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HEALTH CARE
‘Common enemy’ spurs innovation, collaboration Pandemic is bringing competitors together BY LYDIA COUTRÉ
Street at the southern end of the Tremont Historic District, construction workers are putting the finishing touches on an unusual conversion project.
Innovators and researchers across Northeast Ohio have come together to rapidly find and implement solutions to help protect patients, caregivers and the community during the global pandemic. Developing a new vaccine or treatment for COVID-19 will take time as new medications wind their way down a regulatory path to be tested and proven safe and effective. Scientists around the globe are racing to find these answers. Meanwhile, many others are working toward fixes that can be implemented more rapidly to mitigate and track spread of the virus, protect caregivers and address shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE). “Where I think innovation has been able to be so thoughtful and, quote unquote, rapid-to-market in response to the pandemic is in looking at ways to better protect patients and protect health care practitioners and capitalizing on opportunities that already existed in the marketplace, but looking at creative solutions to deal with raw material shortages, to deal with a lack of access for traditional manufacturing practices,” said Dr. Brian Rothstein, assistant professor of pediatric neurosurgery and clinical ventures fellow for University Hospitals’ innovation arm, UH Ventures.
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REAL ESTATE
A HEAVENLY REIMAGINING
The San Sofia redevelopment project involved minimal changes to the outside of the church, beyond brick repairs and storm windows over the original glass. | MICHELLE JARBOE/CRAIN’S
Tremont apartment project revives historic church — and keeps its congregation in place BY MICHELLE JARBOE
The pews are gone. So are the two-story arches that framed the nave of Zion United Church of Christ in Tremont for more than 130 years. But the central aisle of the church, a Gothic Revival structure in Cleveland’s Tremont neighborhood, remains. Soon, renters, rather than congregants, will traverse the high-ceilinged space to reach their front doors. They’ll walk beneath ornate chandeliers and climb stairs to a catwalk where the walls are lined with restored panels of 19th century stained glass.
Stained-glass restoration expert John Abbott created these panels to replace three windows that had been stolen from the front of the Zion schoolhouse.
Almost four years after developer Dan Siegel bought the church and neighboring school, on West 14th
ENERGY
Ohio’s nuclear plants face new uncertainty as HB 6 comes under attack NEWSPAPER
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So what happens to Ohio and its nuclear plants now? It’s becoming apparent that 2019’s House Bill 6, the now-tainted law that provides about $150 million a year in subsidies primarily to Ohio’s two nuclear plants, likely will be repealed. But will it be replaced? And if so, will
the plants, which Ohioans were told would close without the subsidies, be saved? Those are questions now causing angst from Columbus, where Householder state lawmakers are grappling with the issue, to the To-
ledo area and Lake County, where the affected Davis-Besse and Perry nuclear plants are respectively located. The companies involved, FirstEnergy Corp. of Akron and its former subsidiary, Energy Harbor, which owns the plants, have yet to say how they might address the matter and have declined interview requests. See NUCLEAR on Page 16
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