The Emerging Cleveland and Northeast Ohio

December 27th, 2010 7:05 PM
Everdeen Mason of the Plain Dealer reported 07/14/10: "¶ One year after becoming president of Cleveland State University, Ronald Berkman has begun to make his mark at the school. ¶ Berkman told a luncheon gathering Tuesday that a year from now, 20 CSU students will begin medical school in collaboration with the Northeastern Ohio Universities Colleges of Medicine and Pharmacy. ¶ It is part of his initiative to create opportunities for CSU students and hopefully keep many of them in town after graduation. He said at the Executive Caterers corporate Club at Landerhaven on Tuesday that most graduates would like to stay but do not think they have career opportunities. ¶ Berkman likes an urban setting far a college. He came to Cleveland from Florida International University, in Miami, where he was provost. ¶ In a city, students experience more than the typical college lifestyle, he said. They get a sense of real-life experiences that will ease their transition into becoming active community members. ¶ Berkman outlined several other projects he thinks will allow students to learn while bettering the community: ¦ Get more students to live on campus. ¦ Join with the Cleveland schools on a teaching opportunity that will challenge both the CSU and Cleveland students. ¦ Create more visibility for CSU’s nursing program. ¶ Beckman believes if more students live on campus, they will be exposed to the community’s cultural benefits. The community in turn will benefit from the diversity the students provide, he said. ¶ The university is moving quickly in this direction. A total of 600 new dormitory rooms are being built. ¶ The project with the Cleveland schools is still in the planning stages. Berkman wants CSU students to teach in a rigorous K-12 setting. He said he would like graduates of the laboratory school to be so accomplished that they would be proficient in two languages, such as Spanish and Chinese. ¶ Berkman also wants CSU to contribute to better health care for the public. In August 2011, CSU students with NEOUCOM, the public medical school in Rootstown. Berkman hopes the new doctors will provide the inner city with much-needed primary-care physicians. ¶ Berkman has pulled CSU’s nursing school from the College of Education and Human Services and made it an independent program. ¶ He said having a stand-alone nursing school should attract more students. More than 60 percent of nurses in Cleveland were hired from outside the city, Berkman added.”
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UNIVERSITY CIRCLE: University Circle Institutions are Job Engines, Study Finds. ***



Michelle Jarboe of the Plain Dealer reported September 5, 2010: “¶ Hospitals, institutions and other nonprofit groups have been creating jobs and fueling construction projects in University Circle, laying the foundation for more apartments and other private development in the neighborhood. ¶ Since 2005, 17 organizations in the University Circle area have added the equivalent of 4,540 full time jobs, according to a study scheduled for release this week. Those organizations could create 2,900 more jobs within five years, expanding their collective work force to a projected 36,758 full[time positions. ¶ The study was jointly paid for by community development group University Circle Inc. and the Finch group, a Florida developer that has been investing in the area. Projecting growth through 2015, the research could be a valuable tool for developers considering projects between East 90th and East 120th streets. ¶ “It’s hard to find anywhere else in the region or the state of Ohio, for that matter, that has incurred growth in a down period,” said Chris Ronayne, president of University Circle Inc. and a candidate for the new Cuyahoga County Council.”

