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I couldn't agree more with this. I would dump Burke in a New York minute for something like this (as well as, of course, multi-unit residential development). Interesting the PD, of all people, cite as a (excuse the expression) trump cards "... with public transportation running nearly to the doorstep." Without actually saying its name, you know what they're talking about. Funny how that supposedly waste of money, piece of crap transit branch -- the Waterfront Line -- rears its ugly head as, dare I say, a plus in matters of development and transportation common sense, in the case of the NCTC.... So the WFL naysayers are actually touting WFL as a feather in the city's cap to lure something as important as Amazon's HQ... someone should cry 'foul.'

Sign me up, dammit!

This is a pretty ambitious project stretching a full block south on W. 44. I'm liking what I'm seeing... Lots of good stuff going on the Lorain block between W. 41st and 44th. But amazingly, mixed in with the good stuff along Lorain's south side (stretching east from the upgraded Victorian building adjacent to the planned planned development) you've got 2 used car lots and a substantial surface lot before finally reaching Plum restaurant and Platform Brewery. The Brutalist, blocky Metro Health center across the street from the development is a kinda buzz-kill, but necessary from a neighborhood sense.

^...also a Cultural Heritage Center could stimulate activity in a pretty dead section of the East Bank. It's mostly a spot cars drive by, either short-cutting to Ohio City, Duck Island, Tremont or other West Side nabes. It was the main auto route to FWB until the Center Street Bridge (once again) closed for repairs.

A Cultural Heritage Center would be an excellent use of this property. It's such a handsome and, obviously, well-built building. I would love to see it go into Metroparks hands. Most everything they touch turns to gold.

^OK, this gives a much better perspective. Phase 1 still isn't great in terms of size, but at least it encloses the concrete pad I mentioned so you won't see the backs of units from Van Aken. Let's hope there's some momentum in terms of sales so they won't have an Avalon Station situation. Thanks for the info.

Have you been by there recently? I drove by quickly yesterday and it seemed all of phase one is being worked on but not positive. I was last by there Labor Day weekend... I'm not sure what you mean by phase one. Does it go past the few largely completed structures in the far western corner of the site? I sure hope so, because just those few units alone look embarrassing.

What's interesting is that Cleveland used to have a reputation for tall buildings... Obviously for years, Terminal Tower was the tallest building outside NYC and then between Chicago and NYC -- and, then, Key (built in 1990-1) held that title until Philly's Comcast tower went up a decade or so ago (soon to be topped by Comcast's new super tall neighbor under construction currently). And as for apts, some really tall buildings were going up into the 1970s... In the mid-1980s I read Lakewood's Winton Place (which I consider part of the Cleveland urban grid) at 32 stories was the tallest apt building between New York and Chicago... Then there's Lake View (now Lake Park) Tower in East Cleveland, at one time an elegant building for well-heeled professionals -- it's at least 20-floors and, from what I understand, still a decent building and one of the most desirable perches in Greater CLE, view-wise, although East Cleveland has, er, slid a bit. The massive Reserve Square apt towers near Playhouse Sq, originally Park Centre when built in 1972, is 23 floors and the 18-story Crittenden Courts between the Flats and WHD, is 18 stories. Other than a few more buildings in the Lakewood Gold Coast, that's about it for high, or near high, rise apartments in Cleveland...

^Clearly this building, along with Oil Can (the elegant Epworth-Euclid Methodist church), The Temple (now museum), Fenway apts, and the Judson Manor Apts (among others), will be a dominating UC landmark structure... And, as noted earlier, One University Circle also unfortunately tends to highlight Cleveland's historical lack of verticality among its apartment buildings... Hopefully structures like this one will change this...

Trump's early/mid-80s image of this young (at the time), maverick (and in some eyes, not mine) cool buyer of USFL's New Jersey Generals, which had recently signing marquis RB Herschel Walker, was what rocketed into the public consciousness... Boy, if I could hop in a time machine and go back in time ...

The eastern end of Midtown is 105 St. The western border of University Circle is E. 105. Cleveland Clinic is NOT in University Circle---it is next to it. Regarding "Hough" and "Fairfax", the Clinic is in both. Euclid Ave is generally the border with the northside of Euclid going north being Hough and the area to the south being Fairfax. The Clinic likes to associate itself with "Fairfax" perhaps because "Hough" has such a loaded history, whereas "Fairfax" doesn't carry the weight that Hough does for most people. Pugu actually I agree with your premise that Euclid is the northern border of Fairfax/southern border of Hough and, of course, and the Clinic extends north of this to Chester. Somewhere recently, however, I saw a map denoting the border as Chester, not Euclid -- which wouldn't make sense because these 2 old neighborhoods were well established (in the 1800s) before the 'Chester Extension' was built in the 1940s. So that bolsters your premise that, perhaps, the Clinic extended the border northward to avoid the Hough association... Oh well, enough on this... back on topic.

Dallas obviously made a mistake with its 2-track, surface downtown transit mall being the core of such a sprawling LRT system. Props to locals to man/woman-up, bite the $1.3M bullet and (attempt to) correct that mistake and build an adjoining downtown subway. It would be great if Cleveland leaders were paying attention.

I tend the put the Clinic in Fairfax, although many consider it University Circle. I do not.

