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Are there any punishments that the feds could threaten if we don't take the money. The country has an interest in having Ohio's neighboring states connected so I would hope that they have some leverage.

Actually the estimate is pretty close. The average home uses 920kwh per month which when divided by 30 days and 24 hours equals about 1300 average watts. So when you account for the solar panels not creating power at night the numbers match up. Instead of reacting with criticism just look up the numbers. http://www.eia.doe.gov/ask/electricity_faqs.asp#electricity_use_home

GOOD NEWS! MOCA Cleveland ready to pull trigger on $26.7 million building at Uptown in University Circle Published: Monday, November 01, 2010, 12:09 PM Updated: Monday, November 01, 2010, 12:34 PM Steven Litt, The Plain Dealer Follow Share this story Story tools View full sizeForeign Office Architects A rendering of the design for the new MOCA Cleveland building, which will be clad in glass and black stainless steel. After five years of design and fundraising hampered by a recession, the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland is poised to embark on a $26.7 million project to create its first permanent home. MOCA's board of trustees is scheduled to vote Tuesday at 8:30 a.m. on authorizing construction of an architecturally dramatic new building designed by Farshid Moussavi of Foreign Office Architects in London. http://www.cleveland.com/arts/index.ssf/2010/11/moca_cleveland_ready_to_pull_t.html

It is supposed to open in the next week I believe.

More people take the Stokes than the University. It is often difficult to get a seat on the stokes during rush hour but not so much on the Univ. The only problem would be that the Healthline does not come at set times so the wait might be too long. I don't know if they can make a set schedule for the Univ buses.

I think it fits the surroundings pretty well actually. As to the scale, yes it is tall and close to the street but the apartment building on ford and Euclid right across the street is taller and a block down is the Triangle which is tall (although not on the street). The building on the corner of Mayfield and Euclid has no setback and is 5 stories and I believe and the new hotel that will be built across from the cancer hospital on Cornell will also be tall with no setback. So with all of these buildings in mind I don't think the scale is out of line with what is already there or what will be there in the near future. As to the aesthetics, the new uptown project and MOCA will definitely stand out from the surroundings and match the Cancer hospital more than the other surrounding buildings. I agree that it does not seem to interact with Euclid as well as it could but I think it will interact with Cornell well. We still have to see what the landscaping looks like but I like that it makes the area feel denser and livelier compared to the area around the clinic. I think we also have to remember that hospitals are going to have different needs than other types of buildings and they don't really value neighborhood connectivity so with that in mind I don't see this project as all that bad.

I'm not really sure exactly what the pop-up mall concept is but I know another place besides Euclid Mall that might work for something like this. The Colonial Marketplace is almost empty apparently partially due to the fact that the stores are too small to be used for much anymore. They might however be the perfect place for students or beginning designers to rent out. It would be awesome if something like this were set up and then maybe the successful boutiques could move out onto Euclid eventually. It would be like a fashion incubator.

maybe they will take the tree away that is growing on the roof.

Yeah I saw that too. After the foundation was done it literally only took 2-3 weeks before the bank moved. I think that the corner building is supposed to come down before the end of the year.

Don't forget the Frank Gehry Business school at Case. I think people forget that its there but its pretty cool. Try to go inside if you can, I think the inside is even cooler than the outside.

I am pretty sure that it is the foundation of the building but I guess I should elaborate that the max setback seems to be only about 7-8 feet but since the front setback is tapered most of it will be less than that. Now that this is finally under construction and the footprint of the building can be seen I think it will actually work pretty well in that spot. Building a new office building on that site that basically fronts the street in this economic climate is difficult to do and I think it will be a definite improvement.

They started laying the foundation for the Geis building in the last week and the setback looks like even less than in the picture. It honestly appears to be not much more than enough room for a flower bed.

there was something in the csu newspaper a couple of weeks ago that said it was awarded and is supposed to begin next summer. Just phase 1 though

There is actually a lot of housing north of Mayfield in Little Italy. There are 4 or 5 side streets there that make up most of the neighborhood. While I agree that the housing there is nothing special I think the main problem is lack of attention from land-lords. They don't really do much upkeep to their properties because they know they can just rent them out to students anyway. Many of these homes have not seen updating since the 60's or 70's and look dingy and dirty. The neighborhood is how shall I say it, "closed to outsiders." Not many houses go up for sale publicly and many of the land-lords just rent out their parents' home and only fix things if they break. Spending money to improve their properties is not one of their top priorities. I think many students would gladly pay more rent for an updated apartment and maybe the Uptown development will fill this gap. There have been some nice urban style houses built in the neighborhood in the last few years but until more homeowners move into the neighborhood it will stay the way it is. LI is successful as is though and maybe a little urban grit isn't the worst that could happen.

I agree, I think the design is decent but I wish the color scheme could be adjusted. The beige is a bit boring. I don't know exactly what they could come up with though i will leave that to them.

the ticket machines on the healthline are beyond ridiculous. It seriously takes 3-4 minutes to buy a ticket at one of them and half the time people end up with the wrong kind of ticket anyway or forget to validate it (maybe because that isn't really posted anywhere...)

Yeah the background in that rendering makes no since so hopefully we can just cross our fingers and hope this is a hastily made mock-up and that final design work is yet to come.

Thanks, i did not know about that street. It is right across from where Case's new performing arts center is. It looks like it is in good shape too on google street view.

This is good news! The more life on lower Euclid the better.

the roof looks great in person. That place looked junky for a long time but I am glad to see some progress. I would love to see what the inside looks like too. Does anyone know what it has been used for all these years? Was it a private residence before UH owned it?

There are already 2 burrito places at that intersection (Qdoba and Luchita's Express) so I highly doubt Chipotle will go there too. There is a Chipotle in Coventry anyway

Does anyone know what the rough cost for moving homes is?

I think they need to get the Democratic base in Cleveland excited though and getting a high turnout in the Clev will probably be their goal.

The northern coast of Lake Erie could become a tourist spot for Ohioans. I am not sure on this but I believe that the northern shore is much more sparsely populated than Ohio's shoreline.

This is a pretty nice article by the PD: Ohio releases faster passenger train schedule Published: Friday, September 24, 2010, 2:54 PM Updated: Friday, September 24, 2010, 3:18 PM Associated Press Follow Share this story Story tools Chuck Crow, The Plain Dealer The 7:00 AM Lake Shore Limited Amtrak train departs the Amtrak station in Cleveland, Ohio, heading for the east coast. Ohio authorities unveiled a speedier schedule today. 9 0 0 Share By Matt Leingang, Associated Press Writer COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Trains running on Ohio's planned passenger rail project are capable of completing the entire Cleveland-to-Cincinnati route in just over five hours, about 90 minutes faster than a previous estimate, state transportation officials said today. The new schedule is based on a more detailed computer analysis of train performance on the 255-mile route and would make the service more competitive with driving, said Scott Varner, an Ohio Department of Transportation spokesman. http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2010/09/ohio_releases_faster_passenger.html