Cleveland Real Estate News

Reported from Idea Stream, Goldman Sachs is putting up some of their monies (15 mil) to jump start small businesses. Seven cities are invited (sounds like Cleveland just got invited).  You can also listen to the MP3 of the program which is linked on the site. I went to the Goldman Sachs site and the [...]

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Dodd/Frank  made it harder for mortgage lenders to make money on loans. Some of that is good, some of that is bad. It’s the old story of the few making it harder for the rest of the bunch.  Add into the mix the reluctance lenders feel about risk and you find all sorts of  previous [...]

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The chain of events: someone Tweeted that State Liquor stores were having a vodka sale. Not much of a vodka drinker, but my good friend is, so I investigated.  Then I realized I don’t know much about vodka so I sent her the link. Then I remembered a dinner last week. I was lucky to [...]

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I did not know. I think it’s new in 2012.  Found this Green City Blue Lake article on findings on how to lessen traffic congestion in the University Circle area.  Naturally, biking was listed as  one way to do this.  University Circle IS one area where many employees live close by so biking could be [...]

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Yahoo! News is sometimes fluffy but every now and again there is a real kernel of news. They have what they call their Driven Team which is a group of Yahoo! writers on the look out for success stories.  I’ve read before, but this is the first truly inspirational story I’ve wanted to post about.  [...]

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They are located in Brecksville, and it sounds like Caruso’s has been roasting coffee beans for a while.  I was searching for NE Ohio root beers and this came up! (No, I did not find root beer here!).   As an official coffee addict, I want to try it. So let me know if you recommend [...]

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Love featuring our area’s unique business niches and when they taste good too, well, that’s an added plus.  This PD article features Shearer’s LEED’s (green) designation and the fact that overall,  food manufacturing is an economic niche in NE Ohio that is growing. You can read the article, but going to provide as many links [...]

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The NE Ohio business executives surveyed by KPMG seem more interested in concentrating on their own business growth than the gloom and doom shadows of the overall economy.  That’s a good sign, yes?  Only 7% of those surveyed said they felt less confident about our local prospects. You can read about it in this Crains [...]

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Posting this today was inspired by the PD’s article on Box Creations, a North Olmsted based toy company that uses cardboard for their products.  They are getting much National recognition, even though only being officially in business since October of 2010.  The brains/CEO’s of the company are former American Greetings employees…very creative people!  Check out [...]

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