Amazing how the color turns a photo from old-timey to more immediate... Nowadays newspapers, mags, websites, etc., are adding false grayscale (aka black & white) images from recent times to make them seem older... most recent example: cleveland.com's photos of the Flats, with some then & now photos from the 1980s of D'Poos on the Water restaurant. I'm like, wait a minute, they had color back then ... I was alive way back then!

No, that's got to be the Upper East Side of Manhattan.

As you noted elsewhere, Ken, our neighbors to the north (that would be the Canadian province of Ontario (population (2016):13,448,494, Density, 38 (as in people) per sq mile!)) is putting us to shame in planning a HSR line from Toronto to Windsor... That one should be interesting. Maybe someday they connect under the Detroit River, via Detroit all the way through to Chicago in a VIA/Amtrak partnership ... ah, with the USA gripped in Republicanism, this is simply pipe-dreaming. ... but at the very least, the Toronto-Windsor Line sure would/could jump-start the Midwest Hub planning or, maybe, serious discussion...

^^The new MetroHealth Line, eh? ... So this is the future of RTA bus lines. Have a company along a bus route throw RTA a few bucks and, shazam!, a brand new bus line, appears - heck, call it a Rapid Transit ... er, bus rapid transit that is... At this rate, all the traditional numbered bus routes will disappear. How about a "McDonalds @ E. 105 & St. Clair Line" or perhaps a "Hot Sauce Williams Line." Pretty catchy. After all this, JoeC can brag that Cleveland has one of the most extensive "Rapid Transit" systems in the world!

^This also dovetails with the fall semester (already in session) at John Carroll U, whose students are regular Green Line users... I'm sure they'll be thrilled they can hang out downtown just a little bit later not having to drive -- if they have cars to begin with, that is ... ... btw, the headline of the Green Line "running past midnight" is very misleading, as the service ends at Midnight -- the last train out of TC leaves at 12a sharp... nevertheless, I welcome the return of the service.

^Transit, my friend, Transit!! It has been LA's game changer.

I like the mini-renaissance that's happening along Lorain, but there's still a lot of gaps to fill; esp those dreaded used car lots, which extend well into Detroit-Shoreway... But things are looking up. ...note: I do get concerned whether this district may reach the saturation point on brewpubs, though...

It's not about the height as much as it is the site size, and the constraints of staging a crane, and being able to boom out. If you rememebr, Stonebridge in Cleveland was 12 stories, but was still able to go without a tower crane. There was plenty of room to move a crane around and boom. You could have a super tight site however with building on either side that require a crane to be above the site versus on it. Snavely project on 25th and Detroit had to be darn close to needing a tower crane as the utilized that whole site. Site constraints are what I believe it comes down to. Most of the Columbus sites are right on High Street, which is their main thoroughfare and right in the dense university district and busy downtown area. And for this reason I give Cleveland all the credit in the world for the flowering and exciting CSU campus district. Unlike Short North and University District, Columbus is the near 150-year old home to internationally-renowned OSU which has 58,000 students who have historically been residential. Cleveland/CSU created something out of pretty much nothing. Until only a decade or so ago, CSU was a cold, concrete commuter-student jungle. It was a dead zone of fast foods and honky-tonk rip-off joints not really catering to students immediately after Playhouse Square. Those converted mixed-use apt/retail buildings a decade ago at 1900 Euclid was a start... Now it is a lush residential college town of green grass, lots of budding student apartments and dorms and bright, increasingly lively commercial district of old and new mixed use buildings. The movement between PHS and CSU is becoming almost seamless (save the gaudy archway screaming Playhouse Square). The Edge is already up and running and soon (X your fingers) we'll have the 32-story PHS apt tower which will further spill over into Campus District... It's all good!

It sure would be great of the New NOACA would throw it's considerable weight behind the inter-modal transit hub. Maybe then, contrary to the paragraph in today's Steve Litt article, officials would be talking about it.

Nice views of an interesting, big city neighborhood. This captured the amazing foot traffic between LI and Univ. Circle, which Cleveland is exhibiting in several neighborhoods outside of downtown.

^I'll add that a major, major plus for our guys is that Terry Francona is the undisputed king of managers when it comes to handling pitchers, and that's a huge trump, ... er, hold card when it comes to long runs in the postseason.

Weird as it sounds, as thrilled as I was about the streak, I'm glad it's over. It had to be added pressure and a distraction to the team esp with all the national media attention for every game. Now the team can settle in and prepare for the playoff run commencing 2-weeks from now. The Indians are theoretically in a considerably better position, talent-wise, depth-wise, heading into the postseason this year than they were last year... but as we know, baseball is a wildly unpredictable and streaky sport despite having superior talent, and bad trends can flare up just as suddenly as good trends or, in our case, long winning streaks (just ask the Dodgers). As we know a batter who can hit a ball in play 30% of the time is an All Star -- but what happens when the other 70% kicks in for that guy, or even higher non-hit percentages overcome the other 8 hitters in a game? And we know that even great pitchers like Kluber and Carrasco can have bad games... But the quality of our guys and our manager tells me we've got as good a shot to win the World Series as any team heading into the playoffs, and there's not a super-elite, super hot team (other than us and maybe the Nats) heading into October ... but that could change. One sour note -- it looks Chisenhall may have re-injured his calf diving during our 22nd straight win on Thursday. If he can't go or go full tilt in the playoffs, it will hurt as Chisenhall has become one of our most reliable bats and is a good outfielder to boot. Hopefully the depth Antonetti has built into this club will compensate.