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HDR based in Omaha Nebraska http://www.hdrinc.com/portfolio/cleveland-clinic-abu-dhabi-hospital

It was, and I was actually really shocked and surprised to see how much of a vibrant neighborhood it had become on a recent visit to Cleveland. I was expecting a few bars and restaurants. It really has a great retail scene, much better than I was expecting. The area of transformation is larger than I expected also, I thought that the change in the neighborhood was astounding from what it was 10 years ago.

Sounds like a great idea, and empanadas are awesome! If it's any consolation, I know a Mexican American family trying to open a large commercial daycare (50 kids) in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood in a building they own, and the hispanic small business organizations did not get back to them either. The city and the (Mexican) alderman have been a nightmare to deal with on the permit process too. Good luck on this venture!!

The beer capitol Wisconsin is all blue, yet you cannot buy anything after 9 pm at a store...only carry out at bars. In Indiana (also blue), at least near Chicago, large stores cannot sell beer cold, but I think small liquor stores can. Ohio has always seemed way more liberal in alcohol sales than its neighbors IMO.

Home rum? Online booze delivery service thrives in Cincinnati LOUISVILLE Ky. (Reuters) - Less than 10 days after launching in Cincinnati, an online beer run and convenience store service says business is so good, it is looking into expanding into nearby cities in Ohio and Kentucky. Chicago-based Drinkos.com started offering delivery of alcoholic beverages and other party supplies - such as food, ice and tobacco products - in the Cincinnati area on Sept. 13..... http://news.msn.com/offbeat/home-rum-online-booze-delivery-service-thrives-in-cincinnati

Being an SOM building has its merits on the architectural side, and even though the aesthetic qualities of the Terrace Plaza may be debatable, also realize that SOM is one of the few firms that also does their own structural and civil engineering. They design some of the best built buildings in modern times. The quality control is super tight and rigorous on their projects, and all materials used in construction and interior design are top notch. I hope this can be saved, they don't do shoddy buildings.

Looked weird at first, but seems it will read as a courtyard building (with an alley going around the back perimeter) from Lake street which isn't so bad. I lived in a Cardinal community in Kent. That was the worst most depressing apartment I've ever lived in....this could never be that bad

This is a pic of one of those Units stores...random find on the web so I don't think it is the Galleria one.... and a Banana Republic from that era

I just remembered that I'm pretty sure there was a Sharper Image. Maybe a Cignal (the higher end version of Merry Go Round)

I think Cafe Sausalito was original too. Someone should make it an UrbanOhio scavenger hunt. I bet if you got in the service hallways the back doors would still have the names on them. It was so short lived that most of the storefronts were never taken over and altered... so you can still figure out what they were by looking at the details on some of them. Although I haven't been in there forever, they may have covered the storefronts over?

Some I can recall: Eddie Bauer Williams Sonoma Brookstone Banana Republic (first in cleveland I think, was the old quonset hut style) 2 level Express (Including exp which was the mens stuff, I think it was the first men's express in Cleveland before the Structure concept) Units (was a woman's store where everything was basics and in drawers and it was all white inside, I remember it because it was weird and my friend liked to shop there) American High (I think was the name, it was a high school themed apparel store) The Limited Victorias Secret Dino Palmiri salon (maybe opened later, not original) There may have been a Benetton??. There was one later at Tower city That's all I can remember, although if I went in and looked at the store fronts I could probably recall more. I think most of the stores relocated to tower city when it opened.

^My guess would be Cancun given the large snow bird (Florida) market for Ohio. Mexico City would be an nice "world city" destination for CLE. Probably need a large Mexican immigrant population for that though which I don't think Cleveland has. From Wikipedia: "Southwest's first approach to international service came on April 19, 2012 when it signed a contract with the Amadeus IT Group which will initiate in 2014. This contract will give the airline the capability to begin flying to destinations outside of the United States. Before this contract was signed, Southwest's reservation system did not have the ability to serve international destinations.[78] Southwest debuted the international reservation system on January 27, 2014 followed by the first international flights which began on July 1, 2014 to Aruba (AUA), Montego Bay, Jamaica (MBJ) and Nassau, Bahamas (NAS). Through the integration of AirTran, by the end of 2014, Southwest will add service to Aruba (AUA), Cancun, Mexico (CUN), Mexico City, Mexico (MEX), Montego Bay, Jamaica (MBJ), Nassau, Bahamas (NAS), Punta Cana, Dominican Republic (PUJ) and San Jose Cabo, Mexico (SJD).

