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VOL. 38, NO. 7 FEBRUARY 13 - 19, 2017 Source Lunch Up to speed Move to 5G technology could be a tricky issue for communities. Page 4 Akron-Canton Airport The List marketing director Lisa CLEVELAND BUSINESS Largest philanthropic Davala Dalpiaz. Page 27 gifts in NEO Page 26 HIGHER EDUCATION Tressel tackles YSU’s problems with grit The former coach’s vision has resonated in the Mahoning Valley By RACHEL ABBEY MCCAFFERTY looking favorably at the turn- around, with Standard & Poor’s rmcca [email protected] raising the university’s rating to A+ @ramcca erty and Moody’s Investors Service reaf- rming its A2 rating. Youngstown State University had In terms of enrollment, been on a bit of a roller coaster in Youngstown State has made strides terms of leadership turnover before to reach students beyond its typical Jim Tressel took on the presidency target area and at a younger age. e in the summer of 2014. Amid that, popularity of Tressel — the former the university had struggled with Ohio State University football coach the fundamentals such as budget- whose recruiting ability is, by some, ing, enrollment and nancial rat- considered legendary — certainly ings — what Tressel describes as hasn’t hurt either. Tressel, of course, the “big-picture things.” is no stranger to the Mahoning Val- His goal was to quickly reverse ley. Before his stint with the Buck- that downward trajectory. eyes, Tressel served as Youngstown So far, Tressel’s game plan seems State’s executive director of athletics to be working. For scal year 2017, and head football coach. the university trimmed its total op- But now that the university’s op- erating budget to about $169.8 mil- erations have been stabilized, the lion, from about $174.2 million the focus is on the future. In fact, the year before. And, the university foundation that raises money for noted, it was the rst operating the university is in the quiet phase budget in ve years without a struc- of a major campaign that could sig- tural operating de cit, due largely ni cantly change the university’s to a combination of cost reductions campus and bolster its o erings for and increased student recruitment. students. e top ratings agencies also are SEE TRESSEL , PAGE 11 Illustration by Karen Sandstrom for Crain’s HEALTH CARE Clinic’s new $276M cancer hub boasts a ‘pod’ approach to care By LYDIA COUTRÉ and, ultimately, better care. Cancer Institute , who has been in his e approximately $276 million role for six years. [email protected] Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer “One of the rst things that I did @LydiaCoutre Center, which will begin seeing pa- and that we did as a group was to step tients March 6, is located on the back and say, ‘What do we want can- e new seven-story building add- north side of Carnegie Avenue be- cer to be at the Cleveland Clinic?’ ” ed to the east end of Cleveland Clin- tween East 102nd and 105th streets. Bolwell said. “And it was pretty evi- ic’s main campus consolidates can- It ts with the system’s patient-cen- dent that we had opportunities to cer services into one space, in an tered culture and focus on multi-dis- make the cancer programs more of The new Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Center on Carnegie Avenue will e ort to add convenience for pa- ciplinary care, said Dr. Brian J. Bol- their own organizational units.” consolidate cancer services into one place. (Tim Harrison for Crain’s) tients, coordination for providers well, chairman of the Clinic’s Taussig SEE TAUSSIG , PAGE 7 Entire contents © 2017 by Crain Communications Inc. Akron news City of Green still fi ghting Nexus pipeline. Page 2 << Q&A with Akron Mayor Dan Horrigan. Page 24 High St. Hop House Page 24 PAGE 2 | FEBRUARY 13 - 19, 2017 | CRAIN’S CLEVELAND BUSINESS For Green, Nexus pipeline fi ght isn’t over By DAN SHINGLER Nexus’ route through Green called the police that a similar event could happen in City ocials say the pipeline will disrupt development plans, endanger several times to Green, either by accident or terrorism. [email protected] protected wild areas and wetlands, and diminish property values in and keep unwanted “It’s 36 inches in diameter ... and @DanShingler around Green if federal ocials force the city to allow it rather than routing pipeline survey lled with 1,400 psi gas. Your average it through less populated areas to the south. crews from tres- car tire has 32 pounds of pressure, so In an era when there is increasing passing on his you’re talking 40 times the pressure emphasis on weighing the economic land. that’s in your tire. So, no, people impact of government regulations