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Sure that's the project. Detroit Avenue may not be quite West 25th, but it certainly can't be expected in 2017 to remain quiet and single-house residential. Ever upward, I say! I'm not paricularly referring to the height of new buildings (though I'm very pleased with the height of this particular proposal, but the overall class, spirit, and economic revival of Hingetown and Ohio City in general. The Market District, within the past five years, has starting heading towards the Pike Market district in Seattle, and I say this very positively, and Lorain Avenue has been actually becoming more like Georgetown each month - without all the high-end chains, of course, which I would like to see in downtown Cleveland.

I'm anxiously awaiting the groundbreaking for the highrise apartments by West 28th, such that the district would really be buzzing. I note there's not even a sign up announcing the proposal and hope this is one of the projects that does get a sign - preferably with a sketch showing the building(s). Oh well - I suppose the funding isn't intact yet....

Isn't that group of colorful townhouses to the north of the proposed school site actually taking advantage of the lake ciew and consequent valuable acreage? I find now a really vibrant scenes when I walk around or drive through downtown on a Saturday night, as long as the weather is half decent. Not uniformly, of course, but certainly in the vicinity of Flats East Bank, and then Along Euclid between Tower City and Playhouse Square, and hopefully the hundreds of new apartments on Euclid from East 14th eastward will extend thiscrowd. Also along part of Prospect. Around the major hotels too, I suppose, but there are smaller groupings there. I'm talking respectable-looking people downtown - like in other cities!

Isn't that group of colorful townhouses to the north of the proposed school site actually taking advantage of the lake ciew and consequent valuable acreage?

That wide open area is about the most hazardous structure exposwd to everyone in Greater Cleveland. Whoever is responsible forvthat outrage should be forced to do something or be in jail - for endangerment.

In response to KJP, no matter how much is constructed or restored, developed as new areas of nightlife, or created as new plazas with fantastic views, etc., in Cleveland, even more if this goes on in Toronto. Also Boston, San Francisco, etc. the thing is these developments - such as In Tremont (including Duck Island), Ohio City (including Hingetown), and Detroit Shoreway (including Gordon Square) -are doing a great deal to upgrade the general character abd image of Cleveland, while these other cities have had their enviable characters and images for a long time. Yes, a 20-storey highrise attracts virtually no attention, as to its height, in many parts of Toronto. In much of Manhattan it's a "lowrise."

Just one update: The wonderful Judaica museum that had been in the former Tifereth Israel has been moved in its entirety to the synagogue's current building and the Maltz Museum next door - in Beachwood.

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The last I heard there were going to be two speed tables for the MLK crossing but I don't know if that is still the plan.

A burned-out house remained on Belmar Road in East Cleveland something like five years. The worst, most dangerous atrocity in Greater Cleveland is the shell of the former industrial building on Carnegie just east of the complex at the corner of East 55th. The complex is TOTALLY open to anyone's - and I mean anyone's - walking it (or climbing up an interior feature, etc. and the roofing and many other construction materials could fall down at any time. I know there are some signs posted right by Carnegie indicating the building is dangers but I think they're about worthless. I didn't even understand what they meant for years, and I'm sure many others don't. The building's literally in shambles and, again, is wide open!!!

Maybe Hough will be the next Hunting Valley....

Technically, the Maltz is in Hough, but even though parts of Hough was still considered upscale in 1923 (it was in decline as such), I'm sure the leaders of Tifereth Israel very conscientiously wanted their new edifice to be considered a University Circle Institution and thus in a most prestigious location. Since East 105 was just mentioned, I know I've asked before about crossings for pedestrians who will want to cross the streets that run through the Greenway, and someone here was kind enough to offer in detail various safety-related ideas that had been discussed, but what is the CURRENT plan - particularly for MLK, where the drivers typically race through? One crosswalk with bold signage indicating a pedestrian crossing? I can hardly picture many drivers really noticing - as they don't on quieter streets - let alone stopping. An actual traffic light? What about East 105th? Now that I see the Greenway is extending over East Boulevard, how will that street be handled? New traffic light at East Boulevard and Belflower?

