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Lorenzo Carter

Order was restored, nobody got shot.

I just saw something interesting. I was riding Red Line west to 117th. Three teens were getting off at W 98th and suddenly a big fight started. It looked like someone was waiting at the station and attacked as soon as the door opened. But it started where I couldn't see and I'm not sure who jumped whom. The fight ended up back on the train, which closed up and started moving, to everyone's dismay. Things settled down a bit but started up again as soon as the doors opened at 117th. Luckily there were about 12 police there, who took control quickly. Several of them ran right past me with guns drawn. I'm curious to see if a) this makes the news at all, and b) whether there's some bigger story to it.

Not sure what sorts of crime he's referring to. Mankind's history is not a pretty one, especially in areas/periods of rapid decline.

The Red Line barely leaves the city except for East Cleveland and possibly brief crossings of the Lakewood and maybe Brook Park borders. It was designed mainly to shuttle people back and forth between the residential, industrial, and downtown areas of the city proper. At a time when the demographics were different, but not drastically so, not along the East Side portion of the Red Line at least. What truly is different now is that the kinds of lawlessness that are now routine were not tolerated back then. Not within the Black community, not in Little Italy, not anywhere. I agree, except that what's different is the economy, and no amount of "lawfulness" will fix that. Most people living in those areas today are perfectly lawful.

Like I said, not worried about it. She probably has lots of midichlorians. Exhibit A in favor of leaving out the details!

I don't think anyone suggested cheaper building materials. And I haven't seen the art budget for this specifically, but I've seen large ones for similar projects. It's worth looking into if costs are a problem. And they are at this point, aren't they? I mean, 35 to 50 is quite a big range. I'm not sure that even counts as a budget.

Never heard the accent theory before. Sounds like a winner. Overall I loved the movie. The amount of plot cribbing from the original trilogy was part of its point, which is that stories on this scale are cyclical rather than linear. Or that each generation has to deal with the same BS because we never learn. Rey's power level was a little over the top, especially her piloting skills, which I assume will get explained, so I'm not too worried about it. Luke's rise wasn't plausible either-- he shouldn't have been able to get an X-wing out of the hangar successfully, let alone fly like an ace. As far as people's names not being mentioned onscreen, that's a Star Wars tradition. No one ever says Boba Fett in Empire, and no one ever says Ewok in Jedi. We learned their names from the toys.

There are changes in store for several of those buildings, all of which will help a bit. May Company landing a major retailer would help a lot. Public Square in its heyday hosted multiple department stores.

KJP, you listed two specific exceptions and suggested that only the flimsiest of logic ("tradition") prevented anything else from moving. I'm trying to figure out what the parameters are for the idea we're talking about. Most if not all of the gentrification at issue is happening north of 490. This. There ought to be some workable alternative for trucks so they never use the shoreway near downtown.

What are we proposing here, that all industry north of 490 needs to move? Forgive me for believing our resources could be better utilized. I'm all for applying lessons learned from planning mistakes of the past, e.g. let's not make Euclid Avenue into another industrial zone. I just don't think we can afford to wipe our waterfront clean and start over. We are better off moving forward without the two steps back.

If it were possible to move all the industry from the Cuyahoga to a different river, I'd be all for that. Chicago's setup is a lot better than ours. Even Detroit put its main factory cluster a few miles downriver from the city center. But that isn't the case here. Cleveland will always be more fundamentally industrial at its core. The docks are right downtown because the mills are right upriver. Whatever plans we develop to make it a better place should probably acknowledge that concept and work within it, at least to an extent. We can't change the nature of our waterfront by changing the nature of a nearby road.

I'm not sure bulk transfer represents a meaningful distinction in this context, given that the issue is trucks.

Industrial city? Kindly reset your time machine from 1975 to 2015. When you do, please check the present-day employment data for each sector in Cleveland. Then, revisit your comment. Allow me to suggest a place to find such data: http://www.bls.gov/regions/midwest/summary/blssummary_cleveland_oh.pdf (tip: at 11.7% of the total, manufacturing is only the fifth-largest employment sector in Cleveland) FYI: that was a "website address" for amazing informational resource called "The Internet" which is used by people to become informed on current matters as well as historical reference and context between the two. Pretty amazing resource, if I don't mind saying. Happy holidays! Industry is still heavily concentrated in the flats and the area north of the shoreway. That's why truck traffic is still an issue. Hence this article.

It's still an industrial waterfront in an industrial city. I think some were expecting this project to change that, but it can't.

This piece about the distance between cheap housing and jobs features an interesting Cleveland area map. The "opportunity index" color coding suggests Lakewood is part of a vast misery zone, while Fairview Park is brimming with employment. Also, Hinkley and Burton are hotbeds of opportunity. Who knew! http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/12/affordable-housing-jobs/421203/

Do you really think there is going to be a turquoise line painted on the sidewalk marked as Pedestrian Loop? I think it will be paved with muffins, and every pedestrian who completes the Loop gets to eat one. Each morning, DCA Ambassadors will install fresh muffins into the specially prepared muffin vestibules. Chocolate chip muffins be used only on Mondays following a Browns win.

I'm not thrilled with the wood siding, which looks like flooring material, but other than that I don't think this is too bad. It hits most of the notes I want it to hit. The exterior doesn't appear to be stapled on, and overall, it doesn't look like an equipment shed. Maybe I'm damning it with faint praise. Either way, I too would be happy with a few dozen of these in a line from Case to CSU.

The org behind the NYE event noted in its cancellation announcement that the corporate and foundation funding sources they would normally depend on had already been tapped out by park renovation demands. And programming is within the Group Plan Commission's charge as well, is it not? There was even talk that IF anything was left over after paying for all these park renovations, it could or would be used for events. I don't believe there is any law or regulation that would prevent programming from moving up the priority chain vs art installations or flower beds or anything else. I also don't believe there is any legal requirement that every art installation has to be as bad as what we've seen so far.

Does anyone really consider the quality of incidental art installations when deciding whether to spend time in a large yard downtown? I don't think any amount of... this kind of stuff... is going to make a lick of difference. It costs money though, as did each of those renderings. Meanwhile, Cleveland just canceled its downtown NYE festival (a couple weeks out, embarrassingly enough) due to a lack of available funds.

Agreed, the art is not appropriate but the water feature was. Were any studies done as to how often "informal leagues" actually used the space? I work in full view of this area and I've not seen much of that if any. And is the "pedestrian fitness loop" really just a turquoise line around the edge? Are we calling that a feature? People are already welcome to walk around any sidewalk they choose. While the plan continues to acknowledge that programming is needed, I think it's time they shifted efforts to actual programming instead of investing more time into additional park designs. Increasingly it seems like the underlying goal here is to spend as much as possible on park designs.

It's just a contraction for a passive voice infinitive, right? Add "to be" and the grammar is fine. Basically the "to be" is assumed.

Coast Guard station sounds good. Nice nautical theme tying it all together. The Cod gets overshadowed by a cluster of unrelated attractions where it is now.

Too much of the same names on Council for decades on end. Even after the county FBI raids, there's still a lot of machinery to smash around here.

It's at least mildly convincing. Failure to prioritize could be seen a non-trivial matter, considering the degree of responsibility these positions entail.