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Well, I would have never guessed it, but you were right. They took down everything except the roof and the rear wall and are now building it back up. I mean, that must be due to some regulation, right? It couldn't possibly be cost effective to save an old roof and a cinder block wall as opposed to taking down the whole thing and starting over. This baffles me as much as the never finished grocery-store-turned-storage-unit across the street from it. It's like the bizarro intersection.

Between Cowell and Hubbard and the Idea Center

It looked like the pizza pan/cleaners building on carnegie and 83rd was being torn down this morning. I don't know the story on that one.

Not to get everyone's hopes up (again) for a full blown resumption of construction, but demo work started again today (workers, front-end loader, dumpster, etc).

I think they are just repairing the side wall on the 668-attached garage. A section has been removed for a while now and they are putting in replacement cinder blocks today. Unrelated - I wouldn't be suprised if someone plowed into it, damaging it. While living there and parking in the garage, we once saw a car shear itself practically in half because the driver accelerated forward from their parking spot into the split middle section. Madness.

This is the article, http://www.thegrio.com/specials/the-black-agenda/entrepreneurs-help-state-of-black-unemployment-in-cleveland.php And the quote I think people are remembering from it: Still, Parker chose to get involved. He attended meetings about downtown revitalization. He met the movers and decision-makers in the city, and he hoarded profits from his maintenance business to invest in a black-centric nightclub with an upscale appeal.

^Isn't that what Corks is?

? As far as light penetration, would apartments configured in the Huntington really be any different light-wise than the Statler Arms? Would a lack of large windows really be a turn-off if the price was right? They could most likely do what they did at 668, and make the apartments essentially 'pathways' to the windows.

That was quoted including benefits. Health insurance isn't cheap.

Don't forget Prospect Place apartments next to Carter.

Gotta disagree. When I was riding over the winter, at least 1 in 5 trips in the morning I would have to flash my CSU card to a pair of RTA police. Only in the mornings though (and often during the worst weather). Of course they often stupidly both entered through the front door and there would be a mass exodus of freeloaders screaming "back door" at the bus driver and then stampeding out. Though, why is it out of the question that the free trolley use the bus lane? The regular non-healthline buses do it all the time. And to be on topic, why not have a policy where you can show your PHS ticket or E. 4th dinner receipt to the bus driver to get a free ride from one place to the other?

No, in his commencement speech he said something along the lines of "If you had told me when I was a student here that I would be the commencement speaker in 1997, I would have told you to get out of here and put that towel back under your door." And that bar would have been the Crystal, and no, I wouldn't make any broad generalizations about the student body of OU or their parents from the clientele there.

Lots of discussion on this here: http://www.bobcatattack.com/messageboard/topic.asp?FromPage=1&ForumPID=6&PID=32570 Having lived in Athens for many years, I really don't see this being detrimental to the city or University. Most people will yawn and say, "we/they weren't already?".

Both, as well as the Rose Building. Don't count on the buildings being improved permanently, I know they are at least planning to blow out windows in the Rose Building (which will be replaced), but who know what kinds of plans they have for what they have built across the street.

From what I can see, it looks like those photos are all of the area where the "tube" will be. I believe people will be walking that winding path and water will fill the majority of that room. Most likely it is in the basement because of the sheer weight of all that water.

I don't think so. City Club is quite nice inside. Agree that the outside looks like it could use some TLC, what with the brick bandaids and all. As an aside, the Truman building, which is part of the Schofield project, seems to have all of one person cleaning out debris and putting it in a dumpster every day. And it seems like the interior of the building is being used by friends of the developer for downtown parking. There are always a couple nice cars visible inside.

They're preparing the set for the Avengers movie, I think. They are putting up wooden fronts on some of the entrances to the AT tower and the granite faced building next to it. There are trucks and and a lift running around. The "garage" at the entrance to the AT tower is set up as a workshop for building set stuff for now. They start filming on propsect the first week of August from what I've read. Ironically, that annex building looks better now than I've ever seen it. They are actually cleaning it up and opening the blinds.

Speaking of GFS, has anyone had any experience in one of these stores? My only opinion of GFS is seeing their trucks deliver food to my k-12 schools and how amazingly bad all of the school lunches were. If their unit prices are low enough (below dave's, zagara's, walmart, marc's, geagle), and they flood the local mailboxes with coupons, I have no doubt it will be the opposite of a ghost town.

No, there are things planned, like lots of parking spaces and pencil-thin grass medians.

Goodbye, old friend.

Yeah, of course as soon as I said that it goes back to hibernation. The porta john is still there.

Just a report from a walk around the block: -Work is ongoing at Dredger's Union. It looks nice inside, though still quite empty. I was a little disappointed they are using painted plywood for signage above the doors, covering up the (admittedly deteriorated) facade. -In between the Columbia and Stanley there are barricades with Coon Restoration tagged on them. http://www.coonrestoration.com/projects.html My guess is they will be doing the restoration work on the Stanley. -Sushi 86 has successfully opened at the Colonial Arcade. -It looks like the former Kent CUDC space above Winking Lizard has been leased, and they are doing work on the inside. -Despite what I thought were the indications that work might be restarting on the Schofield Building, it is still dead as a doornail.

When I walk home from university station I pass by this. I believe it's just a small crew doing the work, hence the slow-goingness. The signs said that the new place was going to be called Myxx "dine-drink-degage". This is the article that I found about it when I first looked into it: http://www.heightsobserver.org/read/2011/05/03/myxx-to-open-at-former-jillians-space

No, just outside the budget.

It looks like construction is resuming or soon will. Hard hats were on site and setting up porta-johns.