Cleveland's Creative Class takes a bow in the current Inside Business as writer Miriam Smith introduces us to Jason Therrien, 24, of Thunder::Tech, John-Paul Walton, 26, of Nesnadny+Schwartz (and a musician), new product company Nottingham-Spirk Design Associates (now 30 years old), Sarah Melamed, President of Wolf Group Cleveland, and others who follow the gospel according to Richard Florida, many of whom were interviewed at the latest Cool Cleveland Art/Tech/Dance party (you can register for the next one on June 5 at here. Florida, the author of The Rise of the Creative Class, and a frequent visitor to Cleveland, credits area leadership with getting it (Cleveland Chief Development Officer Tim Mueller and Cleve City Councilman Joe Cimperman are named in the story), "I think a great step in Cleveland is that so much of your leadership sees this as important," he says. "You've got no other choice... the factories aren't coming back, and Wal-Mart and restaurants promise service-sector jobs. So we've only got one mode of growth—it's the creative sector of the economy."

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