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I support it. I think it's a great idea. The argument against that I hear most often is that forcing people to access University Circle via Carnegie will stimulate business development along Carnegie. And for some reason along Central and Quincy too. I think if that were the case, it would have already happened. Those neighborhoods can't get much worse, so let's try something else. Let's try making them more accessible.

In Soviet Russia, verb "to be" drops you! Seriously, Russian has no such word. No articles either, they just say "sky blue" and the rest is implied.

Elon Musk wants to build a transit system that would involve firing passenger capsules through a pressurized tube at supersonic speeds. LA to SF in 30 minutes. Propulsion would be achieved using a series of electromagnets, the same tech that the navy will soon be using in all its big guns. Apparently a second set of magnets would be waiting on the other end to slow you down. http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/07/15/elon_musk_hyperloop_plans_here_s_what_it_might_look_like.html

That's not dialect, that's just expediency. Words need sayin' and time's a-wastin'. Now git!

It's Monday, let's be positive. Recent years have given us "TOD" plans featuring bungalows, rest homes and lawn buffers. This proposal is a sign that our local powers-that-be are finally getting it. And that should be celebrated. We need RTA to lead the way toward dense mixed-use TOD.

That!

Finally! Bout time.

Hard to say. Shaker Square has a lot more apartment stock than Ohio City, so its usually easier to find a rental there at any given time.

Brownfields can present a variety of underground surprises, chemical or otherwise. I'm not sure why they'd have to dig that deep for a skate park though. It may have just been exploratory, to find anything that needs dealt with before it's all covered in concrete.

All we can do is guess, but snags in brownfield redevelopment are pretty common. This case is extra challenging because it's not just a brownfield but also an active shipping channel.

Interesting. For years I've tried to mitigate my southern accent, because that sort of thing is not well received around here. The vowel shift is another matter. That's crept in on its own. Now ah'm treeapped between the eeaccents forever!

1 ER, 7 K in his debut

I'm into my second Cleveland decade and I'm just beginning to adopt the vowel shift. I hate it.

Seconded.

If you want to ignore someone, that power is already inside you.

My bad, I didn't mean thread consolidation I meant CDC consolidation. I did find that other thread, but it's messy and better left to rot, honestly. It's the one where people said CDC's aren't city funded, and I said yes they are, and they said no they aren't, etc. 8ShadesofGray, I think you've just described why I'd prefer to move away from the CDC system entirely. Different neighborhoods require different approaches, certainly, but making each one a fiefdom sets up needless competition. Someone at the top needs to say "Listen children, you're going to have to share that one plaza. Your mother and I are not getting each of you your own retail plaza." This same problem plays out at a regional level, among the burbs, as illustrated by Oakwood commons. How do you judge the Mt. Pleasant CDC against one that deals with West Park? You can't. They're playing completely different games. Counter-intuitively, I think the separation of planning into CDC units actually causes a one-size-fits-all result for all of them. Each CDC "owes it to their constituents" to keep up with others and show immediate returns. None of this "we need a better plan" stuff, the answer to everything is yes, because you don't want to be the last kid on your block to get a new Walgreens. How embarrassing, when the other kids are all getting Family Dollars now. The CDC system creates administrative mouths to feed, which spawns a rogues gallery of perverse incentives: quantity over quality, cheap over solid, sprawl over density, redundancy over cooperation, cynical over aspirational, Chiefs over Indians... come up with your own, it's fun. I believe in one plan. A complex plan, negotiable along its many branches, but in essence a top-down approach. Like a military plan, or a business plan, or a budget. No more development for development's sake, no more keeping up with the Joneses.

I agree. I think 1-2 BR apts for YPs are the primary building block of growth. Building apartments that YP's are blocked from kinda defeats the purpose. I can understand mixing in come dorms for guaranteed occupancy but enough is enough. That's not what the main drag of downtown is for.

I think there's already a thread about this. Consolidation is long overdue. As Westbrook pointed out, many of the CDC's here are simply no good. But from those articles, it doesn't seem like the plan involves reducing them in number, which I believe is necessary. A city with 20-some distinct and unrelated plans has no plan at all.

One could say the difference between those two things is slight. There's something to be said for "recreating the old country" when you have a bunch of brand new immigrants from some specific place. But expecting "the old country" to persist here, in all its homogeneous glory, is another matter. That is segregation defined.

This idea that Mafia = Batman just doesn't fly. Violent exclusion of blacks from certain neighborhoods was the cause of those riots, not the solution. We don't need ethnic cleansing anywhere in Cleveland and we never did. I think this neighborhood's future lies in escaping the "Slavic Village" concept. Wouldn't we like for it to become a new haven for a new people choosing Cleveland as their home? Or couldn't it simply improve for those now living there, regardless of their origin? We have to let go of the past. It may have had better architecture, but it also forced people into tribal living patterns through bigotry. While we can't forget what those people went through, we aren't supposed to perpetuate it in remembrance-- we're supposed to learn from that and evolve, eventually becoming a new community. For this community to take off, its citizens must accept that they really are from right here, not from wherever their ancestors lived. That's the only way they can accept that they're far more connected with East 55th than they are with their own ethnic group worldwide. Maybe it used to be Slavic Village, but now it's a reflection of all of us, and the united community we've chosen not to have.

Sounds like the non-compete deal presumably meant to protect Dave's is now hurting Dave's. I guess you shouldn't do a non-compete deal that's limited to one parking lot. I wonder whose idea that was.

I agree, although a neighbor of mine was once carved up just walking 1/2 block to the store. So that does happen.

Guys, I was kidding. Wow. I feel strongly that organized crime is not part of the solution, here or anywhere else.

So this was all caused by the lack of a Polish crime syndicate?

Cheap rent doesn't distinguish either neighborhood from others in the city. One thing that does distinguish Tremont, in my view, is a tight concentration of bars that have been open for decades. And I believe that asset, along with location, was the main reason why Tremont became the choice over numerous alternatives. And while artists don't constitute a whole lot of population, they do create a disproportionate amount of nightlife (galleries). So to me these competing Tremont explanations are harmonious. Yes artists moved in first, but I don't see a "residential boom" until people of all walks of life are involved. That's when you see the numbers begin to spike. Artists can help to make that happen by opening galleries, which constitute nightlife, which in turn draws the general population. I see Gordon Square as a closer comparison for Slavic Village, because it's more "in the thick of things" than Tremont is. This means more connectivity with adjacent neighborhoods as well as more pass-thru traffic. Unfortunately I think these factors make SV a tougher nut to crack, as it's pinned between heavy industry and some of the city's most troubled areas. And I think that makes it even more important to establish a first class people-magnet in the neighborhood.