MayDay

"What's insulting is suburban crap so close to the historic heart of downtown. There is a pronounced lack of respect for Cleveland's history and urbanity on this thread. It's not my problem Cleveland has chosen to forget how to function as a city." Perhaps, but what IS your problem is that you find it necessary to 1. insult other forumers and 2. disregard a reasonable request from an Admin and with a little attitude. You've earned a day to cool off and learn how to post your (I mean this sincerely) insightful comments without resorting to insulting forumers - and the residents of Cleveland.

^Yes Jax - I refuse to go to Tommys because of the completely inept service I've experienced, and I'm the first person to support locally-owned businesses. I'm a forgiving diner, but even I have my limits. "The drinks...yes, weak as hell." Being gay and of Irish-German descent, that's simply unacceptable in my world. :whip:

"^Who says you have to build on the SYC site? Public Square has a transit hub and sits half-empty and underutilized, and you want to build new somewhere else? What are they putting in Cleveland water these days? I have no problem with the first part of your post - the last sentence is unnecessary and it's insulting.

The food at JM *can* be good like the Vietnamese crepe. Drinks-wise, I'm with peabody, they're really weak. However, like a certain other vegetarian-ish place on the east side, it's the shoddy service that has turned me off. I don't know why it is - but in both places, it's like the servers have some sort of anemia from not getting animal protein. For being so "healthy", the service is almost always lethargic - what's the point of being "healthy" if you're practically catatonic? They're not making good arguments for going veggie, that's for sure. I guess I was spoiled in my years at Kent - we had the Zephyr Cafe which had amazing food (the bread, god how I miss the bread) and servers who actually gave a rat's @ss that you decided to give them money to pay their bills.

"CAN WE GET SOME MINORITY REPRESENTATION IN OUR SKETCHES?" What, members of the "rainbow tribe" don't count? ;-) Apparently there will also be British-style traffic rules (see how the cars are parked).

"Untimate" - meaning ultimate and intimate? ???

"There is already a substantial number of consumers who refuse to shop at Wal*Mart" :wave:

"Not claiming they are MayDay quality, but I think they turned out okay" Oh please - I think there are some great shots in there. Would you be interested in adding them to the site? :-)

Not sure how this got left out of the batch - I kinda like how ominous downtown looks in this shot from Duck Island:

I still have a spot at the end of my driveway for that bigot.

What the heck - a before and after of the W.T. Grant Building :-)

The Woolworth Building is now the House of Blues, so unless there's a space on the East 4th side by the HOB restaurant, I don't know where they'd put anything there. My guess for the Graves Building - everything I've read is that it's "near the southeast corner of East 4th and Prospect", which we all know is a parking lot as is the southwestern corner. So, my best guess is that the building in question is the brown building with bay windows that's just behind the Sincere Building in this photo:

C-Dawg, your post is inappropriate and has been deleted.

Sounds perfectly reasonable to me.

"Maybe not to the point of the tower of sauron," Having worked in that building, I can assure you that there are plenty of orcs in there.

"How long did everyone wait for RTA yesterday in the snowstorm? I waited 3 hours for the 55X." Yikes, glad I didn't stay at my place! I was in Tremont so I took the 81 and it was about 20ish minutes late. We got stuck for about 5 minutes at the corner of Abbey and West 11th but after that it was pretty smooth sailing. However, if the delay was going to be more than 30 minutes I was all set to give up.

Thanks elevate, I have to say that it's been a treat to see the forum grow over the years - and there are quite a few people who are "higher up" that view the threads (if not outright participate). If it ever got to a point where some kind of brick-and-mortar presence became reality, I'd be tickled pink. I can definitely say that the forum has opened lines of communication that didn't use to exist. Before, we might have known OF someone involved in a particular project - but now, it's not uncommon that said persons are here on the forum. "Maybe their could be a little Cyber Cafe' for members only. This way we can, uh... talk with... each other." Actually - how about a VIP lounge along the lines of the Velvet Tango Room? :)

Bumper stickers, shot glasses, and beer taps. I think we'd do well! :lol:

I'd prefer to have the Great Lakes cafe *IN* the UO store :lol: :drunk:

Well, ever since they put that stupid logo on the crown of Key, I refer to it as the Tower of Sauron.

^The gray structure with the HVAC units on top to the lower left of the tennis courts is a fitness club. There's also a running track that circles the tennis courts (which you can't see because of the snow cover).

Don't even ask me for my opinion of Key:

"Also, I got a chance to drive past the pinnacle condos and saw their pedestrain-level parking garage." Keep in mind that the Pinnacle parking garage was built back in the 1980s (or earlier). I'm sure when it was built, they hadn't planned on constructing an all-glass condo tower decades down the road.

I don't know if it would be an option, but maybe make the second floor parking (but retain the facade so it blends in) to provide a "buffer" for the first residential floor units. That would also free up space for the retail so they could have more contiguous footage on one level. Oh and I added one last retail tenant who would be a great fit for that area on the right :-)

"Can somebody get creative and photoshop some street level retail into this building!!!!!" Sorry it's so rough - anyhoo, I tried to keep the parking entrance in the same spot and the retail would be "bumped out" away from the garage: