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What about a small "amphitheater" like they have on Baltimores Inner Harbor. Performers schedule dates and times and they have small fun performances that can actually draw a pretty good crowd if the shows interesting. You have people playing instruments, performing odd talents, etc. When I was there, a comedy magician was performing and he got a nice crowd. It was fun, it would be nice to see something like that. When I gave this idea a while back to city planners they told me that they didn't see public square as a place to hangout, they saw it more as a place to pass through so I hope their minds have since been changed

just a quick question since you brought up east 4th street. Whats the deal with the puddle always formed on the euclid side of the street? Seems to always be there.

Randomly found this. Kid from Cleveland Heights Zachary Reed Billie Jean

This guy needs to go. How can we continue to re-elect this guy.

how about a bike lane? Like this picture urbanforever took of Montreal.

It is depressing when you see what kind of cities are growing and what kind of cities are shrinking. America is going to fuck itself over if we dont do something about this.

Right now id even just take a thumbs up to know at least something good is happing there.

Cleveland State's elementary school seems like it could become an interesting option in the future. And doesn't John Hay High School have higher requirements?

I think in order to accommodate the new casino traffic we should just demolish it all and run a nice highway through it. Turn the remaining space into parking. Genius, I know. :roll:

Key Tower is too thin anyways. I would like to see a coffee shop in one corner and something else small in the other. At least add some life over there

I added more pictures. If it is inappropriate please tell me. I will delete them immediately.

I saw a video and I thought this could possibly be one of the best views of the city. It makes me wish Key Tower had an Observation deck.

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Im just afraid Public Square is too far gone in the sense that there is no true reason to go their unless your waiting for a bus. The square is mostly surrounded by "useless" buildings in terms of creating foot traffic. The skyscraper killed public square. Key tower offers nothing to square. 200 public square as well. The old courthouse also creates a dead zone. Now I love the Terminal Tower but it too does take some life away from the square and creates a lifeless wall, like by the Renaissance. I love the Terminal Tower but it does sort of have the effect. Our buildings of the past interacted with the square. They offered street level activity.

Great pics! Thanks! This might be a dumb question but can you get by speaking english there?

Cleveland school officials consider selling historic downtown headquarters CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The Cleveland schools' downtown headquarters sits on prime real estate, across from where crews are working on the new medical mart and convention center. The property's potential value is not lost on a school system scratching for cash. Officials are seriously considering selling the historic building on East Sixth Street, though they as yet don't know where employees would move. The six-story, 161,672-square-foot structure is laid out inefficiently and requires extensive repairs, interim Chief Executive Officer Peter Raskind said Monday. http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2011/03/cleveland_school_officials_con.html

Crain's editorial: How goofy It's tough to live in a boom town like Cleveland. So many people are flocking to move within its borders that developers are tripping over themselves to build new housing stock to accommodate them all. What? That's not the Cleveland you know? Oh, you must have been reading those stories from a couple weeks back about the latest census figures, and how they show Cleveland's population fell 17% over the last decade. The same stories that show Cleveland lost more than 80,000 residents from 2000 to 2010, and that its population of a little less than 397,000 is the lowest it has been since 1900. Well, that stuff must be overblown. Why else would a Cleveland city councilman block, at least temporarily, a residential development project at University Circle? Oh, we forgot. Jeff Johnson would prefer we not use the word “block” to describe his decision several weeks ago to delay the submission of a rezoning request that would clear the way for Hazel on the Circle. It's a 59-unit apartment community planned by WXZ Development Inc. for Hazel Drive, which is in Mr. Johnson's ward. “Let's just say I'm slowing it down,” Mr. Johnson told a Plain Dealer reporter last month. Yes, we definitely see the need to slow down a project that already has met with the approval of a city Design Review panel and the city Planning Commission. A project that is favored by University Circle Inc., the nonprofit group that promotes the neighborhood that is Cleveland's cultural center. A project that seeks zero public financing. A project that would bring new residents to a site that currently is zoned for single-family housing, which hardly anyone is building right now — and won't be for the foreseeable future — because of the overabundance of abandoned, foreclosed homes in the city. http://www.crainscleveland.com/article/20110321/SUB1/303219984

They are putting up bricks on the side of the dorms today. Sorry no pictures

Thanks for the pics!

I'm still wondering where that 10,000 number came from

Just a question. It appears that most of the revitalization efforts have happened along Vine and Main Streets. Why havent their been more efforts towards Elm and Race? Washington park could have been extended north to West 14th. Those two streets dont only have a park but they also lead to findlay market and the Cincinnati Music Hall.

Nice

I think its less of a downtown poaching downtown problem and more of a suburbs poaching downtown problem A bumper crop of empty offices in downtown Cleveland: Brent Larkin When Werner Minshall bought the Galleria and adjacent Tower at Erieview just eight years ago, the $30 million price tag was widely viewed as a steal. After all, as recently as 1991 the 40-story tower was on the tax rolls as a $93 million property. And when it opened in 1986, with a cast of first-rate retailers and restaurants, the glassy, glitzy Galleria next door had cost Dick Jacobs $43 million -- not including the value of the land. Sure, by 2003 the Galleria and the Tower were struggling, but so low was the $30 million sale price that conventional wisdom agreed with a Plain Dealer assessment that Minshall got himself a "bargain." Some bargain. The Galleria has become, at times, a ghost town. When it rains, the roof sometimes leaks. The food court is hurting. And at noontime one day recently, I walked past Glitz, a female fashion store with a large sign that screamed, "Going out of Business Sale." Inside, the store was empty. In the adjacent office tower, it's a struggle to keep the occupancy rate near 60 percent -- which is below what's usually needed to break even. "It's Armageddon," said Minshall, describing the status of commercial and retail property along the East Ninth Street corridor. "There's almost no hope. My equity in this investment is wiped out. It's disastrous. I love Cleveland, but there's sort of a poisonous, weird attitude there. People spend all this time muddling on things that never get done." http://www.cleveland.com/opinion/index.ssf/2011/03/a_bumper_crop_of_empty_offices.html

CSU lost today. Kind of a disappointing last couple months of the season for these guys.

Is the website getting less traffic since the update? It seems like it has been kind of slow around here ever since then.