NE Ohio Opens up to World Business Leaders Taking Fresh Approaches to Make Region More Appealing to Immigrants
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20130401-NEWS--1-NAT-CCI-CL_-- 3/29/2013 4:01 PM Page 1 Vol. 34, No. 13 $2.00/APRIL 1 - 7, 2013 SPECIAL REPORT NE Ohio opens up to world Business leaders taking fresh approaches to make region more appealing to immigrants By JAY MILLER [email protected] Not waiting for Washington politicians to tell them where federal immigration policy is going on big-pic- ture immigration subjects like border integrity citizen- ship issues, the business and civic leaders of Northeast Ohio are stepping up their efforts to make the region more attractive to immigrants and other newcomers. Among the initiatives: ■ This Tuesday, April 2, the Greater Cleveland Part- nership will host a forum titled “U.S. Immigration Policy and the Midwest Economy.” Carol Caruso, senior vice JASON MILLER president for government advocacy at the regional The $465 million convention center and medical mart project is nearing its completion. chamber of commerce, said about 80 business leaders are expected to discuss a report that analyzes the role of ■ Anticipation builds immigration in growing the Midwest economy, as well THE IMPACT OF THE GLOBAL as the importance of federal immigration policy reform. ■ Center as a selling point See UNITING Page 29 CENTER FOR HEALTH INNOVATION ■ Local impact ■ Maps and photos AND CONVENTION CENTER ■ Full coverage: Branches can’t www.crainscleveland.com/medmart PAGES S-1 to S-14 bank on future As many brick-and-mortar Housing market constructs hope here locations close, new ways of struction and the rising doing business are a must Area manufacturers benefit from a rebound in sales of existing homes nationwide. By MICHELLE PARK home sales, look to hire employees to keep pace “Just yesterday, I was [email protected] in a client’s office and By DAN SHINGLER workers. we were looking at the The two banks with the most Northeast Ohio de- [email protected] But here in Northeast Ohio, where ABI, the Architectural posits are shuttering dozens, even hundreds, of homebuilding is only starting to recover Billings Index (a gauge branches this year across their footprints, and some The U.S. housing market finally is and certainly has not reached its pre-crash of construction activity) Peplin observers predict this is only the beginning for an bouncing back from its economy-busting levels, manufacturers say they are still get- and it was up nicely — industry that’s grappling with diminished customer crash of 2008, and experts credit it with ting big gains from what is a national there’s some good stuff going on out traffic, higher costs due to increased regulation and the benefits that range from boosting pickup trend. Local companies that produce con- there,” said Steve Peplin, president of ever-present need to turn a profit. truck sales to ringing the cash registers at struction materials, fixtures and home metal stamping company Talan Products PNC Bank announced in early March that it will close countless diners, barber shops and other repair products say they are benefiting in Cleveland. about 200 branches this year in 19 states, including small businesses that serve construction from increases in both new home con- See CONSTRUCTS Page 29 See BRANCHES Page 8 13 7 NEWSPAPER 74470 83781 0 20130401-NEWS--2-NAT-CCI-CL_-- 3/29/2013 2:40 PM Page 1 2 CRAIN’S CLEVELAND BUSINESS WWW.CRAINSCLEVELAND.COM APRIL 1 - 7, 2013 COMING NEXT WEEK A dividing line Private-industry employers spent an average of $28.89 per hour worked for total Business of art employee compensation in December 2012, though the figure was a lot higher for people in management, professional and related fields. 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Summa said it commercial pay- needed an outside partner — one it By TIMOTHY MAGAW the system’s finances in the short ones that focus on keeping people ers slowly are eventually found in CHP — to ease [email protected] term, but also about giving Summa healthy and out of the hospital. instituting new that transition with an infusion of the financial wherewithal to trans- Given that hospitals largely are paid forms of pay- cash. For Summa Health System pres- form the way it delivers care. for the volume of services they pro- ment that swap “Fundamentally, we believe to ident and CEO Thomas Strauss, the Summa and its soon-to-be mi- vide, that transition has been a slow that fee-for-ser- our core that the way we are prac- plan to sell roughly one-third of the nority owner, the Cincinnati-based march, but it’s one the federal gov- Strauss vice model to ticing health care in our country is- $1.4 billion Akron-based enterprise Catholic Health Partners, both are ernment and health care observers ones intended to n’t sustainable,” Mr. Strauss said in he steers to a downstate health care attempting to shift their care deliv- insist systems must make if they reward hospital systems for high- an interview last week while seated behemoth isn’t only about buoying ery and operating models toward intend to remain afloat. quality care that focuses on keep- See SUMMA Page 30 INSIGHT They’re HYPE BUILDS raising OVER the bar Technology Recovery Group is expanding, BOARD gets added boost from Kent Displays amps up Cuyahoga County production of electronic By JAY MILLER writing tablet, which is [email protected] It has taken Technology Recovery produced almost 24/7 Group only 3½ years to outgrow the space it expected it to call home for a decade. So the Westlake firm is By CHUCK SODER moving just a few blocks from its [email protected] current Clemens Road home to make sure it can continue to grow. wo years ago, Kent Displays Inc. Cuyahoga County Council at its sold the Boogie Board electronic April 9 meeting is expected to writing tablet in about 300 stores.