Cleveland Business Opportunities This Week

The Insider's Guide to The Greater Cleveland Business Community

Author

Mike Marcellus
March 10, 2026

In partnership with

The Cleveland Networker

👋 Good morning, Cleveland! Welcome to The Cleveland Networker, the local newsletter serving 20,639 professionals in the Greater Cleveland business community.

In today’s issue:

👨‍💼 Job data shows uneven recovery in Cleveland

👍 Medina Library provides space for crafters, small businesses

👀 Cleveland businesses feel impact of tariffs despite Supreme Court ruling

📈 Cleveland organizations that are seeking Design/Build Contractors, Citywide Messenger Services, HVAC and Building Controls Upgrades, and more

❤️ Ohio workforce housing grants: $9.2M awarded to 5 communities 

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👨‍💻 And more …

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🤩 SPOTLIGHT
Company Highlights

Featured Cleveland companies driving growth and innovation

  • Hunger Network - Ensures no one goes hungry and no food goes to waste.

  • TRP Communications - Designs, installs, and supports modern business communication systems

  • Speedeon Data - Provides data-driven solutions that enable companies to drive customer acquisition

🍇 GRAPEVINE
Business Buzz

A look inside the Cleveland business community

  • Job data shows uneven recovery in Cleveland (Read)

  • Medina Library provides space for crafters, small businesses (Read)

  • Cleveland businesses feel impact of tariffs despite Supreme Court ruling (Read)

  • Ohio property tax elimination could trigger lawsuits, bond lawyers warn (Read)

  • Northeast Ohio gas prices surge more than 50 cents in a week, and analysts say it's not over (Read)

  • I-X Center's final show marks turning point for Cleveland convention market (Read)

  • Moreno calls indicted First Brands founders ‘scumbags’ as auto parts company sheds 1,267 jobs (Read)

  • CrimeFormer Fall River man who is a real estate developer, landlord, arrested in Ohio on 50 charges after tenants reportedly have no heat all winter, no water for multiple weeks (Read)

  • Cuyahoga County’s crisis center was a budget disaster waiting to happen — and it has (Read)

  • Beachwood businesses raise concerns over 24-hour Sheetz proposal (Read)

📈 PIPELINE
Sales & Marketing

Sales leads for Cleveland businesses

  • Design/Build Contractor for Cleveland Solar Energy Projects (Link)

  • Citywide Messenger Services needed at the City of Cleveland (Link)

  • The City of Cleveland, Department of Community Development (CD) is seeking one or multiple vendors to perform federally-mandated Decent, Safe, and Sanitary housing inspections for the HOME Investment Partnership Program and Uniform Relocation Act requirements (Link)

  • CMSD is seeking qualified Design‑Build contractors for HVAC and Building Controls Upgrades 2026 at Miles Park Elementary and James Rhodes High School (Link)

  • The Cleveland Metropolitan School District is soliciting bids for the conversion of a former utility workroom at Riverside School, 14601 Montrose Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44111, into a student learning kitchen (Link)

❤️ BOOSTS
Resources & Support

Connect with tech, capital, and innovation in Cleveland, OH

  • Ohio workforce housing grants: $9.2M awarded to 5 communities (More)

  • Nearly 200 Ohio fire departments receive funding via grant (More)

  • Cleveland's Graici raises $7.5 million Series A to automate medicaid renewals (More)

  • Google gives every U.S. small business free AI training — Here's what it means for Ohio (More)

  • Congresswoman Shontel Brown Secures Over $12.5 Million in Federal Funding for Projects in Northeast Ohio (More)

📅 EVENTS
Business & Networking

Where Cleveland professionals go to learn, connect, and grow

🤝 3/10 Artrepreneurs: The Business of Being Creative (Register)

🤝 3/10 2026 Business After Hours -March 10th at Lorain Ohio KartPlex (Register)

🤝 3/11 March at Mike's Networking Mixer (Register)

🤝 3/12 Northeast Ohio Networkers In-person Social (Register)

🤝 3/13 Minding My Own Small Business SELF LOVE EVENT (Register)

🤝 3/19 Investor + Industry Networking Luncheon (Register)

🤝 3/21 Filled & Focused: Empowering Women In Business (Register)

🤝 3/21 Entrepreneur business brunch (Register)

🤝 3/28 Beyond Borders: A South Asian Networking Mixer (Register)

🤝 4/1 Effective Networking with LinkedIn (Register)

🤝 4/8 The Table :Elite Networking Event w/ David Shands & Donni Wiggins (Register)

🤝 4/18 Networking Forum for Mental Health Professionals (Register)

🤝 4/21 2026 Speed Networking Summit County Senior Service Network (Register)

🤝 5/7 Discover BNI Networking Event (Register)

🤝 5/7 MfgClub: ManfConnect - Professional Networking Event ManfConnect - Cleveland (Register)



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