Posted By Sam Allard on Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 10:17 AM click to enlarge IMG 2485 by jeffpyle is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Three of the Optima Ventures current and former properties: Crowne Plaza Hotel, AECOM Building, One Cleveland Center Optima 777, one of an array of LLCs grouped under the Optima companies controlled and financed by Ukrainian billionaires, could lose one of its two remaining properties in Cleveland. The Westin Cleveland Downtown hotel, which Optima purchased when it was still a Crowne Plaza in 2011, and which opened in 2014 after a $74 million renovation, could close as early as next week if a judge does not step in to appoint a third party to manage it.
Posted By Jake Zuckerman, Ohio Capital Journal on Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 7:00 AM click to enlarge Photo by Jake Zuckerman A Columbus Fire Department member dons gloves while working at a mass vaccination site at the Celeste Center in Columbus
Of more than 1.8 million Ohioans who have received at least one COVID-19 vaccination dose, only 5.6% went to Black Ohioans, who comprise about 13% of the population.
The inequity is the latest example of disparate health outcomes in the state and nation along racial lines.
The math is slightly worse among the nearly 1 million Ohioans who are fully vaccinated, mostly by two-dose vaccines: Just 5% of them are Black.
Ohio’s infrastructure could use a little help, engineers say. In the 2021 edition of the “Report Card for America’s Infrastructure,” the American Society of Civil.
Posted By Sam Allard on Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 10:00 AM OhioEPA Slide from OhioEPA s webinar on EV Charging and its allocation of VW grants
The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency has announced roughly $3.5 million in grants across the state which will fully or partially fund the installation of 170 electric vehicle charging stations.
Cuyahoga County is slated to receive 22 of them, more than any other county statewide, including locations at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo, the Legacy Village shopping center, Hopkins International Airport, the Cleveland Ward 1 Recreation Center and the Church and State residential development in Ohio City. Roughly a third of the county s new stations will be located in the City of Cleveland.
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Hunger is an unfortunate reality for many Ohio college students, but there are new opportunities to help connect more students to food.