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Since now one can peer in and see about everything, I hope they come out with a decent, artistic display of some sort, such as with shelves installed next to the windows. Something.

I see construction for the apartments for the homeless has begun at Euclid and E. 75th - right?

How does one add one's own photo for the profile photo here? When I try to do this here it only allows for photos from websites to be added - not from folders. I used to be able to do this from a folder. Thanks!

It seems options for method of changing one's profile photo here have been reduced. I was using my own photos, which are in a file, but now it seems one can only use photos with a web address. I don't have one for my photos. Help!

So many things downtown Cleveland can use and can be successful! Kinds of establishments that used to flourish here and continuously flourish in other metropolitan downtowns: large bookstore, large office store, large photography store, large computer store, large newspaper/magazine store. On and on....

Does anyone know if Chinato's is still planning to put up a decent sign? When I asked the first time someone said they were having trouble having it approved. Now it's many months later and still no sign worthy of the character of the street....

Big Fun would be extremely popular! That Brooks Brothers suggestion - did you happen to know about the outlet in Tower City? Cheesh! I think this is the storefront that used to be a two-floor cheapo clothing outlet - first floor and basement, right? It did have character, though. Or is it the former Morlin's that had the second floor - sort of a small department store with kitchen and bath items upstairs? Stairway was to the right. Merchandise was about Woolworth's quality. Hard to picture anything other than food in that block. Only exception now is shops that go with Pickwick and Frolick and House of Blues.

Whos' voice is it, please, on the Healthline BRTs who announces every four minutes there are now the Univer Circle runs and the Louis B. Stokes Station runs? Today's he's touting the "dump the pump" slogan. Iniquiring minds want to know....

Thanks. I just figured it out and was ready to delete my inquiry when - zip - your answer appeared....

What the heck is "UC?"

When a whole forum is about a one-building complex these features are kinda' fundamental. I know some of us are here for the rental info., some for the design/renovation/restoration aspects, some for the info. on businesses occupying the spaces. IMHO they're all quite legit. As for the last the details seem to change each day. Now I"m told the lunches won't start until about two weeks, and the bakery/bistro perhaps still two weeks later. Yeah, we can wait, Sonny....

Well today I see the sign out by the sidewalk saying the bistro/bar/bakery will open at 5 p.m. I was actually hoping the bakery would be open mid-day, as some of it was open yesterday on my lunch hour.... Walked in Prospect lobby area and all the way through to where one can see the top of the restaurant. If that's "the" atrium, it's not at all like the old one, which went up six stories. Pro shop was closed, with no sign indicating anything special. Not cool for a lunch hour....

Photos show hallway "from Euclid" but the public can't enter from Euclid - only the apartment people. What about that one door in the center of the Wyse windows? Beyond the door one can only (barely) see a bland stairway going up - all dingy. Looks like a storage area. A dumb view for the Euclid Corridor in the hear of downtown - lots of potential wasted. Meanwhile, I see at lunch hour the sign says "OPEN" for Zinc! I had not time to go in but I had read not 'til tomorrow - at least dinner only.

Asked the guard inside the entrance off new "park" if one would soon be able to walk through there to Prospect and he said never. I said I had heard one will be able to walk from street to street, via the atrium and he said no. He also said they're two separate buildings, and that's why the public would never be able to walk through. I saw individuals in the bar but assumably they were workers. Read Zinc will open June 3rd for dinner and suppose that is when bar will open to public? The guard didn't seem to know that much, anyway; when I mentioned "atrium" he said he thinks "we're in it." Then he said maybe the atrium I heard about is "over there" - i.e. Colonial Marketplace. I said no - there had been the large atrium for many years in the Atrium Office Plaza and I thought a new "atrium" would be at least part of that space. As an employee of Zinc had told me maybe a week-and-a-half ago the restaurant wouldn't be opening 'til June 21st, I'd say there seems to be quite a bit of confusion as to communication. The guard also said the public is not really supposed to walk in where I did except to go to the restaurant - that it's just for the apartment people. I thought just that hallway off Euclid is just for them. Oh well....

!!! Someone told me "word on the street" is the so-called permanent casino may take up the entire two floors of shops in Tower City and then extend outward with an addition!!! What does anyone know about that possibility??? :-o

I was asking if anyone knows when Zinc is set to open, but a workman told me the date is June 21st. I suppose one won't be able to get into the atrium until then. Too bad.

Any information on the "Super Market" that is supposed to go into the 1900 Euclid building? I just saw the signs this a.m. Could be great!

Ah, those dumb-looking street windows.... Glad someone else now brought it up. I've been assuming all along the situation is temporary and have been patiently waiting for an inviting display - something colorful showing what Wyse does. That alone would be sufficient; we don't need to look into the actual workspace on the street level. And the windows are cloudy, yet (a little better from across the street, but there's still nothing to look at of any real interest). I thought with the building's official "grand opening," at least the windows would look decent. I've also been waiting for a door for the public to walk into and get to the atrium. Is this suppose to open when Zinc opens? Is there an official opening date? I have been told here one will eventually be able to walk through from Euclid to Prospect....

Sure there's information, but nothing on the 1305 section which now has all its windows boarded up and no identification signs at all. They left the metalwork around the door frame a mess now for weeks. I hear many who like to keep bemoaning about all the vacant lots and empty, boarded up buildings along the Corridor and I always respond there are many a project planned for these buildings and sites which just haven't begun yet.

Here KSU is doing all this work with the former Cowell and Hubbard building, at 1305 Euclid, and there's no sign up now at all! Tsk! Anyone not familiar with the project, such as all the out-of-towners or anyone else who doesn't do much around there and likes to complain about the appearance of long stretches of Euclid, would think of this storefront as just another boarded-up, ugly site along Euclid.

In regards to that, it looks like they're working on tohe exterior - I wonder what they'd want to do on the exterior resulting from a Tri-C facility moving in....

Thanks; I might have missed that. Pretty good though I'd rather see an interesting shop there (and I mean shop, not restaurant). The Tri-C could be upstairs, instead. Oh well....

Yes, walks slope down flush with drive leading into parking garage, which is one level below level in buildings behind where doors are. Therefore, walks accomodate two levels of the buildings behind - they slope down so cars can go into the garage, which is lower than the street level, and then go up leading to doors in the buildings which are one floor above the garage doors. Just looks silly, though. :wink2:

What is that contruction going on in front of the May Company Building, to the right of Cadillac Lounge, please? Workmen and scaffolds have been there probably at least a month.

Department store theme is perfection; I believe I promoted this earlier.... This is the only former department store that has such a well, and it's the only one situated in the middle - i.e. between the cluster near Public Square and the cluster near E. 13th Street. Perfect. Then, as every one of these stores is gone, all the major ones that were around, say, 1930-90 should be represented - Taylor's, Halle's, May Co., Higbee's, Bailey's, and Sterling Lindner (I know - it underwent several name changes but it was basically one department store; one time there was a "Hower & Higbee's," too, but let's not get into that....).