The city of Shaker Heights, Ohio, is collaborating...
The city of Shaker Heights, Ohio, is collaborating with OneCommunity and LaunchHouse to bring gigabit broadband to the Lee/Chagrin corridor to create the “first Fiberhood in Northeast Ohio,” said the groups in a news release Wednesday (http://bit.ly/16IGXOC). The city of…
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Shaker Heights repurposed a car dealership on Lee Road for LaunchHouse, a capital investment firm, “to spur the revitalization of the commercial district,” said the groups. LaunchHouse and OneCommunity, a nonprofit that owns and operates a fiber network in northeast Ohio, partnered to bring gigabit fiber to the former dealership where more than 100 northeast Ohio entrepreneurs work, and the addition of OneCommunity fiber to “entrepreneurial houses” sparked the idea of creating a fiberhood, said the groups. LaunchHouse and OneCommunity are looking to “build on the success” of Google Fiber in Kansas City, where the Kansas City Startup Village was “organically formed as a result of access to high-speed fiber Internet,” said the groups.