20121029-NEWS--1-NAT-CCI-CL_-- 10/26/2012 1:31 PM Page 1 $2.00/OCTOBER 29 - NOVEMBER 4, 2012 Third Frontier again may aim at bigger grants Investments could better create, attract jobs By CHUCK SODER Investments. [email protected] The commission’s goal is to fund more projects like The Ohio Third Frontier the Cleveland-based Global Commission wants to start Cardiovascular Innovation making big grants again. Center, said Dr. Chagnon, The next annual budget who credited the Cleveland for the Third Frontier pro- Clinic-led center with STEPHEN HERRON PHOTOS gram — an initiative designed Chagnon helping launch several health to boost Ohio’s economy care-related startups. through investments in technology The commission has yet to SPECIAL REPORT — could include $50 million set approve formally its proposed $236 aside for larger projects designed to million budget for fiscal 2013, which help the state establish itself as a began July 1. However, at the strong player in various technology group’s monthly meeting last week, sectors, said Norm Chagnon, deputy it voted to approve the general HOW A NEW chief of Ohio’s Office of Technology See GRANTS Page 10 EUCLID AVENUE Cavs planning large Wi-Fi CHANGED network rollout at The Q CLEVELAND By JOEL HAMMOND a photo of the Cavaliers’ new court [email protected] at this Tuesday’s home opener against Washington? If you have a smart phone and Good luck! ◆ What’s next on the to-do list? enjoy watching Cleveland Cavaliers, The Cavaliers, though, have a Cleveland Browns or Cleveland solution on the way. The team soon ◆ Residents feeling at home Indians games at those teams’ respec- will announce a Wi-Fi buildout at tive venues, you’ve encountered the Quicken Loans Arena as part of ◆ The HealthLine helps problem. what team spokesman Tad Carper Upload a photo to Facebook at a calls a larger digital platform up- ◆ Full coverage: PAGES 11-18 Browns home game? 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Send to Instagram See WI-FI Page 21 For-profit Chancellor U. cuts oft-critical accreditor, eyes another By TIMOTHY MAGAW By Oct. 11 of next year, Chancel- Chancellor president Robert which their approaches would align offerings, the university’s students [email protected] lor no longer will be accredited by Daugherty, who has maintained more closely with Chancellor’s mis- wouldn’t be eligible for federal the Higher Learning Commission the university is improving on all sion. financial aid — a critical revenue Chancellor University in Seven in Chicago, which twice in the last fronts, said in an interview last The Higher Learning Commis- stream for Chancellor and all for-profit Hills voluntarily is severing ties with three years has rapped the univer- week that Chancellor was in “active sion on two occasions — one as colleges. its longtime accrediting agency — sity on its knuckles for what the discussions with other accreditors recent as last June — issued “show- However, the Higher Learning an organization that has been accrediting body characterized as that are more consistent with the cause” orders against Chancellor, Commission this month lifted its sharply critical of the operations at ailing finances, faulty leadership mission and values of our university.” which required the university to prove most recent show-cause order, though the for-profit college formerly and less-than-stellar academic However, he wouldn’t disclose those it deserved continued accredita- neither officials at Chancellor nor known as Myers University. offerings. accreditors or describe the ways in tion. Without accredited academic See CHANCELLOR Page 8 42 INSIDE 7 Auto recyclers fight a new bill that would allow more access to NEWSPAPER auctions ■ Page 3 Entire contents © 2012 74470 83781 by Crain Communications Inc. PLUS: MED MART UPDATE ■ Vol. 33, No. 42 0 CLINIC AND INDIA ■ & MORE 20121029-NEWS--2-NAT-CCI-CL_-- 10/26/2012 2:08 PM Page 1 20121029-NEWS--3-NAT-CCI-CL_-- 10/26/2012 1:33 PM Page 1 OCTOBER 29 - NOVEMBER 4, 2012 WWW.CRAINSCLEVELAND.COM CRAIN’S CLEVELAND BUSINESS 3 Booking blues? Not at convention center At that meeting, Mr. feet available. Event commitments jump; medical mart more than 50% leased Bennett said of the 95,000 Later, Mr. Bennett told square feet of leasable Crain’s that he expects to By JAY MILLER leased and filling quickly, Cuyahoga ularly optimistic about the medical space in the medical mart announce two major ten- [email protected] County Council was told last week. mart leasing. building, 25 tenants have ants this Wednesday, Oct. At a council meeting last Tuesday, “It’s moving much faster than a signed leases for a total of 31, during the three-day Nine months from its planned Oct. 23, Jim Bennett, senior vice few months ago,” he told council. 