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Perfect example of internet garbage where they know nothing about what they are exploring

Maybe, but I could easily see it being used as a cover story on a national magazine about lead paint lawsuits (which are cropping up since CA's settlement) and the red changed to the color of lead. In this day and age you need to think about those things.

Maybe it's just me, but I feel like the "cover the earth" thing kinda comes off as not environmental at this point. I don't think they should play it up as they move forward into a new HQ. Maybe I'm overthinking it.

^ I imagine a lot of the kids are "really intelligent" at all of the schools in the district. Some just have better circumstances than others.

^That's great! I believe that traditional grocery stores have been one of the "winners" during this Covid thing. More people cooking at home, and buying more expensive and gourmet items and ingredients. People craving the selection and variety those stores offer compared to stores like Target, Wal Mart. And of course alcohol sales. I personally have been spending way more at traditional grocery stores than I did before, and actually will probably continue to do so once this Covid thing is over. I went to Target for some things the other day and thought I should also grab some food. As I walked around the food aisles I was thinking, man this sucks, they don't have anything good. I think Heinen's will be surprised at how busy they are going to be at that store by having customers spending more per trip than before, and walking out with more items in their bag.

Yeah Topshop filed for bankruptcy in the USA, its old news. Only sell in some Nordstrom Stores. Since the USA has pretty much given up on new store concepts, and tired Macy's/Dillards relies on old boring standbys Tommy Hilfiger and Polo. The USA market is stale AF! Euro stores to watch and wish for: Zara Home, COS, Pull and Bear, The Kooples, River Island. Canada is so good at propping up their own brands, and has some good ones. The USA is so damn boring at doing exciting retail anymore. We are good at bottom feeder stores though.

Is the Holiday Inn to be demolished the building also known as the Hotel Seagate? The mid century one that they stopped demo on because the structure was in good shape and could be re-used? If so that is too bad. Its a cool looking building. I thought it was heartening that they stopped demo and saw the value in the structure.

^^I've been in that alley and that rendering seems a little fallacious. I really don't think that alley is that wide and certainly not that sunny. It's a dead end service alley surrounded by buildings. It's a cool idea though. Isn't this the entrance to the alley off 12th street? I think it gets wider further in, but still, idk, maybe I remember it wrong.

Get people to ride bikes from Summit and Stark county on the Towpath and stay Downtown. The ride from Akron is all downhill (Akron=Acropolis)to Cleveland (except for that Tremont hill), and that is a good staycation. Stop at the Mustill Store on the Towpath in Downtown Akron to see a diorama of the elevation change from Akron to to the Lake Erie Shore. The Hotel could provide a shuttle to the train the next day to Rockside with your bikes. Get creative people.

Simmer down nah, the worst would be a gas station or McDonalds. There's not even a curb cut! Might be a bit of dud, but sometimes the ugly girl at the party is the most fun! Plant some street trees in front of it.

@jeremyck01 Interesting! Actually I did know a few people similar to you, one guy I hired at The Athlete's Foot at Rolling Acres when I was in college at Kent was similar in that he was from Johnstown PA and thought Akron was great, same with this young girl from Western Ohio! Funny thing is I was born in Fairlawn, but my parents moved to Canal Fulton after the 5th kid was born and needed a bigger house. Canal Fulton is country compared to Norton, haha. We always thought of Cleveland as the Shangri La and that going to Aquillon or Nine Of Clubs was big time fancy compared to Thursdays. And of course Tower City and Beachwood Place were like the Emerald City compared to Summit Mall or Belden Village. All perpspective I guess?

^ I agree, it is way overused and I also usually get annoyed by it. I thought this article was more from the perspective of the 90's though, and Akron was hammered during the late 70's and 80's losing Firestone, BF Goodrich and General Tire. Instituitions like Polsky's (1978) O'Neils downtown store (1984) had closed. So me being at Thursdays in the early 90's, I can totally get what the author is saying about the despair and depressed conditions of the time and the attitudes of friends that wanted to get out. My friends going to Akron U felt it was kind of "settling" for something close to mom and dad. I went to Kent which actually felt like kinda getting away. My Dad was a Chemical Engineer at BFG for like 25 years and most of my parents friends worked for one of the rubber companies. I also think the grittiness and despair of the city is exactly what creates a unique place like Thursdays ?

