Cleveland Real Estate News

Cool renderings enhance this story about the planned eco-friendly design of a new Federal Building for Downtown Cleveland.   The article appears in The Chicago Tribune and was written by Blair Kamin.  Apparently an energy-saving double wall build out (exterior) will not only save money on energy but if you look at the renderings on [...]

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Steven Litt of the PD writes about the Cleveland Museum of Natural History’s plan to show that we can not only save on heating bills but throw away our furnaces?  Imagine all that room in our basements for a pool table!  If this works, should we demo our homes and start over?  To paraphrase, it ain’t [...]

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I like the suggestion of lighting some incense to follow the smoke it emits to stealthy, leaky holes.   Bob Tedeschi of the New York Times wrote a post today that was timely for me, as I walked home with Truman the dog and saw waves of heat emitting from the chimney!  Do you see that [...]

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MarketWatch’s Andrea Coombes says start getting our 2011 tax records together now, so  we can all be aware of changes, new laws, new deductions that may help us save money. That got my attention straight away. She also outlines common red flags that might generate an IRS audit.  People who make the most money are more likely to [...]

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Short notice, and I’m sorry about that, but just in case you haven’t booked yourself up tonight, there is a Greater Cleveland forum being held tonight to discuss the latest local Census results and discuss how to move forward, add population, jobs, etc.  One of the speakers is Tom Bier, a Fellow at CSU’s Levin [...]

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1,000 of them are sales jobs, just under 400 are customer service.  Ernst and Young is a long time presumably stable company, yes?  They have 48 jobs in Cleveland and one in Akron.  And for the computer techs amonst us, Ernst and Young has four IT jobs in our area. Want to be your own [...]

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Passenger rail ridership IS at a five decade high, and his article, while focused on the eastern seabord to a point, shows why we really could boost our economy by spending money on something useful for a change, like high speed rail.  I am praying our own efforts in Ohio don’t get derailed. Why don’t [...]

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Many of us get tired of the mentality in NE Ohio that Tony Robbins would call ‘stuck.’  He’d say, scratch the record every time you wind up showing your NE Ohio persecution complex, or resigned to fail mentality. (You know he would!).  These sites keep abreast of what is good and actually happening in our [...]

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You knew I would be hung up on this phrase, smart shrinking, since writing this post about it.  Again, it’s something that is being practiced anyway, just gives it a good name!  The PD’s Tom Breckenridge writes about continuing plans for the layout of the Opportunity Corridor   The population of the surrounding neighborhoods is shrinking, [...]

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You may have heard that there was a study (isn’t there always!) which ranked economic (job) changes from June to July this year.  According to that study, we were a ’6′ improvement, which as it turns out, was not too bad.  There is a Buckeye Institute site that gets to the nitty gritty of our [...]

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