ExPatClevGuy

That park needs... a shrubbery! ... and another shrubbery!

Nothing new here - Just an updated link here to the Hotel Construction WebCam: http://www.earthcam.net/projects/turner/conventioncenterhotel/

Image from the PD article...

Here's some really nice news for downtown... http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2015/05/geigers_clothing_and_sporting.html Geiger's clothing and sporting goods opening this fall next to Heinen's downtown

Well that's just plan wrong (and presumptuous.) I've greeted several friends who arrived here on their first visit to Cleveland. So what have you got against the place? The photo images directly above are quite accurate. Are you expecting an Ann Taylor Loft to open up inside there once the people you perceive as hobos are sent packing? I'm trying to get my head around the negativity that surrounds bus passengers.

Please tell me why we are so desperate to 1) Turn Cleveland's awesomely cool vintage bus station into something that isn't a cool vintage bus station 2) Probably do everything we can to make it still look like a cool vintage bus station. 3) Create a memorial to now extinct cool vintage bus stations - while we actively chase the buses to a different part of town. Does many other US cities still operate one of these old stations? What would be so awful about developing around the dang thing as it stands instead of re purposing it? The only argument I can make for moving the Greyhound Station would be to place it inside Tower City so it can be situated at the nexus of Cleveland's transit system. WTF with a lakefront multi-modal center. Put the danged transit where the people and activity are. Are people riding Greyhound to go fishing off the E 9th Street Pier?

And all this time I thought that shipping container retail project would be limited to Warehouse District surface lots. Yuck, this really is shameful. I just can't get my head around this colossal failure of design.

E. 22nd St. streetscape and Stuyvesant apartment project inching closer.... MANDATORY REFERRALS: Ordinance No. xxx-15(Ward 5/Councilmember Cleveland): Designating the Stuyvesant Motor Company Building as a Cleveland Landmark. A little hstory, in case it hasn't been posted here, or I missed it - http://home.comcast.net/~sarahdyoung/hudsonstuyvesant.html

^ Ouch! Short, but with just enough information given so as to be both impolite and disrespectful.

Hey, The interior shot shown in the article is the interior of the National City Bank lobby next door. Isn't it? The Garfield Building used to be a Burrows Stationery & office supply store, and looks nothing like that image. Does the article need a correction, or am I the one who is wrong here? "Old National City Bank Building - 1915 It looks built to withstand anything, even a financial earthquake. Cleveland master architects Walker and Weeks designed the old National City Bank Building lobby in majestic neoclassical style, with rows of Corinthian columns framing the deposit windows and a towering staircase of pink Georgia marble. Downstairs, bronze gates finished in gold emphasize the safety in the safe deposit vault beyond them. Looks can deceive; National City acquired the building in 1933 from Guardian Savings & Trust, a casualty of Great Depression bank runs. Now it's a PNC Bank branch. 623 Euclid Ave." - Cleveland Magazine (December 2011)

That neighborhood is calling our for a TJs or a Balducci's, but Id be really pleased if Heinen's drops a store there and classes-up that strip again.

And they're going to get Historic Tax Credits for this? - Sheesh! Something's wrong

There's a website called Garfield minus Garfield. It's a collection of images from the famous strip but they've all had Garfield removed. I hope you'll agree that it's somewhat apropos to our conversation about Millennia's sorry choice for the new name. http://garfieldminusgarfield.net/page/848

Integrity is a plus. What obscure reference could they have possibly used to come up with Corning?

Thanks Guys, Even no news is some news. I look forward to checking it out on my next trip to C-town, possibly this Spring.

@ Willy - I know this is drifting off topic, but I'm under the impression Cuy Cty plans to relight the bridges in the flats (I don't know who, and I don't know what budget). I wonder who's on that project and whether they would be the person to reach out to in order to put some wind on that wave by asking them to influence relighting the Fed Courthouse. Seems very pipe-dreamy to me, but the right folk with the right influence are the only people who're really needed to make that happen.

Egads, it's been over a month since anyone's mentioned the Schofield here. Has anyone taken a stroll past, or have news or photos to share? I'm out of town, but this is one of my favorite projects to keep up with in Cleveland. Thanks

^ @ W28th I'm all for skyline diversity, but a flat top tower hardly adds that to Cleveland. I'd suggest most of the towers downtown are flat topped. Only those with more interesting treatments are able to stand out in a meaningful way. Even with a flat top though, the height of this tower & the unique surface treatments will make it distinctive anyway. I think this project is great. I'm curious what they come up with for the final version. I'm still holding out hope for something more distinctive for the upper part of the tower. As it is, there's nothing particularly memorable or unique about it. The tower portion is just ordinary and OK, but if it goes on to gets built as is, it'll hardly be an embarrassment to the city.

I'd suggest that CLE is a placeholder for CB2, if you're familiar with that retailer's branding.

^ If wishes were horses, Beggars would ride. If turnips were bayonets, I'd wear one by my side. If, ifs and ands were pots and pans, ther'd be no need for tinkers hands. If, ifs and buts were candy and nuts, we’d all have a merry Christmas. :)

^ Kimpton does an outstanding job with their in-house restaurants. Most are at street level and become destinations of themselves.

"No orange barrels" is the call for no traffic snarling orange barrels and unsightly government related projects, plus road & bridge construction, public square renovation, etc. There is no such call to halt private construction projects by developers on private property. For goodness sake, there's certainly no hope among local officials and civic boosters to delay projects like this one, but to encourage them. I'm curious how people in several places in this thread have come to be concerned about this.

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I'm relieved. 'Particularly that additional green has been added around the S&SM. The planned reduction in the size of the current planting beds was significant, and I felt that there was far too much hardscaping on the Southern half of PS. The posturing (or whatever you want to call it) by the S&SM Board helped planners achieve a better end product. I'm glad now that this can move forward, and IMHO even that small amount of extra green in the planters around the S&S Monument will help the square feel more dignified, timeless, stately and park-like. - Call me very pleased!

Public Hall = Intractable local union workers. It's not that the hall is unavailable, it's that nobody wants to use it because it is such a misery to do so. (and when this post gets a bloody hatchet for being way off topic, I will totally understand)