CRAINSCLEVELAND.COM I JUNE 19, 2023
PHOTOS BY KEN BLAZE FOR CRAIN’S CLEVELAND BUSINESS
NASA Glenn looks to grow as part of space economy Poised for more ‘outside the gate’ private economic development BY KIM PALMER
Cleveland’s NASA Glenn Research Center facilities have for more than 80 years played a critical role in the nation’s most innovative aerospace and aeronautical advances. Despite being one of only 10 National Aeronautics and Space Administration centers, Glenn has not experienced the boon of private and commercial industry build-up “outside the gate” that other centers — the Kennedy Space Center in Florida or the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama — have seen. But regional leaders are banking on the Moon to Mars program to help change that.
Each of NASA’s centers has a different specialty role and different set of core competencies that often contribute to a larger mission, said James Kenyon, director of the NASA Glenn Research Center. “Glenn is one of four centers at NASA known as research centers. Our main mission is research and technology development, with core competencies that contribute to human spaceflight,” he said. As part of NASA’s latest return to manned space travel, dubbed the Artemis program, about 3,000 researchers and staff at Glenn and Armstrong, an associated test facility located 50 miles west of See NASA on Page 24
Craft brewers go after Ohio franchise laws They say regulations unfairly lock them into wholesale contracts
This year’s class represents an array of knowledge and influence across Northeast Ohio and beyond. PAGE 8
BY JEREMY NOBILE
GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCK PHOTO
Ohio’s beer and wine makers will joke that it’s easier to divorce your partner of 30 years than it is to break up with your wholesaler. This is by design and a function of the state’s franchise laws, which govern the contractual relationships between alcohol manufacturers and their distributors. Those contracts are more difficult for suppliers to get out of than other business contracts because of a requirement to demonstrate an unspecified “just cause” for terminating a wholesale relationship. The craft beer industry says it shouldn’t be this way. Critics argue that the state’s nearly 50-year-old See BREWERS on Page 24
VOL. 44, NO. 23 l COPYRIGHT 2023 CRAIN COMMUNICATIONS INC. l ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
P001_CL_20230619.indd 1
6/15/2023 4:45:44 PM