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This OB farm still exists 4 years later although its programming shrank (http://risingharvestfarms.org/news-events/3851017), have discontinued their CSA, and at least a portion of the property is now being used by Vino Veritas Cellars, a winery. I support the idea but people forget how much physical labor is still involved (my brother in law runs a very small CSA) in local farming and how much you have to charge in order to make a living wage will limit the amount of customers who are able to afford local food; and eating local requires a lifestyle change (shopping and cooking more often; eating items that they aren't used to eating) for many people. Reading the article that Ken posted today reminded me that the soil's mediocrity - former sites being industrial uses and the fact that the debris of demolished houses in Cleveland was just buried at the site of demolition (and found in the soil) are 2 significant obstacles for would-be urban farmers.

Yep, still have weekly summer movies. Tuesday evenings at Loew Park. The CDC's twitter is pretty active - twitter.com/OBCDC as is the CDC as well generally. The neighborhood is split by 2 councilman - Kelley and Brancatelli for what it's worth. There's a lot of housing and commercial stock still available and standing along Pearl, State, and Broadview; I'd argue it likely has the most vacant but ready to use storefront retail in the city, but given the general decline of retail in the country; the only way those store fronts will ever be filled is if they have small niche businesses (i.e. artisans) that can also survive with some internet sales. There are very few, if any, demolitions, on most streets (my parent's street only has had 1 from like 100 or so houses). I grew up there in the 90s and early 00s, my family still lives there. I haven't looked at the stats, but I'd be a little skeptical although I'm not dismissive of the claim; A couple of acquaintances have bought doubles there, live in one part and rent the other, don't regret it. That said, Old Brooklyn isn't seen as a 'destination' place besides for the zoo, but it's extremely hard to build off of that besides the zoo is so geographically isolated from the the rest of the neighborhood, and to its detriment and benefit, has really convenient freeway access for going to/fro the zoo and not seeing anything else in old brooklyn... There's no 'hip' artisan stores in the neighborhood (and that is NOT a bad thing)- with the exception of a cheese store on Pearl that opened a month or 2 ago. Housing values took a hit during the recession, my parents house value right now is likely not what it was during the boom; but I don't think the neighborhood has declined in any way in recent years. If you have a day to spend: Arrive by 480 West; Exit to Brookpark road, go onto tuxedo for a second or, then turn left (west) on Schaaf; drive down South Hills - the most expensive, but nicest (in terms of architecture and aesthetics) in the neighborhood. South hills, a sub neighborhood of OB, roughly extends north of schaaf, east of broadview, south of Spring, west of west 11th. Go through a few blocks of South Hills and other areas in that boundary I gave, and hit Spring from Broaddale or South Hills. If you drive to the east, you'll see 176 is right there, so convenient freeway access. Go north, you'll hit the park I grew up at ;). There's also a small trail in the wooded area, that leads to the towpath trail, so if that's you'r thing, you're 15-30 minutes from CVNP by bicycle. If you're into ranch homes [i'm not], you can go through redding, irvine, etc. (also mention here that via valley and jennings, steelyard is a 5 minute drive at this point). Then, go (north) onto broadview, and then hit pearl, hit up the cheese store (corner of krather and pearl) - old brooklyn cheese company; then go down memphis; checked out the sausage shoppe for meats; feel free to stop in any of the dive bars on the street (dina's is the most popular of them; Murphy's law was the basis for the drew carey show), it's likely the greatest concentration of bars in cleveland, outside of downtown and ohio city. If you head north, (to your right) at,, I never was through this particularly area much as a kid, but you may want to check it out, I've biked through it several times, it's quiet and has a variety of houses (Ridgeview, brookside, plainfield, dellbank). turn around, back towards fulton on memphis, then go up the hill fulton (right); check out the streets between pearl and fulton (you'll likely have to backtrack a little here more if you want; they generally may get a little more kept up as you go south; but it can vary block by block. Then go to jack frost; you can go through the streets between state and broadview; these houses may be a little bit more nicer than you saw between pearl and fulton; Relatively fewer doubles on these streets (between state & broadview) than the northern part of pearl and memphis (woburn, spokane, bucryus) oh, and here's a map of Cleveland's building ages, for reference - http://skorasaurus.github.io/maps/clebuildings.html of course, be sure to stop at jack frost, and honey hut on state rd; and last, but certainly, not least, get a drink or 2 at Drink bar and grill, next to the CVS: it's Old Brooklyn's hidden gem. X - Oh, for sure. my partner and I considered moving to Old Brooklyn after getting priced out of Tremont but I wanted a change of scenery (amongst other many Factors) so Lakewood it was.

Not sure of the UO connection, but the building had an accidental fire in it last summer (a stray firework set off nearby was the cause and there was no working fire even though businesses were operating in a part of the building...). It's been shopped (for sale at least 4-5 years for sale) but nothing happened the last I heard.

but that's not in the city of Cleveland :D (west side of Granger Road, in Cuyahoga Heights; know that from memory). 8-) Google maps has that as city of cleveland, it's 3999 stillison rd, cleveland 44105 I'll humbly eat my crow, I was totally mistaken that it was https://www.google.com/maps/@41.4145607,-81.6483172,3a,64.8y,11.03h,86.89t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sqzqPUb2EMpxM7RRX5k-3MA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 I owe you a drink at drink next time :drunk:

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but that's not in the city of Cleveland :D (west side of Granger Road, in Cuyahoga Heights; know that from memory). 8-)

(#76( YES sir also future home of the dirt bike track...

(PAGING E Rocc who'd know for sure); here are some just to throw out, no idea if they're the jobs that you're looking for; but they're industrial. lakeland boulevard, just south of 90; lincoln electric (east 222nd and st. clair). West 160th (south of puritas in cleveland);

yep, you're not far off; covers Tremont, western edge of downtown and eastern part of ohio city Zip codes are NOT necessarily polygons - http://web.archive.org/web/20050209030255/http://www.manifold.net/cases/zip_codes/zip_codes.html That said, there's many data sources out there that as best as they can to resemble the data such as polygons; and I've used http://www.zipmap.net/Ohio/Cuyahoga_County/Cleveland.htm for free and in most general cases, it has worked for me. (fun fact: 44101 is the little green dot that consists of solely the only green area - the main city post office on Broadway)

It's a good model for businesses in neighborhoods who don't get as much foot traffic from potential walk-in customers (compared to Detroit-shoreway, tremont, ohio city, Coventry). Cake Royale does the same in Old Brooklyn. Gentile's did (before they moved to Parma 4-5 years ago). Slices (bakery) and Star Gelato in Old Brooklyn both operate there as well but Star closed its retail presence last year but its production operations are still there; Slices hasn't had walk-in customer service in 10+ years (if at all).

The caption is likely a mistake but Beacon Street in Cleveland was renamed as 49th street (not sure if it was east or west, likely east) (see http://cplorg.cdmhost.com/cdm/ref/collection/p128201coll0/id/942 )

Conditions are said to be similar in Lakeview Terrace with many of those buildings becoming uninhabitable during the next decade. Even at the turn of the century RT had a very high vacancy rate. There will be, no doubt, an uproar if the building needs to be vacated in the near future. Of course there will. But unless things have changed dramatically the vacancy rate is high. And residential buildings becoming non cost effective to rehab is nothing new at all. Several acquaintances (volunteers from an organization that I previously worked with) live in Riverview, the elevators' malfunctioning has been sporadically happening for 3-4 years... Their vacancy is not that high (around 10% based from 1 response, I asked)... one of them moved in about a year and a half ago and after was approved by CMHA, had to wait a month or 2 to get an available apartment... My impression from them is that there is definitely turn over there; as a senior building (50 or 55+), many residents' health deteriorates, unable to live on their own, and move out. Lastly, with the rising cost of viable alternatives (of land; RT has 498 units in it) nearby and that residents (even the poor) like the location: close to WSM, Dave's, Lutheran Hospital, many bus lines, the Rapid Station, and being in a relatively safe area), Riverview isn't going anywhere any time soon if the residents have anything to say about it. Plus, CMHA owns a lot of the land on the hillside behind Riverview. A developer would have to come there with a pretty lucrative offer (for CMHA) and Cleveland's real estate market likely isn't there yet (for a developer to give so much ca$h to CMHA for them to view it as a viable offer and for that developer to be able to make money). We would see the southeast parcel of Lorain and 25th re-developed before Riverview..

What's the details on the construction on the eastern side of the county courthouse on Lakeside Ave, across from the Hilton? Lakeside is 2 lanes.

Interesting; it's across the street from League Park and its entrance. I'm presuming Robert Zimmer is the same one that's an agent for Keller Williams?

