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i'm not sure about the price, but check out http://www.tremontplacelofts.com/

Of course. It'll be a surface lot. They want to do a Park & Ride for the Healthline.

Which means that there are three different parcels

This one is just weird. Murder in Medina. Victim's nepehew was locked in a different room in the house when the break-in occurred. http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2010/06/man_dies_after_confronting_rob.html

Press the minus button on the top right. If you do that, it takes away the most useful function on this entire forum--the 'show unread posts' link.

Please kill the shoutbox!!

Directions: Pick out the sentence that does not go with the rest of the paragraph. (Editor's request: EC, if you have some interesting news about the aquarium effort then please share :-) )

Have you looked into the potential funding sources for these projects? What gives you the idea that the poor will directly affected? Is it possible that this investment could lead to greater tax revenues that are a benefit to the poor in the long run?

Exactly. You can't expect a developer to sell off parts of a block. When parcels are amassed, it creates greater value. The developer would lose that value if he/she sold it piece by piece. Additionally, the developer would have to sell at a lower price point that would permit the new buyer to find financing. You're asking the developer to forego his profit.

How silly of you! By not focusing on Public Square and the Malls of course!

Norm is a fascinating character. He is well regarded nationally as the father of "equity planning". It is a philosophical approach to planning that many do not agree with nowadays. Still, is sort of a rock star in the planning world. That said, I don't agree with much of what he supports. He's a smart guy, but his philosophies are out of touch.

Short answer: piece by piece Not that difficult, happens all the time. The city filled large portions of Central and Midtown with suburban tract housing. The city filled the industrial valley with a strip plaza. Now it just needs to aim higher and closer to the bullseye. It has a number of tools in its arsenal, from loans to tax breaks to prohibitive taxes on downtown surface parking. Maybe we don't need to do massive all-encompassing lifestyle centers that cost a king's ransom. Forget phases. Just bite off what we can chew, one new structure at a time. We could even make them different from each other, like in the old days. I'm not sure I want multiple blocks all done in one homogeneous architectural theme anyway. To use one of my trademark football analogies... less hail mary, more dink & dunk. Let's get some first downs for downtown. 1. "piece by piece" Little catch phrases do not provide solutions. I might as well say "dynamic urban neighborhoods". A few very high powered developers have tried very hard over the past few years to build on those surface lots. If it were easy, it would have happened by now. To suggest otherwise is pure ignorance. 2. "The city filled the industrial valley with a strip plaza." Not exactly. A corporate entity sold land to corporate/private entity. There was much discussion within City Hall about the developer's plans. While the former mayor thought that the retail plan was the best strategy, the local councilperson fought tooth and nail against it. Once Council allowed the project, the local councilperson fought tooth and nail to provide as many benefits to the City and region as possible. A side from this project...it is ridiculous to label the thousands of acres that make up the industrial valley as a strip mall. Really now..

So you suggest that the City buy WHD parking lots and build new housing? You think that's gonna happen? I would think that a dynamic redesigned Public Square would do more for filling in the surface lots in the warehouse district than simply maintaining the status quo.

Where do I spend $$ in "bad" neighborhoods? -the McDonald's on Clark Ave/Fulton has the best indoor playground in the region. Whenever I need a little extra help with the kids and lunch, that's where we go. -Eden Refinishing in Slavic Village is the best place in the City to have your wooden furniture refinished and repaired.

Which is not exactly a good thing for an area with a fair amount of reported crime. Again, I am not saying that I consider the Harp to necessarily be in a bad neighborhood. I just find it surprising that everyone assumes Grovewood is in a bad neighborhood but assumes that it's fine around the Harp. There is a definite westside bias around here. The stretch around the Harp has little to no reported crime. I've never heard of the Greenwood Tavern, so I don't really have any thoughts about it. I always assumed the the southern portion of Collinwood was the rough area.

My mistake. There are no hookers in that stretch. When they used to come around, they hung out around W. 29th. The thing you see the most are people riding their bikes back home to D-S or warehouse district kids jogging over the bridge in the early evening. Late night, it is pretty empty except for the occasional person waiting for the bus.

My bedroom window looks out onto that area, so I know it well. Besides the occassional hookers (which seem to have disappeared lately), it is a quiet stretch. Between 45th and 32nd, it is pretty desolate and that is probably why it feels unsafe to you. The neighbors in that area keep a good watch on things.

Actually, that area is fairly uneventful.

is this the one you are talking about?

let's cool it down or we'll lock the thread.

^but when housing comes down in price, then it is not worth it to developers to rehab new buildings. Banks are also less willing to finance new projects. Just playing devil's advocate. I'm glad to hear there is movement with Varsity Village. I just Wish that it were adjacent to an existing node.

Not to downplay this incident, but isn't the shootout that occured in Lakewood last weekend just as troubling?

How lovely it is when our top econonomic development priorities are the demolition of beautiful buildings.

This casino site plan talk is getting very interesting.

^yes, but I'd say that any Browns superbowl appearance would be perfect. How about this: Browns vs. Packers in the 2014 Super Bowl. The media would be falling all over themselves with story lines.