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We should consider that Sherwin Williams may hold on to their current HQ building and repurpose all (or portion) of it for back-office functions that don't require so much proximity to the new campus; certain of which may be fine to remain only two blocks away in these towers that SW already owns. Decentralized activities like graphic design, direct mail, tech support, and other non-critical decision making functions may be fine to remain at Landmark. Hanging on the Landmark leaves an opportunity for that elegant set of buildings to go mixed-use. This might work for SW rather than the presumed all-residential concept that has been floating around as an idea. SW might not (but who knows, they might) have a ready customer that massive amount of space right now or in the near future. Fractional conversion of Landmark to residential and other uses over a long term may well be a part of the SWHQ game plan

Oh Lort! Is Carol Johnson still around? ? She was a long timer back when I used to sit in on BoZa hearings at the City of Cleveland in the 90s! (Have you ever met someone who smiled, but only with their mouth because their eyes were focused on something else.) I do wonder about her justification for not approving those variances.

And after a second look, I don't think their inspiration (or my comparison) is that far off...

Um... Excuse me, but... What the what?! Where did this render come from? That august old banking hall looks like it's been restyled as... the Paris Opera - only more du-Luxe Edit: It also looks like the floor has been raised to make the room feel more intimate, and perhaps to add room for mechanicals.

Is there an impression somewhere that some old time-ey "Downtown Ladies Auxiliary" will descend on an entire historic cemetery wearing floppy hats to plant begonias and solve the many years of incompetence and neglect? Doing so absolves the city of its duty and responsibility to use our tax dollars wisely. If it were taken over by a charity group, it will still require hundreds of thousands of dollars to bring the landscape and infrastructure back to any reasonable contemporary standard. Who will pay for the mulch, plant, tools, meeting space, coordination and administration... of such a project. I sense that folk underestimate the cost and overestimate the volunteer ambitions of our neighbors. I find it unrealistic that some unidentified charity take on such a stupendously important project like this without an identified funding source for ongoing maintenance. Sigh... Repairs to Erie Street Cemetery will require champions at the highest local level. I do think a grassroots community advocacy group could be formed like "Friends of Erie Street Cemetery" or something, and they could become influential enough with the downtown councilman and Mayor's office to provoke the movement of funds and personnel needed to bring something worthwhile together. LOL - Also, "They Remained, Others Fled" The heroes of today's Cleveland also stayed while others fled. - The metaphor in this is just too rich, and reason enough that this cemetery should be given some needed love. Lakeview may have more buried luminaries, but Erie Street is the Grande Dame of early Cleveland Cemeteries. The time is now to give it its due.

Speaking of NYC - Sorry to be so self indulgent here, but... ?

GIS, "Idk if it's just holdover from the past or if they plan to relight the overhang but the makings for it are there behind the glass panels (those are florescent bulbs in the first pic)." Each section of this type on the awning downtown used to contain a solid back panel of acrylic or glass. The May Company logo was written in opaque white lettering across the panel so that it was backlit by those florescent lights. I noticed in the past that they had all been painted over as black. One or more of them had also been reinserted backwards and looked very poor. As I remember, it written in the same font as was over this photo of the "may company" store inside Parmatown. In my opinion, it was not the most elegant iteration of their logo. I preferred (then as now) the "the MAY co." version found over the same entrance in Parmatown. The new look arrived with a 1980s remodel.

The illustration of this exciting new tower with a related reference to the Hippodrome on the marquee sent me snooping across the web to learn more. There's so much content out there about it too. - Jon Phillip Sousa performed there often, also Fanny Brice, Babe Ruth, Isadora Duncan, Anna Pavlova, Will Rogers; Enrico Caruso, Sarah Bernhardt, W. C. Fields, Al Jolson, John McCormack... The auditorium had two balconies with elevators, and seating for 3,548. They all played the Hipp! Sousa insisted on performing in Cleveland each time he passed through with his band. The dining room shown in the historic image below was a part of the Hippodrome lobby. Needless to say, the tower above the Hippodrome was not short on contemporary decoration of that era, so I'm reluctant to shun the now contemporary elements on this long-awaited replacement. * The only change I might prefer would be that the parking entrance to the right of the new tower be designed to appear integral to the building. Perhaps as if under some sort of (transom?) or other defining element. Such might make it appear inclusive to the building and not leave an open gap between the new City Club tower and 668. As it appears now, the space will simply look like an open alley. (I really do hate the way the props supporting the front parapet of 668 are so visible, they make the otherwise elegant 668 look like a cheap movie prop.)

https://investors.sherwin-williams.com/cs/Satellite?c=Page&childpagename=SWIR%2FSWIRLayout&cid=1385095601051&pagename=SWIRWrapper Sherwin Williams : to Announce Year-End 2019 Financial Results on January 30, 2020 01/03/2020 | 09:01am EST CLEVELAND, Jan. 3, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The Sherwin-Williams Company (NYSE: SHW) will issue a press release announcing its financial results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2019 prior to the opening of the market on Thursday, January 30, 2020. At that time, a copy of the press release and information regarding Sherwin-Williams' financial condition, operating segment results and other information will be available by clicking on this link Sherwin-Williams Press Releases, then clicking on the reference to the January 30th release.

