urbanomics

CSU will be a #2 seed in the NIT and host Vermont on Tuesday, March 15, at 7 p.m. Tickets are $20 and $10, $5 for students. It's gonna be a crazy week with at least one game at the Wolstein Center and six games Friday/Sunday at the Q.

Milwaukee should be in first for the moment since they swept Butler. Butler is second since they swept CSU, which puts the Vikings in third. Not where they want to be. Now they need help from Loyola and Youngstown State on Saturday, not to mention a win over Green Bay.

^ I thought the last plans I saw had 90-foot column spacing, unless that has changed.

The CSU Library is off of Chester between 21st and 22nd, while AsiaTown is on Superior between 30th and 40th (generally speaking). Further north and east, across the Innerbelt trench.

First time they would have earned the right to host. Back when they rotated hosts and had one site throughout the tourney they had it at CSU (2002 I think). Butler is amazingly still in the running too. 12-5 to CSU's 12-4, but Butler has the head-to-head tie-breaker.

I was thinking the same thing. I have a hard time believing that the typical person who sits in front of a slot machine for hours on end is the same person who would frequent E. 4th. Seems like different personalities.

Gutsy effort. That keeps them a full game up on Butler for second which is a big deal the way the HL Tourney is structured.

Ugh... Michael Symon's third B Spot will land at Westlake's Crocker Park: Restaurant Row "A lot of fans hoped for a Lakewood location. Symon knows that, but says repeated forays searching for inner-ring real estate hit dead ends. 'We couldn’t find the right space — mostly because of parking — and we love it there but it was either a great space and no parking or vice-versa,' he says." http://www.cleveland.com/dining/index.ssf/2011/02/michael_symons_third_b_spot_wi.html

Great stuff. I haven't been to Little Italy in a long time. It's good to see the building Mia Bella is in all fixed up.

^ I think there are a lot of reasons, but probably the biggest one (as I understand it) is that the tickets sold through Ticketmaster and the CSU ticket office have to match up with the way the arena is laid out (section/row/seat/price, etc.) and you can't sell tickets for seats that "don't exist" based on how the arena is currently set up. Basically the seats behind the curtain "don't exist" in the system, at least for CSU basketball events. Hopefully, if they keep winning and drawing like this, they might drop the curtain permanently.

The second one goes in the footprint of the old one, to the south.

Tennessee and Mexico. http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2011/02/premier_manufacturing_plans_to.html

^Winner. http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=hamburg&sll=53.600655,9.968719&sspn=0.362638,1.229095&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Hamburg,+Germany&ll=53.545516,10.002623&spn=0,0.009602&t=h&z=17&layer=c&cbll=53.546029,10.002082&panoid=5e85YuWdB8pPQFvrSdptwQ&cbp=12,244.49,,0,7.82

"Sanchise"? Ummm, "Sanchez" is a popular name among Avogadro's people! How could you f*ck that up? :wtf: I'm guessing he was merging "franchise" with Sanchez, since he is the face of their franchise.

I'm not totally sure what that would be. But looking at the other projects that are colored purple, I'm guessing it's not anything imminent. More of a long-term blueprint.

I know they enclosed the entire "breezeway" area underneath the building from Chester to Euclid, slightly remodeled the Euclid entrance, and added another glass entrance off of the courtyard by the clock tower. Other than that, I think they are done with the remodeling the MC.

#17 makes me physically ill.

Not really sure I can accurately answer that question. We were given permission to shoot some wedding photos before they opened on Saturday. There didn’t seem to be much on the roof other than a few 3x3 planters near the edge and some randomly placed tables. It definitely did not look like it was set up for the public. I’m not sure whose patio that is. It wasn’t accessible from where we were on the roof. The wooden fence you see in some of the other shots blocked us from it. I just shot that photo from around it. It seemed like it was above HOB (at least where their sign attached) but it may not be theirs. Sorry I’m not much help on the info. I was just thrilled to be able to get up there. Pretty decent vantage point.

Personally, I think a student center and the functions that it is supposed to serve could use the space between the building and the street. I think it's different than the rest of the open space on campus in that it can be better used for more visible student functions, rallies, and other gatherings. While I do like the idea of having buildings built right up to the street for most of campus, I think for a building that is supposed to be more of a centralized gathering place and focal point it can be situated differently than the rest.

I knew a couple single white females who lived on Lennox about five years ago and never had any problems that I'm aware of. They'd walk to the then-Giant Eagle (not sure if it's a Daves or Marcs now) at the corner. They had parking in the surface lot to the west and didn't have any issues. Again, this was five years ago, but I'd hope not much has changed in that time.

If I remember correctly from the renderings, the very top floors were something other than brick, although it didn't look like siding either. At least I hope not.

From what I've seen in women's national team soccer, especially when they are only playing a friendly, it would have been impressive if they had sold out the lower bowl. Not a chance they sell out the stadium. Their last game in the U.S., in San Diego against Mexico, drew barely over 3,000. Their next game is at Creighton's stadium in Omaha, which holds 6,000. If this was the Women's World Cup, you probably would have seen a lot more.

Obviously too early too tell, but the original diagrams had the meeting rooms on a separate level along the east and west sides of the main exhibit hall. Not sure how that changes with this new design. EDIT: On second look, it appears that the bulk of the meeting rooms on the east side are actually under Public Hall, so those are likely scraped completely. You might be right. I'm wondering if the sf figures are just full build-out numbers. It has the MM building being 340,000 sf, which is more than twice the original figure, but the massing has the "building" going from edge to edge on the property. Must just be the maximum square footage.

The renderings are up on the cleveland.com story. Is it just me or has this project gotten larger? The one rendering has the convention center at 860,000 sf, but the old specs had it being 300,000 sf of convention space + 160,000 sf of meeting rooms/ballrooms. Where's the other 400,000 sf coming from? I know it's just a massing, but that seems like a significant increase. Am I missing something?