This guy made a 19 hour long Spotify playlist in commemoration of Thursdays Lounge in Akron since it recently closed. I know what I will be listening to for a while.

This has to be the best description/rememberance of one of my favorite places ever! I can't even tell you how many nights I spent there as a student at Kent, and how it shaped my life, perception of things and musical taste post High School. Will always remember Barb and Fred(RIP) and their kids. What a magical place. My best memories of all the fleeting friendships I forged, and the night Barb shooed some troublemakers out the door with a broom. A Remembrance for Thursday's Lounge in Akron

Beautiful pics, nice job! The lawns downtown will always bug me weirdly and just don't fit. Nobody is ever on them. But that is my weird pet peeve.

I don't live in a very upscale neighborhood in Chicago but they run street sweepers twice a week on each side of the street on opposite days. And ticket cars that don't move. To me it seems like a neccesity, an ounce of prevention to keep the sewers from filling up with trash and plastic...and ending up in lake Lake Michigan. People here litter like its 1970. Even then I have to go down and clear the storm drain in front of my house once a week or it will clog and flood when it rains. You guys are lucky you have slopes and somewhere for water to run.

^I went to visit Kent during Christmas break. Other than Main St and The street along the river, the rest of it was completely changed for the better! It looked great!

Put some street trees around to hide it. The interaction at the sidewalk level is not that bad

^ @kjp I have lived in Chicago long enough to have seen the dark days of CTA being underfunded, broken down buses and trains all the time. I was on way too many express buses that literally just died and came to a stop in the middle of Lakeshore Drive, sometimes a few times a week. CTA has gotten way better. Like 1000 times better, and keeps improving. I don't trust RTA or the state of Ohio to put my eggs in that basket quite frankly. A crappy daily commute sucks. I use RTA when I visit, and its fine for that, reliable on a daily commute, I'm not convinced. RTA gets worse over the years it seems unfortunately. And it's probably the best transit sytem in Ohio, which isn't a high bar. Not trying to start an RTA thing, just saying that is what holds me back from coming back.

Living in Chicago, here is what would make me move after going through this pandemic. Chicago sucks for nature. Don't get me wrong, the city has some of the most beautiful urban parks in the country. I am talking about real nature in the city or even burbs, not man made on a prairie/floodplain. I went to Indy last weekend to visit my sister and went to Holliday Park in the Indianapolis to hike around. A natural ravine with a flowing river, I realized I was really missing that option in Chicago. The closest thing is Starved Rock State Park 80 miles away. That park in Indy is a fraction of what Cleveland has. What I wouldn't give to be able to go to Cuyahoga Valley, Euclid Creek, Rocky River, Bedford, Chagrin, Sand Run, The Gorge and the Towpath Trail right now! All in your backyard if you live in Cleveland or Akron. Such an asset. Having to buy a car...ugh!

I know a lot of people at Gensler. I keep asking them if they have heard anything but haven't gotten any info. Could be that it's out of another office though where I don't know people. Projects like this usually go to one office location, and can be kept secret there from the rest of the locations. Architecture firms operate that way, where the locations almost compete against each other, and don't like to share the client with other offices. If it's the office in NYC, I don't know anyone there for example, which I'd suspect would probably be the Gensler office working on a Cleveland project . Just my 2 cents.

With the old Carson Pirie Scott and now Kaufmann's, I see a trend!

Isn't this Householder dude the one that had political ads where he shot a gun at a 20 yr old 19" tube TV that was playing a mean advertisement about him? Shocking.

I feel like that is where Cleveland is actually more like the east coast than any of its peer cities west. Cities like Detroit, St Louis, and Chicago used urban renewal much more aggressivley to create superblock high rises of public housing intentionally disconnected from the city that nobody had to live that close to. Detroit (Brewster Douglas), St Louis(Pruitt Igoe), Chicago (Cabrini Green, Stateway Gardens, Robert Taylor). Those were all miserable failures. Cleveland never did this, there are no nationally famous "notorious" housing projects in Cleveland, and few high rises. The blight in Cleveland is more of a creep, like Philly, Baltimore, DC and Pittsburgh....block by block. I see that as a good thing actually, I'd rather have rough neigborhoods next to good ones than all of it gone. The fact that Lakeview Terrace and Riverview cohabitate somewhat peacefully in the west bank flats/Ohio City is quite remarkable, and more like NYC.

I agree, this is a very nicely designed tower.