What's the benefit of having a top-notch public high school in Cleveland focused on medicine? Click here to read more.

 

 

 

A recent sneak peek inside Euclid Avenue's newest hospital building reveals that patients there are going to have some pretty spectacular views to go along with what we're sure is going to be pretty fine care. Click here to read more.

 

 

 

Paul Scarbrough probably has spent more time enhancing the sound of music in University Circle than anyone in recent history. Click here to read more.

 

 

 

 

Ideastream® Reporter

 

You've probably heard of "buy local campaigns," the idea that supporting local businesses like coffee shops, bookstores and farmers can help the economy. But in this week's edition of upside/downside, we're talking about the benefits of buying local on a really large scale. The Cleveland Foundation is targeting a number of the largest businesses in the University Circle Neighborhood with the idea that if they do more business with local companies, it could really benefit the community. Now that University Hospitals, the Cleveland Clinic and Case Western Reserve University are on board, a number of worker owned cooperatives are springing up to help meet this new demand. ideastream®'s Eric Wellan spoke with Lillian Kuri, a program officer with the Cleveland Foundation. To listen, click here.

 

 

 

 

Northeast Ohio's already established reputation as a player in the biomedical and health-care fields got even more recognition on Friday as state leaders named new centers of excellence at 14 Ohio universities. Click here to read more.

 

 

 

This time, it could be different for East Cleveland. Click here to read more.

 

 

The Cleveland School District is close to adding a fourth charter school to its portfolio. Click here to read more.

 

 

 

 

From Cleveland to Tempe, economic developers are convincing institutions with big spending power to shift more dollars to small businesses in their communities. Click here to read more.

 

 

 

A world premiere adaptation of Jane Austen's romantic comedy Emma by Artistic Director Michael Bloom takes the stage at The Cleveland Play House. Click here to read more.

 

 

 

Evalyn Gates, a well-known physicist, author, educator, and advocate of increasing the ranks of women in science, is the new executive director of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. Click here to read more.

 

 

 

 

If you’re a fan of the updated French cuisine at L’Albatros in University Circle, pair your next five visits with a wine course on the most prolific wine regions of the world. Click here to read more.

 

 

 

 

The Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, long a foil to the bigger, richer, and more conservative Cleveland Museum of Art, is on the verge of a breakthrough. Click here to read more.

 

 

 

It's been a long time coming. For decades, art museums treated African-American artists literally like minority players in the world of art.Click here to read more.

 

 

 

Established as a reactive grant maker, the McGregor Foundation now is taking an active lead in helping local organizations create more affordable housing for seniors. Click here to read more.

 

 

 

A 95-year-old streetcar that once traveled along Euclid Avenue to the turnaround at East 107th Street -- giving University Circle its name -- is coming home.Click here to read more.

 

 

 

By Tom Breckenridge
Plain Dealer Reporter

A maker and marketer of drugs and dietary supplements plans to open a University Circle-area plant employing up to 40 people, officials say. Click here to read more.

 

Click here to watch the video on wkyc.com

 

 

 

It was the worst possible timing. 

 

In October 2008, construction finally ended along one of Cleveland's most essential avenues. Click here to read more.

 

 

People are skating on the rink in University Circle. And tonight, Public Square will be illuminated in the annual display of holiday lights. Click here to read more.

 

So far, Evergreen Laundry in the Glenville neighborhood has hired ten workers. Its goal is to hire 50. Click here to read more.

Even if Cleveland's temperature tops out in the low 50s today, as predicted, it will be no less perfect a day for ice skating -- outdoors.

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

By Roxanne Washington
Plain Dealer Reporter

"Mature" Clevelanders fondly recall when downtown at Christmastime was magical, with sightseeing of a dazzling tree at Sterling Lindner department store and moving figurines in the windows of Halle's and Higbee's.

Those days are gone, but this holiday season adults can reminisce, and children can experience awe, at WinterShow, put on by Cleveland Botanical Garden and University Circle Inc. Click here to read more.

 

 

University Circle Inc. has won $20 million in New Markets Tax Credits, an award that will help the nonprofit development corporation stimulate development in Cleveland's cultural center and its surrounding neighborhoods. Click here to read more.

 

 

 

“YOU Gotta Be Tough” was a popular T-shirt slogan worn by Clevelanders during the 1970s, a grim period marked by industrial decline, large-scale population flight, and an urban environment so toxic the Cuyahoga River actually caught on fire. Click here to read more.

 

 

 

 

The need for a parkway from East 55th Street to University Circle to spawn economic and community development has grown even greater in the four years the proposal has lain fallow because of a lack of money. Click here to read more.

 

 

 

CONTACT

Sheila Obrycki

216-707-5035 office

e-mail: scorrigan@universitycircle.org

 

Cleveland, OH (August 4, 2009) – University Circle Inc. (UCI) installed a major gateway sign welcoming visitors to University Circle and highlighted several improvements that have been made along its great main street Euclid Avenue. As part of its Bring Back Euclid Avenue campaign, UCI has been making dramatic improvements along Euclid Avenue. The new gateway sign marks the capstone of the first phase of a successful campaign that includes the opening of the Circle's first Visitor Center, renovations to the historic Circle Place, and rebuilding of the University Circle East plaza. The new signage will help visitors throughout the region and beyond easily find themselves in University Circle.

