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Villa is a national chain.

This area has a zoning overlay district that allows for live/work spaces to exist in the old warehouse buildings. There are lots of artists and musicians who use these places as studios.

Glad to see the metro size discussion make it into the NBA thread. Metro has nothing to do with it. Cleveland should have a hockey team because we have the tallest buildings. Actually, I don't think anybody should have an NHL team. Anywhere.

In descending order, Charlotte, Indy, Milwaukee, Memphis, OKC, New Orleans, Salt Lake.

I think Public Square is great. If the question is whether Cleveland can become a medium-sized Victorian city again, I would be inclined to say no.

I hit up Dibella's fairly regularly. It's good and surprisingly cheap. I wish Gentile's on Broadview in Old Brooklyn was slightly closer, though. They have far and away the best sandwiches in town in my opinion. Plus, it's right next to Michael's Bakery. I make the trip sometimes when I'm feeling unappreciated at work and feel an hour and a half lunch is justified.

The Independence Melt is definitely a popular lunch spot. I have the great pleasure of working off of Rockside Road, and it's usually pretty tough to get a table. They actually do a pretty good job of getting you in an out in 45min-hour. I still think it's kind of gross and a ripoff though. They only get my business because the other options out here are Zoup!!! and Chipotle.

I think it's generally easier for cafes and more casual restaurants to maintain constant hours than it is for more upscale establishments. For instance, I used to work at Heck's, and we stayed open throughout the day. This made sense because the menu remained more or less the same and we catered to a more casual crowd that was more likely to have a late lunch. The downtown dining crowd is clearly bifurcated between a lunch and dinner crowd. It makes obvious sense for most establishments to maintain lunch hours because of the large workforce population. This crowd overwhelmingly eats between the hours of 12pm and 130pm. Most places give some latitude to those who prefer to eat before 12 and after 130, but for all intents and purposes, businesses make their money in this key hour-and-a-half window. However, the margins for lunch time profit are generally very slim, and most restaurants must make the majority of their money by changing their menu (higher prices) for the later crowd. The break that occurs between 230 and 5pm gives the restaurant a chance to prepare their kitchens for the dinner menu, and for the new shift of workers to arrive and prepare the restaurant generally. The vast majority of the dinner group will generally arrive in the 6pm-8pm window. Again, there is some latitude given to those who would prefer to eat earlier or later, but these types of restaurants make almost all of their dinner money in this time frame. Of course, we would all like for our favorite restaurants to be open whenever it is convenient for our needs and desires, but it makes little sense, from a business perspective, for many restaurants to remain open when so few customers are likely to patronize their establishments.

"^open from 11-2:30, and then from 5-10. You're defending that? A homogenized society where all the robots must eat lunch before 230pm? And all must eat breakfast at 7:15? I bet a lot of people eat lunch at or after 230---not every day, but if they're busy on something, they may not get out til 230. I frequently do. I certainly wasn't going to wait until 5pm that day to eat. I instead ate elsewhere and vowed never to return there, as not to reward such silliness. Perhaps that's why they closed. If dinner was dead, they should have NOT opened for dinner and expanded lunch hours when they had the momentum and staff on hand." « Last Edit: Today at 03:27:01 PM by Pugu » That's the hours that most moderate-upscale restaurants keep. Also, we were federally mandated to serve all customers, whether white, black, old, young, human, or robot. Also, if you stay open for lunch late enough, that's dinner. Also, now I remember why I stopped waiting tables.

You can't make the playoffs once in 10 years and expect attendance to remain high. EDIT: Unless you're the Browns, then you can get away with making the playoffs once every 20 years and still solid attendance.

Awesome set.

The article is lazy. It doesn't deserve a reply. Oops.

Coin toss champions! http://www.cavstheblog.com/?p=9972

Wow, East Cleveland is a real bummer!

This season gave us the best of both worlds: competitiveness and real reason for hope (in the future) in the first half, and a glorious tanking in the second half that secured another top-five pick. I can't wait for next year (that sounds really pathetic coming from a Cleveland sports fan). I would be obviously blown away if we got Anthony Davis, ecstatic if we got MKG, excited if we got Beal, Robinson, or Barnes, and apprehensive if we get Drummond. I will not be watching the Cavs next year if we pick anybody else (lie).

I hate when prepared food stands open in the market spaces. Each one changes the character of the market a little bit, turning it away from what gives the market its earthy charm. Except for the brat stands, those can stay.

^^Emerald Alliance VIII

I'm more intrigued by selling South African apartheid to the citizens of East Cleveland!

From the rendering it looks like they're going to dye the river blue. Is that a new rendering?

^It's a little tough to read, but it's meant for developers.

It looks like the housing project at Fulton and Lorain was awarded tax credits. The whole list can be found here: http://www.ohiohome.org/lihtc/2012housingcreditresults.pdf Edit: Sorry, I read the chart wrong. The project was not awarded credits.

Cleveland already subsidizes new construction residential through tax abatement.

I believe Steelyard would end up either in the Tremont, Industrial Valley, or South Broadway SPA. It's hard to tell by the SPA map.

Apartment development is pretty straightforward. It's not made easier by office construction already existing at a site. Developers will only build new apartments or renovate old spaces to put in apartments if they are convinced (and can convince their financing partners) that they can make a profit by doing so.

This is obviously not a perfect tool, but HUD determines market rents for administrating the section 8 program: http://www.huduser.org/portal/datasets/fmr/fmrs/FY2012_code/select_Geography.odn The FMRs for Dallas, for example, are about 1.5x the rate for Cleveland.