BTW...

@Inc 39m And the city that will lead the Internet revolution is... Cleveland? http://t.co/yZg1HFjjgE

Great!  But all it takes is $1 million to be the fastest publically available in the US?

 

grant to put cle on the tech map with 100 gigabit internet

karin connelly | Thursday, November 20, 2014

 

OneCommunity and the City of Cleveland have announced their plans to install a 100 gigabit-per-second glass fiber internet pipe along the Health-Tech Corridor (HTC) in Midtown. Currently, the fastest internet in the area is 40 gigabits.

 

While major research universities like CWRU and Ohio State are networked through 100 gigabit systems, the city's new high-speed internet will be the first and fastest of its kind in any major metropolitan area available for commercial use. Any office building along the network, such as the Global Center for Health Innovation and BioEnterprise, would have access to the high speed service.

 

The large, above-ground “nodes” will be located at Ideastream at Playhouse Square and CWRU at University Circle. The network would run between the two nodes and tributaries would run off of Euclid to serve other pockets in the HTC.

   

The $1.02 million project comes from a $714,000 grant from the Economic Development Administration (EDA), $200,000 from the city and the remaining funds from OneCommunity. The HTC and CWRU are also partners in the project. Work is to begin on the project in early 2015, with completion scheduled for September.

 

http://www.freshwatercleveland.com/innovationnews/highspeednetwork112014.aspx

 

Scott Suttell ‏@ssuttell  10m10 minutes ago

Cleveland is about to take a huge tech leap with 100-gigabit Internet connection.

http://www.crainscleveland.com/article/20141121/FREE/141129947/cleveland-to-receive-nations-first-commercially-available-100

 

EDIT: What did I say a couple of messages earlier?? Hmmm.....

 

The connection also is likely to boost real estate activity, and prices, along the Health-Tech Corridor, which has eight business incubators and more than 130 high-tech companies.

 

“The MidTown Corridor and the Health-Tech Corridor have struggled as a No-Man’s Land; we’re no longer a No-Man’s Land,” said Scott Garson co-owner and lead developer of the Victory Building on Euclid Avenue.

 

“We’ve lost tenants to downtown; we’ve lost tenants to the suburbs,” he said. “Now, those companies that moved to the suburbs may see (locating along the 100-gig line) as a competitive advantage.”

Great!  But all it takes is $1 million to be the fastest publically available in the US?

 

Yes I was thinking that also but as you read a few more articles about this you discover that they are simply hanging fiber-optic cable along CPP utility poles. Not very cutting edge but cheap. And if there is a category that Cle leads the civilized world in, it's the amount of utility poles per square mile, or it might just seem that way. It kind of tempers my enthusiasm for this somewhat. Meaning it might be harder to bury some utility lines somewhere if it is part of this network.

I remember reading that there is a Super fiber optic line between Chicago and New York that passes through Cleveland.  I think one community has been working to tap into it for years, but for academic institutions like Case.

 

One community's commercial arm is taking that know-how and offering it to the market.  I don't think just anyone with $1 million would be able to make this happen.  (But I guess that's just my opinion)

^^Yeah, that surprised me too, considering that all the utilities along Euclid are already buried. There are literally no above ground wires along most of Euclid.  I wonder if the CPP poles would just be for the individual property connections.

Maker's Mark

 

Many Clevelanders have pinned their comeback hopes on the near West Side's trendy neighborhoods, but it's the East Side producer city that really counts.

 

When Clevelanders think about a revitalized city, they often picture West 25th Street in Ohio City. There, farm-to-table restaurants, microbreweries and the West Side Market anchor a nationally respected food scene.

 

Ohio City has become an "it" neighborhood, not only a place to play, but also to live. Much of the near West Side, including Tremont and Detroit Shoreway, is going through a similar transformation. So is downtown.

 

These developments are welcome, but they are not really enough to sustain a resurgence in an entire city's economy. Much of the activity in those neighborhoods is related to what some economists call the "consumer city": places where money is spent consuming local goods, be it a Great Lakes Brewing Co. beer or an Ohio City loft.

