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Health-Tech Corridor to see a busier 2021

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On most days, Jeff Epstein is a very busy man. Not only is he executive director of the community development corporation MidTown Cleveland Inc., he also heads up the Health-Tech Corridor.

The Health-Tech Corridor is a decade-old collaboration between MidTown Cleveland, BioEnterprise, The Cleveland Foundation and the City of Cleveland. It works to attract and grow health technology businesses to the corridor linking Downtown and University Circle.

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30 Cleveland-area megaprojects that may benefit from a TMUD tax credit

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After this Thanksgiving holiday week, state lawmakers say there’s a pretty good chance that the Ohio General Assembly will finally pass the long-sought Transformational Mixed Use Development (TMUD) tax credit. And there’s potentially dozens of so-called megaprojects that the TMUD credit could activate or take already active projects and push them across the finish line.

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Cleveland’s real estate revs up for first time since March

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It’s as if someone turned the electricity back on and got the gears of Greater Cleveland’s real estate sector turning again. Today, NEOtrans heard from a real estate professional about that surge and began asking around to see if other experts in the business locally were experiencing the same thing. Turns out they were.

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Cleveland-area offices shrinking, growing, moving and uncertain

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The real estate market is divided into four basic end-users — residential, hospitality, retail and office. Although the retail market has been shrinking for years, it is basically on hold during the pandemic with some exceptions. The hospitality market is pretty much in a coma but it will probably return healthy once it regains consciousness. Only the residential market has shown a great deal of resiliency throughout the pandemic.

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A new housing crisis is hitting Cleveland, anonymously

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At first blush, it sounded like such a rosy story.

The headline in the June 8 Wall Street Journal read “Cleveland Is a House-Flipping Hot Spot, and Covid Adds Fuel.” Its central theme was that Greater Cleveland has become one of the most profitable places in the country to flip houses and own rentals. Investors have been redirecting their dollars from pricey coastal real estate markets and investing them in Cleveland. A happy story, right?

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Pandemic, family, tech, cost draw new residents to Greater Cleveland

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License plate watchers in Greater Cleveland are having fun this summer checking out all of the out-of-state plates on the metro area’s roads. And there’s lots of out-of-state plates to see — from New York, New Jersey, Illinois, California, plus other states, as well as the usual ones from neighboring Michigan and Pennsylvania.

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Lots of good long-term economic news for Greater Cleveland

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As jobs start to come back following the pandemic-related economic shutdown, there are also new jobs coming online for Greater Cleveland. These aren’t restored jobs; they are jobs resulting from economic growth in sectors that were either unaffected by the shutdown or they are structural changes from employers seeking lower-cost ways of doing business.

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