20121126-NEWS--1-NAT-CCI-CL_-- 11/21/2012 9:03 AM Page 1 $2.00/NOVEMBER 26 - DECEMBER 2, 2012 Indians begin construction of all-inclusive ‘Premium Club’ New seating takes place of 10 suites along first-base line; team will sell tickets for $150 DAN MENDLIK PHOTO/CLEVELAND INDIANS By JOEL HAMMOND All tickets in the 5,000-square- What the Premium Club looks like now — where 10 suites used to be ... and what it’ll look like on Opening Day. [email protected] foot Premium Club sell for $150 apiece, with gourmet food the team The Cleveland Indians’ long-held describes as a step above what’s desire to put their luxury seating ar- found in the club area. Beer and eas to new and better use has taken wine also is included. a clearer shape, as the Indians last The project is among a group month cleared out 10 suites for their of enhancements team president Mark new Premium Club area. Shapiro described in September as Featuring 120 seats, the Premium “mid-term” projects, financed com- Club will be more exclusive than its pletely by the team, as part of its current club area, which sits directly development of a longer-term mas- above the Premium Club in the second ter plan for the 18-year-old ballpark. deck on the first-base side. The Indians wouldn’t reveal the cost One hundred of the seats will be of the project, but various observers high-back leather chairs that will be said it’d be a multi-million-dollar sold as season tickets; those season project. ticket holders can add on a single- The master plan will come within game basis any of 20 additional the next 15 months, Mr. Shapiro has seats at the far end of the club. The said, and will address such issues as latter group will consist of wooden Progressive Field’s capacity, circu- seats akin to those found at old lation of its fans, and, if the Premium venues such as the former Cleve- Club works, its inclusion in the park’s land Municipal Stadium. See PREMIUM Page 7 INSIDE Cleveland-Marshall Weatherhead’s new dean will assist solo lawyers aims to build on momentum By TIMOTHY MAGAW keting researcher, has [email protected] returned to Cleveland to Incubator eventually will offer them office space replace Mohan Reddy as The Case Western Reserve Weatherhead’s dean. Dr. By MICHELLE PARK project is complete, graduates of University of 2012, and the Reddy, who announced [email protected] Cleveland-Marshall may lease from rejuvenated city it calls last year he would return to their alma mater office space near E-recyclers see boost home, are far different than teaching, helped right the In what its dean says will be the downtown that they otherwise the ones to which Robert Weatherhead ship after only program of its kind housed in a might not have been able to afford. More companies are looking for Widing II said goodbye in years of discord that saw Widing law school in Ohio and one of fewer At an estimated cost of $1.2 mil- environmentally and data-safe ways the early 1990s to take a faculty morale plunge amid than 10 nationwide, Cleveland- lion to $1.5 million, contractors next to discard gadgets. PAGE 3 teaching job at a university in Aus- repeated changes at the business Marshall College of Law next fall summer will build a suite of offices PLUS: tralia. school’s helm. plans to launch a solo practice incu- and conference rooms in more than ■ It’s still unclear what motiva- Nearly two decades after he left a Now, it is Dr. Widing’s turn to bator to support young attorneys 6,800 square feet of the law school’s tions two new investors in American faculty post at Case Western Reserve’s build on the momentum generated who want to go it alone. library, where many hard copy Greetings Corp. carry. PAGE 8 Weatherhead School of Manage- by Dr. Reddy and the university’s When the dust is settled and the See SOLO Page 19 ment, Dr. Widing, a renowned mar- See WEATHERHEAD Page 18 46 SPECIAL SECTION 7 WHO IN TO WATCH LAW NEWSPAPER Entire contents © 2012 74470 83781 Identifying some of the up-and-comers by Crain Communications Inc. ■ Vol. 33, No. 46 0 in Cleveland’s legal field Pages 13-17 20121126-NEWS--2-NAT-CCI-CL_-- 11/21/2012 1:48 PM Page 1 20121126-NEWS--3-NAT-CCI-CL_-- 11/21/2012 1:25 PM Page 1 NOVEMBER 26 - DECEMBER 2, 2012 WWW.CRAINSCLEVELAND.COM CRAIN’S CLEVELAND BUSINESS 3 Accelerators graduating advanced companies Many clients of Bizdom, LaunchHouse emerging with sales, customers By CHUCK SODER [email protected] Three months ago, Eric Golubitsky’s group-buying startup didn’t exist. That was before he entered the Launch- House Accelerator in Shaker Heights. Today, Gtail has a website, commercial RENDERING PROVIDED partnerships and a few real, actual cus- Westlake Reed Leskosky has scored a pair of Asian performing