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10th Annual Commercial Real Estate Forum - Back Issues
Issue: October 2009
Author(s): By Shawn A. Turner
Like the 1980s fashion hallmarks of big shoulders, fingerless gloves and neon colors, the Commercial Real Estate Deal Maker Forum has come full circle. Just as in the first forum in 2000, Charles Ratner, president and CEO of Forest City Enterprises Inc., will give this year’s keynote address, which will look at commercial real estate development during the past decade and predict future happenings. During a telephone interview, Ratner jokes that he was hoping Inside Business could help him come up ... |
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Hurdling the Great Wall
Issue: October 2008
Author(s): Peter Strozniak
The hard reality of the global economy weighed heavily on Ashtabula Rubber Co. four years ago. Its key customers, under competitive pricing pressures, were searching for low-cost manufacturers in Asia. Some of their customers were setting up assembly operations in China, where labor wages and general business expenses are lower than in Western nations. This scenario, quite common for many Northeast Ohio manufacturers, motivated Ashtabula Rubber Co. to launch a China-based business. The privately owned m... |
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Long-Distance Relationship
Issue: October 2008
Author(s): Christopher Johnston
As a young foreign service officer and diplomat in the U.S. State Department in the late ’70s and early ’80s, Jeffrey Bader, who has a doctorate in European history, found himself at the epicenter of a major event in modern American history: the opening of relations with the People’s Republic of China. Working in Washington in 1978 for Richard Holbrooke, assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Bader quickly realized something important was happening. He witness... |
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Looking East
Issue: October 2008
Author(s): Christopher Johnston
After decades of stagnation under the economic and political limitations of communism, China has emerged as a global manufacturing giant — and it hasn’t even attained its full potential. Recognizing the impact of China’s rise as an economic power on the nation and on Northeast Ohio, the sponsors of the 2008 Commercial Real Estate Deal Maker Forum have selected Jeffrey Bader, senior fellow and director of the Brookings Institution'sJohn L. Thornton China Center in Washington, D.C., as t... |
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The Buzz in our Own Backyard
Issue: October 2008
Walk down Euclid Avenue during lunchtime, and you’ll hear excitement brewing among pedestrians. “I wonder what’s going in that building.” “Wow, they finally opened this section of the street!” “Look at the new bus stops. That’ll be convenient.” “Things are really coming together!” After more than three years of construction, Northeast Ohioans are seeing the light at the end of the tunnel for the Euclid Corridor Project. The $168.4 million... |
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