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its so nice to see local media bulling the place up these days instead of cutting it down. better late than never!

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    So I went to visit a friend in Findlay OH over the weekend for the purpose of going to the haunted Mansfield Reformatory Prison on Saturday night. So he's from down near Columbus originally and has on

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    Saturday May 18th. Biked to Playoff Hockey, lunch at Asian Festival and evening Baseball. Total ~$30      

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23 reasons why downtown Cleveland is "back"!

WKYC Staff, WKYC 5:48 p.m. EDT July 31, 2014

Not only is LeBron James back in the game…and back to #23, but the entire city of Cleveland is on the rise

 

CLEVELAND -- Not only is LeBron James back in the game…and back to #23, but the entire city of Cleveland is on the rise.

 

The Downtown Cleveland Alliance says that, with $5.5 billion in downtown development being planned or coming online between 2010 and today, James only adds to the existing momentum of this vibrant downtown.

 

The Alliance says here are 23 reasons why downtown Cleveland is "back."

 

READ MORE AT:

http://www.wkyc.com/story/news/local/cuyahoga-county/2014/07/31/23-reasons-why-downtown-cleveland-is-back/13429163/

 

Channel 3 touts RNC 2016, but no mention of the Gay Games this month!? ... really?

LOVE...from a Pittsburgh transplant.  These articles just keep coming!

 

5 Reasons Why It’s Okay To Like Cleveland

 

By Nicole Ranieri

 

 

It was this morning that I drove into the city from my adorable, quaint little town called Lakewood on the west side. I was coming to my awesomely trendy new office building, the E&Y Tower, in the Flats East Bank of Cleveland. I work in advertising, so many of my coworkers are super artistic. A few were outside the office facing the opposing brick wall drawing Cleveland-y things in chalk.

 

That was when it hit me. It’s OK to like Cleveland.

 

Born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, I guess it was imparted on me at a young age that a strong rivalry with Cleveland, Ohio and the Browns came with the territory of growing up where I did. But, when offered my first job right out of college in Cleveland, I said yes. Definitely, yes.

 

http://thoughtcatalog.com/nicole-ranieri/2014/08/5-reasons-why-its-okay-to-like-cleveland/

 

I was speaking with an older woman in Columbus recently. She mentioned her daughter graduated from John Carroll about 10-15 years ago. She said downtown was a dump whenever she would go down there. She recently went with a friend to a show downtown (presumably PHS) then they walked to the casino and then they went to a "phenomenal restaurant. And it was all downtown!" She couldn't believe how happening it is now and she mentioned all the people moving downtown.

 

I think this proves that although all of these articles are great, it will take getting the typical naysayers to visit to really turn around the city's image, especially those who haven't been in the city in 10+ years (assuming they have a good experience).

I was speaking with an older woman in Columbus recently. She mentioned her daughter graduated from John Carroll about 10-15 years ago. She said downtown was a dump whenever she would go down there. She recently went with a friend to a show downtown (presumably PHS) then they walked to the casino and then they went to a "phenomenal restaurant. And it was all downtown!" She couldn't believe how happening it is now and she mentioned all the people moving downtown.

 

I think this proves that although all of these articles are great, it will take getting the typical naysayers to visit to really turn around the city's image, especially those who haven't been in the city in 10+ years (assuming they have a good experience).

 

Right! And what's really great is that the gateway/southern border of downtown has seen dramatic improvement.

 

For too many years the very first impression visitors got from I 77/71 has been drab, crumbling infrastructure and the "cityside forest" aka dead sapling trees. Today with the 9, County building and road  improvements the city just looks so much better.

I was speaking with an older woman in Columbus recently. She mentioned her daughter graduated from John Carroll about 10-15 years ago. She said downtown was a dump whenever she would go down there. She recently went with a friend to a show downtown (presumably PHS) then they walked to the casino and then they went to a "phenomenal restaurant. And it was all downtown!" She couldn't believe how happening it is now and she mentioned all the people moving downtown.