Thanks, those pics are great!

I seem to recall that some of the store fronts were filled a few years ago, wasn't the hat shop on the corner in this building and maybe a small convenience store? If the store fronts are active, someone on the sidewalk wouldn't really notice the blank brick wall above and it wouldn't kill the street IMO. Get a cash cow telecom/server farm in there to help pay for the upper stories as condos, and residents also get great internet speeds. win/win. It's a wonderful modernist building, the first hotel designed by SOM, and one of the first modernist hotels in the US, and most of the interior design was by a woman (rare for the time). http://www.som.com/projects/terrace_plaza_hotel "SOM’s design team included Louis Skidmore (from nearby Lawrenceburg, Indiana and a graduate of the University of Cincinnati) with William Hartman as project manager; because SOM’s key designer, Gordon Bunshaft, was away in WW II, much of the building’s design fell to Nathalie DeBlois, a rare woman Modernist architect, trained at Columbia University while so many men were at war." http://cincinnatipreservation.org/advocacy/modernism/the-terrace-plaza-hotel/

America's 30 Dirtiest Beaches by State http://www.weather.com/health/americas-dirtiest-beaches-state-20140625 Ohio: Ohio is the dirtiest of them all. 47 Ohio beaches (75 percent of the state's total) recorded unsafe samples more than 20 percent of the time. Lakeview Beach in Lorain County was the worst. (Wikimedia Commons/Robert Chriss)

^Thanks for the tip!

A friend of mine will be driving back from DC, stopping in Cleveland on the 4th of July, and staying over night Downtown. He's tried to make reservations at most of the restaurants in Downtown, Tremont & Ohio City. Everything is booked. I thought people BBQ'd on the 4th in their back yard...or is this a normal Friday night in the restaurant scene these days in CLE?

somekindawonderful: At about 5:01 in the video the lead singer is asked where they are based, he says they(the rest of the band) are based in Cleveland, and he is from LA. "The woods of Ohio people, if you are on a soul searching mission that is where to go apparently" says the interviewer. The lead singer seems kinda douchy, and if you look at the bands faces, it seems they kinda realize it. It's a good song though, I keep hearing it on Music Choice alternative channel on RCN cable.

^^Same here, that was a good movie

The first photo is Fanny's Diner, Cleveland Ohio, which I believe was on E 152 just north of Waterloo. A lot of other Cleveland stuff too http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/09/abandoned-structures-photos-johnny-joo_n_5295654.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000063 28 Abandoned Structures Still As Vibrant As The Day They Were Deserted The Huffington Post | by Andy Campbell Posted: 05/09/2014 11:12 am EDT Updated: 5 hours ago An empty, foggy diner with the tables still set. An abandoned aquarium, complete with shark paintings on the walls. A desolate church, with architecture still so immaculate, worship could begin tomorrow.

Haha, no I don't...but buildings like this tend to attract a single and more party type person. Could also be that the homeower stands on it to change a light bulb, or put up a ballon, or sets children up there...etc. It just looks thin if any type of excessive weight were applied. Actually, once at a party I did see a woman with high heels on get up and dance on a granite topped kitchen island, and it cracked in half. Worst of all it was a houswarming and the kitchen was brand new...ooops! It looks like the microwave issue was that the surround had not yet been installed in the first pic...so they are redeemed on that point.

I'm not digging the stove, a built in oven/cooktop combo would do a lot to make it look more custom (although I'm surprised a high rise has what looks like a gas stove/cooktop which is nice...I thought fire code prevented gas appliances in a high rise). I also wonder about the thin bartop being cracked off when a party goer sits or dances on it, and also don't like the oversize box the microwave sits in. Its just looks like the attention to detail is missing from those points. That is my professional opinion. Not to be a wet blanket, it looks nice, but it looks like the developer spent a lot of money on finishes but needs a better interior designer to tighten up the details.

That poor sad RTA bus stop "end of special service". What does that mean? And I would feel like a loser waiting for a bus there

Love Distrito Federal Mexico!

Yes Michelle, thanks for great reporting. You put the "Cleveland" back in Plain Dealer that was missing for a while (and not just on the masthead).