Can you give us some supporting information that will help us understand why this would be "remarkably stupid?" Simply stating that it would be stupid doesn't help us understand why.

Hat's off to the church and the neighborhood.? It may be the first Catholic church to go green, but the Episcopalians installed one of the largest geothermal HVAC systems in Greater Cleveland at Trinity Cathedral downtown back in 2009. Now this is a friendly competition where I am happy to cheer for all contestants. Toot-toot! - Amen ? https://www.karpinskieng.com/ProjectPortfolio/29/115/0

"Belongs Downtown?" Are you a disaster management expert; or a traffic engineer; public safety efficiency guru; budget-minded land acquisition genius; - or do you simply want a pretty building where a pretty building ought to be? From a strategic planning perspective, downtown is not the ideal place to park a bunch of cruisers, or for officers who need to be responsive for residents of the entire city, and it is multiple times more expensive as a place to acquire, construct, and set up shop. Locating at the nexus of our local interstate system brings better access to the whole town at all times in an area with much less congestion.

@NewtoCLE - Untrue*. I've walked it end to end on several occasions. I tripped hard on the uneven surface once, which I vividly remember. The public uses it before and after ballgames as a key entry point to the DC Waterfront for cyclists coming over the bridge from east of the river. It's a pleasant walk. 'Lots to see inside the facility through the fence, with military ships often docked alongside too. Also, my good friend is a supervising naval engineer working under high security and surveillance inside. His work is highly classified. *Always Good parties at the Swedish Embassy tho.

Do we think S.W. will require as much security & privacy as the United States Navy? The Navy accepts a quite pleasant boardwalk & walking trail along the Navy Yards in DC. It runs between their Sea Systems Command facility and the scenic Anacostia river near downtown.

I was reviewing the Lumen time lapse webcam just five minutes ago on my lunch break. Now it seems to be offline.

Cool! But, ummm... Look closely. Who did they hire to restore those cherubs and that crest? ?... ?... ?

Dang if I can't find a single image of the Guv'nor Pub in any database I've checked, but here are some employment ads from the PD in 1973 & 1991. I don't think there are any stones left to turn over looking for remembrances of that place. It's remarkable nobody ever appears to have written a review of the place, though it won a Best Chili award once in the annual Scene Magazine reader's poll. ?

I think the news reporter did a thoughtful job to provoke and make a point of the interviewee's response. Word on the street for naysayers, lay people, and those who don't follow urban development trends is that there won't be enough folk to fill Cleveland's new downtown structures. This story drove home the point that there is room for even more residential development downtown. The point of such news blurbs isn't to alert knowledgeable people about things we already know about, but to share important facts with people who are interested in learning them. I suggest folk top whining about media questions that challenge what is popularly perceived, and questions like his that prompt factual answers for the public. - In my book that's WHAT THE NEWS IS SUPPOSED TO DO.

CRAIN'S - More workforce housing rather than office - by a large measure too. https://www.crainscleveland.com/real-estate/centennials-office-component-might-shrink

I don't think we can realistically accept that moving to another location, panhandlers and litter will not immediately appear on the sidewalks outside an "ideal" phase II.

What do gamblers desire that they can't get at the Higbee location? In what ways is it "less than ideal?" Whenever I go to The Jack on Public Square, I see lots of people gambling. and to my mind it compares favorably with my experience at the MGM casino outside of Washington, DC. The Higbee Casino feels more glamorous and less depressing to me than the one in DC, which feels cold and remote by comparison. I'm no hardcore gambler, but I enjoy poker, blackjack and craps. I can enjoy all of these at The Jack. So what's wrong?

That is surely bum-ugly. It (EDIT: That parcel) used to be very bucolic there and spoke well for management of the Rockside-480 corridor to maintain a pleasing buffer zone of trees. I'm not for hiding the darn thing; their business is important after all, but the city of Independence is negligent in allowing this to look so awful. EDIT: I also have no beef against the concept, but rather in the execution.

^ apparently good manners and polite language don't either

I'm a graduate of that school, and the College of Urban Affairs building angers/confounds me every time I see it. Ugh on the black mirrored glass windows and weird setback. - "The shoemaker's children are going barefoot"

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