 

 

http://www.clevelandmagazine.com/ME2/dirmod.asp?sid=E73ABD6180B44874871A91F6BA5C249C&nm=&type=Publishing&mod=Publications::Article&mid=1578600D80804596A222593669321019&tier=4&id=B868538DCC554582894399E12378C4B2

While this employment connection between the HealthTech Corridor institutions and surrounding communities is still underdeveloped, it's being promoted through initiatives such as University Hospitals' Vision 2010 — in essence, a plan to buy local to jump-start community wealth. Such efforts are a far cry from the 1950s through the 1990s, when University Circle leaders were often criticized as adopting a fortress mentality toward surrounding neighborhoods.*

 

*Except, of course, for the Cleveland Clinic who continues to wall off pedestrians and surrounding streets.

Tweet from DCA's Mike Deemer....

 

Downtown Cleveland fiber optic infrastructure was already the fastest between Chicago and the east coast, attracting…http://t.co/QoHjEcBwFx

fast-growing companies creating jobs in northeast ohio

KARIN CONNELLY | THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2014

 

Last week, the economic development groups that make up the Regional Competitiveness Council (RCC) unveiled their "Go Big" strategy to accelerate the pace of job growth in Northeast Ohio. In doing so, business leaders acknowledged that Northeast Ohio is lagging behind the rest of the country in job creation.

 

RCC co-chair Ward J. "Tim" Timken, Jr., chairman, CEO and president of TimkenSteel Corporation, recently said Northeast Ohio can be proud of the progress the region’s made, but also stated we would have 400,000 more jobs today if Northeast Ohio kept pace with the national average over the past two decades.

 

However, there are industries that remain bright spots in our region's economy. “The industry trend shows the private services sector and professional technology services are strong here,” says Jacob Duritsky, Team NEO’s managing director of research. “Healthcare is a significant employer and year after year manufacturing remains strong. We created 1,000 jobs in manufacturing last year.”

 

MORE:

http://www.freshwatercleveland.com/features/growingcompanies121114.aspx

James M. Russell ‏@BurghDiaspora  2h

Cuyahoga County, Ohio real median household income peaked in 1969.  As for Allegheny County, Pa. it peaked in 1979: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/business/peak-income/ …

Cleveland gay and drag scenes lament closing of iconic gay club Bounce

 

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The mainstreaming of gay culture has desegregated the nightlife, blurring the lines between a "gay" and "straight" club.

 

That's not to say there isn't a downside, as fans of Bounce discovered.

 

The iconic gay club – 2814 Detroit Ave., Cleveland – will close after a 13-year run. The last night is slated for Sunday, Jan. 4.

 

http://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2014/12/cleveland_gay_and_drag_scenes.html#incart_river

 

Wasn't sure where else to post this. A city the size of Cleveland should be able to maintain at least one gay club. I'm not even a big fan of Bounce, but it would be a pretty big hit to the community to see this close. Bounce probably just needs better management... hopefully someone buys it instead of allowing it to close.

Isn't Twist on Clifton still open?

^ Yes, and recently renovated. But Twist is hardly a night club, and certainly doesn't have the space for a proper dance floor/stage for shows.

 

If no one buys Bounce, I'm hoping someone else will step up and open a new club that does a better job appealing to the whole community (I hardly ever saw any lesbians at Bounce). I think the Euclid/Healthline corridor would be a great place for such a club, because then CSU and Case/CIA/CIM students could easily get to it. Currently, there are no good gay bars/clubs near any of the major universities in Cleveland, and that could be a problem.

Cleveland gay and drag scenes lament closing of iconic gay club Bounce

 

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The mainstreaming of gay culture has desegregated the nightlife, blurring the lines between a "gay" and "straight" club.

 

That's not to say there isn't a downside, as fans of Bounce discovered.

 

The iconic gay club – 2814 Detroit Ave., Cleveland – will close after a 13-year run. The last night is slated for Sunday, Jan. 4.

