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No tougher than the hundreds of stores at SouthPark, Crocker Park, Beachwood Place, Great Lakes Mall, down corridors like Detroit Avenue in Lakewood, Mentor Avenue in Mentor, etc., etc. Hundreds and hundreds of stores in our area compete with Internet shopping.

Geiger's, Brooks Brothers, and possibly even A Dollar at Tower City should have something. Joseph Scafidi, that men's store at Euclid at E. 13th; men's store at E. 4th; on Euclid by Halle's; that clothing store in The Arcade on Superior; the store that moved from Tower City to East. 14th by Hanna Theatre, probably a boutique or two in Fifth Street Arcades,,,,

Metro Home gone. Where's Hodges?

I now understand the decorative, "pedestrian" light poles are no longer to be installed in the Cedar Fairmount district, though I'm sure this type of additional (or replacement) lighting had been in the publicized plans. As for Cedar Lee, I'm told there is still the plan for the tall (and often bent, etc.) streetlights to be removed except the few considered essential, but City staff cannot predict when. Ideally there'd be none of these but more of the new ones - at least twice as many.

I now understand the decorative, "pedestrian" light poles are no longer to be installed in the Cedar Fairmount district, though I'm sure this type of additional (or replacement) lighting had been in the publicized plans. As for Cedar Lee, I'm told there is still the plan for the tall (and often bent, etc.) streetlights to be removed except the few considered essential, but City staff cannot predict when. Ideally there'd be none of these but more of the new ones - at least twice as many.

I may have read it but where's the new Constantino's supposed to be going? And how will it compare with the three other ones in size?

"Slight" problem with the museum's own description. It implies the mansion/museum is on Cedar Road! Also, technically, South Euclid and Lyndhurst are not "towns" nor were they ever. They started out as villages taking land from "townships." I will have to give the owner much credit, however, in that the exterior of the museum looks fantastic!

But when on earth will it open? I've so no publicity giving an inkling.

I don't believe a developer could have gotten away with this in Cleveland Heights. Years ago yes (e.g. Noble Road), but no more.

If you are saying these five buildings were originally all one, I don’t think that’s the case at all..

Does anyone know what happened to the plan for the older, taller streetlights along Lee Road in the new streetscape stretch? I was told about this by a workman many months ago - all those poles (many of which are unattractively tilted) except for a few that are essential for the functioning of the new lights. Actually, I wish there were more of the decorative fixtures installed, as even with both sets of lighting currently used, the streets aren’t all that bright. Also, what gappenedvto the planned new decorative light poles fir Cedar Fairnounr?

Good. Now I’d like to see some progress with the plans for the nearby (boutique?) hotel

Okay, it’s to be the new home of the Humble Pie Baking Company. Good news!

Does anyone know what’s coming to 3246 Lorain, the Fulton Bakery Building? It was the worst-looking building of that stretch of Lorain. New windows and doors and vinyl siding are being installed. I don’t care for vinyl siding, and if they were to repair and replace the wood siding and paint it an attractive color scheme (perhaps colorful Victorian) it could have become become a knockout for the district. But I’m really glad the building is save aluminum sidein had been removed.

That 2.0 million population vs. 4.5 million isn’t an accurate comparison. How about Franklin Co. vs. Cuyahoga Co? Anyway, think of all the kinds of stores Greater Clevekand has where people might be able to purchase similar products to what Ikea offers, which Greater Columbus may not have!

It's likely referenced here somewhere, but what is going up along Fairhill Road between Carnegie and Cedar avenues? I see it's definitely a building project, in contrast to sewer work or the like. Val's Lounge was around there for a while, before it folded.

Yes, I had high hopes, too, and used to work across the street. Of course that was before many other projects around downtown began and most were very successful. Even the tower has only one commercial tenant, as far as I know. There were supposed to be components all along East 12th, and the beautiful streetscape plan - with flowers, benches, and special paving - gets little traffic even on good-weather days. Then the Gallery isn't drawing many either - nothing like it was in the '80s and '90s. Is the new construction supposed to be facing Superior? I see the parking lot has been gone for a while.

With all the hype in the past few years and all the artists who have set up studios including for weaving, as well as the outdoor sculptures and murals, Waterloo still appears to me a very quiet place unless one is inside the Ballroom. It still has no regular, sit-down family-type restaurants, or any other regular-hours sit-down restaurant, and no new housing worth mentioning. No new townhouses, condos or apartments, new commercial buildings, or commercial attractions as popular as a Sweet Moses. A handful of funky stores but no good new clothing stores, antique dealers, quality salons, live theaters, hardware stores, pharmacies, unusual food stores, indie bookstores, etc. I'm referring to Waterloo - East 156th street area. Not East 185, though that's nothing like it was as a shopping district draw, and certainly not southward down East 152nd Street.... Maybe that's okay, as we now have a bunch of other Cleveland city neighborhoods that offer all that,

Centric isn’t that tall, but it’s impressive and really fills in the space, as does the apartment complex going up in Hingetown/Ohio City at Detroit and West 25th.

I’d be very happy to see a sign up - implying there’s going to be a major upgrade to that site that’s now a dumb parking lot on an oh-so-valuable land.....

Thanks, though it's too bad the reporter got it wrong. The "City" magazine is in the stack of Cleveland Magazine's auxiliary magazines in the Heights main library. Plenty of good information in it.

I was looking at one of those “City” magazines that has a lot of information about Cleveland neighborhoods and recent developments, and the writer said that Edge32 was a remodeling of an existing building. I’ve been following all the construction in that part of town, and I thought I had followed that project from the very beginning and that it had started from scratch. However, I may not have noticed a non-descript building on that site until construction had gotten to the stage when no one could any longer tell if it was brand new or a substantial makeover. So what was on that site (including on West 32nd) before the apartments went up, and was some of it retained? I’m sure some of you know. Thanks.

I prefer the recent design. The July one is supposed to look old, with an addition on top, but the main part that was supposed to blend into the surrounding streetscape wouldn't really look old anyway, and the contemporary piece on top is a fake-looking addition. Go modern! And get going, please!

Cha cha cha, then!

What's going on with the shabby, frame building on the north side of Lorain that used to have a bakery? It sort of looks like somebody is doing something, but I don't see any progress. Top floor, as seen from the west, looks particularly wretched. Sure I'd like to see the building remain, and it could be the sole frame commercial building around there and painted such that it really enhances the block, but is there really any hope here, before the structure collapses?