They will walk to the Maltz, but that will be the day when they actually "walk to Hough!"

True, but it's the campus paper starting off the new school year.

I used to work at the Gund Library of the Cleveland Institute of Art, which has moved to the Uptown building. I wonder if what had been that library could be incorporated intoto a new Ingalls Library, which it would seem would require at least the entire second floor if they are to include all the storage and offices they have now. I wanted to see either the good 1956, Bauhaus-related building maintained, or a highrise luxury apartment tower, though when some people speculated that may be the way CWRU and the CMA may go, plans were not intact for One University Circle. That highrise for now may consume all the demand in University Circle for that sort of building. However, I can't really see anything commercial in the CIA building. There are plenty of restaurants right on Euclid, in fact a particularly diverse variety - from the hospital almost to the RR bridge. And this is besides the big hub in Little Italy. There's the coffee house-cafe on Juniper (formerly Magonolia), but it's in the former residence and have a discreet appearance from the street. I think East Boulevard should be reserved for institutions - our "museum street," so to speak. I know, commercial space could be incorporated into the CIA building, but it would seem there should be better uses, such as for a library and classrooms and/or studio space.

I didn't know Riverview Towers is closed. Is it a big renovation job?

Okay, I see as of May this year that was the plan - for the new high school to rise on that site, with considerable changes from the '50s building - e.g. it will come right to Detroit Avenue, et. I hope these plans are still intact and wonder if construction will begin this year. There's a huge hole there in the Ohio City/Gordon Square fabric.

What is "Mayfield Station Apartments?"

Thanks. Now I see an article from May 2017, devoted to the proposed high school. Is it the final plan for a new high school to go where Max Hayes was? I know construction and location had been a controversy.

No, east of there. Centered across from West 38th Street. Shoreway northern border. Not where pastel townhouses are - east of those. Never mind, it looks from aerial view on Google maps like there was no building there recently. This is just to the west of Spaces, and the site is quite small.

Can't miss it - between Detroit and Shoreway opposite around Weat 32nd to near The Harp near West 45th.

Several comments re above: a) I don't see the similarities between Edge 32 and those photos. Yes, the low section along West 32 Street is something like those, but the highrise on Detroit is much more angular. Odd angles, in contrast to the boxy structures in the photos. I'm wondering if the streetscape in front of Edge 32 will be enhanced; thus far it is nothing but a sidewalk - no evidence of lightpoles coming nor trees or planters. Dull. These details are usually in place by the time a rental office is in business. b) The newish house at Jay Avenue and West 30th resembles many post-2000 houses in the Chautauqua Institution - simplified Victorian vocabulary combined with new, Home Depot=style structural features. I don't particularly go for this, but it's the same sort of concept ashave many of the recently constructed fill-in houses in Cleveland - onlya luxury version. c) I wrote recently asking where the new apartments along Vine Court behind Clinton West could go, as I didn't see good space for them, and brush and trees towards Franklin Boulevard hadn't been cleared. It now seems evident the complex will actually go immediately behind Clinton West - on the NORTH side of Vine Court. And yes, construction has indeed already begun, with excavation. d) Please refresh my memory: There are two large, vacated sites between Detroit Avenue and the Shoreway: one north of West 38th Street and one in the West 50s. I believe the high school had been on the vacated slope near West 38th, and an industrial building had been in the West 50s, to the south of those colorful new townhouses - correct? Where is the new high school going to go? And what is planned for the other site?

Why does that look so familiar? There's some veracity to this, but Edge 32 is not of this basic design - at least not the major highrise right on Detroit. If one doesn't want this sort of building, there are all sorts of older buildings one can consider, including all the hundreds of older retrofitted buildings. This can be said of all periods of the past century - e.g. apartment houses of the early '60s tend to look similar, also from the early '40s, the late '20s, etc.

It's that beautiful Victorian next door that looks "funny," now....

It would be nice if these Agendas would name the Cleveland streets correctly. There is no "Fulton Avenue" in Cleveland - only Road and Parkway. Over and over again I've seen a reporter write "Cedar Road" in Cleveland and "Cedar Avenue" in Cleveland Heights - and the like.