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Have any location tv stations mentioned anything? WCPN?

Here are some random thoughts: -Pesht makes the waterfront line look like a genius decision. -The fact that Carney is the new chairman of the Port board is huge. -I would love to hear Stark describe this project. He seems to be a very passionate guy. -I would also like to hear his concept for these projects: unique retail? pulling in many office tenants from the suburbs? price points of the condos? near public spaces?

KJP, Any word on when Stark/Asher will take this project to the city for approval? Will the next article detail the breakdown of uses in phase I?

I wonder when the PD will wake up and report on this.

Has it only been a week since the first story? It seems longer. I think that the Sun should do a special year-end double issue. (No matter that the year just begun)

Does Eaton heat its sidewalks? I like that aspect of Legacy Village.

Interesting..I've been there twice and always had the feeling that it was below grade.

^I am on post #999. I just posted so I could get closer to 1000. :)

These are my favorite two teams. It was an odd feeling. I am glad that OSU won. They were expected to have a good year. No one expected ND to do what they did this year. Next year should be even better for both teams.

Is City Center underground?

X, I agree with you.

I respectfully disagree. I think this is one site in Cleveland that HAS to be re-developed. It is highly visible, and I think that it is embarrassing to have a vacant high-rise hotel right on the marginal. Also, I think that putting condo's in this building could spur more development on that side of the marginal. I would like to see us develop critical mass at certain areas and then hit the E. 55ths of Cleveland. Because of our many unique, older and redeveloping neighborhoods, many of them take longer to come back and sustain any significant amount of retail. You don't want to kill the existing market for the more important projects (whd, battery park, etc). KJP, I completely agree that a city could take dramatic and severe steps to improve the transit system. I do think that such a remedy would be too difficult of a pill to swallow for a city where most just wouldn't 'get it'. (I don't really see any city, except NY or Chicago, that could pull off such a bold move)

Think realistically and comprehensively. Those kids out in Westlake and Bay are not going to ride the bus to their night classes. I wish that they would, but its just not going to happen until there are other factors that force changes in transportation choice. A parking garage that is only replacing current parking spaces, opens up other land for housing development, enables TOD on nearby parcels, is close to the highway exit, and is next to a 14,000-seat arena is not a bad idea at all.

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Um, I disagree. Doesn't the construction of 600 parking spots undermine use of the transit center on the same site? No wonder RTA is a P.O.S. The spaces are for CSU, not RTA. CSU is consolidating a lot of its parking so that it can build housing and misc facilities on the existing surface lots. At the very least, CSU and RTA are to be commended for working together to create a better project.

^Where would that go in Lakewood? It would have to knock out some nice homes along the river. I worry when we start developing sites like the old HoJo. There is not an unlimited market for innercity housing in Cleveland. Besides its lake view, that HoJo is in a very unattractive location. I would rather concentrate our new housing so that we can build vibrant nodes

Wow, I didn't think that it would be so substantial. I knew that it was going to be an indoor facility, but had no idea that it would reach so high. This would fill in a huge gap in that part of downtown. Any word on construction dates or approval timelines?

^I've often thought about what Cleveland would be like if the Rock Hall had gone behind Tower City as was originally intended. I bet that FC was fuming when the decision to move it was made. Here are some random thoughts: 1. I would hate that visitors would have to look out at Scranton Peninsula instead of seeing the lake. 2. Would this have spurred further development of this area? 3. It would kill the TC convention center concept. 4. Where would the GL Science center be? 5. What would downtown shopping be like if Neimann Marcus had signed on? Would we have ever lost Dillards?

I agree with X. This is sprawl. The people who live there will be people who work in Cuyahoga county. I don't see Lorain adding a bunch of high-paying jobs because of the project. Some may think that its pretty and it may attract a championship golf tourney or two, but that won't make up for the damage that is done to the region due to increased sprawl.

University Circle's MOCA flavor Thursday, December 29, 2005 Thanks to a $2.1 million grant from the George Gund Foundation, the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland is making plans to move to University Circle. That's great news for the museum, which now occupies space on the second floor of the Cleveland Playhouse and has been eager to find a higher-profile location. Having its own site at the busy intersection of Euclid Avenue and Mayfield Road - possibly as early as 2008 - should more than satisfy that desire. But MOCA's planned move is also enormously good news for Case Western Reserve University and neighboring cultural institutions, for Little Italy and for who everyone who wants to see Cleveland develop more dynamic neighborhoods of the kind that will appeal to creative professionals and others who crave cosmopolitan urban life. Even before Case President Edward Hundert arrived in 2002 with grandiose talk of creating "the world's most powerful learning environment," officials at the university and at University Circle Inc., the development arm of the city's cultural hub, had been talking about how to transform the area into a true neighborhood with residential options and a lively street life. Once Hundert and his team came aboard, they committed to a "college-town" development they call the University Arts and Retail District. In pursuit of that vision, Case purchased the Triangle, an uninspiring mixed-use complex on the southeast corner of Euclid and Mayfield. That is to be MOCA's new home. The one-story retail portion of the Triangle will be torn down and replaced by a new building where MOCA can exhibit modern masters and the art world's emerging stars. MOCA Director Jill Snyder envisions a sharply designed new home that will dramatically boost the museum's visibility, stature and attendance. But a signature home for contemporary art should also have ripple effects on the entire area - as an anchor to Case's college-town, as a magnet to lure younger, hipper art lovers to University Circle and as a bridge between the circle's established institutions, the Cleveland Institute of Art's brilliant students and the thriving galleries and studios of Little Italy. This project is still in its early stages. Snyder and her board, even with $5 million on hand, thanks to Gund and earlier fund-raising, still must mount a major capital campaign at a time when institutions with deeper roots in the community also are asking for dollars. Case needs to select a developer to renew the rest of the Triangle complex and to move ahead with other elements of the Arts and Retail District. University Circle Inc. has to balance the individual needs of its member institutions with the collective need to create a livelier, more complete neighborhood that will help secure the future of those organizations. But Gund's generosity can be the catalyst to make those things happen. It's a hopeful note on which to begin the new year.

I feel that FCE has been waiting for a big project to help prop up TC. They wanted the convention center. They wanted the County offices. They wanted OfficeMax. All of those projects would have brought in huge rent numbers and would have allowed TC to bring in retail tenants at higher lease rates. I don't see them doing much until something big locates next door.

^Charlotte's skyline is much smaller than Cleveland's. Or have they built a bunch of towers in the best 12 months?

St. Louis is also very far from any areas that could hold sailing, etc.

^Why St. Louis? OSU gives Columbus a huge advantage.

Steele05, That is a very very depressing aerial photo that you posted. Sprawl sprawl sprawl!