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Not to mention who knows how long we'd have to wait to get this tall of a residential tower downtown if it had been torn down instead of rehabbed!

My company has 450 employees and we're on six floors downtown.

Anyone have guesses on who the "unidentified potential tenant looking to lease much of the Halle Building" was?

Agreed. I went to MOCA with my wife and we both thought admission was high for what it was. You basically have this beautiful building and have to travel up to the top floor to really see anything. We were in and out in less than 40 minutes. I've seen more works on display at much smaller galleries. The building itself is beautiful and I love that it's there. I just wish it had more usable square footage (yes, it's bigger than the old MOCA but doesn't really feel like it).

See, parking garages don't have to be ugly.

KJP, impressive analysis. Can't wait till Tuesday!

Well, gotta love West Clinton! :) Just a great, friendly residential street, mostly with houses from the 1940s, some of which have had various levels of rehab. Plus a currently vacant apartment complex that Cleveland Bricks owns and hopes to renovate into market rate units. And an active block club!

They'd pull from as far east as downtown and Tremont. I think they're counting on that more than Lakewood. Maybe eastern Lakewood, but western Lakewood already has a Heinen's in Rocky River.

327, I'm surprised to hear this from you after all the words you spent saying how new businesses that wanted to build along Euclid Avenue in Midtown should not because it wasn't the right fit for the neighborhood. You'd rather Midtown sit as empty lots until the perfect use came around but now you're fighting for a McDonalds?

A halfway house there doesn't sound so bad now, does it?

You would think they could look at other projects that Phillips Edison & Co has done recently to get an idea of what they might do here.

I hope they can get it!

Is Tomo ever opening? It's been just sitting there forever.

The Chipotle is currently under construction in the old "Sometimes in the Silence" theater space next to Barroom near Public Square. Glad to hear they want to revive retail in The Arcade. For some reason, it makes me more excited that it's a Toronto-based company as opposed to locals like MRN or Forest City. Shows that outsiders believe in Cleveland and want to put their money where their mouth is. Hopefully we'll get some fresh ideas.

Now if there were only market rate apartments across the street on West 25th as well.

Great news about Embassy Suites becoming apartments - something downtown desperately needs more of. 232 more apartments! I'm surprised it's that many. It said Embassy Suites has 252 units. But a hotel room is typically much smaller than an apartment. Unless these will be small apartments?

"Apartments weren't part of the original pitch, but [Cleveland's chief of regional development Chris] Warren now exalts the possibility of a waterfront residences, citing downtown occupancy rates that hover around 96 percent." Ding ding!

I like. Hopefully this will make the river much more pleasant to look at.

Looking at the roof made me think they might put a rooftop bar up there, which would be really cool.

Hope those clean buildings still look that good in 5-10 years and aren't covered with streaks of dirt.

Renderings are cheaper than actually having to do anything.

I think we have enough land to build on without needing to create more.

I hope someone responsible for leasing in the arcades is pursuing the retailers being displaced by Red.

I feel they'd all have to move and open at once to get over that "chicken and egg" scenario. Something like what Glazen is trying to organize for Waterloo.

And MRN. And K&D.