 

I think this proves that although all of these articles are great, it will take getting the typical naysayers to visit to really turn around the city's image, especially those who haven't been in the city in 10+ years (assuming they have a good experience).

 

Right! And what's really great is that the gateway/southern border of downtown has seen dramatic improvement.

 

For too many years the very first impression visitors got from I 77/71 has been drab, crumbling infrastructure and the "cityside forest" aka dead sapling trees. Today with the 9, County building and road  improvements the city just looks so much better.

 

This is one of the medium-prominent reasons for supporting the Opportunity Corridor.  Many initial visitors are going to UC or CC.  Right now, the only routes there from Hopkins go directly through downtown's deepest traffic (and require a backtrack several miles south), or pass through blight on surface streets.

I was speaking with an older woman in Columbus recently. She mentioned her daughter graduated from John Carroll about 10-15 years ago. She said downtown was a dump whenever she would go down there. She recently went with a friend to a show downtown (presumably PHS) then they walked to the casino and then they went to a "phenomenal restaurant. And it was all downtown!" She couldn't believe how happening it is now and she mentioned all the people moving downtown.

 

I think this proves that although all of these articles are great, it will take getting the typical naysayers to visit to really turn around the city's image, especially those who haven't been in the city in 10+ years (assuming they have a good experience).

 

This is why it takes decades for a city to shed a reputation.

"In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck

I was speaking with an older woman in Columbus recently. She mentioned her daughter graduated from John Carroll about 10-15 years ago. She said downtown was a dump whenever she would go down there. She recently went with a friend to a show downtown (presumably PHS) then they walked to the casino and then they went to a "phenomenal restaurant. And it was all downtown!" She couldn't believe how happening it is now and she mentioned all the people moving downtown.

 

I think this proves that although all of these articles are great, it will take getting the typical naysayers to visit to really turn around the city's image, especially those who haven't been in the city in 10+ years (assuming they have a good experience).

 

This is why it takes decades for a city to shed a reputation.

 

I travel all the time for business.  First question out of most people's mouths about Cleveland is "how are the Flats?"  They have no idea that its been 10+ years since the party left there.

^Well now we can just say alive, well and growing! ;-)

Cleveland: Booming in more ways than Lebron

By By Tom Thriveni, Ozy  @CNNMoney August 8, 2014: 3:27 PM ET

 

Down the street from Jake Orville's office in downtown Cleveland, you can hear the cutting of steel gears from a nearly 100-year-old manufacturer of machinery parts. Just beyond that lies Millionaire's Row, a stretch of historic homes built by industrial tycoons like John Rockefeller and Western Union founder Jeptha Wade, who dominated the city in the late 1800s and early 1900s. But in the midst of these landmarks to the city's legacy as a manufacturing powerhouse, Orville and his team are working on something Rockefeller and Wade could never have envisioned: patented technologies to test for heart disease.

 

Orville is the CEO of five-year-old Cleveland Heartlab, which has licensed several innovations from researchers at nearby — and world-renowned — Cleveland Clinic. The partnership was initiated by the clinic as part of its mission to turn its inventions into commercially viable medical products, generating profits for both parties. To date, besides Heartlab, 66 neighboring companies have spun out from Cleveland Clinic ideas since 2000. All told, the clinic has 525 patents and 450 licensing agreements.

 

READ MORE AT:

http://money.cnn.com/2014/08/08/news/economy/ozy-cleveland/index.html

"In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck

I know I love Cleveland!  I spent more money this weekend in restaurants, bars, lounges and grocery stores than I have in YEARS.

Looks like  another packed weekend downtown....and the airshow is next weekend!

 

Downtown Cleveland: More than 100,000 people expected for Saturday's games and events

Marc Bona, The Plain Dealer By Marc Bona, The Plain Dealer

on August 19, 2014 at 11:50 AM

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Cleveland arguably will be the busiest sports city in America on Saturday. All three pro sports venues downtown will host games simultaneously, and when you throw in a variety of other events going on, we can expect as many as 100,000 people downtown at the same time.