I don't drive as much as I used to with the new job... but if I'm in the car for short distances (less than 20-30 minutes); I'll switch between 91.1 (WRUW - CWRU's station), 88.7 - WJCU (john carroll), 89.3 WCSB (CSU), 90.3 (cleveland's NPR affil), and 99.1 rarely. If the trip is any longer (or if it's a saturday or sunday during the day, because the college stations usually play foreign language or showtunes generally), I'll play my mp3s loaded from my phone via cassette adapter. 99.1 (dubbed 'WMMS HD2', 99x, owned by clear channel) plays the same damn 150-200 alt-rock songs from the 90s and 2000s (RHCP, foo fighters, green day, nirvana, pearl jam, black keys) songs OVER AND OVER, and rotate in/out 10-20 recently released songs every 3-4 months... I've heard every song that they've played on it. The truck at my former job only had FM/AM, so I ended up listening to 99x sometimes, and there were plenty songs that they played more than once a day. When I'm driving during the weekday rush hour once in a great while, i'll tune on alan cox on wmms: at least sane and somewhat humorous without being sophomoric.

Spent many hours on that site but it wasn't util you posted it just now that I randomly found a picture of my house from 1930! Thank you. Welcome, we're always adding more photos to the site. /sidebar (I work for CPL and although I'm not a part of the Digital Gallery department, I work with them and can relay any questions or suggestions that you have to them :))

If you haven't already (not sure if it's been posted), check out the Cleveland Public Library's Digital Gallery - http://cplorg.cdmhost.com/index.php/cdm Specifically check out http://cplorg.cdmhost.com/cdm/landingpage/collection/p4014coll18

The coffee shop/cafe that KJP referred to above opened earlier this week; its name is changed; La maison palette cafe 12001 Detroit (address now correct) open everyday 7a-9p Check it out and support my neighbors, and I may see you in there. ;) (can be very easy to miss, since there's no very visible sign though).

That is unfortunately likely not to happen anytime soon (unless pop culture trends change remarkably to the point where Cleveland truly become culturally relevant enough to have such a festival) . The 'mega' music festival market has been a bit saturated for several years and unless Lollipalooza or Pitchfork move here, we're not getting anything music that has 40,000 people over a weekend (unless the Alternative Press Awards are coming back). Chicago and Vegas have the mega urban music festival market mostly cornered (urban in the sense is not meaning hip.hop which is sometimes referred as to as 'urban', but the spatial location of the festival).

Yes. In order to board at any rapid station (turnstile at tower city, honor system at the other rapid stations) you need a ticket that's activated: means you're using it. I think RTA is coming from the philosophy that some people (myself included; for example, I buy tickets that are good for '5 rides' often and going to a rapid station to buy them is usually most convenient) will be their tickets in advance, before they need to use them (since if they're activated, it means you have a 2.5 hour window that you can use it). I'll go to the rapid stop every couple weeks to buy the 5 rides (unactivated) will buy passes in advance; and then activating them shortly before you use them. The inconsistency is RTA's stop-gap solution for having some rapid stations with the turnstile, and everywhere else the honor system... Just an FYI for rocknroller, many of the RTA ticket machines/kiosks, while accept cards, have errors say that they cannot accept debit cards, but only accept credit cards (or is it the other way around... It's annoying and I've seen this for 3-5 years at different kiosks...)

Porchelli (sp?) bistro on east 6th closed around new years.

Hi, Thanks for your efforts! Just an FYI, about 2-3 hours ago, I received an error accessing urbanohio.com stating that the account was suspended; but the site loads for me fine now. :)

That's a gutsy and groundbreaking move and may draw more development and housing that way (Although much of it is still used as industrial). It's across the street from the regional FBI Office =D

not to de-rail this, but neilworms is referring to the cities whose dotcom companies layout their services first to and/or are based in (in the past, uber, lyft, foursquare, yelp came much later to Ohio after the initial rollout, just to name a few) ; those cities have larger populations, and a higher populations who are very-tech saavy (and wealthy) and would tend to use the apps. DC, SF, NYC, SEA, BOS as well as Austin, POR, LA, DEN, ATL, CHI, HOU, and then would . It's also not a coincidence that those cities tend to be the most robust in providing those types of data that some of these services (specifically transit-related ones) rely upon. Back on subject: I'd highly recommend reaching out to Transit App, they are receptive. One of my friends here in Cleveland reached out to them earlier this year when Cleveland's RTA first came out with half-baked version of Real-time bus locations (IIRC, the buses report every few minutes and then they estimate based off that old data) and as a result, they added Cleveland to their app.