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The owner of Constantino's or the owner of the Mini Mart on Clifton? I am a big fan of the W. 9th Constantinos, lived in WHD and shopped there all the time, I miss it. It's amazing how little square footage a grocery store really needs to supply all the essentials. I had a few specialty products I needed to go elsewhere, but I could easily get 90% of what I needed at Constantino's.

Yeah, you always could see Key from Cedar - I just had the thought last weekend as I drove that it was noticably clearer than usual. Not sure whether that's actually due to less pollution or if it was just a nice spring day.

I thought this last weekend. Headed to the east side for the first time in a month and I could see downtown incredibly clearly from Cedar Rd in the heights area.

Yeah, I didn't know about the concert til it was too late, they sold out fast.

I was dying to get tickets before this all started. Where'd you get yours?

The other key thing is to prevent layoffs. That could slow a recovery.

Did you guys see this one? https://www.cleveland.com/opinion/2020/03/dennis-kucinich-would-be-the-wild-card-in-2021-cleveland-mayoral-race.html

That's a shame, yeah, when I did most of my reading up on stocks 5 or so years ago, I had read they were typically low fee.

The target date funds have a pretty good reputation as low cost and no frills.... And the vanguard funds on there are the old standbys ... Who knows what all that other stuff is though.

They sold assets of yours without your permission... That's super sketchy and you might want to try to fight this. They'll say it was some default setting. I've been lucky that every place I've worked has offered 401ks with a good selection of low fee index funds. One place had a Schwab 401k where we could literally buy anything - stocks, bonds, mutual funds, ETFs, futures, options - available on their platform. The owners of the company were investing nerds so they liked it. There's a lot of crappy providers out there though.

These are both exactly right. I too spent most of my life confusing "acting interested" with "looking desperate," and my attempts to not look desperate kept me mostly single the whole time. Women want you to respond promptly, ask questions etc. But it depends who you are. There are some guys who actually do leave 23 text messages in a row or 10 voice mails like Favreau in Swingers. Those guys probably need to hear the "be mysterious" advice. The problem is that advice is given to everyone when another significant slice of the population is aloof by nature and it's the last thing they need to hear.

I agree that calling a suburb like RR a "small town" is a misunderstanding of what a small town is. Ask somebody who grew up in an actual small town and they are very likely to agree.

Theoretically this would be a perfect project for JobsOhio's revitalization program... The common complaint is that they're too stingy with the money unless specific jobs are already lined up for a site. Which, in this case, they would be.

My question is when is the local media going to call @KJP with a job offer the way he's been kicking their butts lately.

Oh yeah, I get the density of skyline thing too because I contrast us with Cincinnati - they don't have as many tall buildings as we do but they have less gaps in the skyline and so I like that look. But ultimately skyline is low on the list of considerations for me - for us to get a truly impressive skyline we're ultimately going to need to step up the economic growth game bigtime.

It's not about density per se, it's that, due to parking lot craters downtown, I'd rather see a series of small buildings take them all out at once rather than wait another 30 years (as we have been) for somebody to develop them all. It's about streetscape and street activity, not density.

@marty15 Yeah, I am normally the first in line to bash the City of Cleveland, but this isn't their fault. Matter of fact, the piss poor services and complacency mentality were caused by 1970s white flight in my view. You have a city that loses half its tax base in a few decades but doesn't lose half of its expenses or infrastructure, you'd have a hard time not half-a$$ing it and triaging everything just to survive. The problem is that became the normal way of doing things, and now the city is turning a corner but many city leaders are stuck in that mindset. Going all the way up to the mayor.

I actually really like the look of that building (probably more than Key even) but most people I've talked to seem to agree more with your side.

I'll start with my least favorite part (and really only bad part) - easily the walk to Public Square/Euclid Ave through those inhospitable parking lots. The warehouse district is a little disconnected from the rest of downtown, and it'd take 25-30 minutes to walk to where I worked near playhouse square. The green trolleys serve the area well, however, so I'd take the E-Line a lot. Favorite part was Constantino's, and the actual building being very interesting and cool. I probably wasn't there long enough to meet a ton of people, but my roommate and I did mostly keep to ourselves. It is a very large building and that can hurt the community aspect, however, like I said, my stay was short. Hope this helps!

Yep, I was in the Bingham and would also recommend it. It's such a large building that they can support above-average community amenities: the gym is far above a normal apartment complex gym, for example. The apartment was nice and I don't recall issues with noise at all. I only lived there for a year (unfortunately) so I can't speak too much to the management or repairs or anything - very little happened. Any questions in particular?

Constantino's is amazing, I used to live in that building and I miss that store dearly. I'd shop one meal at a time and throw nothing out. Forgot an ingredient? No problem, you can run back to the store and be back in less than 10 minutes. Prices aren't bad at all considering the convenience (and the amount of stuff you won't end up putting in the trash).

Skyline density is more impressive looking than height. I really like the Cincinnati skyline because it looks dense from all angles even though most of the buildings aren't even that tall. As opposed to the Cleveland and Columbus skylines which have too many gaps. I would love to see them build on the Jacobs and Weston lots just because I hate those lots. The riverfront campus would be a lot more disconnected and employees won't get to venture out into the streets for lunch, etc. But, if that's the route they go, I won't complain about it.

Clifton and 117th... When I first graduated college and was living in Columbus, I came up to visit some friends who were living in a shared gold coast condo. 2011 or 2012. I remember we walked down the street to Johnny Malloy's for beer and pizza. (Later we went to across town to Around the Corner.) I grew up on the east side so it was one of my first forrays into the west, and I liked it. I thought if I ever made it back Cleveland I would live over that way. I did move back, and I do live nearby, and wow has the area changed!

I used to spend time in Dayton and I learned about the history and circumstances of the loss of NCR to Atlanta... That one stung badly, not sure anything that's happened here was ever quite that bad.

This would hold true for Mentor, which is always pronounced "Menner" by locals.