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Young and hip? Democratic convention attendees are members of the NEA and AFSCME

Tower Press shares a block with an old Cleveland District Police Station that has been converted into a police sub-station and an EMS office. Because of that, there's always lots of police cars/official vehicles around there. It has a keycarded, fenced parking area. Tower Press is between the Plain Dealer and the Cleveland State University athletic fields. Eventually dorms will strech in its direction from CSU Two blocks west begins a stretch of social service offices that attract a lot of people with time on their hands that tend to panhandle.

In terms of tourism numbers, if you define the Cleveland market as the Cleveland DMA, then you have both Cedar Point and the Pro Football Hall of Fame in this market, too. That's going to significantly up the total.

I'm sure its aversion to risk

^ Correct "One Walnut to close in downtown Cleveland, but chef will open a second spot near Gordon Square" http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2010/06/post_51.html

They weren't that great in the 70's, either. Plus in my major (Economics) the journals and some books were split between the two libraries, Freiberger (lib arts) and Sears (business and science) according to the Library of Congress classification system. Thwing has been redone a couple of times before - it is so chopped up and multi-level that I don't think you could do anything but reduce it to a shell and start over.

On Lakewood bus routes - the #26 runs down Detroit Ave (which runs parallel to Clifton a little to the south) , and continues on Detroit all the way to downtown. It's a local, so the ride takes longer. There is also a Rapid Transit stop in the southeast corner of Lakewood. It runs to Tower City, which is 20 blocks from CSU. There are a couple of transfers you can take to close that gap.

I don't know what was expected, but no creative firm like Wyse is going to set up their workspace so that any of their workproduct (as seen on nice 27 inch Mac monitors, plasma displays, etc) is visible by passers-by on the sidewalk..

I live in Lakewood now, and wouldn't relish the thought of a commute to JCU. Mostly because there's just not an efficient route between the two. You would need to dodge both downtown traffic problems, as well as University Circle traffic problems. When I lived in Little Italy (1979-85) it wasn't especially tolerant to outsiders. It is probably a lot better in that regard now, but it's not going to be like Lakewood.

If you are considering Lakewood - the #55 bus runs along Clifton Blvd in the northern part of Lakewood, goes downtown and then terminates at CSU. The schedule isn't as good as it once was - but it gives you a transportation option.

I would think 10,000 for an exhibition/practice game is OK.

^Restaurants have gone in and out of that space so fast - I've officially lost count.

Are some of the upper floors of Higbee's still vacant? If so, GCP could just move up a few floors

When the GCP was the Greater Cleveland Growth Association, their offices were in the (then) Union Commerce Building. I think the move to Tower City was in the 90s. So they could conceivably move right back where they started, with PC across the street.

To the extent that this type of cycling has a European, especially Eastern European flavor and/or base (which I think it does), the spin-off benefits for Slavic Village could be very good

FYI -- a story in the Portland, OR paper talks about accidents with left-hand turns and how the local transit system isn't "taking action" like other systems. And the article cites Cleveland http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2010/05/left-turn_accidents_like_fatal.html And if you read all the way to the end, it sure looks like they got a local fact wrong "Since adopting its new operating policies in March 2003, Cleveland's Regional Transit Authority hasn't had a single bus-and-pedestrian collision. "We usually have three or four a year," said RTA spokesman Jerry Masek. "

If we are going to cite history to save the building - at least get the right decade. Alan Freed coined the term "rock-n-roll" in the 50's, not the 60's.

MD88 - The overflow capacity is constrained by the lack of runways that can be used simultanenously, right? Which CLE is never going to really have, since it is so land-locked.

Well, that area includes Superior - starting at 18th and going east, you have the PD on the north, and Tower Press building (Cafe Artefino) on the south. Then there are about four other buildings on the south side that have artist studios/lofts. Most of these buildings are about four or five stories tall. Typically around Memorial Day there is an Art Walk in the neighborhood, where you can go in and meet many of the artists. I haven't seen the promotions for this year's walk yet. On St Clair it is mostly one and two story service/warehouse light industry. There are two auto service departments that I believe are owned by the Motorcars chain. North of that are the homeless shelters - and during the day the shelterees walk down to the Catholic Charities building between 17th and 18 and Superior, and the County Welfare building at 16th, and generally do their best to make the area look bad.

As a point of comparison, Burke's runway length is going to be about the same as Chicago Midway or Washington Reagan National.

Driving down Clifton this morning, I saw one of those automated traffic counter things taped down on the road. Measuring traffic as part of the planning process?

A Trader Joe's would probably find lots of customers from the surrounding neighborhoods.

The only good emoticon is a dead emoticon - in other words, I'm not a fan.

Or the closed St. Casimir on E 82 is probably only a mile away.

In addition to Presti's, generations of CWRU students have eaten at Mama Santa's in Little Italy