Over a period of roundtable "world cafe" discussions, participants at
the Storm the Palace table wrote the following summary ideas on a flip
chart or post-it to the idea wall - each idea is being posted to the
"Community Forums: Economy" on REALNEO focused on this category... read on:

Economy

• How can we communicate the idea of Cleveland as an exciting city full of potential for those that are progressive thinkers and interested in beginning a change? New York and LA are too easy, Cleveland is an exciting Challenge - David Jurca
• All things tech, creative and visionary - Mdeloia [at] city [dot] cleveland [dot] oh [dot] us
• Continued re-tooling of manufacturing base is a necessity
• Attract more foreign investment
• Smart, sustainable emphasis on watersheds, build out from core resources
• Can-Do attitude (positive mental attitude)
• Reinvent government – less divisive
• Government should be regional
• How do you get suburbs to agree to be regional
• People need to realize they can improve
• We need Cleveland to be a ‘Magnet City’ . to be attractive to those who will improve it
• Stimulate and support entrepreneurship – provide any needed resources for the risk taker
• connect great ideas and IP to funding agents (VC, angels, foundations, corporations)
• A more Creative Government
• Have many different events in Metroparks: all the time!
• Assets are already here: we don’t leverage our advantage
• Can-Do Attitude
• Accountability - Brad Chase (Brad Chase [at] gmail [dot] com)
• Vote yes on issues 2,3,4,5 - (raise awareness of all issues ever put to a vote and get people to vote!)