MayDay

Like most other ex-urbs, they offer a lower tax rate - for now. Down the road, when they overbuild homes, overwhelm the infrastructure, overcrowd the schools, etc. you'll see those taxes go up. People will vote down the tax levies - after all, if they wanted higher taxes, they wouldn't have moved there. Add extra traffic (since it's completely auto-centric), and the quality of life will decline. So the lemmings will move further out to escape their own kind - rinse, lather, repeat.

Morrow County? Yeesh, and I thought *I* was heading out into the sticks!

You mean he's part of a nativity? ???

I didn't think so - unless it's Giveaway Day at Hot Sauce Williams, ColDay runs for NO one. :lol:

Do my eyes deceive me, or is that ColDayMan running?

I took two signifcant out-of-state trips this year, the first was to Phoenix (and Mexico), the second was Chicago. Here's a look back at what I saw: En route to Phoenix: As soon as we landed, it was off to Puerto Peñasco, Mexico: It was nice to wake up to this for a week :-D: Back to the States: Can you believe my boyfriend wouldn't let me try and gank this window!?! Later in the year, we went to Chicago: Sorry about the arrow - it's marking the entrance to the Market Days festival: A little bit of home :-D

Here's a link to the listing: http://www.progressiveurban.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?view_details.x=1&mls=2340311&current_page=5&OfficeName=Progressive+Urban+Real+Estate&searchtype=Search_PURE_Listings&listcount=&sort=&resolution=

Yet more reason for me to prefer "A Christmas Story" as the quintessential holiday film. It's a far more realistic portrayal of what most people experience. This is right up there with my recent analysis of "Little Drummer Boy" - a poor impoverished drummer has nothing else to offer but his talent. That sounds all precious and inspiring, doesn't it? However, when that talent involves drumming around a newborn baby? Sounds like Little Drummer Boy was more like an insensitive b@stard who thought nothing of making loud noises around a newborn, who also happened to be the Messiah/savior of mankind, etc. Sorry - I don't think Mary and Joseph would have put up with that for too long. Call me a humbug, but that's my take. :-D

I have to head to Columbiana County, so I'll be in the same boat, X. Thanks MayDay.....even though I now feel like the student in the front of the class with his zipper down!!! " Hey, it takes time to figure out the forum functions and I'm just trying to be helpful. That zipper thing, though - you're on your own!!! :lol:

Hey now - for all "intensive purposes" ... :lol:

Dan, the article you posted was already posted in the "Flats East Bank" thread, and I'd prefer if we keep the discussions separate. There's already dialogue about the pros and cons of demo'ing for the Wolstein plan so folks, please continue the discussion there. I have little choice but to delete the off-topic posts. I apologize if a specific post was deleted, but things need to be tidy around here so let's keep this thread strictly about Stark's proposal. http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=1823.msg148494#new Thanks!

For visual reference - the only buildings really worth mentioning are two older brick structures: Almost dead center, below the Main Avenue Bridge: And a closer look. Granted they're old but quite frankly they're not terribly remarkable for being old brick warehouse buildings. I'm usually on the side of preservation/re-use, but in this case I don't think there would be any significant loss. As blinker12 and w28th have pointed out, the vast majority of the buildings in question are dumpy 80s shacks:

"We ended up not actually bowling because there was a three hour wait." A three hour wait? That's awesome - who'da thunk? :clap:

^I saw that as well - it looked like only the cupola was lit but yeah, it was really really bright.

BANNED!

"MS Word?? You've got to be kidding me. I can't believe a publishing company wants you to work in Word." The reasoning behind it is that most of their authors are older, retired, and working in groups of two or three and Word is generally the most widely used (and most familiar). They've set up their workflow so that authors simply type the captions for each photo, present a mockup of the layout and their designers do the rest. They weren't used to an author who has been in the design business as long as I have. All of the photography is mine :-)

^That's one Gorton's Fisherman that I won't be trusting.

Cleveland's East 4th Street (Arcade and Federal Building in background):

"Congrats on the book. I love these book series, and have often wanted to do one myself. How easy are they to do? Did you provide original photograhy?" Thank you - honestly, it was a lot of work. The only images I didn't provide were from vintage postcards. The majority of the work came from researching the lesser-known buildings. It's easy to come up with material for the major buildings but the little out-of-the-way buildings don't offer much. Also, it was hard for me to work in Microsoft Word - I've been using Quark for almost 15 years and I would have preferred to do the layout myself, but it wasn't an option.

Um, you shaved your head?

I already hold the highest office in the land - the HBIC of UrbanOhio!

A pic of Site 3, from the Crowne Plaza hotel:

Another ring of scaffolding has come off the Terminal Tower: And when I zoomed in a little closer, I saw one of the workers in action (and some funky lights coming off the cupola):

There is never, ever a reason for ME to refer to the one in Rome. Ev.er.

Like the pope - I make no promises, just passing along the info: Associate Editor - Motion System Design magazine "Seeking a highly motivated, driven Associate Editor to write for our Motion System Design Magazine, out of our Cleveland, OH location. The Associate Editor will develop, write and edit technical how to articles and related pieces, under tight deadlines. The sucessful candidate will also help maintain the website and eMedia products, attend and help plan trade events, and represent the magazine at customer service/ advertiser sites, as necessary. Candidates must have a Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering or related technical field. Knowledge of AC motors, servomotors, motion control, sensing, and industrial automation is necessary, as is familiarity with MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Writing experience is a definite plus." http://www.penton.com/cgi-bin/careers/search.pl?id=528