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Love the reasoning. #12 Cleveland, Ohio Things have brightened in our 2010 most miserable city as unemployment is below the U.S. average at 7.7% and home prices are off just 4% since 2008. Cleveland still makes the cut thanks to high taxes (income and property) along with lousy weather and sports teams.

Someone go out on West 6th and start waving to the camera :-P

Didnt know this one existed. Kind of cool because its basically live video feed. West Sixth Street http://www.clevelandbarscene.com/west6th/ Others... Zoo http://www.wkyc.com/video/life/community/zoo/ African Elephant Crossing at the Zoo http://www.clemetzoo.com/webcam/webcam-AEC.asp Flats East Bank http://www.flatseast.com/webcam.htm MOCA http://24.123.243.38/ Medical Mart and Convention Center http://www.clevelandmedicalmart.com/about/live-web-cam/ Cleveland State Euclid Commons http://www.csuohio.edu/offices/architect/webcam/studenthouse.html Interbelt Bridge http://www.dot.state.oh.us/projects/ClevelandUrbanCoreProjects/Innerbelt/InnerbeltBridge/NewsInformation/Pages/WebCamsPhotos.aspx Highway Traffic Cameras www.buckeyetraffic.org/ Terminal Tower Peregrine Falcon Nest http://www.falconcam-cmnh.org/news.php Case Western Reserve University Center http://case.edu/universitycenter/webcam/ Cleveland Hazecam http://www.clevelandhazecam.net/hazecam_big Any others im forgetting?

From webcam

http://24.123.243.38/ Looks like the black paneling is beginning to wrap around the corner.

^ I mentioned the difference and the application process. And black children can attend as well. Charter schools have actually really helped black children in poor mostly black areas. It gave children a chance who otherwise would most likely have failed. Just look at Harlem.

I think the thing that makes charter schools successful in many cases, even in some of the worst dropout areas, is the people they draw. Lets say there is a public school of 500 students. 100 of those students have motivation, and parents who support them educationally. The area is financially poor, so private school is not an option. These kids will go through school, and many over time will lose there drive due to their surroundings, and eventually drop out or fail like the rest who dont care. A classroom where the majority of students dont care doesn't create a good learning environment. So even though they started motivated with parental support, the overbearing of students not caring, and in some cases, teachers giving up as well, leads to the collapse of their educational process. So what charter schools do is then come into those neighborhoods, and take applications for those 100 or so families who truly care. Now those same 100 kids are in an environment where all the other kids care, and are trying hard, and where learning is actually occurring. Many more, if not all, will end up succeeding in the end, and graduating with good to great test scores. I personally think the environment is crucial. This is why charter schools can do great things for a neighborhood. It gives that group that does care, an easier and more likely path to success, instead of letting many of them end up failing in the public system. Not all will fail in the public system, but many will, and the ones who do succeed, will probably do so with not as high test scores. The issue then is what do you do with the other 400 or so kids who dont care? How do you get education to become important to these children and their parents. I think one thing that could work is a huge stress on the importance in the beginning years. Kindergarten, First grade - fifth grade. As they get older, pushing the importance must still continue. So even if there is no support at home, hopefully there will be a somewhat strong support system at school. Many will drop off from that path, and others wont achieve as high, but I think it would be better then what is currently happening and you will get a higher percentage who could achieve academic success.

I think the biggest factor of parents wanting to send their children to suburban schools is they want their child to grow up with, and become friends with children who have parents with the same morals and who place a strong value on education. Nobody wants their kid to go to a school where hardly any of the kids/parents care, which doesn't really create a good learning environment. And again, its nothing against urban school districts per se, its just their current state in many instances.

