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20101206-NEWS--1-NAT-CCI-CL_-- 12/3/2010 3:56 PM Page 1 Vol. 31, No. 48 $1.50/DECEMBER 6 - 12, 2010 Area public stocks outpace S&P recessionary low point — and in the Index shows NE Ohio companies by far outperform broader market same week the S&P 500 did the same — your portfolio would have been HOW THE INDEX WORKS By DAN SHINGLER markets as a whole, and by plenty, up by 172.5% as of last Tuesday, Nov. [email protected] according to Lakefront Capital Part- 30. That jump compares to a gain of Bloomberg tracks the stock prices ners, a Cleveland-based investment only 74.5% for the S&P 500 during of 49 local public companies, known as Past results have no bearing on management firm that tracks the the same period, said Lakefront the Northeastern Ohio Index. future performance, as investment stocks of area companies. senior vice president and portfolio It weighs the stocks according to firms say. But if you had invested in Lakefront follows something called manager Brent Luce. price, so higher-priced companies carry Northeast Ohio’s public companies the Northeastern Ohio Index, a group Mr. Luce noted that some of the more weight. For instance, Lubrizol since U.S. stocks hit their low in of 49 companies that Bloomberg Corp. makes up 7.06% of the index, biggest companies in the region spring 2009, you’d be well ahead of tracks via an index that allows local helped boost the index’s return. with Motors Liquidation Co. at 0.01%. the broader markets. companies to be compared to the “The index is price-weighted, so Since they fell to their nadir in S&P 500 index. STAN BULLARD higher-priced stocks do have more INSIDE: Charting monthly prices of the March of last year, the stocks of the If you’d invested in those Cleve- The LS Brand Building, which the influence over the index performance,” Northeastern Ohio Index against the S&P region’s public companies in the land-area companies on March 9, Greater Cleveland Partnership is eyeing 500 Index. Page 22 aggregate have outperformed the 2009, the day the local index hit its See STOCKS Page 22 for its new headquarters. GCP favors Commercial real estate new HQ in appears to hit bottom Theater Office, industrial downsizing leads to more vacancies District By STAN BULLARD Ellis Co.’s forecast of Northeast Ohio’s office [email protected] and industrial markets at year-end. Vacancies produced by PNC Bank emptying a total of Move necessary with Uncle Sam may have declared the Great 374,000 square feet of office space at multi- Recession over, but the economic reckoning ple rental buildings throughout downtown temp casino on deck the downturn spurred battered Northeast Cleveland and the region’s suburbs, plus By JAY MILLER Ohio’s commercial real estate markets again other downsizings, will push regional office [email protected] this year. vacancies to 22% at the end of this year from That’s the picture afforded by Grubb & See BOTTOM Page 8 The Greater Cleveland Partnership has zeroed in on a new headquarters site for the city’s chamber of com- merce group. It’s in the Playhouse- TOTAL INDUSTRIAL VACANCIES Square district at 1240 Huron Road, two sources told Crain’s Cleveland 2010 estimate Year-end 2009 Business. With the move, GCP would part 12.4% 11.2% ways with Positively Cleveland, its MARC GOLUB shared services partner in the Higbee PNC Bank has brought many far-flung workers into its down- Building on Public Square. town PNC Center, at the expense of other bank properties. GCP and Positively Cleveland, the region’s convention and visitors DOWNTOWN OFFICE VACANCIES bureau, are moving to allow for a temporary casino to take over their 2010 estimate Year-end 2009 Year-end 2008 current space on the first two floors of the Higbee Building. 22.2% 21.1% 19.8% GCP and its sister organization, the Council of Smaller Enterprises, would move their roughly 100 SUBURBAN OFFICE VACANCIES employees to the top two floors of the 2010 estimate Year-end 2009 Year-end 2008 five-story building at 1240 Huron, MARC GOLUB which was constructed in 1905. It The closing of Chrysler’s Twinsburg Stamping plant has hurt the industrial real estate market. 21.8% 20.5% 18.8% will share the building with the Liggett Stashower advertising agency, which moved in 2009 to the first three floors of the building. ALSO INSIDE: Ferro Corp. eyes move from downtown to suburbs. Page 3 ■ Two container companies expand in Glenwillow. Page 7 GCP president Joe Roman declined See GCP Page 20 SPECIAL SECTION 48 6 LEGAL AFFAIRS NEWSPAPER Area attorneys say requests for social media 71486 01032 policies rise with employee usage ■ Page 15 0 PLUS: LOCAL FIRMS GROWING ■ PATENT REFORM ■ & MORE 20101206-NEWS--2-NAT-CCI-CL_-- 12/3/2010 2:21 PM Page 1 2 CRAIN’S CLEVELAND BUSINESS WWW.CRAINSCLEVELAND.COM DECEMBER 6 - 12, 2010 COMING NEXT WEEK SAFETY FIRST The number of occupational injuries and illness cases in the private sector that Giving becomes part of the business model involved days away from work fell nearly 11% in 2009 to 964,990 from nearly 1.1 million in 2008, according to the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics. Some small businesses incorporate It’s partly the result of the recession and fewer people working, but it’s also a 700 W. St. Clair Ave., Suite 310, philanthropy into their operations. We measure of a more service-based economy and better workplace safety prac- Cleveland, OH 44113-1230 tices. 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