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Yes. In my experience, urban campuses are very different from what's otherwise considered typical. They're more urban than campus, which is what sets them apart from other choices. I personally see no value in balancing a downtown setting with suburban design elements. I find it broadly counterproductive.

It does get used at times, and was part of the original Ingenuity fest. I still hate it though. Leave it to the College of Urban Planning to feature a big lawn buffer that takes up half the lot. This notion that CSU has no greenspace... where does it come from? Until recently, that campus has looked about as urban as the Kent State branch in Salem. Copious surface parking, lawns everywhere, and buildings that look ashamed to be on Main Street. It really has turned around in the past few years, though its adherence to suburban design elements continues to frustrate me.

I've seen doctors bewildered by them. Seems like half the keystrokes could be eliminated. There are more buttons than options at any given time, so why force people to move cursors around? It's not supposed to be a video game. If they're gonna look like ATMs, they should work like ATMs, which seems like a reasonable expectation. Nobody complains about those being difficult. One choice per screen, each option tied to clearly identified buttons.

I miss that Wendy's and long for their return (elsewhere of course). I like it when national chains that usually demand stand-alone huts are willing to work within downtown architecture. It's a sign that being downtown is worth something.

Very much so. They picked a perfect location to build it for the western view.

Recently enough. My parents say that kind of stuff. It always sounded to me like one incident blown up into more than it was. On the good side, my friend founded a frat at YSU and their house is/was on Wick Park. Can't think of the name right now.

I moved to a place on N Portage Path and it's everything I hoped for. What a great area. Rents seem a little high in Akron, but not ridiculously so.

I hate modern architecture and I don't think the interiors look that bad. Definitely an 80s feel. Not really my taste, but as many have pointed out, our market needed to offer something like this for those who want it. If someone proposed replacing all our remaining brownstones with this sort of thing, I'd be all pissed off. But otherwise it's a nice addition to our range of choices.

Pretty cool to have a billionaire decide that he wants to build Times Square in Cleveland. I understand people being upset about the demos and the parking and the possible walkway... but I can't get over what a tremendous blessing it is for Dan Gilbert to be so interested in Cleveland. I hear recruitment ads for Quicken Loans on the radio, and they list "helping to revitalize a great American city" as a benefit of working for them. Referring to Detroit, but still. He's trying to change the perception of this region, and its cities, and he has the resources to actually do it.

^^ Agreed.

"Relatively muted base material in beige and/or grey." Not exactly a style to rally around... and I've seen very little of it in other cities. But here we seem to have rolls and rolls and rolls of featureless, textureless "beige and/or grey" that we put on everything.

How about Chevy's "Heartbeat of America"

I'll reserve judgment till I see it in person, but I've been hearing from friends that it looks great and enhances the big-city feel quite a bit.

I lustily applaud this and all other lighting initiatives. Looks great!

I remember feeling good vibes about this project because it included a hi-rise apartment tower. Now we're talking "mid-to-low" and said vibes aren't quite as positive, at least for me. The STJ facility does seem to exude poor urban design, and bus hubs aren't generally conducive to walkability or real estate value. I think an ambitious housing component is necessary to make this desirable.

Can't speak for the future, but in the present it's already having a lot of positive effect in Youngstown, Canton, and points between. And just think, none of these new plants or plant expansions are on line yet. Once they are there will be even more money getting pumped into local economies.

I'm very happy so far. My philosophy on QBs is to keep taking big strong ones till we get it right. So we got that, and we got the best offensive player who wasn't already spoken for. And what some have called desperation I would call a welcome sense of urgency.

I don't subscribe to the theory that forcing people past retail helps retail. Maybe it does, but not enough to justify the coercive annoyance. If people want to shop, they'll shop if viable options are made available. But if they don't want to shop, if they just want to cross the street, why not provide the best possible way for them to do that? I bet they'll appreciate the respect and consideration. Copious walkways don't seem to have harmed the downtowns of Minneapolis or Cincinnati, so I don't think they'll cause much damage here.

While I agree that the skyline is all out of whack... I also agree that we're more likely to see a convention hotel on the county admin site, and I can't imagine that something like that would get built without a direct CC connection. I also can't imagine a skyscraper worth of $2000 apartments showing up in the near future. I would still reserve the Jacobs space for something truly grand, and solve the residential/hotel shortage via construction in the 20-stories-and-below range. Plenty of room for that. And before you know it, maybe we will actually need a new giant tower.

What about Lamar Miller? I don't know much about him but he sounds like a Ray Rice type RB. Is he definitively a step below Martin and Wilson?

This is well past the point of someone needing to get fired. It has been for years now. And you do realize, I assume, that at no point have you ever paid me to represent you or make a major purchase with your money. That's why this is different than you not liking my private performance at my private job. I may not like what you do at your job, but so what, you and I don't presume to work for each other and we owe each other nothing. Different story for public officials. Different as night and day.

Only if we choose to be.

I could not disagree more, MTS. We can't all be at this table you speak of, so we've hired public officials to represent our interests there. We have every right to expect not only full information but tangible results. If we aren't getting those, we need to make an informed decision about how to proceed, i.e. what needs to change.

We keep getting told that RTA is "negotiating" with the fare machine people, searching for a solution... which is completely unacceptable. These things have been embarrassing our city for years, actively turning people against transit. They need to go, now, and everyone at RTA responsible for letting it get to this point also needs to go, now. Not negotiable. What a disgrace.

Agree with clvlndr, you can't not have parking. That isn't a solution. But there are good and bad ways to have parking and I do hope that UCI makes sure there's no pedestrian dead zone here. Shouldn't be too difficult.