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Euclid Ave changes to Mentor ave for a stretch in the eastern suburbs ^ Yah the US highway designation stays the same but they arent the same. Euclid ave it would seem to more deliberately terminate at the willoughby triangular park, in a sense that Euclid ave begins and ends at a "square" of sorts.

I dont know the particular regions but...in cleveland area Best Ames Hills JJ Newbury

Lakewood (west) vs. Cleveland Heights (east) -I like both. But I give the slight edge to lakewood due to its access to the lake, more convienient to get around in. Westlake vs. Eastlake -westlake. Eastlake is more like parma Rocky River vs. Shaker Heights -Shaker Heights. Its the best heights, I like the "garden movement" city feel and the rail lines. West Boulevard vs. East Boulevard (both historic districts now) -No opinion Crocker Park (west) vs. Legacy Village (east) -crocker park. Legacy village feels like a pricey strip mall Lake Avenue (Gold Coast) vs. Lakeshore Avenue (both lined with highrise apartments) -Gold cost, it has better views and is in a generaly better city. West bank of the flats vs. East bank of the flats -old school east bank and maybe future wolstien east bank. West side in the current. Ohio City + Tremont vs. University Circle + Little Italy -Ohio City/tremont. Im just not very big on museums and itallian food. Lorain Avenue vs. Mayfield Road (as main shopping corridors) -I dont shop at either. Ill say mayfield because its closer to me. Southpark Mall vs. Beachwood Place (upscale malls) -Beachwood Lorain County vs. Lake County -Lake Kamms Corners vs. Shaker Square -Shaker I-71 vs. I-271 -271 pavement madness Bay Village's "Huntington Beach" Vs. Mentor-On-The-Lake's "Mentor Headlands Beach" -Headlands, but I dont go there. I perfer the smaller more well kept one in fairport. Gordon Square vs. Cedar-Lee -Cedar-lee Detroit Avenue (in Lakewood) Vs. Coventry -Coventry The mansions on Lake Avenue vs. The mansions in Bratenahl -bratenahl

http://www.muellercondominiums.com/Unit109.html Thats the unit ^ showcased. I like that one window on the second floor, although its probably single pane glass and is drafty. I wonder what they will do with the elevator too, will it stay an industrial lift or be replaced with a more "tradional" one.

Airlines are subisidized through government bailouts and building and staffing of airports. Highways/roads are subisidized though government building and matainence busses/local mass transit are subsidized Rail is not subsidized, with the exception of amtrack. Amtrack runs along the non-subsidized rail, and thus is given the lowest priority along those routes, which leads to poor performance. I cant think of any transportation system in the US that actually "makes money" on its own. Amtrack in its current form is destined to fail, thats why it wont be around like it is for now. If/when it dies I think thats when we will get real long distance rails.

It is needed even less than the one in cleveland, and cleveland is planning on getting rid of theirs.

That airport is a joke, its not really a reliver or needed. About maybe 8 years back or so they "expanded" and upgraded the airport by making a new hangar, anticipating alot of more planes to be using it. It was a flop, it was never used, and it was made into an indoor sports place and a bar. It literlay only serves a seldom used police hellicopter, maybe 20 tops single prop private planes, some freaky parachute plane, and the blimps when the go to cleveland. Send it all to burke I say.

I remember seeing something on this maybe a year ago on the shaker heights strategic investment plan, prepared by urban design associates. (I got the pdf on my computer) Quite frankly it looked like they allready had an excellent plan on how to fix allot of the screwy problems around van aken. *edit* http://www.shakeronline.com/cityhall/documents/ Click Strategic Investment Plan, 60 page pdf, shows an ideal design for van aken,

I want cleveland to be an orange space, or maybe purple space, those were the money spots. I had monopoly and the cleveland game. I also had Triopoly, 3 layerd monopoly board.

I saw a blurb about this on the news the other day, the episodes are scheduled to be aired in the fall season.