 

http://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2014/12/cleveland_gay_and_drag_scenes.html#incart_river

 

Wasn't sure where else to post this. A city the size of Cleveland should be able to maintain at least one gay club. I'm not even a big fan of Bounce, but it would be a pretty big hit to the community to see this close. Bounce probably just needs better management... hopefully someone buys it instead of allowing it to close.

 

There is still a good deal of room for such places in the bar-club community, to put it mildly.  I just got done saying in an industry group that the market is healthy and, if anything, saturated.  No one disagreed. 

 

My guess is that they got behind on taxes or were "treating the cash as cash".  Yes, this is technically baseless, but 90% of "sudden" bar closings (not a result of government harrasment) happen for one of those two reasons.

I went there a few times...after the first time, never by choice. For me, it was dingy, had a tiny dance floor, bad food and drinks and was expensive to get in to boot. I'm not personally a fan of drag shows, but that is the one loss here to me. There aren't really any bars left to fill that niche.

^ Yeah I wasn't much of a fan of the place myself, but I did meet a couple really cool people at Bounce so I can't say it was all bad. The tiny dance floor was definitely an issue though, and cover charges were way too high and started too early. The article says that Bounce is closing because of a growing acceptance of LGBT people, but I really think Bounce is just closing because it wasn't that great of a club.

 

There will be a continued demand for a gay nightclub that does drag shows, so hopefully this means we'll be getting a better club than Bounce in the future.

ACE Report shows Northeast Ohio added more than 700 jobs in November

By JAY MILLER

Originally Published: December 23, 2014 4:30 AM  Modified: December 23, 2014 8:23 AM

 

Employment in Northeast Ohio continued its yearlong upward growth, with a modest month-to-month gain of 708 jobs in November, according to the Ahola Crain’s Employment Report. That’s a 0.06% increase in jobs in the nonfarm private sector from employment reported in October.

 

,,,In addition, since November 2013 the region has added 16,009 jobs — 11,268 in service industries and 4,741 in goods-producing industries — representing a 1.4% increase. That’s slightly higher than the gain in jobs statewide, but it lags national growth in employment.

 

Policy Matters Ohio, looking at the monthly jobs report of the Ohio Department of Jobs and Family Services, reported that the job gain in Ohio in November pushed Ohio’s 12-month growth rate to 1.2%. Over the same period of time, national employment grew by 2%.

 

The Ohio employment gain, said Hannah Halbert, workforce researcher for the labor-backed nonprofit, “is good news for Ohioans, but we still have a lot of lost ground to make up. Even with November’s gain, Ohio grew about half as fast as the nation over the past year.”

 

MORE:

http://www.crainscleveland.com/article/20141223/FREE/141219804/ace-report-shows-northeast-ohio-added-more-than-700-jobs-in-november

Interesting quotes from Huntington Bank president launching his own real estate company.

http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2015/01/huntington_banks_cleveland_lea.html#incart_river

 

He envisions his new venture, temporarily called Walsh Holdings, as a way to bring more institutional money to Cleveland. The city is garnering travel accolades and more outside attention thanks to recent wins including the 2016 Republican National Convention. And the hot apartment market in downtown Cleveland and other pockets of the city is spurring more serious conversations about new construction, which is still an anomaly here.

"Investors want to invest in new properties. Up until recently, there hasn't been new supply or new product for global institutional investors to own," Walsh said. "I think that we're entering some new territory and, for the right circumstances, new construction is supportable," he added. "We are hopefully at that point, where that new reality is emerging, where well-executed multifamily projects downtown or in the right markets across the country will generate rents to support new construction."

Glad to read that from a person in his position.

ACE Report shows Northeast Ohio closed out 2014 with modest job growth

By JAY MILLER

Originally Published: January 23, 2015 4:30 AM  Modified: January 23, 2015 9:55 AM

 

Employment in Northeast Ohio ticked up one-third of 1% in December, closing out a year of modest but consistent job growth.

