20150202-NEWS--1-NAT-CCI-CL_-- 1/30/2015 3:48 PM Page 1 $2.00/FEBRUARY 2 - 8, 2015 Longtime Shaker Heights shopping center is getting a drastic transformation in $70M project — P. 4 The Greater Cleveland Sports Commission’s 79-member board has a new leader, same mission — P. 5 Hopkins can soar again Litigators Traffic is down 17% since United departure, but rebound ‘takes time’ are uniting By JAY MILLER communications executive. “But it takes
[email protected] time.” Cleveland may be recovering from its Air service from Cleveland Hopkins In- “de-hubbing” faster than some other to dispute ternational Airport hasn’t returned to the cities, said one air service consultant. level it was a year ago, before United Air- “Cleveland’s done a really good trans- lines closed its hub in Cleveland. formation from a hub downsizing to at- Between November 2013 and Novem- tracting a lot of low-cost carriers into the ber 2014, passenger traffic through market with Frontier and Spirit and jet- court’s call Cleveland Hopkins International Airport Blue,” said Mark Sixel, president of Sixel has fallen more than 17%, according to Consulting Group Inc. of Eugene, Ore. tabulations by the city of Cleveland-run ”They’ve probably been one of the Local lawyers unhappy with airport. The United flights that account- most active airports in the country at re- ed for much of that decline, which car- cruiting new service in the last couple ried many travelers flying into Cleveland years,” Sixel said. “A lot of the other dropping of commercial docket only so they could change planes for places like Cincinnati and Memphis, By JEREMY NOBILE their ultimate destination, will never re- hubs that got downsized with all the (air-
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