but he knows that several companies have looked at the site in question.  Mayfield Heights' municipal income tax rate is 1%.

The mass exodus to suburbs is repeating itself again as it did in the 50's and 60's. This is where a regional tax sharing system can help offset this and maybe discourage these moves that have one community benefiting art the expense of another right over the imaginary line.

The mass exodus to suburbs is repeating itself again as it dis in the 50's and 60's. This is where a regional tax sharing system can help offset this and maybe discourage these moves that have one community benefiting art the expense of another right over the imaginary line.

 

In this case, a move for them would not be surprising.  Ferro is a specialty materials company.  You cannot have manufacturing labs (and some R&D labs) in a place like downtown.  I would not fault them for trying to merge facilities personally.

Most of their labs and factories are already in the suburbs. Their largest facililty is off Harvard Ave.  The workers in downtown are executives, sales, Hr, and Admin positions. 

Mass exodus?  Since when did we ever have a "corporate" mass exodus?

 

Even when residents moved to the 'burbs, business stayed in the core of the city.

 

This particular move doesn't "hurt" or move me in away that Eaton has.  Some business do need to consolidate.  It would be nice if they consolidated a factory/warehouse/lab in the city.

I wonder what can be done about this? I wonder if Positively Cleveland could start working on some kind of packages to mail to downtown workers at companies contemplating leaving like this that point out the great things about working downtown, including lists of all the great restaurants from fast food to fine dining/table service, various service outlets including places you could get your car washed or dry cleaning done or tailors, coffee shops, catering and delivery places, etc. 

 

I know when I worked at a certain large company and we were contemplating moving either within downtown or to a suburb, the employees were surveyed as to various parts of town and what would be the positives and negatives of going to each place and the majority complaint about downtown was the cost of parking.  If it's a savings to the business, from a tax perspective, to leave downtown, and a savings to the employees, in the cost of several hundred a year in parking, to leave downtown, what's a company to do to retain people?  Perhaps better advertising of the benefits to staying downtown put into some kind of marketing package? I dunno, I'm just thinking "out loud" here, but I hate seeing all these businesses leave downtown.

It would be a good goal for PC, although a regional promoter, to offer up the advantages of staying downtown...or at least in the core city. Somehow, someway more people in this area need to learn about why we need to keep the urban activity in the urban hub and PC and other boosters can be a part of this re-educating process. I can attribute the lack of understanding of such, in part, to the mainly auto-driven landscape on which most have been raised...and to answer MTS... I did not say we had solely a "corporate mass exodus." I was referring the slow but steady exodus circa 50's/60's/70's which included businesses (lots of big retail)  and residents and helped to spawn growth in places like Solon. We cannot kid ourselves and think that this has not happened and hurt the core. Corporate, retail, smaller business, or residents...its still an exodus following similar repeated patterns.

The mass exodus to suburbs is repeating itself again as it dis in the 50's and 60's. This is where a regional tax sharing system can help offset this and maybe discourage these moves that have one community benefiting art the expense of another right over the imaginary line.

 

In this case, a move for them would not be surprising.  Ferro is a specialty materials company.  You cannot have manufacturing labs (and some R&D labs) in a place like downtown.  I would not fault them for trying to merge facilities personally.

Most of their labs and factories are already in the suburbs. Their largest facililty is off Harvard Ave.  The workers in downtown are executives, sales, Hr, and Admin positions. 

 

Agreed.  They would not be consolidating with any other R&D or mfg. space as part of this move, according to the article.

Moen is based in N Olmstead

 

Fortune Brands to split in 3

By Emily Bryson York

Posted today at 8:14 a.m.

 

 

Fortune Brands headquarters. (AP)

Fortune brands, the Deerfield-based purveyor of golf balls, Sauza tequila and Moen faucets, announced it intends to split the company into as many as three parts...

 

http://chicagobreakingbusiness.com/2010/12/fortune-brands-to-split-into-as-many-as-3-companies.html

 

 

I hope that state and local authorities keep tabs on Moen & the home products division throughout the spin-off process.  In cases like this, there is always risk that a new management team will use this transition to move an HQ.  Conversely, it could also be an opportunity to consolidate additional back-office resources for the entire division at Moen headquarters.  As a $3billion company, keeping the headquarters here would effectively be "gaining" an additional Fortune 1000 company for the region.

Cleveland MSA recovery is getting stronger:

 

November (prelim) year-over-year job growth was 1.2%: about 12000 jobs added.

October (final) year-over-year job growth was 1.1%: about 11000 jobs added.

 

Those are the strongest months reported so far for 2010.

 

In comparison, Ohio posted y-o-y job growth of 0.1% for Oct. and Nov.

 

Cleveland's unemployment rate was down .1% at 8.5%, well below the state/national averages of 9.8%.

The employement rate is coming down as Cleveland's labor force continues to grow: Nov. '10 is up 15000 people from Nov. '09.

 

Cleveland's economic strength may be spreading throughout in the region: The Akron MSA also posted its' first 2010 y-o-y job growth month in November at 0.1%. up from -1.0% in October. Unemployment hasn't been posted yet for Akron in Nov., it was 9.3% (prelim) in Oct.

 

The good news and momentum continues!

 

 

^ Good news, whats the source for that information?

www.bls.gov. Look at "Areas at a Glance". I didn't want to post the source because it's already been reposted several times in this thread.

Hello, I'm a student and I'm looking for honest opinions/criticisms/potential problems with this issue so that I can fix them with the structure of my economic model proposal:

 

What would slashing the payroll tax from 2% to 1% do the economy of the city of Cleveland?