 

The latest Ahola Crain’s Employment (ACE) Report shows that, adjusted for seasonal fluctuations, 3,939 jobs were added in December, bringing employment to 1,166,576 in the seven-county Cleveland-Akron metropolitan area.

 

Year over year, employment grew by 15,387 since December 2013, a 1.31% increase.

 

All of the growth last month came in service-sector jobs, since jobs in the goods-producing, or manufacturing, industries slipped slightly. The region actually lost 99 jobs in manufacturing while adding 4,040 service jobs.

 

MORE:

http://www.crainscleveland.com/article/20150123/FREE/150129934/ace-report-shows-northeast-ohio-closed-out-2014-with-modest-job

Win, win, win on many levels

 

Big Data pioneer Explorys plans to expand in University Circle

 

By  Robert L. Smith, The Plain Dealer 

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on January 26, 2015 at 7:00 AM, updated January 26, 2015 at 8:49 AM

 

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Explorys, a Cleveland startup at the leading edge of data analytics in the healthcare industry, plans to add 80 people to its University Circle headquarters to meet growing demand for its discoveries.

 

Company executives said the jobs will push the workforce past 200 and likely require the expansion of its offices in a space once occupied by MOCA, the Museum of Contemporary Art.

 

"We still think there's headroom to continue to grow, upwards of 300 people," Lougheed said. "We're taking it a year at a time."

 

Space is tight at Explorys. Workstations and white boards are crowded on hardwood floors that once supported warehouse operations for Sears. But there's room to grow. McHale, the chief executive officer, said the company has leasing rights to an additional 25,000 square feet on the same floor.

 

"We'll be knocking out these walls," he said, standing in the high-ceilinged lobby on a recent morning.

 

http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2015/01/big_data_pioneer_explorys_plan.html

 

Cool, but where is their offices? The article it's located where MOCA was. Is the reader supposed to know where that is?

^It's the old Sears warehouse on the Carnegie side of the Playhouse.  Was actually a great facility for MOCA (bigger than it is now), but not a lot of visibility (clearly).

^It's the old Sears warehouse on the Carnegie side of the Playhouse.  Was actually a great facility for MOCA (bigger than it is now), but not a lot of visibility (clearly).

 

Ah, now I know! And yes, I visited that building when it was still a Sears! I recall they had a clearance sale in the 1970s and there was a huge crowd in there. I also recall it had a large open atrium, and every bit of floor space had tables with stuff for sale (I hope I'm not mixing memories with another place). But I do remember my sister bought her first tape recorder there -- a Panasonic that was white and shaped like a bar of soap!

Region supplying fuel cell help

By RACHEL ABBEY MCCAFFERTY

Originally Published: January 25, 2015 4:30 AM  Modified: January 27, 2015 3:35 PM

 

Northeast Ohio is playing a significant role in U.S. efforts to strengthen the fuel cell supply chain.

 

Two local organizations — Cleveland-based Wire-Net's GLWN (which was launched as the Great Lakes Wind Network) and the Ohio Fuel Cell Coalition in Elyria — in December received two of three federal awards from the U.S. Department of Energy focused on the study of the hydrogen and fuel cell supply chain. The third award was given to Virginia Clean Cities at James Madison University.

 

The underlying goal of the awards is to strengthen and grow the domestic supply chain for these systems, which can turn a fuel like hydrogen or natural gas into electricity for a variety of applications. GLWN received the largest award, $695,000, which primarily will be used to conduct a global competitiveness analysis on the hydrogen and fuel cell industry.

 

MORE:

http://www.crainscleveland.com/article/20150125/SUB1/301259981/region-supplying-fuel-cell-help

Northeast Ohio is narrowing the job gap with the country

Difference between local job growth and national norm likely will fall

By JAY MILLER

Originally Published: January 25, 2015 4:30 AM  Modified: January 28, 2015 2:28 PM

 

There will be more jobs for people in Northeast Ohio over the next decade. And while the pace of job growth will lag the country as a whole, the gap will be considerably narrower than it has been over the last quarter century.

