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See lake erie. Alot of people I know dont understand how big lake erie is. They are used to puny lakes that you can see shore to shore. Eat all the good ethinc foods/see the ethinic neighborhoods (little italy/chinatown) Great lakes brewing company, drink award winning beer. West side market, just because Rock hall, just because. Playhouse Square, just because Shaker Square, just because. Almish country. Show them what a buckeye is. Show them what real snow is.

MLK freeway in Akron ohio. Much like the shoreway in cleveland it was to be a circular beltway that never got finished. Its smaller than the shoreway and is even more useless. 490 in cleveland, its a stump of a highway that again goes nowhere

Nobody told anyone they had to leave, and nobody is being forced out of their home for the rich people. This is NIMBYism just because their neighborhood is gentrifying and the neighbors dont like it, and they are looking for any way to fight it. Yes housing is allways affordable somewhere, and affordable is allways a relative to the buyers. Take San Fransico, totoally unaffordble to most people, but somehow people still manage to buy and live there. It is "affordable" to the people that live there. If you consider this to be unaffordable, perhaps you shouldnt be looking in San Fransico in the first place.

Housing stock is allways "affordable" somewhere. If McMansions are raiding your street/neighborhood, its obvious that your house/land is not as "affordable" as it once was.

This is "good" mcmansion growth. I rather have it be a teardown and swollow up a whole small lot, than plow under woods/farmland on a big lot. I have seen pictures of ths same thing going on in chicago, its not bad. Its elimination of antiquated housing stock. People dont complain when you put an monsterous addition, carve out new rooms, or a deck on your old house. I agree with the statement of a sense of community is not driven by the design of the structure but by demographics. If the whole street gets gentrified with McMansions in this same manner, we end up with 'brownston-esque' rowhouses. Poor taste and design is just that (and mcmansions sure can look fugly), but filling out a lot fully isnt nessisarly poor design or taste.

Pretty cool, although the garage is a bit lackluster as compared to the whole

^ Intersting talks about the old hospital, I wonder if it would involve demolition of it. Square location would be nicer, there is a large parking lots behind the buildings on the square. I don't understand how it could connect to the greenway corridor it's about 1/4 mile away from either site. At least they seem to be thinking outside the box when it comes to suburban development.

Never ceases to amaze me, they rather not kill birds, with clean energy; but rather kill lots of stuff with dirty energy.

Two words Wannabe hipster ...Seriously I've hung around people very much like her way too much in my life. I looked around her website, very angst filled. Perfers wrecking hulks of buildings so she can take photos of it, and be an artist for taking those photos, rather than having renewed development. Very anti-gentrification, and the process that leads to it. Desperately wants to be part of that group of artists that starts the process (and pretends to be), but dosent really show up untill the gentrifiers have shown up (and then complains how they ruined her neighborhood)

I think its more like it depends on what inner ring it is and what it has/is historicaly has to offer. Lakewood/Cleveland Hts./Shaker/Hts. they are unique inner ring suburbs, and I think they will continue to remain unique in the minds of greater Clevelanders. They have faired much better than other inner ring suburbs (in the minds of the people, and maybe in reality) so they will allways have an appeal to them. Its the Parmas, Euclids, Fairview Parks, East Clevelands that will degrade because nobody can think of anything that makes them great.

They are stuctured in such a way that they own the land that your house is on. They end up fining you alot and forcing foreclosure on your house. All over something like your shutters are to blue.

I just dont see the purpose of HOA. Most of the negatives that HOA seek to estinguish (rusted stuff on lawn, unkempt yard and house) are easily taken care of by city ordinances and code enforcement officers. They generaly do a good job of going after the offenders and taking corrective actions. HOA are just used to nitpick at eachother to death.

University of Akron has psudo pedestrian streets. I cant think of their names off hand, but they used to have normal streets that went through campus. They basicaly just blocked them off and made them normal concrete paths. If you google earth above the campus you can see the orginal road routes.

I never understood the demolition for a courtyard for fenn tower residents, as its not really near the tower. I understood it as it being part of the central campus greenway they are trying to establish.

Mentor 4th of july parade/fireworks Its better in Mentor days Willoughby Frontier days or western day (something like that?) St. Pattys day (at least it seemed like it, they took over MY "irish" bar :( ) Any given Friday or Saturday night Painsville The county fair Taste of Painsville (I think thats what its called) Fairport Perch fest Kirtland Strawberry festival Chardon Mapel Fest I couldnt give numbers, but its the only time I ever see sizable numbers of people at those cities.

Propane tank penguins?

preservationrestoration The highlanders are what I guess what could be considered a subset of "Irish". They are originally Scottish people, but then England kicked them out and forced them to settle the northern areas of Ireland. They became Northern Ireland, the protestant Irish, versus the atypical catholic Irish. Then these scotts-irsh/highlands predominantly were the “Irish” people that immigrated into the south areas, like Kentucky, whereas the “real” Irish were the ones that settled in the northern cities. The more you know...

I think the dumpy buildings have to do with the fact that 1) ECP is being built, and nobody along euclid wants to move in/renovate till its done. 2)The realy low rise dumpy building accross from csu, contains a gyro shop, is slated for demolition at an undetermined point in the future for a pedestrian corridor 3)Alot of buildings is owned by brothers printing. Instead of consolidating in one building they are spread out between 3 bottom floors of buildings, upper storeies of some of the buildings, and used to lease one of them to goodwill. They pretty well block out diversity along there, as well as off campus/downtown housing. 4) Students really dont't live or stay on campus, so there really hasn't been a push for development to cater to that demographic

Dosent look like there is much needed to gut. Maybe just gut the 2nd floor move it to the back of the apartment allowing full use of the windows. How many sq/ft was the apartment?

I think its because its just a bunch of speculators holding onto it hoping for big money. Once one building in an area gets converted (and probably a few others), everyone else wants to do that too. Most moderately sized old warehouse buildings you can probably get about 10 loft condos out of it, then price them out at $175,000+. So they see all the money that could be made, I think they tend to overpice their building or don't sell at all so they dont "loose" out on all the money that could be made. As for individual loft units, I agree they cost way too much. In cleveland I personaly think alot of the downtown stuff is overpriced, some of the detroit-shoreway, little italy area, some oddball chinatown/midtown ones. But with those you're paying for location not space. Payne Ave. Lofts, Painters lofts, and Muller lofts seem to be at "more normalized, correct" price.

I say show the way of green thinking, building, and way of life by getting really on board with the wind generators on lake erie. Forget the NIMBY, I dont like the view, what about the sea gulls types.

One of the floors has a computer lab for math in rhodes tower,15th floor. I dont know if it has windows, or you could get in without ID or some type of passcode. A friend of mine said he got on the roof once, but I think he just happend to get lucky. That all being said, most of Rhodes is teacher offices and grad student offices, if you get ahold of someone, maybe they can get you in one of them. Say its for photography class or something :)

The little retail does serve the students somewhat, I agree I don't quite understand why there isn't more there however. Few places to eat, art gallery (featuring stuff made by students?), art supplies store, printing shop (they take up alot of space, but do they belong?), book resale store. I cant think what is needed, but my gut feeling something is missing like a drug store/convenience store.

Yeah I realise that. I figure something like the acutal market rate for buildings vs auditors rate for other buildings in the area, would be an aproximate ratio for other buildings not nessisarily being sold currently.

Im waiting for them to decide to double decker 23 lanes