 

That night at the Q, the Cleveland Gladiators host the Arizona Rattlers in ArenaBowl XXVII at 8. The Indians face the Houston Astros at 7:05 next door at Progressive Field, and the Browns play their first home preseason game at 8 against the St. Louis Rams at FirstEnergy Stadium.

 

Because of limited overlap between the seasons of the two football leagues, the three teams playing simultaneously at the venues has never happened since the Gladiators relocated to Cleveland in 2008.

 

 

 

Read More At:

http://www.cleveland.com/sports/index.ssf/2014/08/downtown_cleveland_more_than_1.html

Positively Cleveland to pour millions more into promoting city, making region more visitor-friendly

By Susan Glaser, The Plain Dealer

 

Cleveland, Ohio – The city's biggest civic boosters got a big boost of their own this month: a nearly 40 percent increase in the tourism bureau's budget, starting in September.

 

The extra money – about $3.5 million a year -- will pay for more ads touting the region, more sales staff hawking the new convention center, and more signs and beautification efforts designed to improve the city's appeal as a tourist destination....

 

 

Read more at:

http://www.cleveland.com/travel/index.ssf/2014/08/positively_cleveland_gets_majo.html#incart_m-rpt-1

Im not sold on "America's hottest city" but I am convinced the pendulum has swung and Cleveland has a slightly more positive than negative reputation, and only getting better..

 

10 Reasons Why Cleveland Is America’s Hottest City

 

http://contentmarketingworld.com/news/10-reasons-cleveland-americas-hottest-city/

 

 

 

As we make the final preparations for Content Marketing World, what amazes me most is the question I’m not getting anymore:

 

Why Cleveland?

 

Since we launched CMWorld in Cleveland in 2011, that question was by far the most frequent.  So many times we had to sell the venue more than the agenda, speakers or networking events.

 

But that has all changed.  Cleveland, in seemingly a matter of months, has become a trending city (I can’t believe I just typed that). So, if you are visiting Cleveland for the first time or back for a return trip, here are a few of the reasons that Cleveland makes me smile. Our team tried to avoid duplication in our favorite places in Cleveland, but some just bear repeating. Enjoy!

It's an advertorial.  Generally advertorials are written by someone or an organization affiliated with the topic, for publication in other (similar) periodicals.

 

The CM group has an event in Cleveland in September, so this is on their blog and probably sent to member/attendees.

What is your point?  I found it on twitter.

 

Content Marketing is what makes sites like Buzzfeed so hot. 

 

The article / content marketing of Cleveland was written by Joe Pulizzi.  This is an article about him and content marking world conference 2013.  http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2013/09/joe_pulizzis_content_marketing.html

 

 

Content marketing world is the new industries biggest event is and its held in Cleveland.  It brings in the biggest and brightest names in marketing from around the world.  And if that audience believes Cleveland is a trending city, that is just awesomeness. 

 

From their website, http://contentmarketingworld.com/ , they list 90K RSS subscibers, and 85K twitter followers.

 

Also from  http://contentmarketingworld.com

 

Already confirmed 2014 speakers include such brands as Kraft Foods, Microsoft, Facebook, SAP, Cisco Systems, Coca-Cola Brazil and more than 100 content marketing experts from around the globe. SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: Actor, Director, Producer Kevin Spacey to be closing keynote speaker.

 

 

Content Marketing World Fact Sheet

What: Content Marketing World 2014 – the largest content marketing event on the planet!!

 

When: September 8 -11, 2014

 

Where: Cleveland Convention Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States

 

What to Expect: In 2013, over 1,700 marketers from 46 countries joined us – we expect even more in 2014! More brands, more breakouts, more hands-on labs, more networking (yes, it’s possible!) and more CONTENT!

 

What we want for you: We want to inspire you to do your own epic content marketing and network with some of the brightest in the business!

