susan miller

That garage is not well built. Google "university square realneo". I researched it. The contractors scrimped on the plan and hung the floors off the ts instead of placing them ontop of the t's shoulders as was specified. The whole thing might have come down like a house of cards. Pier 1 IS apparently moving to Legacy and Mitchell Schneider (now king of retail maneuvers on the eastside) is in foreclosure at his first venture in Elyria. http://chronicle.northcoastnow.com/2012/05/30/foreclosure-suit-filed-against-owner-of-elyria-shopping-center/ Similar story at Severance Town Center - Bally's Fitness latest to go. Pinetree responds by marketing outlots (removing the last few small shade trees to make room). What desperation! Georgine Welo, Susan Infeld, Ed Kelley: Lay down with dogs, get up with fleas.

Thanks KJP. I found urbanohio back when we fought the Breuer debacle, the inane port move and the opportunity corridor. Smart land use, regionalism, local food, corporate takeovers, government waste, preservation of our energy and history. Uh huh.

South Euclid Planning has already approved a lot split, so that the large parcels can be owned by their big tenants and the rest into parking and small sublots. Indeed a few folks have now smelled the coffee that Citizen for Oakwood were warning about. There's a petition circulating: http://www.change.org/petitions/walmart-president-ceo-please-do-not-build-a-walmart-super-center-at-oakwood-commons City Council person Jason Stein signed last night and so did CHUH School Board member Eric Coble. :-) Schneider learned his lesson at Steelyard. There was a hue and cry when he announced it would be a Super Center. The business went international via a blog called The Writing on the Wall by Jeff Hess. In the eleventh hour Schneider and Jane Campbell wooed them back. That time they agreed to forego a 10 year tax abatement. This time, Schneider says he will not ask for a tax abatement. No. He'll build it, sell it to them and let them negotiate that. Meanwhile, local grocers and small businesses will fall like dominoes. Bad economic policy here. Shell game. :evil: Chatter about Severance is that CH want's to put a call center into the old Millikin School property, but wall it off from the neighborhood. How will workers get to work there? "Oh we'll expand Severance", said school board member Eric Coble. A drive would have to go right through the old Severance stables and a wetland. :-( Severance needs to shrink, not expand. Put the call center into the vacated Walmart or in the vacated Topps at University Square. Heck, there's lots of commercial real estate for a call center. Looks also like Pintree, which manages Severance is hawking another outlot parcel. Check their website. And this despite rumors that they'd planned to reduce impermeable surface to deal with sewer district ERU charges. Doesn't look that way. We could sure use an ideas competition for Severance.