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From the MedMart website: "With the ability to conduct business more efficiently, Cleveland MMCC is the new home for healthcare clinicians, suppliers, purchasers, specifiers, service providers and administrators worldwide."

It's fairly common knowledge that is confirmed by the internet site Google.

^Most of that is already in place with Crop, Penzy's, Room Service, Campbell's, Sweet not Salty, and now the hostel.

Is MMPI on the hook for any operational losses?

I certainly think there is demand for more upscale apartments in the neighborhood. But demand for apartments and the ability find financing to provide those apartments don't always go hand in hand.

This has less to do with accommodating poor people and more to do with being able to finance the renovation of a neighborhood eyesore. I'm sure that Detroit Shoreway would love to develop more market rate apartments in the area, but there simply isn't enough money to be made to justify conventional financing. I own a home in the area. It's 130 years old but was basically rebuilt in 2001. The first owners built a garage, put in top of the line appliances (Wolf stove, etc.), installed a koi pond, some other frivolous/awesome improvements. My mortgage (incl. taxes ((abated)), insurance) is $800 a month. Good luck financing your market rate apartments when the market permits single family home prices that are that low.

#53 is on Madison near W. 96.

I think the investment in the line with this year's draft has paid off big already. I can't remember the last time it was actually fun to watch a Browns' pass rush. Sheard is an exciting playmaker. The linebacking corps has been weak, and the secondary is inconsistent outside of the excellent play of Haden and the tackling of TJ Ward. It seems like Sheldon Brown is on the ass end of every big pass play. I think the Browns could have an elite defense with two more successful drafts. I think Hillis has actually been pretty strong this year. I thought he was going to be a big let down this season but is proving that he's a legitimate halfback with good receiving skills. Hardesty runs well but goes down too easy and doesn't have the "fall forward" instincts that Hillis has. McCoy will definitely be a solid second-tier QB with another year or two of experience. I think it would be hard to argue that the Holmgren-Heckert duo don't have a great eye for college talent. I'm cautiously optimistic for the future (although I don't see more than six wins this year).

^Yep (slow head nod)

Haha. I wouldn't count on the county moving their housing project any time soon. They don't necessarily have to "move" it though. I think the community should put pressure on CMHA to turn their housing project into a mixed income development similar to what they did in Tremont. Turning former housing projects into mixed income developments has worked tremendously in cities like Atlanta, and the few mixed income developments that we do have seem to work pretty well. So OC residents should ask (then demand if they don't do it, lol) that they turn that project into something that is a better fit for the community while still serving the needs of lower income residents. Housing projects as currently designed need to go the way of the dinosaur. It doesn't work that way. CMHA can't just change the income requirements for residents, and the HUD program that converted projects to mixed income doesn't exist anymore. This is mostly a federal issue.

^Mostly agree. I do miss Reghi on the Cavs' TV broadcasts, though. Watching him and Austin Carr was like watching two stoned elderly hippie/frat boys with alzheimer's and a decent breadth of basketball knowledge. Very entertaining. Watching Fred McCleod is like having Kmart describe a game to you.

It's right by the tower press building and the other live/work buildings and only 1/4 mile from the proposed CSU residential developments. Not particularly dense, but promising maybe?

^^Yes and thank god they didn't tear down that building while it sat vacant for 9 years. FYI the Columbia had only been vacant 2 years.

^Let me go ahead and preach to the choir here. That sort of "vacant buildings have no value" thinking is the reason we have a gigantic hole in the Warehouse district, the teeth punched out of our downtown commercial corridors, and barely any East Side left between 55th and East Boulevard.