 

Who you will see: Over 80 sessions presented by the leading brand marketers from around the world covering strategy, integration, measurement, and more new ideas than you can shake an orange stick at. Keynotes include Oscar award-winning actor Kevin Spacey, Kraft Foods’ Julie Fleischer and Brandscaping author Andrew Davis (CMW 2013’s Top-Rated Speaker).

 

 

 

 

My fault, I took us of topic.  If we want to give local bloggers attention they crave, we should discuss it on the local media thread

I don't think you were off topic, I myself had similar feelings.

 

"The attention they crave." Come on guys, I'm a professional writer. This is my job. I think you guys are getting way more out of this whole whatever is going on here than I am. What exactly are you guys getting out of this?

Let's stay on topic here and take the personal conversations to Private Messages. Thanks!

"It's just fate, as usual, keeping its bargain and screwing us in the fine print..." - John Crichton

You'll like this time-lapse video shot from different angles atop Key Tower even more!

 

http://www.movoto.com/blog/opinions/cleveland-view/

"In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck

The Edgewater Alive Thursday nights were prominently feature in that video featured on scene.Once again kudos to the Metroparks on the job they have done on the lakefront parks.

  • 3 weeks later...

Some love from the D:

 

"@UIXDetroit: #Detroit needs a #coldscapes project like Cleveland's @popupcity. Igloo in winter, sun shade in summer. #UIXDET @FreshWaterCLE @modeld"

"In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck

  • 2 weeks later...

^I respectfully disagree.  As much as I love Cleveland, that list is the result of an online survey.  If I had to guess, Cleveland, Houston, and Providence are highly represented because someone (blog, forum, paper, magazine) in each city promoted the list to its readers:

 

Methodology

The America's Favorite Places survey, developed by the editors of Travel + Leisure, launched online on June 2, 2014. Respondents rated their choice of 1,209 destinations in up to 67 categories, using a scale of one to five (with five being the highest score). The final results reflect a subset of the survey data for 38 cities, based on votes cast through July 21, 2014. Surveyed cites are selected by Travel + Leisure editors based on reader feedback and tourism statistics.

^I respectfully disagree.  As much as I love Cleveland, that list is the result of an online survey.  If I had to guess, Cleveland, Houston, and Providence are highly represented because someone (blog, forum, paper, magazine) in each city promoted the list to its readers:

 

Methodology

The America's Favorite Places survey, developed by the editors of Travel + Leisure, launched online on June 2, 2014. Respondents rated their choice of 1,209 destinations in up to 67 categories, using a scale of one to five (with five being the highest score). The final results reflect a subset of the survey data for 38 cities, based on votes cast through July 21, 2014. Surveyed cites are selected by Travel + Leisure editors based on reader feedback and tourism statistics.

 

Yeah, I think we all know about online surveys.  The Cleveland Browns regularly showed up on top of the "favorite team" rankings from 1996 - 1999, when Browns fans ranked up there with the Subgenii as a group you did not want to mess with on the 'net (woe be even the most obscure survey that did not include them....)

^Peyton Hillis was selected by fan vote for the cover of Madden.  'Nuff said.

^ and the rock hall -- clevelanders know how to stuff a ballot box haha. things like that might also be due to local connections of the writers and staff. who knows, but still good publicity is good! ?

^I respectfully disagree.  As much as I love Cleveland, that list is the result of an online survey.  If I had to guess, Cleveland, Houston, and Providence are highly represented because someone (blog, forum, paper, magazine) in each city promoted the list to its readers:

 

Methodology

The America's Favorite Places survey, developed by the editors of Travel + Leisure, launched online on June 2, 2014. Respondents rated their choice of 1,209 destinations in up to 67 categories, using a scale of one to five (with five being the highest score). The final results reflect a subset of the survey data for 38 cities, based on votes cast through July 21, 2014. Surveyed cites are selected by Travel + Leisure editors based on reader feedback and tourism statistics.