What would gradually decreasing the payroll tax from 2% to 1% cause differently?

What would happen if Cleveland agrees to freeze its revenue from the payroll tax and for every, say $10 million in added taxable payroll would lower payroll tax .05% (Saving, say, the Cleveland Clinic, about $900,000 per year per .05% decrease in the tax)

 

Also, would the city benefit from adopting a policy in addition to the one I hint at above, where businesses that relocate headquarters from Inner ring suburbs get .1% off the payroll tax rate, businesses from elsewhere in the county get .2% off payroll tax rate, companies from elsewhere in the state get .3% off payroll tax rate, companies from elsewhere in the country get .4% off the rate, and international firms get .5% off the rate, with a bottom of 1% payroll tax?

 

Thank you

Those first three are great questions, but if anyone gives you a firm answer, don't believe it.  It's not like engineering a say, a wing, where you can say, "if I reshape the top of the wing it will give me X more lift."  My answer to the last is, "maybe, but most likely everyone else will just retaliate and put us in a worse position to compete as a region".

I'm all for cutting payroll taxes, especially at the city level.  But what do they pay for?  How would the lost revenue be dealt with?  Spending cuts?  Different taxes?  Without addressing the other side of the ledger, it's tough to speculate on the net effect. 

 

Another concern is whether the geograpically graduated rate would interfere with efforts toward regionalism.  We all know the burbs have been undercutting the city like this for a long time, and part of me would love to see the city fight fire with fire.  But the city's budget demands are different (see above), and there are factors other than tax rates inhibiting some relocations into the city.  Cleveland may not want to escalate a bidding war it can't win.  A proposal like this may garner more support if it didn't incentivize relocations from within this county or region.

Thank you!

 

It's just astounding to me how many large companies are leaving their current locations to (most likely) east side suburbs, (Eaton Corp., American Greetings, Parker Hannifin(?), etc.) in the path of Progressive Insurance and Cleveland seems to be doing NOTHING to promise a better business environment. I like near Brooklyn and understand that it's best for the region for AG to remain there, but because there's a consensus that they're moving, I don't get why Cleveland doesn't throw a bid in that can become permanent draw to companies.

 

In the grand picture, it should be about regional attraction of business. But as Cleveland keeps losing these companies, it loses revenue AND name power.

 

The plan I developed is based on the city getting $__(blank)____ in payroll revenue every year at the 2% rate. As the city (after Hannifin and Eaton leave) is posed to pick up jobs in the medical field and due to the casino in the next five years, the added $150 million in payroll would allow Cleveland to lower the tax to 1.95%, maintaining the same revenue as previous yet saving larger companies (Cleveland Clinic) as much as $900,000. This decreasing tax is an incentive for companies to locate and relocate employees here, as taxes would be poised to lower over the coming years.

 

Cleveland has many liabilities it needs revenue for, yes, but it also has assets that could give it an advantage in this "bidding war." As the tax revenue from this would remain the same, the city would recoup profits from property taxes, sales taxes, and the booming downtown residential market.

 

As far as the relocating tax thing I mentioned (part 2) I agree that could cause problems. Perhaps the scales would be down .2% if from Ohio, PA, KT, MI, IL, IND, outside of NEO, .4% from outside the "Midwest" (those mentioned states), and .6% internationally, bottoming out at the 1% payroll tax.

 

Lowering our taxes and making a commitment with guarantees to improving the business environment could do wonders for our area (if coincided with "fixing" the CMSD, or providing "choices" to students who live in the city of Cleveland.)

 

There are a lot of great things happening in Cleveland, but until we address our economy's multi-variance and competitiveness with cities across the country, education, and regionalism, we're going to keep spiraling downhill. 

At least on a city level, I don't think that taxes are the biggest barrier to getting companies to locate in Cleveland.  In my opinion, cutting red tape and streamlining the various permitting processes would do a lot more.

I've also often wondered what the effect would be on city finances if payroll taxes were lowered to 1%, and exactly what the current amount of payroll taxes net the city. It's sure to be in the millions, so how does the city offset the lost revenue? Either the city would have to cut services and personnel, or taxes would need to be raised elsewhere.  I think it would be best to find a similar sized city with a similar sized yearly budget (I'm pretty sure Cleveland's is at $1.2 billion) but with payroll taxes at 1% and compare.

 

Is the comparable city growing in population and/ or in the amount of businesses choosing to locate in the city?  If so, could it be quantified showing that this a partial or direct result of the payroll taxes being at 1% as compared to 2%? I think that the main reason for a reduction in payroll taxes would be for the city to better compete with other cities with at least seemingly lower taxes in order to draw businesses and therefore residents. If it could be found that the amount of businesses drawn to the city is negligible from a reduction of 1% in payroll taxes, then maybe some other form of tax would need to be reduced or done away with completely (such as the state income tax for example... but again the lost revenue would need to be made up from some other sources).

 

Let's stop relying so much on "the big guy" to come in and do it all for us, A.K.A. "Just give me a job."  While maintaining what we have in that sector is important, and attracting new interest as well.....Let's not forget about  promoting a little more of independent entrepreneurship and set the economic stage for such to foster. Small contributions, collectively, add up to make big ones that also provide employment and the economic diversity that breeds stability. These smaller and independent efforts combined will "save" Cleveland...not the big Lone Ranger coming in with promises of saving the day as we have for too long depended upon...waiting for, like Linus waiting for the Great Pumkin. I think we're doing this in many ways a lot, but the small efforts are seldom covered in the mainstream media. We mostly hear about big stuff.