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I was watching a promotional video put out by in '88... It mentions the All Nations Festival. When was its last year? Why did it decline? Where was it held? Anything comparable to it today? From the video and searching on the cleveland encyclopedia, It sounded like it was a cultural and ethnic festival for multiple ethnicities (mostly European) and sponsored by Stroh's.

Zoup on Euclid by East 4th closed

Here are some photos of that site. I haven't seen anything announced for the sites yet, but if it hasn't already, it would be very soon:

Not sure if it's been already posted, but Churned (ice cream shop in Tremont) appears to be closed. Sign on the door is gone, no hours posted; I peaked through the window inside, equipment on the floor, unassembled.

Amazing. I've been using their stuff since they first started in '12 and am a big fan. If you want to make a very customizable web map, it's (specifically mapbox-studio) is the way to go. They're also doing a lot of innovative work with web maps (hired developer of leaflet a few years ago), also check out turf.js and mapbox-gl if you haven't already. They have also expanded in recent years to routing and satellite imagery that take advantage of the new landsat. I'm pretty knowledgeable about them. I just needed a really quick, simple map, so I just used their web interface to make the above map. Access to their satellite imagery in your maps will be $5/month. The only thing in the geospatial game that they haven't conquered is geocoding (transforming addresses into lat/lon points to place on a map) although they're working on it. I haven't really used any ESRI products, so I can't compare to that. Another solid alternative to them is cartoDB which is entirely web-based.

Wonder if we'll be seeing some infill on these parcels very soon. https://a.tiles.mapbox.com/v4/skorasaurus.ka0bl058/page.html?access_token=pk.eyJ1Ijoic2tvcmFzYXVydXMiLCJhIjoiaEdGTUZWTSJ9.osOC8tWU3bMaNprVNoEu7g#19/41.48484/-81.69835 Several trees were cleared in the past couple weeks and one of the homes on west 20th next to the store became unoccupied.

As a relatively new (1yr) Tremont resident, I wondered aloud on twitter whether Tremont hasn't implemented street permit parking for residents and mentioned joecimperman and receiving a cryptic "we've discussed this..." from him. I'm guessing there's some neighborhood politics behind this.. Any residents or people know more?

The problem is that you can look at 20-30 of the fop upscale or trendy retailers --- and the list looks much the same for them (all or most major metros but CLE have a store in them...) I know, because I keep a list like this... Container Store, Louis Vuitton (freestanding), Burberry, etc... Mind if you please share the list :) I think I Remember seeing it on UO a while ago but it might have been erased with the purge from 2013.

Yes, please tell :) The parcel that I believed we're thinking of is - 101-19-032 - which has been owned by the city since 1975. Were the residents squatting? Are they still there? a quick map of it - https://a.tiles.mapbox.com/v4/skorasaurus.ko5n4flf/page.html?access_token=pk.eyJ1Ijoic2tvcmFzYXVydXMiLCJhIjoiaEdGTUZWTSJ9.osOC8tWU3bMaNprVNoEu7g#19/41.48905/-81.70022

I remember going on a Goodtime cruise 4-5 years ago on the Cuyahoga in the Flats and I remember seeing a white trailer house that someone was living in, less than 50 feet from the river. Does anyone else remember this and where this house was located?! If I remember correctly, it was a little secluded and surrounded by trees.

kjp, is the historic district designation for that area just recently awarded?

Thanks for correction, it is indeed is and have an update soon.

Isn't the lot you're referring to at Frankfort and West 3rd owned by the Jacobs? Ie, the one we keep falling ourselves speculating about a skyscraper? Jacobs' name didn't appear; if i remember correctly, it was just a generic company name, Here's a crude map right now - https://gist.github.com/skorasaurus/72550756c5079f3dd868 - getting aerial imagery in the background shortly.

Doing a little investigation, there's at least one of them that owe back taxes for several years: 101-07-008 (southeast corner of frankfort and west 3rd, across from the justice center; owes 957k, dating back since 2006. 101-07-004 (st. clair, north of psquare, owes > 1million; office building. 103-01-302 and 103-01-301 owned by 1901 e 13th LLC Middough Bldg; seeing this building on here answers the question of why this hasn't been sold or renovated yet. (behind cowell and hubbard) 1299 WEST 6TH PARKING LLC owes 3 parcels - 101-09-035 101-09-058 101-09-036 owing > $75k in property taxes (these lots are the ones next to Barley House) You can find out more at the auditor's site, http://fiscalofficer.cuyahogacounty.us/AuditorApps/real-property/REPI/default.asp and entering the parcel #.

