The Industrial Design City?

"The art and profit of industrial design could make Cleveland the 'Milan of the Midwest,' two experts say.

They are pitching political and corporate leaders on the 'Cleveland District of Design,' a 24-block swath east of downtown that would parlay consumer-product design into an economic engine.

Under the concept, national showrooms would sprout along Euclid Avenue, while a related cluster of consumer product makers, designers, marketers and researchers would spin off jobs and innovation.

'This could be distinctive and unique in the U.S.,' says Ned Hill, vice president for economic development at Cleveland State University."