When someone gets hired for a job in another town, it’s vital to have someone handling the essential details like finding a new home or apartment, managing or appraising the vacated home, finding schools for the children, helping to get new driver’s licenses and bank accounts and so many other destination services involved with a relocation. Dwellworks does just that. It’s a third party provider servicing the global mobility industry, working like “back of house” to a relocation management company’s “front of house.”
In 2007, Clevelander Bob Rosing, founded Dwellworks, which has offices in Canada, Costa Rica, the United Kingdom, Mexico, Germany, Ireland, Hong Kong and Luxembourg.
Its headquarters, originally located in Warrensville Heights, moved in 2012 to Playhouse Square’s F.W. Woolworth department store building on Euclid Avenue — an area with walkable access to so much of what downtown has to offer.
From a company’s “happiness” standpoint, placing the firm’s hub in Cleveland was a no-brainer due to the ability to capitalize on downtown’s cultural offerings, affordability and quality of life. Dwellworks’ Cleveland office employs 116 people, with about 13 percent of them living downtown. “The team adapted easily to the move downtown,” confirms Rosing, CEO and president.
Suzy Benjamin, marketing director, thinks the team is taking advantage of the possibilities. “There’s just so much to explore down here,” she says. “We’ve done a walk to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, power walks at lunchtime, a walk to an Indians game after work, a walk to Public Square to go ice skating. Our people love doing it because it’s such a walkable city.”
Rosing adds: “It’s fun to walk out the front door and enjoy all that downtown has to offer.”
Human resources director Jessica Shook, who lives downtown with her husband and young son, says her family enjoys the city’s ability to travel by foot. “We love being able to walk to work and walk home at lunch to see our son,” she says. “One of our favorite family pastimes is nightly family walks with our son and dog.”
Nicole Barile, director of Intercultural Services, moved from New York City and hasn’t owned a car in 10 years. “Many of my colleagues think I’m crazy, but I love to walk,” she says, “and I find I can walk to almost everything I need — the grocery store, the gym, a show at Playhouse Square — everything is in walking distance from where I live in the Warehouse District. I can even walk to Ohio City and the West Side Market.”