Horseshit. Cleveland is going to be represented by a baseball stadium. There is nothing unique or historic spectacular about it.

http://www.cyburbia.org/gallery/showgallery.php?cat=all&si=District/Chinatown&page=1&perpage=9&what=allfields&=&action= I found this photo thread containin chinatown pics while surfing the web. Pics are older but contains buildings not found in the orginal. Thought it would be appropriate to throw the link up here

To make a shared ROW with cars work correctly they should allow only certain hours of the day in which they are allowed to share. . During non-rush hour times share the lanes, during rush hours make them rail exclusive lanes. Place an on board camera on the rail to get license plates of vehicles that violate the laws and impose heavy fines.

http://remax.realtor.com/Prop/1050672192?gate=remax If it does happen, here is a property to move on. Its been on the market for at least 8 months now.

This shouldnt stop wolstiens project at all. Lets say front street lofts never materialize, so it remains a parking lot still. Wolstien wants a parking lot, there is no reason to take a parking lot through eminent doman to give it to another person for a parking lot. Its a blatent land grab and strong arming by wolstien to stall his own project and blame it on shaias, and force the public into eminent domain for something wolstien wants rather than needs for development. I hope port authority and city council members see how dumb that looks in its simplest form.

Wolstien wants the parking lot, but it should be in the better interests of the city for a building there. It would be a little bit different if wolstien was actualy putting a building there, but he isnt. People are arguing that its better to have one person master planning the area, and all the properties being consolidated under the vision of one. I can agree with that with the buildings all along old river road need to be consolidated to get something done, but the front street lofts is one large consolidated highly developable lot. It alone is about 1/3 -1/4 the size of the wolstien propsed land area. I think wolstien is just making a weak argument to poloticians so he can get a land grab on some highly desirable property under the guise of need more parking.

Red phase 1, brown phase 2? I dont like the on street parking, its unessiary with both a parking garage there and waterfront line stop. I would rather see 1 story structure that goes from edge of street to current sidwalk position. Elevations look like it would line up so that you walk on the roof of the structures.

Charging thing I hear awhile back too. I think it was charges for part-time students, faculty, and non-students. This is back when the new rec center was being proposed, so things could have changed since then.

My gripe is with the CDC's and how they have been operating as of late in the city. Little Italy is/was against moving the RTA red line stop to their neighborhood, anti-random road lofts, and arbitrarily decided it was best to build a parking garage in place without involving the building owner NEXT to an empty lot. Hessler Rd. anti-development on a vacant lot on Euclid, so that they may preserve the parking. Ohio City and duck island teaming together anti-development on a vacant lot near railroad tracks for mixed income housing. CDC’s seem to be blocking, not promoting rejuvenation and growth.

I agree that there are valuble homes along the lakefront, and the form small neighborhoods. I would also consider upper class homes starting at $500,000+ range, Upper middle $300,000+ range, middle $175,000+, entry middle $90,000+. Neighborhoods dont change over night, it is a slow process to gentrification. You basicaly dont go from ghetto to upscale elite housing area overnight. How many years did it take for Ohio city to get the way it is now, how many years did it take for Tremont to get the way it is? Both neighborhoods are far from upscale neighborhoods, they have basicaly beome somewhat rough middle class neighborhoods. The warehouse district took 20 years to go from hobo soup kitchens and porn shops, to some upper class units starting to be built there. So we are talking maybe 15 years unitill warehouse district becomes fully upscale or something? I would say Glenville has at least 30 years before it can even become a potential Georgetown. The CDC is trying to prevent a slow positive process. They shouldnt be looking at how can we prevent something positive from changing the neighborhood, they should be looking at ways to fix the negatives.

Glenville only hope to become what it once was or a Georgetown neighborhood. Cleveland has no upscale neighborhoods. Heaven forbid that some people some day get displaced at some time for ONE upscale neighborhood. The fact that none has risen to this day is a testament to the fact that their fears are unfounded. It seems that every neighborhood group that seeks to protect "their" area only seeks to stop development and rejuvination.

I wonder what will happen with the trolley when the ECP gets built? Run them in the same lanes as the ECP?

Yes, but forest green

Sweet idea would be for it to become the Alamo Drafthouse in Austin. Beer, dining, movies. It seems like a good way to rebrand old movie theatres. Make the whole thing an event out of watching a movie instead of seeing a movie. http://www.originalalamo.com/ui/default.aspx

^ I know it was the planning commissions agenda. I had some former guy that used to have alot of clout, and was on the plannin commission, lecture on about urban planning. I am 100% positive that he was around still when white was.