Are you looking for the best place to grow your business?
Downtown Cleveland is the place to be for creative professionals and innovative businesses – whether you are starting a new career or looking to establish or grow your business. Located in the heart of the 16th largest region in the country, with over 3.5 million people (including 2 million more within a 45-minute commute), Downtown Cleveland employers recruit from one of the youngest, most highly skilled workforces in the United States. Downtown’s central location and multi-modal transportation options (highways, trains, and buses) give employers a talent attraction and retention advantage by making central business district jobs easily accessible to highly skilled talent in the region. With more than 100,000 jobs and approaching 20,000 residents, Downtown Cleveland is Ohio’s largest central business district. Downtown Cleveland’s welcoming and walkable streets, dynamic waterfronts, and authentic culture attract talent, start-ups, and growing businesses from around Northeast Ohio and beyond. Downtown Cleveland Alliance’s Business Development Center is your partner to find the perfect urban or waterfront location to relocate, expand, or invest.
Downtown Cleveland attracts young, skilled and diverse talent to central business district employers. The millennial generation, the largest component of the workforce, prefers the amenities, authenticity, and transportation options that Downtown Cleveland provides.
Downtown Cleveland has the largest downtown residential population in the State of Ohio and is the fastest growing neighborhood in Northeast Ohio. It is well on its way to reach 20,000 downtown residents by the end of 2020. The vibrant and emerging center city neighborhoods surrounding downtown attract talent and provide additional amenities to residents and visitors.
Getting around downtown is simple and easy. There are more transportation options for commuters in Downtown Cleveland than anywhere else in Ohio. Rapid Transit, highways, buses and bicycle routes provide multi-modal access for commuters and visitors. Downtown Cleveland boasts pedestrian-friendly streets, the Free with a Smile trolley and the University Hospitals Bikes bicycle sharing system.
Downtown Cleveland has had over $7.25 billion in development since 2010 including infrastructure improvements, renovations to parks and entertainment venues, and most importantly the redevelopment of historic buildings into new office, residential and retail spaces.
Downtown Cleveland welcomes entrepreneurs, innovators and disruptors to start here, work here and grow here. Downtown Cleveland-based FlashStarts is seeking to attract 200 early stage companies and position them to access over $160 million in venture capital funds that must deploy by the end of 2019. Silicon Valley-based Plug and Play is leveraging our region’s status at The Medical Capital to attract entrepreneurs and start-ups to the Cleveland Clinic and HIMSS-anchored Global Center for Health Innovation.
Where else in the region can you walk to three professional sporting venues, a block of world class theaters, national museums, a world-renowned library, the waterfront and run all your daily errands within a ten-minute walk? We have all of that and more in Downtown Cleveland.