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Another fantastic night Downtown last night, inspired by the CIFF. I went to dinner with a group of 7 people on E. 4th (HoB, not impressed...) who weren't even going to the festival. Split with them after that and met a friend at the Little Bar & Grill for a beer before a 9:45 show. We saw Wassup Rockers (Larry Clark...director of Kids) and enjoyed the large crowds and the festival atmosphere. It's just so nice to walk out of a movie in TC at midnight and be amongst hundreds of other theater-goers! I really hope FC is paying attention as the CIFF breaks its attendance records every year...

Thanks for posting, Straphanger! This is such a mess... I'm glad that the proposals are in. I don't know whether or not to be at all optimistic about this, so we'll just have to wait and see. Amazing to think that the final buildout would be by 2011...a mere 15 years after initially tearing down the 81 units!

Wow, great article! CIA, an institution that is often lost amongst all the discussions of CSU, CWRU and other high-profile Cleveland institutions, is one of our greatest assets. Sure, an enrollment of 550 isn't anything monumental, but the reputation of many of CIA's programs is known far beyond our borders. As with many other things in Cleveland, many outsiders know about its reputation, while locals don't. I, for one, had no idea that CIA housed one of the first and still most prestigious industrial design programs in the nation until very recently! Kudos to CIA for thinking boldly and for advancing these plans that will ensure its growth as one of the greatest amongst a neighborhood of greats!

great find!

CIFF has surpassed its fundraising goals! Good job Cleveland! Also, I went to buy tickets to a 7:00 show last night around 4:00 and 2 of 4 at that time were sold out. One (Tapas) had even added a second screen and both were sold out! I went for my second choice, How to Eat a Watermelon in White Company (and Enjoy it). It was amazing! If any of you are looking for a film to see today, it's showing at 2:30 and the director and producer will be there. I suspect they still have tickets for it, but get there early, just in case. I've really enjoyed both films I had the chance to see and I look forward to catching at least one more today!

gories?

will do... and about that space between 668 Euclid (Atrium) and the City Club building... it looks like the garage in between Euclid & Prospect was build in anticipation of buildings being built on either side of it. As it sits, it's an ideally located site between two major avenues that features a parking garage fronted by two surface lots...this is my idea of the IDEAL site for new construction...there's already a garage on-site and Euclid and Prospect are both seeing a large influx of new investment. If someone builds another garage fronting the existing garage, I'm going to scream!

BTW, I also heard that Barnes & Noble did not win the bid for the new bookstore that will be a part of the Student Center. [update] CSU Board of Trustees authorized the University Administration to negotiate a contract with the Nebraska Book Company for a fifteen-year period, commencing June 1, 2006 and expiring on May 31, 2021, subject to approval of the Officers of the Board.

Hmmm...not exactly loving the campus architecture on www.gwathmey-siegel.com: SUNY Syracuse: Dartmouth: Are we getting a climbing wall in our rec center? Not a bad hotel (Hoboken):

I like that a helluva lot more than the junk heap Gehry dropped at Ford and Bellflower...

Exactly. So, who's in? Hyland Software? Cleveland Colectivo?

Good point! Now, who are Fred and Ginger? Also, this may be something for another thread, but why does the MOCA thing conflict with the plans for the intersection? My impression was that it would be part of a larger structure...Then again, I don't work for UCI.

"He said the tower had no historical significance and was not a landmark." Well, that's just, like, your opinion, man... As much as I'd like the building to remain, I can understand the need for it to come down if the cost and end result of rehabbing it are just not practical. But what's this about taking down 1010 Euclid and replacing it with a parking garage with 200-300 spaces??? How does it make sense to front our great avenue and its fancy new BRT corridor with a parking garage??? And right next to a historic structure like the rotunda? I say, leave 1010 there, as it fits its context to a "T" and has never done anything to hurt anyone! Tear down the Breuer beauty if you must and take the Prospect-Huron Building with it, but come on, why would you want to ruin the architectural contiguity of one of the most intact blocks of pre-WWI buildings in Cleveland? Where would Spidey swing his wonderful webs? If you look at both sides of the street on that stretch - between E.9th and 12th - none of the buildings were built after 1920. With the plans to rehab the stretch from 1001 - 1021 across the road, why not add to that with a rehab of 1010? I know, it's early, but I'm gettin' ready for a fight!

well, that would still be a conversation, wouldn't it? i mean, as long as we don't just let him go on about things! ideally, we'll all be chatting it up. Plus, the dramatic contrast of the history of CSU architecture is definitely something that we're going to see inreasingly over the coming years. There are already some great examples today of how campus (and pre-campus) has physically developed over the past 100+ years, from the Mather mansion to the Levin College, Fenn Tower to Rhodes Tower, the Main Classroom Building to the new rec center. It's pretty intriguing, really.

great work MayDay! how did you find time to eat?

the difference between the expressions on the faces of the two kids on the right and the woman on the left is pretty remarkable. one one hand, there's amusement, while on the other, sheer terror...

Ah, how could I forget? New Year's Eve in Yellow Springs!

This is great! I haven't checked in on this in a while, but I'm happy to see that it's grown quickly into a celebration of the things that we celebrate in our towns and cities. Here are a couple pics from two of the events that I mentioned in the first post on the thread: Open Air in Market Square (Ohio City): The Feast in Little Italy:

sure, blame it on the search engine... you were with me when I took the pictures! eh, no biggie, I'm just giving you a hard time. perhaps someone with the power would be inclined to merge the threads?

In response to KJP's calculations, a single employer wouldn't have to occupy the entire building. They could probably build something 40 stories with only 50 percent committed to. Half a class-A building built on speculation isn't all that risky, but it still may be too much for a developer's taste in today's market. Still, we'd have to come up with the company to get the ball rolling! Who's growing fast and wants office space, not production/manufacturing space?

Wow, Braun & Steidl/Gwathmey Siegel? That's a big name! I'm even more anxious to see the first sets of renderings for this project. I've got Steve Litt coming to a class this week, so I'll try to entreat him to a little conversation on the subject of our campus's architectural identity...

Hello Urban Ohioans! I'd like to invite you to listen to my new radio show, which will air every Monday morning from 9 to 11 beginning March 20th. What's that? Yes, you've already missed the first show. Don't worry, it was a crappy show anyway...I'm still working out the glitches! Anyway, don't be confused by my name...I go by Douglass Hagan on the airwaves, but it's still me, your pal Mister Good Day! Potentially, I plan to do some urban affairs programming with my 2 hours, but for now, I'll just be playing good ol' indie rock and related genres. I do hope you'll tune in at 89.3 or at wcsb.org!

I agree that we don't need to get our hopes up about this one. We should celebrate the addition of new jobs over the next few years and keep plugging away at growing industry from within our own borders. If we can pull existing businesses from other cities and regions because we are such an attractive place to do business, great! But I wouldn't want to do it at the expense of subsidies and incentives that could jeopardize our attempts to grow capacity from within. Also, thanks, KJP, for that perspective from Detroit!

Well, this saddens me...but it could be worse. Someone could be knocking it down speculatively. As it is, we know that if it gets demo'd that there will be something significant built in its place. Any word on the building fronting Euclid just east of the rotunda?

dude, I totally posted pictures on here earlier! They'd be lining Columbus, south of the L-C Bridge.