 

The latest quarterly report from Team Northeast Ohio, the business attraction and retention nonprofit, predicts 98,000 jobs will be created in the 18 counties of Northeast Ohio between 2015 and 2025, representing 5% growth in regional employment. Team NEO contracts with Moody's Analytics, a West Chester, Pa., economic forecasting firm, for the forecasts in its quarterly reports.

 

Nationally, however, Moody's forecasts more rapid growth in employment — 9%.

 

MORE:

http://www.crainscleveland.com/article/20150125/SUB1/301259979/northeast-ohio-is-narrowing-the-job-gap-with-the-country

Westlake Ohio-Family-owned biz:The Bonne Bell Co. is closing and all employees will be laid off http://t.co/mtVAnIom6X via @clevelanddotcom

Westlake Ohio-Family-owned biz:The Bonne Bell Co. is closing and all employees will be laid off http://t.co/mtVAnIom6X via @clevelanddotcom

 

My work computer blocks twitter so I can never see when you post their links!  So I google:

 

http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2015/01/the_bonne_bell_co_is_closing_a.html#incart_m-rpt-1

 

Kind of a bizarre statement from a someone who was directly responsible for all 91 Clevelanders being laid off:

 

"Markwins has a proven track record of creating excitement and bringing innovation to the cosmetic category," said Jess "Buddy" Bell, Jr., founder of Aspire Brands. "They will bring the same excitement and innovation to the Lip Smacker and Bonne Bell brands. I am excited about the future of the Lip Smacker and Bonne Bell brands under Markwins ownership."

@TeamNEO predicts 14% economic growth in Northeast #Ohio over the next ten years http://bit.ly/15KV7m5

National publication:

 

Cleveland Thinks Broadband 100 Times Faster Than Anyone Else

 

Later this summer, Cleveland plans to open up a commercial broadband service that has capacity to provide a 100 GB connection. If you’ve been keeping up with the heartbreakingly slow expansion of high-speed broadband across the country, you know that this is far faster than businesses have access to presently. In fact, it’s even faster than the most recent super-high-speed 10 GB service touted in South Korea, the worldwide leader in broadband. (Average speeds in Korea are well over twice as fast as average speeds in the U.S., according to cloud services company Akamai.)

 

http://nextcity.org/daily/entry/cleveland-broadband-fast-100GB-city

ACE Report shows Northeast Ohio employment ticked downward in January

By JAY MILLER

February 20, 2015 8:15 AM

 

The Northeast Ohio economy continues to grow slowly, even though employment ticked downward in January.

 

The latest Ahola Crain’s Employment (ACE) Report shows that, adjusted for seasonal fluctuations, the seven-county Cleveland-Akron metropolitan area region lost 2,784 jobs in January, repeating a pattern the local economy has followed in recent years. That’s a decline of 0.24% in an economy with 1.16 million jobs.

 

The fragility that the up-and-down fluctuation shows is part of the reason that Northeast Ohio hasn’t yet fully recovered from the Great Recession. In late January, the Metropolitan Policy Program of the Washington, D.C.-based Brookings Institution think tank issued its fourth annual Global MetroMonitor, a ranking of the economies of 300 largest metropolitan areas worldwide. The Cleveland and Akron metropolitan areas — which combined comprise the ACE Report’s Northeast Ohio region — are among the 57% of North American metros that have not yet recovered to 2007 levels.

 

The Akron economy ranked 198th, while the Cleveland economy ranked 258th. The Brookings analysis looks at both employment growth and regional income growth to come up with an economic performance index.

 

MORE:

http://www.crainscleveland.com/article/20150220/FREE/150219830/ace-report-shows-northeast-ohio-employment-ticked-downward-in-january

http://www.cleveland.com/opinion/index.ssf/2015/02/tell_state_epa_tonight_yay_or.html#incart_river

 

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is now holding Cleveland's ArcelorMittal steel mill hostage to its plans to dump toxic sediment from the Cuyahoga River into Lake Erie. The Corps threatens to stop dredging the river near the steel plant unless the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority or the state ponies up some serious cash.