Cleveland spends more per pupil then "excellent" rated school systems such as Westlake and Willoughby-Eastlake. So funding doesnt really determine anything for the most part. The problem with Cleveland schools are the worse backgrounds(mentioned above) and lack of value placed on education from the parents, and in some cases lack of discipline from teachers who just gave up. A good student at lets say Willoughby-Eastlake might not be as good of a student in Cleveland. This could be caused by the other students they would interact with not placing as much value on it, and also unruly classrooms. Good students with good parents can still be brought down by who the child goes to school with. I dont think there is anything wrong with the district necessarily because I think that if you took a high school in the Willougby-Eastlake school district, placed it in the Cleveland Metropolitan School District, and replaced all its teachers with Cleveland's teachers, the school would still receive "excellent" ratings. And if you moved the Willoughby-Eastlake teachers into a failing Cleveland school and under W-E control, you would most likely still receive poor ratings.

Thats a perfect location with playhouse square and CSU near by.

Thanks for sharing. It would be awesome if we could vote on it in the next year or two!

Thanks for the pictures!

I think you might be giving Akron a little bit too much credit and CSU not enough. The new dorms and education building is not that bad

Thanks, and thanks for pointing out the change. Just reread the article and it is completely different then before. And yes, just look at the three preview paragraphs from my original post.

Apartments if I understand your question. There will be three buildings on this lot. One larger on Chester, and two smaller ones on the side streets.

Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald promises economic development in State of County address CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Cuyahoga County will use its share of casino taxes to remake Cleveland's lakefront, county Executive Ed FitzGerald said today in his second State of the County speech. One of 12 points in what FitzGerald described as a "Western Reserve Plan," the proposal calls for the county to partner with nonprofit agencies, companies and other local governments to redevelop downtown and the shoreline. About $18 million could be devoted to the area to draw tourists and businesses, once the Horseshoe Casino Cleveland and three other Ohio casinos are open. http://www.cleveland.com/cuyahoga-county/index.ssf/2012/02/cuyahoga_county_executive_promises_economic_development.html

Isnt Shaker Heights high school only graded as efficient? And they have the highest school funding in the state from what ive heard.

Not the best quality pictures(first one is better) so you have to really look to see whats going on. Taken Monday Taken earlier today(wednesday)

I agree about kids driving the decision to move. I dont think there is anything by design that makes urban neighborhoods less kid/family friendly, I just believe their current state does. I personally believe that by design, urban neighborhoods can be much more family friendly than suburbs. They just aren't there yet, so yes, its a chicken and the egg problem. I think these are some current reason people choose suburbs over the city in todays world. Safety Better schools More Little Leagues (soccer, baseball, football etc.) More neighborhood children. More children with parents will same basic ideals. Bigger yards to play catch. etc. More shopping choices A good point made earlier is that while some city neighborhoods do have advantages, there is no reason for me to ever choose Jefferson or Corlett over say a Rocky River, ascetically, architecturally, or functionally. Rocky river is going to be much safer for my kid to ride his bike, will have better schools, more kids to play with, and more activities for the child, such as playing sports.

I was thinking the same as in where would the mechanics go and where would the roof go while closed if they only closed in the lower level.it can disappear so it would inevitable block the view from the upper decks.

Zachary Bruell's Cowell & Hubbard restaurant to open Friday, Feb. 3: Restaurant Row http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php/topic,6769.msg600385.html#msg600385

Zachary Bruell's Cowell & Hubbard restaurant to open Friday, Feb. 3: Restaurant Row Cowell & Hubbard, restaurateur Zachary Bruell's long-anticipated spot at PlayhouseSquare, opens for dinner Friday. "How do I feel? Like something's wrong with me," Bruell says drolly, musing over unveiling his fifth restaurant in the city of Cleveland. Any stage fright is based on the high expectations fans have for the acclaimed chef's latest venture, he says. "People will expect the same level of performance as all the other restaurants, right out of the chute," Bruell says of the space at the corner of East 13th Street and Euclid Avenue. "That takes a little time, but we'll be there pretty quickly." http://www.cleveland.com/dining/index.ssf/2012/01/zachary_bruells_cowell_hubbard.html Also the website is up. http://cowellhubbard.com/

^ To your last part, not only that, but they will also be exposed to urban living for four years which would most likely greatly increase the chance that they would choose to live downtown or in the city over the suburbs.

Thanks for posting! Looks quite dull in my opinion

The MLS rule makes sense to me. I would like the stadium to be used more, but I dont think the MLS would ever work in that stadium.