Coneybear

Hopefully a nice apartment/condo building can go up across from the hotel pretty quickly. The banks will hopefully be lending again by then. I don't like the bare lawn, but it's supposed to be temporary. Let's just hope it isn't around for too long.

I was going to suggest something like that too. There's multiple other options. They don't have to tear down the Columbia or the Stanley.

I'd much rather them tear down the run-down Stanley building than the Columbia building. We need to start making phone calls.

Great news! Didn't this take some construction? This is what it's supposed to look like last time I checked: http://clevelandrows.webuda.com/sites/default/files/RivergateSketch_LRG.gif I'm not sure how construction like that could have made it past our radars.

^ I know that the older parts of Burke acted as a landfill before there were government standards. So a lot of it is just filled with all kinds of garbage. However, that part of the picture that is filled with water is a newer section of Burke made with dredgings from the Cuyahoga, so it should not be unstable.

Great news! Tyler Village is looking like it's becoming a great success!

Yeah I hear a lot of that land around Burke is pretty unstable. I don't understand what's so hard about creating land that is stable enough to hold large structures. The Aztecs sure had it figured out when they built Tenochtitlan centuries ago.

^ It's part of the parking garage/welcome center. Here's another rendering of the building complex as seen from Prospect: http://media.cleveland.com/metro/photo/casinogaragejpg-c98b65961b8fa8fe.jpg Also, I agree that losing the Columbia building would be worse than losing the Stanley building. It's large, more attractive, and will be much easier to rehab. Wasn't it just recently used by Myers College a few years ago?

This is all so frustrating because Dan Gilbert has always acted so urban-friendly, yet now he is okay with tearing down historic buildings for parking garages.

But aren't they going to build a huge parking lot under the Huron Casino as well? Or do they seriously expect all that parking to be full just for the casino in the Higbee building?

Exactly like that! What would be so hard about that? It should be able to please everyone.

Why don't they expand onto the Gateway North parking garage into that green space between it and the Q? It's a pretty big space. Then they could build their welcome center in the lot behind the Columbia and Stanley buildings and leave all the other buildings on that block intact.

I would be able to accept it without the siding.

Well, what are you looking for exactly? Cleveland may be better for one person, whereas Pittsburgh may be better for another person.

What's with all the different types of brick? It seems like a little too much if you ask me.

^ What's up with the blue-green colored section of the hospital building? Is that still not finished?

Wow! I love this plan. Is it common for sports teams to put this much effort into developing their city? (I know they are looking out for themselves in the long run by drawing more people toward the Browns stadium, but still). I do wish the plans included extending the mall across the tracks, but I understand how costly that could be. On a semi-related note, does any else think it would be a good idea to move the USS Cod to either north or east of Voinovich Park? The harbor is already home to the Mather museum, the RRHoF, and the GLSC so it would make sense to add another attraction to that area. That would also give more reason to build that pedestrian bridge to Voinovich Park.

That website is not user friendly AT ALL. I still can't find the Uptown project.

^ Exactly. I think it's a cool looking building, but it doesn't work on that corner.

I definitely want to see that building torn down and replaced with something less hideous. Anyone remember this rendering? I'm not sure how I feel about that particular design (I'd prefer something more dense), but almost anything is better than what's there now.

That list is really exciting, but I don't think Cleveland can support that many more hotels (at least not yet).

It frustrates me to no end that people actually voted for him.

Seriously, Burnham, that picture looks awesome. That's something I'd want to see downtown. Definitely try talking to parkworks.

I thought that the state constitution required for there to be a casino built on the site at huron. Technically they could combine the casino at huron with the casino in the higbee building and call it one facility, but I didn't think they would be allowed to not build the casino at huron entirely.

I assumed that the middle section of the May Co. building would be demolished for a new parking structure to be built.