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Prodigal restaurateur: Dan Krasny hopes to bring some restaurant magic to his hometown. (Entrepreneurism).(Vivo, Cleveland, Ohio)
Looking out the street-level window of Vivo, his restaurant at The Arcade, Dan Krasny can feel potential bubbling up onto Euclid Avenue.
"You're within walking distance to everything - Tower City, the ball fields, the Warehouse District, Playhouse Square," he says, his energetic hands pointing out downtown Cleveland's compass points. "I knew I had to be right here."
Not unlike when he opened the first Vivo a little more than a decade earlier in Chicago's then-seedy Haymarket neighborhood. The gritty, urban red-light district seemed an unusual choice for an upscale Italian restaurant, but Krasny, a one-time Bear Stems stockbroker, liked the fact that he'd be a …