200+ second shifters will be hired:

 

Ford starts building newest engines in Cleveland

 

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2015/03/07/ford-engines-cleveland/24561115/

 

 

AT&T hiring for 120+ positions in Ohio; open house Saturday in Cleveland

 

http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2015/03/att_hiring_for_120_positions_i_1.html

^That's great. Where is the "Cleveland Engine Plant"---is that Brook Park?

 

 

Yes.

200+ second shifters will be hired:

 

Ford starts building newest engines in Cleveland

 

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2015/03/07/ford-engines-cleveland/24561115/

 

 

AT&T hiring for 120+ positions in Ohio; open house Saturday in Cleveland

 

http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2015/03/att_hiring_for_120_positions_i_1.html

 

I think some of the remaining few Walton Hills guys may end up there, if they are willing to go to second.  The off shifts there are pretty much gone.

Good news from Cleveland.  If we can grow new-economy jobs and keep building old manufacturing ones, things should be looking up.

The health care economy will boom in a handful of places. One of those places is Cleveland: http://t.co/yNiGwbI18g

The health care economy will boom in a handful of places. One of those places is Cleveland: http://t.co/yNiGwbI18g

 

Unless the federal government takes a more active role in the management of the process.  The worst thing that could happen would be the development of an "aristocracy of pull" that talks about "underserved areas" that of course correspond with the districts of influential Congressmen and/or home towns of powerful bureaucrats.

 

"Underserved areas" imply "overserved areas", and to many that would be us.

Hugo Boss leaving country, but 300 local jobs are here to stay

 

http://www.wkyc.com/story/news/local/cuyahoga-county/2015/03/19/hugo-boss/25058991/

 

Strange such a variation in the number of jobs at Hugo Boss as Cleveland.com is reporting 160 jobs. 

Strange such a variation in the number of jobs at Hugo Boss as Cleveland.com is reporting 160 jobs. 

 

Temps/contractors might account for the difference.

British company working with Case Western Reserve on HIV research opens Cleveland office

By CRAIN'S CLEVELAND BUSINESS

Originally Published: March 23, 2015 2:42 PM  Modified: March 24, 2015 8:50 AM

 

A British company developing a way to spot mutations in the HIV virus that just formed a partnership with Case Western Reserve University said it has established its Cleveland office in the Baker Electric Building in the city’s health-tech corridor.

 

Population Genetics Technologies Ltd. said in a news release that the office, 7100 Euclid Ave., “will become the hub of its U.S. operations, will be used to support the development and commercialization of (Population Genetics’) portfolio of advanced diagnostic and testing kits for infectious diseases.” One employee works at the office and others occasionally visit, according to a spokesperson for the company.

 

The company is developing and will market a portfolio of Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) diagnostic tests for clinical applications in human infectious disease. The diagnostic tests will offer cloud-based data analysis, data management and clinical reporting. The initial diagnostic kits will target the HIV and HCV drug resistance monitoring markets, Population Genetics said.

 

MORE:

http://www.crainscleveland.com/article/20150323/FREE/150329954/british-company-working-with-case-western-reserve-on-hiv-research

Missed this one....

 

March 16, 2015 7:43 a.m.

Southfield-based Cascade Partners expands into Cleveland

By By Jeremy Nobile

Crain's Cleveland Business

 

Cascade Partners LLC, an investment bank and private investment group based in Southfield, is entering the Cleveland market to capitalize on investment opportunities the company's executives see in Northeast Ohio.

 

Cascade, which also has a Chicago branch, launched its Cleveland operation this month under managing director Ken Marblestone, who most recently served as president of Ohio and Michigan markets for RBS Citizens Financial Group, the Rhode Island-based holding company for Charter One.

 

The Detroit company focuses on the middle market. Marblestone said Cascade splits work nearly evenly between buy- and sell-side efforts and funds transactions largely in health care, technology, manufacturing and business services industries — all of which are seeing strong growth in Northeast Ohio.