arts theater projects, including this one in Hualien, Taiwan. tomers as of Nov. 19. That’s when the company sent out its first email deal to the members of the Cleveland Metro- politan Bar Association. A few of them made purchases that same day. Westlake lands first Asian projects “We were a concept,” said Mr. Golu- bitsky, who isn’t revealing the strategy he’s using to set Gtail apart from other with energy conservation,” Mr. group-buying companies. “Ninety days Architecture firm Westlake said, from solar cells on later, we have revenues.” the building’s rooftop to a geother- That’s what the for-profit Launch- sees potential in Far mal heating system for the 1918- House Accelerator was designed to do: vintage structure. Help an entrepreneur with an idea East for arts projects Investments in energy efficiency See SALES Page 19 can pay for themselves in as little By STAN BULLARD as three years, which is particularly [email protected] valuable to government, educa- tional and institutional clients who INSIGHT Paul Westlake returned last build for long time frames, Mr. month from Taiwan, a trip he took Westlake said. not for pleasure, but for work. And From the energy requirements Done with the head of the Westlake Reed of such clients to the lighting and Leskosky architecture firm in Cleve- acoustic skills required for per- land didn’t return home empty- forming arts work and the security that cell? handed. needs of federal agencies, West- Mr. Westlake secured a com- FILE PHOTO/JASON MILLER lake Reed has seen more of its rev- mission for the firm’s first project Westlake Reed Leskosky managing principal Paul Westlake enue come from work on the engi- in Asia; it involves a pair of per- neering and technical side of the E-recyclers forming arts theaters — one with and continues to do such work both of New York. Moreover, the design business. 1,300 seats and another with 700 today across the country. The firm publication ranked Westlake Reed Mr. Westlake said the firm now seats — in Hualien, Taiwan. Its now produces about 20 performing first in sustainability, or environ- has stakes in eight separately owned will take it client is the Taiwan Land Develop- arts projects annually. mentally conscious building design and organized enterprises, such ment Corp., and it is partnering on With offices also in New York, and operations. as SustainTech, the Sustainable By GINGER CHRIST the project with R.J. Woo Architects Phoenix, Washington, D.C., and a A standout project for Westlake Technologies Design Group, which [email protected] and Engineers of Taiwan. partnership with architect Michael Reed in the sustainability area is provides services from acoustics to Mr. Westlake said he sees the Lehrer in Los Angeles, Westlake the U.S. General Services Adminis- master planning for energy use. The “here today, gone tomorrow” project as the door to more work Reed is entering rarefied air in the tration’s first “net zero” building — Mr. Westlake estimates that 55% nature of the electronics industry is in Asia, where 300 performing arts design world. a structure using no outside energy of its revenue now is from tradi- creating a robust opportunity for centers are in the conceptual In the trade magazine Architect, for its operation. It’s a $12 million tional architecture work, 20% is those in business to recycle that stage. It’s the same pattern the a September listing of the nation’s project with Dallas-based The Beck technology-related, and 25% is equipment. firm followed in the United States 50 largest architecture firms based Group that will be finished next structural, civil and electrical engi- As companies — and consumers to extend its reach from Cleve- on factors such as billings and staff year at the Wayne N. Aspinall Fed- neering. — look for environmentally sound land’s PlayhouseSquare, where it size ranked Westlake Reed sixth, eral Building and U.S. Courthouse “We’re a legacy firm, but we’re and data-safe ways to swap out anti- cut its teeth renovating the city’s between Pei Cobb Freed & Partners in Grand Junction, Colo. always growing,” Mr. Westlake quated cell phones and computers, historic theaters two decades ago and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, “It combines historic restoration said of the firm founded in 1905. ■ local electronic recyclers are earning their livings dismantling those gadgets and selling the parts as commodities. Every day, more companies — THE WEEK IN QUOTES large and small — are opting to go green and recycle electronics, said Craig Silverstein, founder of E-Scrap “We understand that “Students have to fig- “There just seems to “Most people, if Solutions, an electronics recycler in Cleveland with 30 employees.