ExPatClevGuy

Good find. - Still, I suspect the square footage mentioned above includes a footprint of up to 5 floors of excavated underground parking, that will fill the entire lot edge-to-edge.

Oh please! Can we start a new thread with people's opinions about the quality of various grocery store chains. - It can be used as a deep resource for conjecture and personal opinions. I'd like to check here for updates about construction and actual development with the Breuer Tower, without all the sidebars. - Thanks

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Looks like the Westin ballroom is in that space up above the garage levels. This article about the new Sales & Marketing Director includes a description of a glass staircase ascending from the ballroom. - A staircase is visible in the hi-res image linked from the article. I'm just supposing that's what I see there, but it looks about right. I'm happy to see that old dog of a hotel come to life again. I stayed there on a visit to Cleveland a few years ago, and it had a really dumpy feel in the lobby and an awkward arrangement for the garage and guest elevators. http://www.sys-con.com/node/2534844

Mendo, Regarding your comment "I would agree if this garage had some kind of lobby or retail on the ground floor integrated into the garage. As it stands (and will stand), the area around the base is just as dead as those side streets off E. 9th." The first level of the hotel parking garage is on the second floor, leaving the entire first floor as public spaces, check in, lounge, elevator lobbies, etc. - with the garage above. As ugly as the building was, it at least had a moderate, if lame, presence on the street. I'm hopeful for the way Westin addresses the pedestrian experience at street level to be a major improvement.

The undulating gardens seem evocative of the green-roof on the new convention center downtown. Is there a happy weaving of ideas from around Cleveland taking place? - Or, am I just delighted, and thus perceiving such things from my own imagination?

Scale of the Tate Modern, yet Unique to Cleveland. I am VERY proud.

The Cadillac Ranch looked incredibly cheesy, and was an insult to the facade of the elegant historic May Co. As it was a blight on Public Square, good riddance. I was embarrassed to walk past it with guests from out of town, especially with that Cadillac boarded up with cheap black plywood. I sure hope the next tenant assembles a facade we can be proud of.

Here's a little audio blurb on WKSU from FitzGerald, pertinent to prospects for the Ameritrust Tower http://www.wksu.org/news/story/31963 I look forward to some movement on this. It's been a while since we've seen any news at UO or i nthe local press on it.

I remember clearly that Higbee's draped the whole avenue in very large American flags on several occasions in the late 80s and early 90s. - It looked terrific.

The US Bank Building was completed 23 years ago.