That's BS. Solon, like most of the suburbs, were their own incorporated village/city with their own fire department, school system, etc 100 years ago. Solon was a small farm town when my parents moved there. The fire department and police station were in 1 building and there was no retail when I was a kid. The people started moving there - mostly because they got sick of what was going on in their old neighborhood - and the city was developed around it. 422 didn't exist - it was built to keep up with the traffic demand. People saw Kinsman, Lexington, and Storer becoming what they have become while they lived there and moved out while they could. And those who stayed to try to fight it out? They were often left with a house they couldn't sell or something bad happened to them, like being vandelized or worse. I'm not sure when it became acceptable to blame the people who moved out for not wanting to put up with bad neighbors instead of blaming the people actually causing the problems, but I think it needs to stop. My grandmother gutted it out in the home my dad grew up in until the mid 90's. My dad, aunts/uncles kept urging her to move - but she had raised a family there, lived there for 50 years - it was her home! Ultimately after the house was broken into for the second time - this time while she was home - she had no choice to move. And that's the smae story for most of the people who tried to stay. And for those who moved prior to this, that you're blaming for everything, they have similar stories but they just made their decision before they felt it was forced upon them. So enough with blaming people who moved out. Some moved because they wanted a bigger house or whatever. Just as many, if not more, didn't want to move, they just felt they had to. I don't know why they get any of the blame. They weren't the ones making it a bad place to live. I am blaming the people who caused the problems. Concentrated poverty breeds crime and other social ills. Poverty becomes concentrated when wealth is removed. I'm not making any moral judgements, but there is a pretty simple cause and effect.

Any success that Solon or other outer-ring suburbs has comes directly at the expense of older communities. In a no-growth region, being pro-urban absolutely means being anti-suburban. And, even more so, being pro-suburban and making the choice to live in the suburbs means being anti-urban. Creating school districts, fire departments, city halls, and retail centers in new areas inevitably makes those same services worse in the old areas. Everyone should live wherever they chose, but should also be willing to accept that a decision to live in the Solons, Brecksvilles, and Weslakes of the world directly leads to the creation of the Kinsmans, Lexingtons, and Storers of the world. And I hate that.

^^^^Not to nitpick (totally about to nitpick), but I feel like I have to put down for my neighborhoods. Most of Old Brooklyn between Broadview and Fulton is quite walkable. The neighborhood is definitely declining, but has some historical charm and great access to "suburban style" shopping (Steelyard, etc.) and all freeways. I'm not saying it won't continue to lose population, but I don't think it faces the same problems that Lee-Harvard and other "suburban" east side neighborhoods face that aren't walkable or convenient at all. Also, Stockyards is most certainly a neighborhood with great walking potential. Clark, Denison, Storer, Fulton, and 65th probably represent one of the densest collections of commercial corridors in the city. It's just that there aren't any stores in most of the commercial buildings. Stockyards also has great freeway access and walkable proximity to Detroit Shoreway and Ohio City.

A lot of the scenes for Welcome to Collinwood were filmed on pre-decent E. 4th Street.

^I think it's notable because the Agora isn't operating anymore.

^^^I think Believeland was only referring to the naked man in the street and not the murder. If you called 911 every time you saw a disturbed person in Ohio City you'd be pretty busy.

^^I don't think that Cleveland has actual acres of grassland so close to downtown, at least not on that scale. We tend to pave over that stuff so we can park on it. I think Detroit gets singled out also because it was obviously such a prominent and densely populated city. The skyline almost looks like Philadelphia. The contrast is just so much more startling than it would be in Cleveland, Toledo, etc.

Wow, the sheer magnitude of the city is startling. It's built on a much grander scale than any Ohio city. It makes the emptiness that much more shocking. What great downtown architecture also. Awesome thread.

^^Ubaldo has had far more success than Carmona. The three years previous to this one he pitched 200 innings, had ERAs under 4, and was close to a K/inning. And he did all of this while pitching in the most hitter-friendly park in baseball. I don't know why everybody seems to think he only had one good year. Carmona has been wildly inconsistent and doesn't strike anybody out (I know he's a sinker pitcher). Point being, Ubaldo is much more of a proven player, and has almost nothing in common with Carmona except for winning 19 games once.

McCleveland, we must have been channeling the same baseball nerd spirits at 2:47 this afternoon.

I'm not sure that I'm happy with the trade. BUT... the Indians wouldn't have made it if it was just for this year. They would probably never say it publicly, but this team is built to contend next year and beyond. It's also a bit silly to predict that a pitcher who has played a grand total of 3 AA ball games is a guaranteed ace. You can go here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Cleveland_Indians_first-round_draft_picks and tell me which combination of two of ANY of these players since 2000 you wouldn't trade for Ubaldo. That's not to say the Indians didn't get totally burned. But I've got a Strasburg, Ankiel, Wood, and hell, even a Marte and a LaPorta that say things don't usually turn out like they're supposed to with prospects.