Barney Warf And Brian Holly: The Rise And Fall And Rise Of Cleveland

Barney Warf and Brian Holly: “The Rise and Fall and Rise of Cleveland” The city of Cleveland had experiences many changes throughout its history. Barney Warf and Brain Holly explains how Cleveland was once a flourish city in the late 1800s but changed dramatically in the 1970s to mid-1980s. They also described some of the major efforts that could restore the struggling city back to its prime that it was once before. Warf and Holly explained all of this in the article “The Rise and Fall and Rise of Cleveland.” Cleveland was a prime examples how the global market can effect a city dramatically if it changes the way they were normally before. Cleveland was first a huge land opportunity that was discovered by Moses Cleaveland. Moses Cleaveland

He and employees believed that this area could become a popular place for marketing and named the area Cleveland. During the Civil war, Cleveland became popular for manufacturing and trading among the northern states. With how close Cleveland was by the water and all of their organized rail lines, Cleveland became the center of the Manufacturing Belt along the Great Lakes and boarding states. Being close to the water provided many advantages for the city, for example, it provided cheap transportation to other marketing cities around Cleveland. This made Cleveland into an international port throughout the world. In the 1870s, the famous John D. Rockefeller made his headquarter in Cleveland which brought many companies to the city. Cleveland became popular in coal mining, agricultural processing and implements, dairying, petroleum mining, bicycles making which caused the rubber industry to bloom and of course the steel and

By the late 1980s, there were changes to the U.S economy. With the new changes, Cleveland became the 7th largest exporters of Merchandise for chemical, machinery, electronic equipments, instruments, transportation, and metals products. Reindustrialization began to happen for Cleveland. Large abandoned buildings were being sold cheap and the region offered many jobs to people. With technology getting more advance, the automobiles industry became important. Ford, Nissan and Japanese’s car makers began purchasing plants in Cleveland to mass produce cars. American Steel and Wire reopened their plants and the Plastic industry started buying old factories around the area. Cleveland once again became popular with headquarters. British Petroleum’s moved its headquarters to Cleveland from New York , Sherwin Williams, Glidden, Ferro, TRW, Eaton, LTV Steel, Parker-Hannifin, American Greeting, MA Hanna, Nacco Industries, Lubrizol, Geon, Lincoln Electric, Figgie International, Standard products, Sealy and RPM moved their headquarters to Cleveland. Cleveland became the 4th largest city for headquarters in the U.S. In the 1990s, Cleveland began rebuilding its tourist attractions. They renovated many buildings including Tower City, The Cleveland Clinic, Playhouse Square, the Gateway Center, Museums, and the Rock and Roll hall of Fame. The also built a new Baseball park and Football field for their city’s team. Cleveland also made new