(professional hat on)  This was not strictly a web/internet based survey. (professional hat off)

 

One of the problems as i've said before is internet/web usage is not as prevalent in Cleveland as it is in other regions.  Not including LA or NYC.  For instance, ATL and CLT are similar in size yet have almost twice the internet usage in the 21 to 45 age categories as Cleveland.  So although CLE is selected as a option, not many for our region vote for CLE

From Fodor's:

 

5 Reasons to Visit Cleveland Now

Posted by Kristan Schiller on October 09, 2014 at 12:00:00 PM EDT | Post a Comment

 

Unlike Chicago, its Rust Belt brother to the West, Cleveland and its charms require an appetite for discovery. Many are familiar with "Iron Chef" Michael Symon, basketball megastar LeBron James, and the city’s I.M. Pei–designed Rock N' Roll Hall of Fame, but for most, Cleveland remains a mere blip on the tourist trail from New York to Chicago. And yet, this Midwestern hub on the shores of Lake Erie, where John D. Rockefeller founded Standard Oil in 1870 and where the Cleveland Orchestra has produced critically-acclaimed music for nearly a century, is experiencing a cultural and culinary renaissance that calls for travelers to sit up and take notice. Here are five great reasons to visit Cleveland now.

 

http://www.fodors.com/news/5-reasons-to-visit-cleveland-now-10893.html

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"In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck

Positively Cleveland enlists the help of young professionals to help sell the city to locals, tourists

 

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Eric Mack was born in 1982, 13 years after the Cuyahoga River caught on fire.

 

So he's always a little surprised when potential visitors to his hometown – people his own age -- bring up that infamous event from 1969.

 

"I laugh, and I say, 'You know, we have the Burning River Fest, which promotes the health of the river and the lake.' And then I tell them to go out on the Goodtime, so they can really see how great the city is."

 

Inevitably, once they're here, he said, "They're blown away every time."

 

http://www.cleveland.com/travel/index.ssf/2014/10/positively_cleveland_enlists_t.html#incart_m-rpt-1

CLE Clothing Co. ‏@CLECLOTHINGCO  Oct 13

Now available ONLINE! http://www.cleclothingco.com  #theland #CLE #thisiscle #cleclothingco

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I need that shirt

From Fodor's:

 

5 Reasons to Visit Cleveland Now

Posted by Kristan Schiller on October 09, 2014 at 12:00:00 PM EDT | Post a Comment

 

Unlike Chicago, its Rust Belt brother to the West, Cleveland and its charms require an appetite for discovery. Many are familiar with "Iron Chef" Michael Symon, basketball megastar LeBron James, and the city’s I.M. Pei–designed Rock N' Roll Hall of Fame, but for most, Cleveland remains a mere blip on the tourist trail from New York to Chicago. And yet, this Midwestern hub on the shores of Lake Erie, where John D. Rockefeller founded Standard Oil in 1870 and where the Cleveland Orchestra has produced critically-acclaimed music for nearly a century, is experiencing a cultural and culinary renaissance that calls for travelers to sit up and take notice. Here are five great reasons to visit Cleveland now.

 

http://www.fodors.com/news/5-reasons-to-visit-cleveland-now-10893.html

 

"Oft-touted as the most attractive example of the suburban garden city in America, Shaker Heights offers walking tours of stately homes built along curving roads in Colonial, French, and Tudor styles. At its center is octagon-shaped Shaker Square, the second oldest shopping district in the country, the design of which is patterned after Copenhagen's Amalienborg Palace."

 

 

UGGGHHHH

^no worries, fodor's is the old people's travel guide. get upset if the rough guide did that lol!

what it will take to bring millennials like me back home

 

A few months ago, I headed off to college for the first time. As I thought about my new four-year residence at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, I also began to think about what it was like to grow up as part of the millennial generation in Cleveland. This unique place has had a major impact on me, and as I leave it for the first time, I’m realizing how large that impact is.