 

“One of the greatest obstacles to University Circle’s awareness as the region’s top eds, meds, and arts destination has always been the issue of getting here and getting around,” said Chris Ronayne, president of UCI. “With our updated and simplified wayfinding system we’ve solved that problem. The next step is transforming the old perception.”

 

Drivers, bicyclists, and pedestrians are now directed by eye-catching, easy-to-read signs dotting the landscape that mark the district’s boundaries and unify it into an aesthetically cohesive, signature place. As the first developer to invest in new housing in University Circle in decades, Don Gest sees the new signage vital to University Circle’s growth as a premier destination in the region. “UCI’s work on Euclid

Avenue and throughout the district has made investing in University Circle a no-brainer,” Gest said. “The new signs look great and serve a much needed purpose of getting people where they need to go.”

 

As part of UCI’s Bring Back Euclid Avenue campaign, the new wayfinding system was 100 percent privately funded through the Kent H. Smith Euclid Gateway Vision challenge grant. Partnering with Studio Graphique and Wagner Electric Sign Company on the fabrication, the new system replaces the outdated and often illegible purple signs that have confounded many in University Circle for the past twenty years.

 

The design and planning was based on preferred routes by the area’s major institutions making the system a current and useful companion to popular forms of directions like Mapquest and Google. Rachel Downey, principal of Studio Graphique, said, “UCI wanted a program that was innovative, artistic and memorable. We are excited to have accomplished that while designing a wayfinding system that serves function first

and helps people navigate the area.” Organized into three tiers, the signs vary in type and size according to their location and are therefore sympathetic to their context, whether for car or pedestrian-heavy traffic.

 

With business booming and activity unhindered while University Hospitals’ new cancer center is built, construction at the University East plaza finishes this fall, and major renovations are fully underway at Circle Place, newcomers and returning visitors will find that Euclid Avenue is back when they find themselves more easily in University Circle.

 

 

 

Actual magic, like card tricks. And a jazz band, singers, dancers and artists all showing off what they had practiced this summer.

For the past six weeks these young artists painted, and drew, and made movies, and practiced singing and dancing and acting, as well as designing and sewing.

 

It was the final performance for 96 students from 36 high schools across Northeast Ohio who participated in ArtWorks 2009. Click here to read more.

 

 

CONTACT:

 

Sheila Obrycki

216-707-5035 office;

216-375-8593 mobile

 

 

Cleveland, OH (July 6, 2009) – University Circle Inc. (UCI), Mayor Frank G. Jackson, and The Holden Parks Trust today celebrated the unveiling of the new sprayground in Rockefeller Park and to celebrate major improvements made to the beautiful Rockefeller Lagoon, all in time for neighborhood families and visitors to enjoy during the hot summer months.  

 

“This investment in Rockefeller Park and Lagoon will improve quality of life for families and visitors in University Circle,” said Mayor Frank G. Jackson. “By creating a public-private partnership, we have ensured that we as a community will receive ongoing benefits from our investment.”

 

Visitors to the park can now enjoy a picturesque lagoon with fountains underscored by the playful water of the sprayground. Set on a timer and motion-activated, the sprayground will only work during daylight hours when its motion sensors are activated, so that water and energy waste will be kept to a minimum. Much like the attractions of water and amusement parks, the sprayground will be an instant hit for young kids in the neighborhood and beyond.  

 

“Rockefeller Park and University Circle are two of Cleveland’s greatest assets,” said Chris Ronayne, president of UCI. “Our investment today is at the gateway of both those great places. The new water features will attract more visitors to the park and the Circle from the neighborhood and the region. It gives us one more reason to visit this city and regional treasure this summer.”  

 

To complement the renovation of the Rockefeller Park Tennis Courts, The Holden Parks Trust Distribution Committee allocated funds to make much needed improvements to the Rockefeller Lagoon and create a lively attraction near the existing playground to draw more people to the park. The upgrades to the Lagoon include four water aeration fountains that beautify the park, and will greatly improve the health of the aquatic environment by allowing for better oxygen distribution so that fish and other organisms will thrive while algae and other harmful plants will not. 

To see photos of the Press Conference click here. 

 

About University Circle Inc.

 

University Circle Inc. is the development, service, and advocacy organization responsible for the growth of University Circle as a premier urban district and world class center of innovation in health care, education, and arts & culture. 

 

The University Circle community house for adults who have mental illness is in the process of expanding its building.

 

The clubhouse is also expanding its 5-year-old Bloomin' resale shop, adding an art gallery and embarking on a grass-roots marketing campaign for this lovely hidden treasure. Click here to read more. 

 

 

Whether on stilts, in theatrical masks, or covered in blue body paint, the 2,000 people who marched in Saturday's Parade the Circle on Wade Oval were a sight to behold. Click here to read more.

 

 

Then mix in the resources of more than a dozen museums, institutes and nonprofit organizations just a short walk away.

 

That's the recipe Montessori High School put together at University Circle this year. Click here to read more.

 

 

They cheered when she arrived, an earthy celebrity in walking shorts.

 

Southgate beamed and passed out hugs, shaking off the soreness of her monthlong, 250-mile Canada-to-Cleveland journey. Click here to read more.

 

 

The Opportunity Corridor, a proposed 2¾-mile parkway extending from where Interstate 490 ends at East 55th Street to East 105th Street, could lead to economic development.

It could also lead to community development for neighborhoods ravaged by unemployment and foreclosure as well as provide a transportation link between interstates and the thriving medical and cultural hub in University Circle. Click here to read more.