50,000 square feet. He told Cleveland Clinic Innovation opening, the under-construction president of MMPI Inc., the Chicago “We’ll have no problem filling the council that “lurking around” Summit that starts today, Cleveland Convention Center has firm hired by Cuyahoga County to building.” are prospective tenants who Bennett Oct. 29. 44 conventions booked, up from 26 oversee construction and operation The complex is scheduled to open are showing interest in leas- Mr. Bennett also said he four months earlier, and the adjacent of the $465 million project on and in July 2013, ahead of schedule and ing a total of 125,000 square feet — was negotiating with one prospect medical mart is more than 50% under Cleveland’s Mall, was partic- on budget. well in excess of the 45,000 square See CENTER Page 22 INSIGHT METAL SEAL Automotive FIRES ON ALL recyclers CYLINDERS fear effect Rebound in auto industry, continued of new bill growth in guns fuels Mentor company Salvagers fight added By DAN SHINGLER [email protected] access to auctions By GINGER CHRIST ake a comeback from the [email protected] automotive industry, mix it Auto recyclers in Ohio are trying with a national obsession with to dismantle a legislative effort to firearms and throw in a little change rules about who can buy cars TNortheast Ohio machining know-how at salvage auctions. Senate Bill 273 would allow any- and technology and you get … big growth one — including body shops and for Metal Seal Precision LLC in Mentor. individual consumers — to bid on cars sold at salvage auctions, a The company is in the midst of moving process that for now is restricted to into new digs — a 160,000-square-foot buyers with state-authorized identi- building on Corporate Boulevard that fication cards. Such cards currently are issued only to auto recyclers, but it bought for $3.4 million at the end they would be discontinued if the of 2011 — so it can move much of its bill passes. Auto recyclers say passage of the operations under one roof this year and bill would give an unfair advantage accommodate its recent rapid growth. to unlicensed bidders, who aren’t The company has a 50,000-square-foot subject to the same state and federal regulations as salvage dealers on operation on Tyler Boulevard in Mentor matters such as fencing, liquid and a 70,000-square-foot plant in disposal and licensing. They also worry the increased competition Willoughby. The Willoughby operation would hurt their business and raise will remain open. prices on salvage cars. “Everything from Mentor is coming “We just want a fair playing field,” said Jim McKinney, president of here, and some of the stuff in Willoughby the Ohio Auto and Truck Recyclers is coming here,” said Metal Seal presi- Association and general manager of Milliron Auto Parts, an auto recycler dent John Habe IV of the new space. in Mansfield. The company owns and operates more Insurance companies and auto DAN SHINGLER than 300 pieces of equipment, most of it auction operators see things differ- Metal Seal Precision LLC president John Habe IV at the company’s new 160,000-square- ently, saying, essentially, that the See SEAL Page 9 foot space — which won’t be empty for long. playing field only will be level with passage of SB 273. The bill, spon- sored by state Sen. Keith Faber, R- THE WEEK IN QUOTES Celina, passed the state Senate in April and is set to be voted on by the House after the Nov. 6 elections. “That’s all content “Many of our cus- “This has been the “(Civic leaders) “The net effect is (the current system) limits competition,” said Paul talking about your tomers count on us to rise and fall and rise wanted connectivity Nelson, regional manager for Copart brand that you could innovate for them. again of a great to the major institu- Inc., a Texas-based online reseller of used and salvaged vehicles. Mr. be missing. In a small We’re constantly American street.” tions. … What was Nelson, whose company runs online market like Cleve- growing into new — Chris Ronayne, president of most important to salvage auctions across the United the nonprofit University Circle States, characterized Ohio as one of land, that’s very markets.” Inc. Page 11 the community, the most restrictive states when it important.” — Blaine Davidson, vice however, was eco- comes to salvage auctions. president of sales, Chemical The restricted competition in the — Nader Ali-Hassan, a social Solvents Inc. Page 9 nomic development.” current system means insurance media marketing strategist at and auction companies make less Cleveland digital marketing firm — Joe Calabrese, general man- Rosetta. Page One ager, Greater Cleveland Regional See RECYCLERS Page 20 Transit Authority.