 

It’s officially no secret that Cleveland is a city on the rise, one that’s shedding its rusty reputation. Yet of course, it wasn't always like that. When my generation was coming of age in the 2000s, the city was hitting some of its hardest times during the Great Recession. Just as we were at the age of exploring our unique place of birth, Cleveland was having a hard time just staying afloat. And now, right as we’re leaving, it’s experiencing a long-awaited renaissance.

 

 

http://www.freshwatercleveland.com/features/willmillenialsreturn102814.aspx

Could not agree more with this Clefan98 I headed off for college in 2010 and feel the same way. We almost got the worst of it in terms of timing with the city.

Love Letters: Cleveland

Love Letters 10/29/14 08:49 AM ET

 

 

I worked hard and when I found out I was expecting a baby with my girlfriend, I knew Cleveland would become my home again. My heart still belonged to New York but when I came home to tell our family the good news, I found something in you, dear Cleveland, something that I hadn't seen before was now shining brightly. There was a current moving through the people and the streets that I had never felt before. The stories of the river burning and the Browns sucking, the old curmudgeons scared of downtown were still there but something about you was different. There was a glow to you, dear Cleveland, and it sucked me in. You were the "New Cleveland."

 

I fell hard for you Cleveland after I opened my first restaurant, The Greenhouse Tavern. Looking back I was so ambitious bringing a restaurant of that size to your downtown streets that, until recently, were barely filled with bodies. But I had a feeling Cleveland, and I am happy to say I was right. I fell hard for you, Cleveland, that day in April 2009 when the restaurant filled with 400 people for our "friends and family" opening. My love for you exploded that day! I continued to fall madly, deeply in love while your condos and apartments filled to capacity, while your restaurants opened and chefs filled the city. My madness for you became almost too much to bear after MOCA opened and the Art Museum that brought me so much happiness as a child built the most beautiful space inside of you, it's atrium. I fell in love with you a little bit more this summer after you hosted the Gay Games, Cleveland. Seeing our city full of compassion, kindness, and people made me so proud to call you my love.

 

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/5835088

Oops, forgot to post. Was perusing the WSJ print edition last weekend and came across this.

 

The Maestro of Midwest Revival

The billionaire who brought LeBron James back to Cleveland talks about his business bet on the big cities of the former Rust Belt.

By MATTHEW KAMINSKI

Updated Oct. 31, 2014 6:42 p.m. ET

 

Cleveland

 

‘The Return” to northeast Ohio on Thursday night didn’t come off as hoped. Opening the NBA season in Cleveland after a four-year detour to Miami, LeBron James couldn’t lead the Cavaliers to a win over the New York Knicks. But that hardly dampened enthusiasm for the restoration of the “King.” LeBron is everywhere here—on giant billboards, carved into Halloween pumpkins and in a long Nike television spot huddling with seemingly all of Cleveland before a game.

 

“I have to pinch myself,” says his former and current boss, Dan Gilbert, three months after the best basketball player on the planet chose to come home. “It’s unbelievable.” The morale and marketing boost for a Rust Belt city sometimes bitingly known as “the mistake on the lake” is a kind of redemption and affirmation for the Cavs owner.

 

At 52, Mr. Gilbert has accomplished a few things beyond reeling in LeBron. The son of a Detroit bar owner, Mr. Gilbert started a mortgage business that he turned into Quicken Loans, amassing a fortune of $4 billion. He owns about 100 companies, multiple casinos and hotels, and much of downtown Detroit. Yet here’s what comes up first about him on Google: the 434 splenetic words he wrote four years ago in “The Letter.”

 

When the Cavs star, an Akron native, announced in 2010 that he was heading to South Beach, it broke Ohio’s heart. Mr. Gilbert banged out a message to Cavs fans blasting “this shameful display of selfishness and betrayal by one of our very own.” Calling Mr. James “heartless and callous,” “narcissistic” and “cowardly,” Mr. Gilbert promised that Cleveland would win an NBA championship before Miami. LeBron won two rings in Florida. The men didn’t talk for four years.

 

http://online.wsj.com/articles/matt-kaminski-the-maestro-of-midwest-revival-1414794678

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