Mike Graley, a wine buyer for Heinen's for 20 years, is applying his expertise to a new venture, Battery Park Wine Bar,a.k.a. YOLO Wine Bar in Battery Park. YOLO stands for "You Only LiveOnce," which Graley says is the theme of his unpretentious,contemporary joint, in the former Eveready plant in Detroit Shoreway'sBattery Park neighborhood.

This "not-so-typical wine bar," asGraley describes it, will carry well over 100 varieties, all sold at just$12 above retail -- unlike... Read more >

Cleveland's slow but steady transformation from national leader in jobloss and foreclosures to national model for urban farming took anothermajor step forward last week in the Kinsman neighborhood. That's wherefederal, state and city officials introduced the Cleveland UrbanAgriculture Incubator Pilot Project.

Six acres of land at East 83rd and Gill, donated from the City LandBank, will be turned into a farm, thanks to $100,000 grants from theOhio Department of Agriculture... Read more >

Bike-riding in the Cleveland area is up 50 percent since 2006, according to a recent survey by the Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency (NOACA).Cleveland Heights is hoping to push the figure even higher in nextyear's survey with the addition of "sharrows" on city roads.

"Sharrow" is short for "share-the-road arrows," which are painted ontoroad surfaces. "You use them when you don't have enough room for a bikelane," explains Richard Wong, the city's director of plan... Read more >

Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority officials recently revealed that they are reconsidering long-stalled plans for a ferry between Ohio and Ontario. Last week, they announced another international transit plan, this time for container service.

The Port and Great Lakes Feeder Lines of Burlington, Ontario arediscussing a deal that would make Cleveland the first city on the lakeswith regular container service to and from Canada. TheCleveland-Montreal connection could be... Read more >

Since being founded in 2001, EverStaff has developed a national presence that touches 22 states. Still, the Cleveland-based firm has not forgotten its roots, as it continues to expand operations in Northeast Ohio. Within the past three months, the staffing and recruiting firm has added offices in Ashtabula and Cuyahoga Falls.

In addition to its Independence headquarters and the two new facilities, EverStaff has local offices in Brooklyn, Mentor and Solon. The goal is to c... Read more >

Despite the unstoppable march of progress from analogue to digital, vinyl records are making an undeniable comeback. And catering to that expanding market is Cleveland's own Gotta Groove Records, one of only a handful of existing vinyl pressing plants in the United States. Make that, the world.

Imagine being an entrepreneur and having at your fingertips resources for everything from pre-seed funding to regional incubators. Questions about how to turn an idea into a business, how to request funding and how to place your innovative idea in the proper hands could be answered by simply clicking a button or linking to a respected adviser.

That's the idea behind the JumpStart Entrepreneurial Network's newly launched website, which aims to make access to the appropriat... Read more >

The Cleveland Clinic's Global Cardiovascular Innovation Center continues to attract new companies and jobs to the region. One of those snags is Farm Design, a medical product development firm that wanted so badly to be in Cleveland, they made the trip from Boston.

Partners Investing in Nursing's Future (PIN) is a nationwide initiative to ensure nurses receive the training and skills necessary to meet current and future trends in healthcare. The program provides support to local and regional philanthropies to develop strategies for creating and sustaining a viable nursing workforce.

The Cleveland Foundation has been chosen as one of nine foundations across the country to receive funding from PIN. The two-year, $200,000 grant to the ... Read more >

Thomas Paine would be proud. At a time when it seems like every new idea is first floated online, Plain Dealer architecture critic Steven Litt has chosen good old-fashioned paper as the primary vehicle for his impassioned paean to beautiful surroundings, Designing a Better Cleveland.

"To the extent that Cleveland fails to make the most of public andprivate investments in buildings, highways, bridges, streets, parks andwaterfronts, it will waste opportunities, fail to com... Read more >

Studying "the ways businesses incorporate sustainable practices into product design and manufacturing, supply-chain relationships, marketing, customer relationships and operational efficiencies" is how Baldwin-Wallace professor David Krueger defines the new MBA in Sustainability program at Baldwin-Wallace (B-W).

The two-year sustainability program is the first of its kind in Ohio. B-W was also the first higher-education institution in the state to offer an undergraduate ... Read more >

The location search tool on the Ohio Film Office'snew web site is a fun way to peruse some of the most scenic sites inthe state. Choosing category "Industrial," subcategory"Factories/Plants/Mills," and region "Northern" will lead you to dozensof photos of the Flats, in all its Rust Belt glory. You don't have tobe a filmmaker to enjoy it; the scenes almost start to write themselves.

But producers and directors are the intended users of the site, whichwas launched earlier t... Read more >

Northeast Ohio could reap more than half the benefit of newly announcedstate tax credits intended to spark development. Key CommunityDevelopment New Markets and Northeast Ohio Development Fund, both basedin Cuyahoga County, were awarded $3 million and $2 million,respectively, in credits through the Ohio New Markets Tax Credits. Alltold, $10 million in credits were distributed to four funds in thisfirst round of grants.

The credits are modeled after and supplement a federa... Read more >

Scott Colosimo had a dream to produce a stripped-down '60s-inspired motorcycle that looks like a million bucks but costs less than $5,000. Guess what? He pulled it off, launching a growing company called Cleveland CycleWerks.