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Flats' Momentum Builds 20150216-NEWS--1-NAT-CCI-CL_-- 2/13/2015 4:46 PM Page 1 $2.00/FEBRUARY 16 - 22, 2015 Cavaliers are taking beacon technology to creative levels with help of their new mobile app — P. 5 As Winking Lizards knows, Medical Mutual gives its employees incentives to support clients — P. 7 Activist investors are staking their claim Shareholders are playing SANDVICK ARCHITECTS an increasingly strong When The Foundry opens this fall, it is expected to be a popular gathering place for the Northeast Ohio rowing community. role in company actions By RACHEL ABBEY McCAFFERTY [email protected] FLATS’ MOMENTUM BUILDS To the public, shareholder activism in re- cent years may best be represented by unsea- soned pasta water. The Foundry, a $9 million project, will be a year-round home for rowers Starboard Value LP last year made head- lines when it waged a public proxy campaign By STAN BULLARD against Darden Restaurants Inc., the owner of [email protected] restaurant chains including Olive Garden. Starboard succeeded in replacing Darden’s Columbus Road in the Flats is about to board after pointing out problems at Olive gain another Cuyahoga River-oriented fea- Garden, like a lack of salt in the water it uses ture with “The Foundry,” a $9 million plan to to boil pasta. recast a dozen old buildings as a collegiate Such a detailed focus may still be rare, but and youth boathouse, fitness center and shareholder activism, or when an investor park. tries to take a bigger role in how a company is The project by MCPc Family Charities and run, is becoming increasingly common. A re- Mike Trebilcock — the CEO of Cleveland- port from London-based Activist Insight based MCPc, a seller of computer equipment found that 344 companies across the globe — and provider of tech services — and his wife, with the vast majority located in the United Gina, will provide additional facilities for States — faced public activist demands in young rowers and green space in the Flats. 2014. That compares to 291 companies that It’s near the new Rivergate Park and the ex- faced such demands in 2013 and 136 compa- isting home of the Cleveland Rowing Associ- nies in 2010. ation. Driving the activity, experts say, is an in- The plan is the latest form of support that crease in the amount of money funds have to MCPc Family Charities and the Trebilcocks spend, as well as a greater amount of influ- have offered to the Cleveland Youth Rowing ence activists hold over other investors. Association and the Midwest Scholastic Row- In recent years, a number of Northeast Ohio ing Association in the Flats. companies, including Cliffs Natural Resources The Foundry is scheduled to open this fall. Inc. and GrafTech International Ltd., have It will convert a group of buildings at 1831 come under pressure from shareholders, Columbus Road to a year-round training some of which have lead to full-fledged proxy center for rowers with an indoor rowing tank, fights. a fitness center, boathouse and banquet cen- Shareholder activism has increased every ter. The plan calls for using about 500 feet of year throughout the past decade, said Derek riverfront for docks for launching boats and See INVESTORS, page 6 See FOUNDRY, page 8 MCPe FAMILY CHARITIES 07 7 ALSO INSIDE: WHO TO WATCH NEWSPAPER We take a look at some of Northeast Ohio’s many Entire contents © 2015 74470 83781 standouts in the nonprofit sector ■ Pages 17-22 by Crain Communications Inc. 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