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^^That I like a lot. What is it? Maybe my taste is inconsistent.

I know this has been discussed before but... what an ugly, ugly thing. You go to art museums, you see busts of emporers where the sculptor made subtle points about them through the expressions on their faces. Then there's this thing. Cultural commentary by Pee Wee Herman. I either sound like a philistine or an elitist here, or somehow both, but I cannot condone the prominent display of this item. I can just hear myself explaining it to visitors "See, it's a politician, and he's yappin, and he's got this shovel, see... OK let's go look at the free stamp. That one you'll really like."

Campuses light up on weekends for football depending on what school you go to. At Toledo, it really wasn't apparent that it was a home game weekend around campus during football season. Some people got excited (I did as I love college football), but for the most part, there wasn't much of an atmosphere around them. This would be great for CSU, but moreso for a regional/statewide notoriety thing versus turning CSU into a crazy tailgating school on fall weekends. True. But the Toledo games did put a lot of students in the same place on saturday nights, and that fed into house parties afterwards. CSU won't have house parties unless students start taking over a nearby neighborhood like the one off Perkins. That in itself could be interesting. When we plan parties at CSU, its always at some bar downtown. It would be great if there was an actual spontaneous CSU party scene. On campus residential will help, as will football. But like Toledo, CSU will need some off campus housing for a party scene to develop in.

Optimistic thought: Many projects that were only talked about for years are now, or are about to be, underway.

OK "best location in the nation" is better than the others, but its kinda generic. What about Forest City? That has to be the least recognized nickname of a major city in America. It shouldn't be. Miller/Ratner can't possibly have TM'd the term. Compared with similar cities, we have a lot of old growth in our neighborhoods and our park system is awesome. And how many comparable cities have a national park so close? We're a big city in the woods. I would try to work that in, if only because it's unique to Cleveland.

There is a stadium in the campus master plan, isn't there? I don't remember. I think having it off campus would take away from the benefit of getting a football team. Campuses light up on football weekends. The more I think about this the more I like it. We would have an instant rivalry with YSU.

The structure of the term invites unfavorable comparisons to the much more familiar east and west coasts. At best, people will say "Ooooooo, I never realized they have a coast there too" and at worst they say "Are they talking about Lake Erie? Who are they trying to kid?" I personally would place north coast in the same pile as It's a Plum. Both play off someone else's moniker, one of better repute, thereby belittling the subject at hand. And the less said about "Cleveland +" the better. I would wager that somewhere in 15 pages of the "I love Cleveland thread" someone on here has come up with a better slogan, whether they meant to or not.

Seriously? I cringe when anybody says north coast. As coasts go, ours really doesn't compare to the ocean. Sure, we have a shoreline and Pittsburgh doesn't, but "north coast" automatically invokes the east and west coasts. Not the best promotional strategy, pointing out that you're a solid 3rd among national waterfronts. I'm not saying we shouldn't promote being on the lake shore, just not with the term north coast.

Cuyahoga Quadrangle A&T. They should steer clear of anything marketing-esque like "Chancellor University," which apparently bought out Myers. Hi, I'm the chancellor of Chancellor...

These are very good ideas. I would love to see a better name on the school. It doesn't help that Columbus State and Cincinnati State are their versions of Tri-C, so I'm always having to explain to people that Cleveland State is not a community college. This probably should have happened years ago... Football is necessary to take the next step as a residential campus. None of the other sports have the let's-all-go-party atmosphere of a football game.

I think these were current. TT and the NCB building had the pink effect. Why isn't more done to get lights on for things like this? If not for the top of key tower, it wouldn't have looked like downtown anywhere in those aerial shots. It will help when the TT renovations are done and it can be lit up like before. But we could use another sparkly piece for those blimp shots.

ESPN used some Little Italy shots during the pregame show, including a cool time lapse sequence. I remember one shot of the mall fountain (see left). There was also a shot from edgewater park, with the skyline black & white behind color foliage. But during the game it was mostly just that one view from the bottom of 9th st and a couple aerials. Lots of rock hall interiors. I didn't see any E 4th or Euclid shots. They didn't say anything notable that I heard, just the "glad to finally be back here" business.

