Clevelander17

Only if the students that use public transportation to get to campus foot the bill. After all, it's only fair since those that drive to campus subsidize the cost of RTA passes for those that use the bus/train.

Hiram? Really, that's your legitimate suggestion as an alternative to CSU? CSU is supposed to serve a mission in this county that no other school serves. When it stops serving that mission, it can go away. CSU is NOTHING without its thousands of commuter students, many of whom I know from recent informal discussions are very pissed about this situation. Maybe you're right. Maybe the people that founded and run CSU should have abandoned the downtown concept decades ago since so few of the students even come from Cleveland. It's not too late to open up a few REAL satellite campus locations in places like Beachwood, Independence and Westlake and call it a day. No one goes to CSU because of the "architecture" or the "green space." Or even the "social life." It's a drive-through degree factory--that's its draw.

Those students will also no longer be inconvenienced once they graduate and/or move away. Right. They won't be around for any of the hypothetical benefits of the development, but they get to bear the brunt of the inconvenience of it now. These are the types of things schools do that lead their graduates to throw the semi-annual donation requests from their alma mater right into the trash.

Or I have a better idea...anyone looking for a developed campus with new shops and apartments can go to CWRU. As for the dangers related to the RTA station (which usually has more buses than potential riders most of the time I walk by), please read my above comment. In regards to swiping in/out, I'll complain as long as SG is the only lot that is requiring it. (FYI, it's also required in part I believe because the administration, trying to squeeze a dime out of a nickel, also likes to use that lot for campus events, even during weekdays during the school year--like Obama last Spring) But in regards to the swiping, it's a pain for me because like most adult males, I keep my ID in my wallet which is in my pocket which is buried under the seat belt latch. It's definitely a pain to have to pull it out and put it back twice a day.

I don't know how you can say any of this with a straight face. I park in the South Garage every day and about half of the time when walking towards campus there is a bus blocking the sidewalk in an attempt to turn left onto E. 22nd. This happens because E. 22nd tends to get very busy at times and when there is a red light at Prospect, it's nearly impossible for these buses to exit the station. Therefore as a commuter you get to stand there and wait for the bus to stop blocking the sidewalk or you get to jaywalk across E. 22nd dodging traffic. At the very least it would have made more sense for the bus station to be closer to Carnegie and the parking garage closer to Prospect (i.e. traded the position of the two).

I love this argument from outsiders who aren't students or faculty who think they know best and want to tell others to put up with dangerous inconveniences in their everyday lives like this! CSU is a commuter school and will always have a significant commuter enrollment. That's its identity and role in this region. I do happen to care about the revitalization of that area, but many students simply do not and will receive no benefit from it after they graduate and/or move away. It's kind of silly to not listen to them or at least understand why they have a problem with what's going on here.

Well, for a city that has so few skywalks as of now, the sidewalks are still barren and storefronts still somehow very empty.

Cleveland has a lot of nice restaurants and dining options that transcend the stuffy four diamonds designation. :roll:

There's another perfect tribute, though few ever make the connection: http://www.epa.gov/ You're welcome, America. (And no, I'm not saying that sarcastically.)

Not for this discussion, however, he just wanted to own the network that his team played on, very similar to what Steinbrenner did in New York several years ago. It's a very, very good business decision. However, he needs better broadcasts on the station in-between. I actually think that Dolan took the Tribe full-time to cable with FoxSports first before creating his own network for the games. Anyways, this is exactly why I'd have a hard time letting go of cable, although I love the idea of doing so.

Ha, no League Park article is complete without mention of the Bambino going deep for his 500th career bomb. This is great news, though! I just took a drive by the place again last month and I really wish they had more to work with. But regardless, I can't wait to see what they'll do to improve it and make it usable again.

Except that CSU is a commuter campus first and foremost and has been since its inception. The parking situation at CSU is exponentially worse now than it was when I last complained about it a few months back. The writer of that article has a pretty solid fundamental point in that CSU, a commuter school, is really throwing its thousands of currently-enrolled commuter students under the bus to gamble on this residential/retail project. I don't know if it's really greed-driven, but it's definitely a questionable move. It may have made much more sense for them to do this project on another part of campus that didn't require removing a significant portion of close parking. The South Garage, besides its distance from campus, also requires students to swipe in/out and it's located next to that dangerous (for pedestrians coming from the garage) RTA station. It's no wonder that students would much rather drive around for 20-30 minutes looking for a spot elsewhere because that place is a complete PITA and it's really ridiculous that the administration has been trying to sell that as a realistic alternative.

Grrr...I think they'd have to make that trade, as difficult as that is for me to say.

Where were the first dozen or so photos taken? Clifton Park?

I saw another episode of HH, I guess a few months ago, of a KSU development executive looking for something near Cleveland. I think he looked at some fake townhome in Pepper Pike (off of Brainard near Chagrin) and a condo in a high-rise downtown (which is ultimately what he went for I believe). A friend of mine and I were actually just discussing this last week and apparently there was another one with a social worker that was looking in Ohio City but ended up in Rocky River. This is awesome to me because I always got the impression from watching the show almost religiously that Cleveland and most of the Midwest (besides Chicago) wasn't good enough for HH.

Maybe I'm not fully understanding the implications of what you're saying they're going to recommend, but my gut reaction to that is that none of that is worth it. I don't understand the point in creating a bigger mess through that intersection by adding rail tracks to the equation to only extend the Blue Line a quarter of a mile. Nor do I like the idea of linking up with I-271 like that. I don't really like the idea of bending over backwards for exurban residents and businesses.

In fairness, my recollection is that the Eastern Conference as a whole was very weak during that time period and especially at the center position.

They can if they want to (which I agree that they should). He can't sign a contract as Fausto Carmona because legally he's not Fausto Carmona. There's no reason the Indians should be paying a (at best) fourth starter $7.5 million a year.

I like Z a lot. A little disappointed that of the 29 other possible NBA teams for him to go to last year that he chose Miami (at James' behest, so I've heard), but that doesn't take away from all of the time and effort he put in here.

I've been waiting for this thread to be re-opened for a long time. Now let's see if I can dig up that response I had saved somewhere... ;)

I have some serious concerns with the potentiality of leasing out the turnpike. I may be in over my head with most of this discussion, but it appears that Northeast Ohio would really be getting screwed if even a single cent of that money wasn't used to fix the roads here.

Maybe I'm simplifying the above few posts too much, but I think we can all agree that there still has to be a minimum level of physical attraction there, especially from the male point of view. But beyond that, I do think that total attraction can evolve over time (growing stronger or weaker). It is my understanding (and maybe I'm engaging in a little bit too much wishful thinking or perhaps I'm flat out wrong on this) that females tend to be more flexible than males on the physical attractiveness of their potential matches.

What's going on in University Circle is truly amazing. On a related note, what is going on with some of those large, empty, crumbling buildings on the "backside" of Little Italy (the area near Euclid Avenue)?

Eh, I don't know about this. There have been a handful of females I've crossed paths with in my life that had an initial unreciprocated attraction to me that I over time would begin to feel differently about. Unfortunately I'm not aware of any instances where the opposite happened. But anyways, I think attraction can evolve if given the chance.

I know these lists are bunk anyway, but Google Street Viewing around North Meridian Street in Indianapolis, the houses look very similar to Fairmount Boulevard in Cleveland Heights, except I think Fairmount is nicer (more of an unkept feeling in parts of North Meridian Street). So you're saying they should have just looked up the hill a bit for a more worthy Cleveland entry?