MayDay

"Do you think I would receive a decent response by posting on the tremonter?" Possibly, but it's really hit or miss - the owner/admin means well but he doesn't seem to be able to handle the trolls/flaming very well. That's definitely a forum where anything you read should be taken with a grain of salt.

Wellll, there is the Circulator route that goes through SYC. As long as you don't adopt the "stock up on everything" approach, it would be do-able.

Happy Birthday to X - our favorite East 4th forumer!!! :clap: :clap: :clap:

^No, this garage would go between the Marion Building (Karl's Inn of the Barristers) and Lakeside Place (southwest corner of Lakeside and West 3rd). The DoubleTree hotel was to go on the county-owned parking lot on the north side of Lakeside (across from West 4th) butt-up against the Shoreway.

Columbus Museum of Art... image from ohiodominican.edu:

That would be Mary Anne Sharkey - "political consultant" and former Taft spokeswoman. http://www.wkyc.com/video/player.aspx?aid=42422&bw=

For f#ck's sake, people - keep the d@mned thread on topic!

Maybe if the Columbus people would up their game, I wouldn't HAVE to google for the answers! Yeesh, I don't even live there!

Oy, did I get this or not?!?

I'm pretty sure that's supposed to be something Irish-pub-ish... but more Claddagh than Flannerys.

Sounds like a "grand opening" to me, but I think you said it best - you now have so many options on that street (with more to come). Welcome to the forum, btw :-)

As Bette Davis once said... "Whadda dump!" - the pictures are great, though :-)

Katzinger's Deli! The 216 is kickin' @ss and taking names! :-D Photo from katzingers.com:

Reason #8352 that I absolutely love and adore Chrissie Hynde: From crainscleveland.com http://www.crainscleveland.com/article/20070906/FREE/70906014/1096 Chrissie's new gig By JOHN BOOTH 2:44 pm, September 6, 2007 Standing outside the work-in-progress that will soon be her new restaurant, Akron native Chrissie Hynde said little about her own venture at a news conference Thursday, but offered up an impassioned speech about revitalizing her hometown. “My blood is Akron, and it courses through my veins,” said the leader of rock band The Pretenders. “I’m such a Buckeye.”

I remember when National City was ramping up their mortgage division and when stories started circulating about the mortgage industry slump, I figured they'd take a hit.

Ouch! From cleveland.com National City to lay off 850 more workers Posted by Teresa Dixon Murray September 06, 2007 13:16PM Categories: Breaking News In a new round of layoffs, National City Corp. says it is eliminating about 850 more workers because of ongoing woes in the mortgage industry. The Cleveland-based bank last month said it was cutting nearly 450 jobs in one mortgage division. The bank announced today that the new layoffs are a result of its decision to scale back on loans that don't meet guidelines to be sold to mortgage powerhouses like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. More at cleveland.com http://blog.cleveland.com/entertainment/2007/09/stefani_schaefer_returns_home.html

Alfred Tibor's 'Freedom' at Battelle Riverfront Park - on Broad Street ;-) Image from sculpturecenter.org:

Alright kids....

From where else? clevelandskyscrapers.com! :-) This info was provided by Donna DeBlasio at YSU: Stambaugh Building - 1906 44 Federal Plaza West 12 Floors Albert Kahn, one of Detroit’s most important architects, designed the Neo-Classical Revival Stambaugh Building in 1906. Seven years later, Kahn added four more stories to the existing eight. The white terra cotta clad building housed the offices of the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company and the Brier Hill Iron and Coal Company. Although there have been alterations to the exterior, the building still retains much of its integrity.

Would that be PIB?

I'd be curious if the building is eligible for brownfield-cleanup funds - buildings with asbestos have qualified in other areas of the state. The problem with "problem" buildings like the Stambaugh is that once your costs get to a certain point, a developer HAS to charge rents that might seem exorbitant to a good chunk of the population. Being familiar with Youngstown - I think the building is a little too far from YSU proper to be used as a hotel. Hotel guests in a university setting tend to prefer on-site locations, rather than having to schlep a few blocks. I have to ask - has anything been done with the former Wick-Pollock?

Welcome to the forum, Jerry. As others have said, a thick skin will be helpful but most people here are able to articulate a strong feeling without resorting to insults. However, as a resident of the city who has been car free for over five years (thanks in large part to RTA) - when I hear this: "Also, keep in mind that suburbanites in general fear the inner city. Don't try to disparage this fear, and don't think it can be changed anytime soon. Work around it." It's not in RTA's best interests to help residents further maintain an auto-centric and unsustainable lifestyle simply because of some preconceived fears and/or thinly-veiled racism. If they made the choice to move to a suburban area that's poorly served by transit, they likely won't be hopping on a bus or train in the first place. E Rocc's comments may be outside the box, but they're simply way off base for a transit agency that could help redevelop the supposedly fear-inducing inner city. If you want to look at what happens when decentralization is the M.O. of a city, go about 60 miles to the southeast and tell me how healthy Youngstown is. You don't need to be an urban planner for that.

I guess my curiosity stems from whether a proposal for the Public Square site is more of (as the pope mentioned) a legacy that he's personally wanting to bring to fruition, or more or less a Jacobs Group project. As I recall, Stark's proposal is something that "came to him" after a successful recovery from cancer.

Slightly off topic (at least from the direction this thread has taken)... the last I heard, Jacobs was basically in the process of liquidating assets for "estate settling" purposes (I believe that's the quote from Crains and/or PD). God bless him if he's still going, but the last time I saw him he was definitely getting up there. Is this alleged Public Square proposal something he's planning or something his successors are working toward?

"What we want is fair treatment of the issues concerning our city!" If I was her, I'd want a more flattering haircut but what do I know? :roll: