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I saw it and was like whoa there is white people in hough :) All kidding aside I liked the documentery. I think it could have stretched into 2 hour program if it had gone into something about the attitudes of the polticians/residents/whatevers of the people that are in the outer ring suburbs. Maybe more stuff on what cleveland is doing right

I think he is talking about phase 7

It seems more and more like the comissioners bought it knee jerk for the rotunda and figure the rest out for later. Jacobs made out like a bandit for selling buildings nobody wants.

Quick thought, Chinatown old west of the innerbelt or east of the innerbelt. They are both "chinatown" but are different chinatown. Anyways I voted for it, my reasons are as follows. Neighborhoods that emerge from the brink of sorts are ones that are any of the following 1) The artists are migrating there 2) They gays are restoring there 3) Some ethinic group is holding steadfast there 4) Some neighborhood nearby is becoming cool, and 1 2 or 3 is moving along. Little italy, ohio city, tremont, edgewater have become what they are from one of those methods. Detroit shoreway could become the same way as well as chinatown. Detroit shoreway has its future proximitity to the lake, artists and near 2 other cool neighborhoods going for it. Chinatown has the ethnics, artists, and its proxmity to downtown working for it. I say chinatown has a bit more going for it. It has all the warehouses on superior going for it, tyler village plan, and lots of smaller warehouses that get made into buildings like muller and payne ave lofts. Clevelanders eat that shit up, we love living in old rehabbed buildings. If cleveland state ever gets its ass in gear and fleshes out its master plan more, no doubt in my mind that the area between superior and payne will be filled with mid rise apartments and condos.

hooray for akron pics

I remember looking at the old site, it was terrible at best. Pink page just one long list of I think at best it was alphabetical order. It just gave a parcel ID and address. It would have been more useful if it linked up with the city's GIS map. Plus if you were ever on the GIS map and it showed vacant land and it was owned by the city, it never linked up to land banks, and you would just know it probably is for sale but no place to find it.

I would personaly like to see a waffle house in the area, even though I dont think they do urban locations. I think an old army/navy building on prospect, 1 story building near e 2nd, would work nice for one.

Isnt that like free times or scene magazine?

Open floor plans and great rooms are a trend to a more casual way of living. Formal living rooms are just a place for putting the furnature you dont sit on or use unless you got company. I would rather have a combined larger space I use, rather than one used and one seldom used.

huzzah for case dorks, if only there was one for more than campus

Mansions are also not made of cheap materials like plywood.

I had it in a textbook that showed typicaly how the formation various areas of a city. Peak land value is where the CBD heart is, skid row is right off of it, elite housing section is, speciality high end retail is. Light manufacturing/industry is right off skid row, then it goes i think low income housing/urban renewal zone, heavy dirty industry, middle class residentrial, uper class residential. I can't remember exactly how it goes but I specficaly made note that skid row is off the CBD, and light manufacturing/industry is right next to/surrounds skid row; I made note to remember it becasue it fit cleveland. Sorry if it sounded like I was refering to superior being that way, I never ment it to seem like I was refering to superior is skid row. Skid row cuts out seemingly out at E18th ish on superior, its the nice area of that part of downtown.

That part of downtown proper gets desolate because of the current uses in the area. It is the proverbial skid row zone that is allways near the CBD. The CMHA tower, homless shelter somewhere on lakeside, bus station, strip clubs, welfare office, al sorts of light industry, in the area.

very cool. Take that california!

^collinwood train yard?

Seems like a pissing contest between cities. Is it really that big of a deal when a city gets a round about?

Those in particular are conversions. Simmilar warehouse buildings on superior could be converted (allthough the area is thriving just fine, and I would rather have ot stay the same). New wood frame condos and houses in Tremont are in the 300k range. Stucco (maybe some cincerblock) condos made in the Little Italy area go for maybe 400k range. I think if they were to make a set of condos with quality in structural design and cheap out on the interriors (does everything need to be granite and inlaid hardwood floors?) prices could come in at a lower entry point.

Im not a fan of the glass flatiron. I think its the balcony thing or the rendering thats making me not like it. The other one looks like an office building, more than a condo, not my type of thing but I dont hate it.

Somewhere the developers guesstimated that $230-1300's for a condo is the "correct" price of a condo downtown now and in "hot" neighborhoods. However developers are making condos in the not so hot neighborhoods for $90-175 range. Painters lofts on west side, payne ave lofts and muller condos on the east side, come to mind.

I hope for Bigger buffalo :D

IF max payne is filmed in cleveland, I wonder if it WILL be cleveland or cleveland as a stand in for some other city

Canton-area (extended family I never really see nor know my relationship to me nor know where exactly they live) Kent Akron Findley Lakewood Mentor

my route for biking http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=373486 my friends bike route for commuting back from work every day. I think he is nuts http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=378008

I hope the dorms dont get crapped up like how I remember all other college dorms becoming. I would hate to see all that nice intercate plaster and woodworking be runied.

I caught this article in the plain dealer today, the article gives a nice descriptor of it but the pictures make it so much more of an interesting article. The pics are really what high urban living is all about, and should be somthing that ~should~ attract more people to this way of life. I can wait to see it appear on TV sometime soon. Penthouse living something to see Thursday, August 10, 2006 Susan Condon Love Plain Dealer Columnist It's all about the view. If replacing the tiny industrial win dows hadn't been feasible, the whole renovation project and move from a traditional home in Shaker Heights would have been cancelled, said Rick Maron, developer and proud owner, along with his wife, Judy, of one of Cleveland's most unique residences -- the entire 16th floor of the Guardian Building (also known as the National City Bank building) at 629 Euclid Ave. The building itself, which dates to 1895 and reportedly was the first steel-constructed high rise in Cleveland, is now a Holiday Inn Express, a $12 million project handled by Rick Maron's company, MRN Ltd. www.plaindealer.com To reach Susan Condon Love: [email protected], 216-999-4784 Previous columns online: cleveland.com/columns