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A charter school in a residential building? I have to think that this would deter some from renting or buying at RS.

Just about the entire block will be torn down. That pretty retirement home that overlooks RockPark will stay (thank god). The building at 105 and Wade Park is where the fire killed four kids earlier this year.

Kind of looks like they outlawed pedestrians.

^I don't see any connection, do you?

Gooden agrees to three-year deal with with Cavs More at www.ESPN.com Scratch one more name off the NBA's ever-shrinking list of quality free agents: Drew Gooden.

I know that the Cleveland Foundation is putting significant funding towards helping create a green industries cluster in Cleveland. I also heard that the ethanol plant (i believe that's it) that takes old pop and turns it into fuel will be leaving Medina county and taking up shop somewhere in Cuyahoga county in the near future.

County gives $150,000 for Square spruce-up Related Links Downtown Cleveland Alliance By JAY MILLER 6:00 am, August 14, 2006 Cuyahoga County commissioners last week awarded the Downtown Cleveland Alliance $150,000 for its minor face-lift of Public Square. The group, which represents downtown property owners and is supported by a self-imposed tax, will use the money and a like amount of its own to install landscaping and complete a long-term plan for a major makeover of the square. Alliance President Joseph Marinucci said work would begin later this year on pruning crab apple trees and cutting back high bushes to improve sight lines around the square. ***actually, work has already begun. The County is paying ParkWorks to coordinate the work.

No one knows. They did have some big meetings about it in May. I haven't heard anything since then. I did some GIS work for the project. I'd say there is a 50-50 shot that the Atrium could land the project. If not the Atrium, then it would go at the old OfficeMax HQ or along the 271 corridor.

It makes me want to play Sim City.

cool stuff.

Now if UH could just move some workers into the Atrium building, then lower Euclid would feel significantly different. Still, the bowling alley will do a lot for the appearance of that part of Euclid Ave.

Good to see about two semis worth of drywall being delivered to the bowling alley today. It looks like they are really starting to move on this one. By the way, it is absolutely huge inside. It appears to extend back behind Pickwick & Frolic.

Baker and Hostetler are definitely in the NCB building.

I've already started a thread on this one. (which just proves the allure of Mr. Hasselhoff ;) ) http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=9808.0 btw, Don't hassel the hoff!

UH gets $1M gift Related Links University Hospitals of Cleveland By SHANNON MORTLAND 3:19 pm, August 10, 2006 University Hospitals of Cleveland has received a $1 million gift from a Beachwood and Palm Beach, Fla., resident to improve pulmonary and critical care medicine. S. Darwin Noll, chairman and owner of the Cardinal American Corp. manufacturing firm in Independence, donated the money in honor of Dr. Hugo Montenegro, a pulmonary and critical care specialist at UH and the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. The gift will establish The S. Darwin Noll Clinical Discovery Fund in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine to support clinical research and education in pulmonary medicine. “We are so grateful for friends like Darwin Noll who express their appreciation for the extraordinary care they receive at University Hospitals,” said Thomas Zenty III, UH’s president and CEO.

I never really trust the Scene anymore (but sometimes I confuse their articles with those of the Free Times). I'm not saying that FCE did spend money to clean up the site, but I just don't know who really to believe about these things.

^yeah, we need him at center.

Cleveland's Big Dig Juvenile Court Is Finally Moving. the Only One Smiling Is Sam Miller. By James Renner YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT REST $20 mil gone and construction hasn't started. Juvenile Court is falling apart. In the midst of record-breaking heat, the air conditioners inside the court's administration offices on East 22nd are failing. Some units are already dead. Others spark when plugged in and must be monitored in case they're set ablaze. Which is a problem, since many windows can't open. Downstairs, black crust that might be dried sewage coats the top of one wall below the commissary where the best deal of the day is a polish sausage that sells for $1.95. At least the elevators are finally fixed. Until recently, the only way to navigate the court was by stairs, so any hearing involving a handicapped person had to be moved to the ground floor. While the caseload for each of the court's six judges and 22 magistrates has grown, the spaces in which they are heard has shrunk. Magistrate Gail Nanowsky presides over a room so small that lawyers are sometimes forced to sit on AC units (which may explain why they break so often). The prosecutor's juvenile crimes office here has spilled into what was once a hallway. The media-relations person types her press releases inside an old bathroom. Slowly, everyone is being squeezed into the last workable areas as lower-level rooms are condemned. Everyone agrees: Juvenile Court must move. According to Commissioner Timothy Hagan, it will. After 22 years of negotiations, he says, the county, the city and the juvenile judges have finally agreed upon a single plan. Administrative Judge Joseph F. Russo is expected to make the announcement in the next few days, ending a last-minute attempt to force the commissioners to keep the court downtown. The new juvenile courthouse will be constructed atop a new juvenile detention center on a triangular piece of property on the southeast corner of East 93rd and Quincy. It's a deal that saves county commissioners some face. After all, taxpayers have already sunk over $20 million into the property.

^odd. the article says that the garage will break ground before the condos.

I would say so. Its as legit as any other project that has yet to break ground.

Domain part II Council envisions Cedar Lee condos Thursday, August 10, 2006 By Michael Marcellino The Sun Press CLEVELAND HEIGHTS Within two years, urban professionals and empty nesters may be watching the sunset from the terrace of their condo at Cedar Lee, one of the nation's premier urban neighborhoods. That's the shared vision of city officials, merchants, residents and developer of The Terraces, a $21 million retail, residential and parking complex on the east side of Lee Road between Tullamore and Meadowbrook roads. http://www.cleveland.com/sun/sunpress/index.ssf?/base/news-0/1155228508101070.xml&coll=3

There seem to be too many hurdles and too many powerful people against this. I don't see it happening unless the Clinic offers something huge to the city.

26 million is a pretty large gap. It doesn't look too good.

leased to capacity?!?!? Great news. But, why are they waiting to make this announcement?

Oh, you and your people ;)