Over $4 billion goes into downtown development

[NUman]

Read my post on the thread about what Cleveland can do.

[airics]

cleveland.com: Everything Cleveland


"Cuyahoga County's long, quiet slide toward becoming something smaller continued last year, and the entire region is now caught in the wake.
The U.S. Census Bureau will report today that Cleveland's home county lost another 13,000 people last year, the sharpest population loss of any American county except for one. Only Detroit's Wayne County lost more people in 2007."



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[airics]

we need the jobs and corporations, not the residential

[BelieveInCleve]

If we get the jobs and corporations, the residential will follow. Cleveland was gaining tons of jobs from 1900-1950 and just look at how many people the city was gaining. All we need is more jobs and more opportunity and the people will follow. I doubt that the weather will be much of a concern if people can live good around good people.

[costello_musicman]

^^we aparrently just need more "unskilled" jobs. There are jobs available here, but companies keep having to import talent, primaryly since too much of the local population does not have the neccessary degrees/experience (i.e tech companies, Cleveland Clinic, other downtown companies).

But also, companies like to relocate where there already is a residental base in urban enironments since it creates the energy and "hipness" that recruits top young talent to want to work there. Although, it seems like a chicken or egg type of situation, both do and can attract the other.

[BelieveInCleve]

Yeah I did notice that too. A lot of people move into Cleveland from other places to work in health care or other skilled fields but still we have all of these people that are from Cleveland that are unemployed. I think we need to better educate everyone in the city and area. That is kind of a problem though seeing how bad the Cleveland Public schools are that has one of the highest dropout rates in the country. The only thing that would help those people is if we get more blue collar jobs, but those are getting really hard to find.