9-8 Midtown Morning

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Incl list of attendees

video game industry

renewable energies

entrepreneurship

Cleveland Bikes – group meeting to talk about new site – the City has made the commitment to space at E4th n of Heron South of prospect. Vacant space on the first level – Kent State Urban Design is pitching in

All thoughts welcome

Blog info on Midtown My Town

Green City Blue Lake

Cit commitment to the Design District – 40/Superior

Will include showers, park the bike and hop on the loop to get to work. Dave Perkowski would like to look at a space too. Superior and 18th. Small

Plain Dealer – Tom Breckenridge will do a story (?)

Development of a mountain bike park in Midtown Dev Inc. has agreed to raise some money 50- 60’s /Chester MTC has

Greg Zucca

County Dept Dev

Loan funds that provide job development support. The County two years ago looked bringing different organizations together to id projects together to cover a more diverse base. Id initiatives…innovation zones and north coast clusters (now renamed to NC opportunities) .IZ hope to connect individual opportunities and to place base them through collaborative partnerships and encourage new business location.

3 prototype IZ’s .

North Coast Ops to id different ops to invest in – would like to invest in start up co’s

New product dev loan fund op out of MAGNET

Proposal due Sep 12 for Third Frontier

To try to make this a solid process group -

What does collaboration mean?

How do you guarantee open and inclusive process?

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Michael Ruff - Nicolle

Engage young entrepreneurs to help sell the Midtown Blend coffee. Students need to do projects - students would purchase coffee and sell items.

Midtown Brews hoping to partner with the new Midtown Brewery

Molten Brewery

Panel for Midtown Brews – see NCB

FUTURE –