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Olivera Perkins of the Plain Dealer reported December 1, 2010: “¶ Greater Cleveland is experiencing one of the nation’s strongest economic recoveries – on that even stacks up well worldwide, a new report concludes. ¶ Cleveland’s recovery ranks 10th among 50 U. S. metro areas and 49th among 150 cities worldwide, according to the report, released Tuesday by the Brookings Institution and the London School of Economics. ¶ The study ranked metro areas based on annual growth in employment and per capita income across three time periods: pre-recession (1993-20070, RECESSION (2007-2010). ¶ Brookings described the study as the first ever to compare metro areas wordwide along those criteria. ¶ the findings are important, the report said, because metro areas drive the economies of their nations and the world. The cities in the report accounted for 12 percent of the work’s population in 2007 but 46 percent of the world’s Gross Domestic Product. ¶ Greater Cleveland’s turnaround is especially impressive considering that the area ranked 135th of 150 cities before the recession and 131st during the downturn”
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December 27th, 2010 2:01 AM
Michelle Jarboe of the Plain Dealer reported December 23, 2010: “¶ Northeast Ohio home sales slipped last month, as the beleaguered housing market headed into the traditionally slow winter season. ¶ Despite some signs of stabilization – namely, that home prices are up in Ohio and across the country – home sales remain sluggish. In Northeast Ohio, sales of single-family homes were 30.6 percent lower in November when compared with a year before. Condo sales were down by 20.3 percent, according data for 15 countries from the Northern Ohio Regional Multiple Listing Service. “The article also pointed out that for Cuyahoga County home sales were down 44.3 percent compared to November of 2009; and average sales price was up 8.9 percent. Source: Northern Ohio Regional Multiple Listing Service.
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Michelle Jarboe of the Plain Dealer reported December 22, 2010: "¶Construction will start this week on the long-delayed Flats East Bank project, now that developers\lopers have finally locked in the money to build offices, a hotel, retail space and a park at the mouth of the Cuyahoga River.  ¶The Wolstein Group and Fairmount Properties closed on their financing Tuedsay - making a $272 million development real after years of dreaming and planning. Set to open in spring 2013, the project will extend downtown Cleveland to the waterfront and include the central business district's first new multitenant office building in more than a decade.  ¶The $272 million first phase will house accounting firm Ernst & Young, law firm Tucker Ellis & West and CB Richard Ellis real estate brokerage - all downtown tenants itching for a new location.  The Flats East Bank also will include a riverfront boardwalk and 14 acres of parkland.  The green space eventually could be the site of residential development, shops, restaurants and entertainment venues, once the economy improves and more financing becomes available.  ¶The project is one of three potential game-changers for downtown Cleveland, where a new convention center-medical mart project is scheduled to break ground soon and a' casino is int works."

 

 

 

 

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Michelle Jarboe of the Plain Dealer reported 07/30/10: "After decades of discussions and nearly five years of planning, a developer finally is ready to build homes, stores and restaurants along Euclid Avenue in University Circle.  ¶ MRN Ltd. closed Thursday on its financing and plans to break ground Monday for the $44.5 million first phase of its long-anticipated Uptown project.  Two buildings, comprising 102  apartments over retail space, will sit at the heart of $300 million-plus in ongoing and planned development radiating from Euclid at Mayfield Road.  The apartments will replace a dusty parking lot and and a dingy shopping strip at East 115th Street, across from the expanding Cleveland Institute of Art.  ¶ At Mayfield, the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland has designs for a new building.  Town-houses in the neighborhood are selling despite the troubled housing market.  And stakeholders and developers are planning projects that include a mixed-use transit center, a hotel, new and renovated student housing, luxury apartments and offices."
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August 20th, 2010 11:04 PM
Thomas Ott of the Plain Dealer reported 08/20/10: Anew Cleveland school opened Thursday, easing its first students into a program that will supplement the basics with Mandarin Chines.  The Campus International School, a joint venture between the school district and Cleveland State University, welcomed 60 first- and seconders weed before most other city students resume classes.  About a fourth of the students come from the suburbs.  The article further stated, "Campus international, the latest addition to the district's "innovation" portfolio, will grow by a grade each year until it extends through high school."
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December 9th, 2009 5:10 PM
LINKS:
HUD
Cleveland.com
Cleveland State University
Case Western Reserve University
University Circle Development Corp.
Euclid Corridor
Cleveland Clinic Development
University Hospitals
Highland Development
Department of Commerce
Department of Labor
Cleveland Port Authority
ODOT
Cleveland Federal Reserve
Cleveland Foundation
Cuyahoga County Planning Commission
Cleveland Planning, Community Development, Neighborhood Development
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