 

Marblestone is working out of a home office in Cleveland, but he said he's searching for an office location. The goal is to hire 10 to 12 more people, he said, bringing the Cleveland office in line with the size of Cascade's Michigan headquarters.

 

MORE:

http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20150316/NEWS/150319875/ken-marblestone-to-run-new-cleveland-office-for-cascade-partners

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff just promised economic sanctions against Indiana and made a major stand for gay rights after “religious freedom” law passed

 

The boss of Salesforce, the software company which almost renamed London’s Heron Tower, has just promised economic sanctions against the US state of Indiana and made a major stand for gay rights.

 

Marc Benioff said the firm will cancel plans to expand in Indiana and could leave the state altogether after lawmakers approved a law that allows businesses to turn away gay customers.

 

Benioff threatened the state with a “slow rolling out of economic sanctions” if the law wasn’t thrown out, speaking to Re/code.

 

The law, which supporters have backed in the name of religious freedom, is also being tabled for approval in several other states in the US.

 

http://www.cityam.com/212662/salesforce-ceo-marc-benioff-just-promised-economic-sanctions-against-indiana-and-made-major

 

So, Salesforce has about 1,000 jobs in Indianapolis, and the company had plans to expand and build a tower in Indy. But now the CEO is talking about "dramatically reducing" the company's investments in IN as a result of the discriminatory law. If the City of Cleveland doesn't make an effort to convince Salesforce to move its investments to Cleveland, then that would be a missed opportunity. The success of the Gay Games could help the pitch, and between all the parking lots downtown, and Flats East Bank, and NuCLEus, there are a lot of great options for Salesforce's new offices.

Doesn't Ohio have same sex marriage bans and there are no statewide protections for discriminating based on sexual orientation?

 

Doesn't seem too different from Indiana.

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff just promised economic sanctions against Indiana and made a major stand for gay rights after “religious freedom” law passed

 

The boss of Salesforce, the software company which almost renamed London’s Heron Tower, has just promised economic sanctions against the US state of Indiana and made a major stand for gay rights.

 

Marc Benioff said the firm will cancel plans to expand in Indiana and could leave the state altogether after lawmakers approved a law that allows businesses to turn away gay customers.

 

Benioff threatened the state with a “slow rolling out of economic sanctions” if the law wasn’t thrown out, speaking to Re/code.

 

The law, which supporters have backed in the name of religious freedom, is also being tabled for approval in several other states in the US.

 

http://www.cityam.com/212662/salesforce-ceo-marc-benioff-just-promised-economic-sanctions-against-indiana-and-made-major

 

So, Salesforce has about 1,000 jobs in Indianapolis, and the company had plans to expand and build a tower in Indy. But now the CEO is talking about "dramatically reducing" the company's investments in IN as a result of the discriminatory law. If the City of Cleveland doesn't make an effort to convince Salesforce to move its investments to Cleveland, then that would be a missed opportunity. The success of the Gay Games could help the pitch, and between all the parking lots downtown, and Flats East Bank, and NuCLEus, there are a lot of great options for Salesforce's new offices.

 

And build that new Salesforce tower right on the Jacobs Group's Public Square parking lot!! :)

 

Toronto capitalized on the political troubles in Quebec in the 1970s and grabbed corporate headquarters from Montreal and Quebec City. Why shouldn't we in Cleveland?

Doesn't Ohio have same sex marriage bans and there are no statewide protections for discriminating based on sexual orientation?

 

Doesn't seem too different from Indiana.

 

Good points, but I doubt that they would choose a location based on marriage equality. Most states with marriage equality did not start accepting gay marriage as a result of their state government, but rather as a result of a court decision. The Salesforce CEO is pulling back his Indiana investments because Indiana is actually regressing (and with a particularly discriminatory law). Ohio has been slow moving on this issue, but I still think we're slowly moving forward. Also, it's worth noting that public employees have protection based on sexual orientation, even under a Republican governor and Republican legislature.

 

It's at least worth trying. Assuming he doesn't want to move his investments too far, I would say Chicago, Detroit, and the 3 C's in Ohio are his best options.

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