Cleveland International Fund to provide up to $65M in financing for American Greetings project - Cleveland Business News - Northeast Ohio and Cleveland - Crain's Cleveland Business

Cleveland International Fund to provide up to $65M in financing for American Greetings project - Cleveland Business News - Northeast Ohio and Cleveland - Crain's Cleveland Business

Cleveland International Fund announced late today, Sept. 21, that it expects to provide up to $65 million of financing to assist American Greetings Corp. in the construction of its new world headquarters in Westlake.

Third Frontier Commission awards $6.6 million to tech projects in Northeast Ohio - Cleveland Business News - Northeast Ohio and Cleveland - Crain's Cleveland Business

Third Frontier Commission awards $6.6 million to tech projects in Northeast Ohio - Cleveland Business News - Northeast Ohio and Cleveland - Crain's Cleveland Business

Among the projects are two run by the Philips Healthcare Global Advanced Imaging Innovation Center, which is a collaboration of Philips, Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals Case Medical Center.

Ohio - Local Economy Set to Take Off

Ohio - Local Economy Set to Take Off

Ohio is hitching its wagon to advanced manufacturing. The Buckeye State aims to retool its ailing old-school industries to produce 21st-century technologies, replicating in a variety of venues the transition that Toledo glassmaker Pilkington North America made to photovoltaic materials.

Hiring Like It's 1999 - Bloomberg Businessweek

Cleveland Ranked #1 in Tech Job Growth In a recent article in the Bloomberg News, Cleveland was ranked #1 nationally as a city with the biggest growth in tech jobs. Cleveland has experienced a 107% growth in the tech sector and companies such as Deloitte & Touche and IBM are looking to hire. The skills required for those jobs include systems integration, software engineering, and project management.

As the unemployment rate for the U.S. reached 9.2 percent in June, the unemployment rate for tech professionals dropped to 3.3 percent, from 5.3 percent in January according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In Northeast Ohio, hiring is strong with 68 percent of companies expecting to add staff in the coming year, according to a recently completed survey by the Northeast Ohio Software Association.

source:  http://www.businessweek.com/technology/hiring-like-its-1999-08012011_page_2.html 

U-Store-It Trust sells 18 warehouses in Cleveland, Canton and Indianapolis - Cleveland Real Estate News - Northeast Ohio and Cleveland - Crain's Cleveland Business

U-Store-It Trust sells 18 warehouses in Cleveland, Canton and Indianapolis - Cleveland Business News - Northeast Ohio and Cleveland - Crain's Cleveland Business


The real estate investment trust, formerly based in Cleveland, said it sold all its properties in Canton and reduced its Northeast Ohio portfolio outside Canton by 30% in terms of square footage. The company in a news release did not disclose the buyer or locations of specific properties.