jll cleveland chart of the week: june 29, 2015
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Seven CLE+ companies make Fortune 500 list
Cleveland
• This year's Fortune 500 ranking of the largest U.S. corporations includes seven companies who call
Northeast Ohio home: Progressive, Goodyear Tire & Rubber, FirstEnergy, Parker Hannifin, Sherwin-
Williams, TravelCenters of America, and J.M. Smucker. Those companies collectively employed 227,287
and raked in $90.3 billion in revenues in 2014.
Source: JLL Research, Fortune
Chart of the week: June 29, 2015
Detroit’s CBD attracting large size tenants
•Detroit’s CBD is the circumstance of an underserved submarket with pent up demand. The market is
becoming increasingly bullish on Downtown Detroit, with firms such as Ally Financial and Fifth Third,
signing long term leases for 320,000 square feet and 62,000 square feet, respectively - ensuring them
space needed to grow, reversing a trend where many corporate tenants were only interested in baby steps
like short-term leases or small-space deals.
Chart of the week: June 22, 2015
Detroit
Source: JLL Research