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  1. Just heard that Intessa has its financing all lined up now.
  2. I really wish that the the buildings that face Superior would be at least 4 stories. Those existing townhomes look so out of place given the scale of Superior.
  3. Does anyone else find the facade mural to be as god-awful as I do?
  4. Wow, so this would remove 400,000 sf of office space from the market. As well as remove 180,000 sf of vacancy. I wonder how many current office tenants would stay downtown if this project goes through.
  5. I think it is more about making the space inviting to more types of potential users.
  6. It is worse than you described. The woman who spoke is Ellen Connally--the President of Cuyahoga County Council! She seemed in threaten to inject some odd political agenda into a situation where it would benefit no one. While there is no intention to move the monument in the plans, she needs to get her facts straight on what the county owns. She made County Council look bad in so many ways. Also, she ought to know that the City owns all 4 quadrants and that the County owns the memorial but has no say over how the rest of the land is used in that quadrant. It has a long term lease that allows the SS monument to be there, but nothing more.
  7. The budget is $30 million. The $60m figure includes the work on the Mall and the pedestrian bridge to North Coast Harbor. Good design can have positive effects, but won't cure 100% of the evils.
  8. Fairfax goes till Chester between 105th and 71st. Hough goes south until Euclid between 71st and 55th. Fairfax should get credit for the town homes as they were instrumental in making that development happen.
  9. http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2014/06/opportunity_corridor_recruits.html#incart_river_default Very good choice, for convincing urbanists that this project is a positive. If she's ever at a forum with any of the more virulent opponents (especially the Bartimole-Schmitt crowd), I'd love to have the popcorn concession. :evil: Really? Who takes Angie Schmitt seriously though? It's a shame because we need stronger voices, but Angie comes off as narrow-minded, who-cares-about-fact-checking, I've-lost-track-of-all-the-axes-that-I-have/want-to-grind, lazy opinion generator who turns off many of the people who would be swayed if her arguments were made in a somewhat logical and respectable fashion. It's a shame because she's set back her own cause.
  10. That sign was horrendous.
  11. 3231 replied to a post in a topic in Completed Projects
    Bummer. I wonder how long the Staples store on West 117th will stay open, although its copy center is ALWAYS busy. They announced at least a month ago that they'd be closing a lot of Staples all around the country.
  12. I am as well--just because of where it is. This is not a major commercial street with lots of pedestrian activity. It's a dead end of sorts set on a hillside. This intersection will become a little more visible, but not to a point where its a major one. There will be a trail at the bottom of this hill that will connect west 25th to Edgewater Park.
  13. The Group Plan Commission and others have been working on various aspects since 2010. I don't think that they are silly enough to think that they could release a design now and then hope that they can raise up to $30 million in 6 months. The commission consists of 4 working groups-- funding, public engagement, planning & design, and governance. This has been an extremely thorough process. Regarding funding, there are concrete reasons to be very optimistic.
  14. Hmm, Flats East Bank could fit that description.
  15. sure hope this developer starts improving his design--especially with the ridiculous amount of curb cuts. He's killed a number of blocks on bridge with walls of garage doors, curb cuts and awkward set backs where driveway-parked cars have no choice but to block the entire sidewalk.
  16. Before Geis started their recent foray into downtown and midtown, the company focused on developing suburban industrial parks for a couple of decades.
  17. I think it would remain open to bus traffic only during the weekdays. Maybe also close on weekday evenings.
  18. I hope that the developer of Waverly ups the quality of his projects. Waverly is decent, but his projects overall don't appear to be made of materials that will weather well.
  19. And that would be up to the county, not the city. But is heightening the assessed value a political tool that the county department would ever entertain? I doubt it.
  20. I could be wrong, but I think that on the weekends Superior would be closed completed to cars and buses. Then it'd be buses only during the week. Lots of serious cash put into traffic studies for traffic engineering firms that understand the importance of bicycle and pedestrian traffic.
  21. Was there ever an announcement, etc as far as what this "public square revitalization" will involve?? There is a public meeting coming up in the next couple months where more finalized plans will be released by the designer. That's what I understood The plans have been out there for a couple of years now and it is no secret what will happen. http://www.land-studio.org/our-work/public-square-redesign
  22. Michelle does do a great job. She got the exclusive scoop on this story. I am wondering what Stan Bullard would have given to get this news story on the cover of Crains as an exclusive... Michelle does an excellent job and for our sake I hope that the PD can hang on to her.
  23. The skate park is totally separate from the Rowing Foundation's plans. It is going to be built by the City starting in April or May. It was given final approval by CPC on Feb 21.