Massillon Rd. Raintree Another Koons don’t want to live anywhere near it,” against their bene t, the city of Green Golf Road resident, Neugebauer said. “Yes, they rarely Course is feeling abandoned. GREEN Neugebauer who asked not to have accidents, but when they do, City o cials say the federal gov- be named, said they are just humongous blow torch- ernment is trampling on Green’s he has had similar issues selling va- es that are several hundred feet Mayfair Rd. chances for future development by Nimisila Proposed Nexus pipeline cant land in the area, even though wide." forcing the city to allow one of the Reservoir demand for new housing is strong. e question now is whether largest natural gas pipelines in the Greensburg Rd. Developers are watching the situa- Green has any chance of stopping the nation to pass through it. S. Main St. tion closely and are concerned. project. It has been working with oth- “ ere’s no positive impact to the Rd. Arlington S. Daniel DeHo , president of North er a ected communities, including city of Green, in jobs or anything else,” Comet Lake Canton-based DeHo Development, landowners in Medina, but is facing Green mayor Gerard Neugebauer said Singer Lake Akron-Canton said Nexus o cials have visited him an admitted uphill ght. Airport of the proposed Nexus Gas Transmis- 77 several times seeking a right of way City o cials were all but resigned Summit sion line. “ e net economic impact County 241 across some of his company’s property to the Federal Energy Regulatory in and around Green. He hopes they Commission forcing the project for our city is a negative $120 million.” Detail e city — one of the fastest-grow- will agree to work with him so the line through, but they got some extra time ing communities in the state in re- sticks close to the borders of any of his in January when FERC commissioner cent years, with a prime location Sources: Google Maps; City of Green Crain’s map company’s a ected properties and Norman Bay resigned, leaving the along I-77 between Akron and Can- does not make it di cult or impossible normally ve-person panel with just ton and near the airport — is being er said that’s based on a 2016 Cleve- Simons’ research also supports to build on them in the future. two remaining members and no forced by federal regulators to accept land State University study of the Green’s contention that the pipeline DeHo said Nexus has been listen- quorum. When FERC declined to ap- a huge natural gas pipeline. Resi- line’s impact on Green. would leave behind a path of vacant ing so far, but he still worries about prove the Nexus line before Bay left, it dents and o cials don’t want it and Researchers at CSU’s Maxine land for as long as the line is active. the potential e ects on his future de- left the project in limbo and unable say there is an alternative route to the Goodman College of Urban A airs e CSU report contends that velopment opportunities. to gain approval until a new commis- south that would impact fewer peo- study various aspects of shale drilling Green residents will see their proper- “It does limit you. ere’s no doubt sioner is appointed later this year. ple. Plus, o cials say, it's likely to in Ohio. e school has largely sup- ty values decline if they are along the about it,” he said. “It limits you be- at doesn’t mean the project is turn valuable land into vacant lots. ported many of the oil and gas indus- pipeline, causing the city to lose tax cause you can’t build on that path.” dead — far from it. Even Neugebauer Neugebauer and other opponents try’s claims of economic bene t. But revenues over the next 50 years. Residents and city o cials also say says FERC has never denied a pipe- say the pipeline will carve a no-go CSU professor Robert A. Simons “For all taxing jurisdictions within they have signi cant safety concerns. line, and he realizes that a reroute of path for development, since nothing pointed to areas of concern for Green Green, losses are projected to total ose worries were heightened last the line, proposed by Green, would can be built on top of it or likely with- with the Nexus pipeline. over $123 million, present value, year when a pipeline owned by require FERC to set a precedent. But in 100 feet of it. at means areas the “In particular, the pipeline route about 2/3 of which would be ab- Spectra Energy, the company build- just last week, Green City Council ap- city has slated for development, in- promises to disrupt development sorbed” by the city’s school district, ing the Nexus line, blew up in rural proved the hiring of an attorney to cluding along I-77 and busy Arling- plans in the City of Green (Summit the report found.