Regional leaders gathered Tuesday at the former BP Building to celebrate the launch of Global Cleveland, a new program designed to stem the tide of Cleveland’s outward migration by courting immigrants to live and work here.
The program’s key announcements included news of a Global Cleveland Welcome Hub, a sort of service center for newcomers that will occupy space in the soon-to-be-renamed Huntington Building (formerly BP) downtown. Hub staffers will market the region to potential immigrants and align new arrivals with housing and work or study opportunities, according to Global Cleveland Chairman Baiju Shah.
This article appears in Mar 30 – Apr 5, 2011.
Let’s bring over around 1,000 people from Japan. They’re the kind of people we need in the city to help turn it around. Good work ethic,strong loyalty, good family values, not lazy, and very respectful. We could give them a whole neighborhood and I bet that place would be cleaned up and prospering in 6 months.