Offensive line needs props here. Anderson wasn't touched all night by the Giants' scary defense.

Howards is a mens store I think. Although it may be a bridal store now. I don't think it's the same chain.

This is not good. I worked in the auto industry for a while, and I got out because it was a mess. To this day I'm still glad I did. At the same time, I'm terrified of seeing it fail. It's too integral and we aren't ready to switch. Give us 10 years. I would love for someone to prove me wrong on this. Please.

There's no hope for the E 55th stop, other than industrial expansion. E 34th could be interesting if the KJP innerbelt alternative were to happen. E 79th screams potential but it is too far gone and we would have to lay down a massive new chunk of city there all at once. That's not necessarily a bad thing. Preserve every old structure possible, but what a great area to otherwise start fresh with and lay down the ultimate TOD. Battery Park and Uptown combined! With two trains! :clap: There will come a time to think big again. Let's get ready for it.

Come back north, y'all.

W Blvd & Detroit has density, but somehow the station there fits in poorly. We do have FEB and uptown that I would count as TOD underway. And those high-end lofts on Van Aken. Am I missing any? I hesitate to include downtown Euclid Ave projects because they're more like TO-re-D. There are some possibilities for the current stations. Triskett Towers anyone? Triskett Village? It's well positioned between Lakewood's Birdtown and a farily walkable section of Lorain. Proximity to 90 and the new 117th big boxes couldn't hurt it's viability. I'm not as familiar with stations west of there. I share Cyclovert's sentiments about 79th, but I get that piecemeal won't work there. Quincy/105 is interesting. The new juvie complex may support some nearby law offices. Perhaps some other social services could be relocated to this area from Euclid. It's also close enough to the clinic to justify some spinoff development.

There's an RTA driver on the west side who calls out his stops in a perfect Isaac Hayes voice. "Commin up on... Sixty-fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiifth... that's right." People get into it and kids do imitations.

That's true. The protest may have backfired.

Looked like about 100 protestors, half of them with "Do Not Patronize / Unfair to Labor" signs. I'd seen them out there before, but only 2-3 at a time. Did not expect anything this big. In the background, the bar's speakers were playing "Oh what a night"

I've always liked this idea, though I never knew Krumholz/Stokes considered it. It's a pretty good walk between the two existing stations, plus W41/44 is basically the heart of Ohio City, though Monroe, where the rapid tracks intersect, is a bit south of the ideal area. I think this idea deserves another look! Often times, it seems as if the redline is treated by RTA as a commuter line rather than a train connecting neighborhoods. For instance, how many of the stations have large parking lots within or near the station? I have been told, and I can't substantiate this, that the same thinking which put the innerbelt cut where it is also determined the placing and setup of the red line stations. Urban renewal, brutalism, pro-sprawl era. Bringing people closer together was not high on the value list, and neither was TOD.

The phrases "is administering" and "is carrying out" had me feeling pretty good too.

I think that's the new E 12th being built.

These, most other modern stuff, most of the brutalist stuff, they all have the same problem... they look like they're built for a hostile environment like Mars or the ocean floor. They avoid any interaction with what's around them. It creates the appearance that the rest of the cityscape got intimidated and ran off. Look at that federal bulding. They assume their own interiors are so clever and appealing you'd never be inclined to look out a window. In case you are so inclined, screw you there's 5 windows and your wing didn't get one. Am I mistaken in thinking that "porous stainless steel drapes" aren't transparent? Maybe they are. The Jewish Museum looks like somebody dropped their keychain on the ground. Right angles are OK, they don't make you a bad architect. By contrast, that Soho building embraces the outdoors and has no personal space issues. It doesn't mind riding the bus with you. Would you want it to be grey or black like modern buildings and ugly-day sky? No, bright seems to suit it well. The facade has texture-- rounded columns here, flat ones with a middle thingy up there, it's a party. Come on by. It's great to rebel, but there should be a cause behind it. Where does it get us, to rebel against light, straight lines, corners, or having other things nearby? A lot of these new buildings remind me not of hippies but of nihilistic goth kids, too cool for everything. WSJ says the Liebeskind building "parts the urban waters." :? The Red Sea had to be parted because it was impassable, deadly, an obstacle. Why would we treat our cities that way?