The Industrial Design City?

A plan to revive downtown Cleveland by creating an design district that would make the city a center of consumer-product design is attracting the support of local experts and officials.

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October 25, 2006, 10:00 AM PDT

By freckada

"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."

Thanks to Adam Freck

Read the full story: Experts designing a plan for downtown Cleveland

Sunday, October 22, 2006 in The Cleveland Plain Dealer

Community / Economic Development Ohio

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