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Thanks. That's something, anyway. Of course, it would have been decent for someone with DCA to have called me back....

Thanks!

Incidently, I don't see the "Edit" button any more. Did anyone else lose their's?

Would that mean they'll be installed unevenly - according to who's willing to pay? I was hoping there would be a fairly evenly spaced procession of these planters down both sides of the street. There's really no connection between installation of planters and season. It's warm enough most days and March is a month much can be planted here. I'd like to seem them in place when the real warmer weather comes to stay. Am I the only one or does the idea of the lights on the new sculpture seem a bit juvenile? A bit too simplistic, artisically? Are "playful" and "carnival image" what are sought here?

Avogadro - I called that office last week and left a message with the Special Projects guy regarding some idea when the planters might be installed - no response. Anyone else have an idea? :shoot:

Contact Information, Please.

Still no news on status of concrete planters E.17th to Public Square?

Reminds me of flames - a little like the firefighter's one near the lake. Less shlocky, though, thank goodness!

Does anyone know when the concrete planters are supposed to be installed along euclid from Public square to around E. 17th? I'm referring, of course, to the one that are supposed to resemble those installed last year around the Park Building. Thanks!

I've got the "K & D" website here and don't see the apartments at 668. Where are they listed? http://www.thekdgroup.com/index.asp?jumpFrame=Home

Never leave downtown???? How depressing!!! You skip the entire University Circle area, for example? I love downtown Cleveland, and I find more to do there than most, and go all over on my lunch hours, but in Cleveland we don't have our main cultural facilties downtown, with a handful of exceptions such as the Playhouse Square theaters and two large museums. We also have so many fabulous things spread out over the metropolitan area - marvelous suburban neighbhoods, all sorts of things by the Lake, MetroParks, many impressive shopping areas, marvelous villages, etc., etc.

Let's not get too carried away here with the image of the Chicago Window. The new window in 668 looks contemporary - materials, glass, color. A very common looking window such as has been popular for commercial and institutional buildings several decades now. I'm not reading all the posts but is someone implying it is to be parking in the space next to 668 where the '60s building was removed? I thought it's to be a mini-park/walkway.

It's certainly been the trend on Euclid Avenue - with the project with the former shoe store building near the May Company Building, and now the three buildings east of East 9th (one the former Cowell and Hubbard). I can hardly imagine it being done with the large, two-sided facing of the bldg. at Euclid and East 9th. "668" is being converted into a luxury apartment building, but the other has no such plans, as far as I know. Will continue as an office building, its original use.

With all that terracotta (or whatever the new, fill-in material is) the architectural historian/purist might expect ca. 1910-looking windows but this is not. Material is a type trendy the past 20 years or so, and the glass looks perhaps a bit too wavy. But the window is in the realm of what is being done today with historic buildings and I find it at least "acceptible" as a compromise. What is the material being used to recreate the terracotta look? When is it supposed to be installed? Is it currently being recreated off-site? :clap:

Once again, I was seeking a responses regarding the possibility of some of these blasted crooked streetlight poles' being straightened - in particular the one nearest the Union Club.

I just got a message saying my recent inquiry had received a "response" but it did not. Apparently the system considers a "response" any post following the post of the individual who leaves his or her E-mail address.... The new vehicles might be "totally buses" but the acronomy "BRTs" can always be used to imply these are not your standard bus. Nobody needs to use the cumbersome four-word phrase mentioned above, obviously. Can't imagine why someone would even suggest it when "BRT" is fully appropriate - and accurate. The public must learn it, of course.

I was making an issue regarding all them crooked streetlights last year - the tall ones on the walks, those on a median, and those cylinder lights in the Cleveland Clinic vicinity. One of the most "disoriented" was in front of the Union Club, but it looks, imho, to be fairly straight now. Is it possible something was actually done about it? Perhaps this one was straightened when others weren't?

I see today there's a new monumental plaque up on the median strip of Euclid between the 200 Public Square and May Company Buildings - somewhere around there. Can someone please post here a photo of this plaque? I don't do digital, but I'm a little surprised no one has already posted a photo or even mentioned it here.

Thought Litt's "architectural review" of the HealthLine was pretty balanced and about the right tone. In one edition of the PD - yesterday's (Sunday's) it was spelled "Health Line" in Litt's article, "HealthLine" in an editorial ( I think), and "Healthline" somewhere else. As I've mentioned the electronic billboard in the stations calls is "Health Line" (at least as of two weeks ago). There should be only one correct spelling, and I'm sure it's "HealthLine" (the trendy one). Tsk!

Does anyone know what became of "The Politician: a Toy," the Billy Lawless sculpture that had been situated by Chester near E. 65th? At one time it was to be moved to Euclid and E. 55th, where the train station used to be (this is the connect with this topic....), and then I had read it was to be moved down Chester in CSU area. Don't see it now at all.

I see now those bunches of whitish low cylinder thingies are located to prevent cars from driving right up to the medians. They are not attached to the infrastructure but are placed on top, with rubber suction cups or whatever keepign them down. They are, however, mostly tilted and unattractive in a rebuilt corridor where high-tech rules in general. I was hoping they were temporary during construction until something better looking would replace them but it looks like no. And I assume nobody did anything about straigtening out all the crooked lightpoles (by Union Club and so many others - including many of the light cylinders in Clinic area. And I take it no more tall sidewalk streetlights are to be installed in that area, even though there are long gaps missing these lights.

I think the ribbon-cutting ceremony on time was fine. Almost everything that most people are interested in, most of the time, was ready. Fifteen minutes ago I saw a BRT heading north down E. 13th. What the....? :?

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I'd hope no longer a wait than every 15 minutes! I've got this wonderful image of tourists coming to town, as in other cities known for tourists (think New York, Toronto, Chicago, Boston, San Francisco, etc.), and on a Saturday afternoon many wanting to go quickly between the big cultural area and the main downtown. Well, I enjoy thinking about it.... 8-)

Okay, I see the timetable on GCRTA's website shows every 15 minutes, but I'm sure I saw another table that had the longer time - probably in one of the HealthLine shelters. Could it have been changed since that one was created and be already out of date?