I'm interested how space is used in cities, especially our downtowns. Parking is also included in this because it's a visible piece that affect people's perception of downtown and influences their visits and interactions there. So, I made a map highlighting parking lots that are available to the public. This does NOT include parking areas that is exclusively for a company's employees or residents of a particular apartment building. In the future, I may add that in there. http://skorasaurus.github.io/dtparking should be current with all parking lots that are available to the public. It doesn't have lot ownership, but I'd like to add that one day... With some simple math, could also guess on the sq. footage of the map as well with it. Lastly, the source for making the map is at http://www.github.com/skorasaurus/dtparking Read more: http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php/topic,29504.350.html#ixzz3MjbbJy6n

http://skorasaurus.github.io/dtparking should be current with all parking lots that are available to the public. It doesn't have lot ownership, but I'd like to add that one day... With some simple math, could also guess on the sq. footage of the map as well with it. (down at the moment, it'll be back in a few hours).

A bus running every 10 minutes and begins at 600 am shouldn't end at 915 [emoji57]

KJP, Has he done any projects, buildings in Duck Island so far with the lots he owns? Also of note, a new house is going up in Duck Island ; another was demolished yesterday on a lot owned by Berges, on West 19th, just north of Abbey. The house had a very large fire some time in the past couple months. - The new house going up - corner of 19th and Smith - - This lot was sold by Berges (DI DEVELOPMENT, LLC) in October for $283K!

A several adjacent parcels (00401045, 004-01-046, 004-01-054, 00401043, 004-01-052) forming a nice chunk of land stretching from west 19th to west 20th sold in early October. most of the parcels were previously owned by the Haab bakery trust; all of them are owned by URBAN INVESTMENTS CLE LLC; The parcel where the abbey market is not sold and a parcel adjacent to the abbey market (directly north) - 004-01-046, is by DI DEVELOPMENT, LLC, which is likely owned by Matt Berges (who owns ~12 parcels in duck island), he also owns the Southwest corner of west 19th and abbey which is currently a vacant lot. see this map that I quickly made for an illustration - https://a.tiles.mapbox.com/v4/skorasaurus.ka0bl058/page.html?access_token=pk.eyJ1Ijoic2tvcmFzYXVydXMiLCJhIjoiaEdGTUZWTSJ9.osOC8tWU3bMaNprVNoEu7g#19/41.48484/-81.69835

Speaking of which, they finally finished redoing the intersection of Union and Broadway, in late September, after a year of work! There's now the faux bricks for the cross walks, and a small stretch of Broadway was repaved in concrete. I imagine they also did the sewer line there as well

fleet is one way heading East where it meets Broadway hbecause of they're doing road construction on fleet. For clarification, they're only doing construction on fleet West of Broadway . I can't tell you about by 55th, don't know

I recall reading someone (maybe eyehrhood?) made a spreadsheet/table on UO that listed the top50 MSAs or cities in the USA and a couple dozen high-end chain Retailers [stores/restaurants] and which cities had them. It was quite informative and showed that Cleveland was the most populous city which was without several stores (IKEA). Alas, I can't find this list after quite a bit of searching here. Anyone recall this?

One of my volunteers who lives in Riverview Towers (on 25th, the CMHA complex) attended a residents meeting last week with Joe Cimperman. The Columbus Bridge, scheduled to be opened sometime this month, has been pushed back to December. (mini-rant: This is the 2nd time that it has been pushed back. Originally scheduled to be open in June 16th, 2014, and then was postponed to October. No mention of it on the county site yet. publicworks.cuyahogacounty.us/en-US/ColumburRd-LiftBrdg-1007.aspx This Sept. article from FWC states that it's scheduled to be open tomorrow, Oct. 21.... http://www.freshwatercleveland.com/devnews/brickandbarrel092414.aspx *fingers crossed that the volunteer is wrong* Not verified but the end of this OCBC (bike coop) update, says contractors are fined each day it's not open after 10/23 - http://ohiocitycycles.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=180:with-deck-in-place-columbus-rd-bridge-is-almost-ready-to-open-but-will-it-be-safe-for-cyclists&catid=1:latest

according to the link: * Teens shooting at deer on E. 77th St. & Finney; reported by scanner. (police scanner presumably). (for context, it's a dead-end street and 500 feet from Mill Creek, so I'm not very surprised there's a deer there).

that must be for just the first floor because the Catholic diocese is occupying the other floors of that building, and they aren't likely to move any time soon :P