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I Just realized that it's been close to 2 years since they began construction on Aldi's/church next door, and nothing has been built since. Sure, many proposals/rehabs, but no actual new construction. ???

^ Does this new overlay district include the new Aldi's on Euclid? The building is 1 story and has a main entrance in the back. Actually, there is no entrance on Euclid Avenue. How spiteful I am of this property. It should have been a model for future development on Euclid and it was the complete opposite. The church next to it is cheaply built and does not really enhance "Church Square", especially since it stands next to 2 amazing and properly constructed churches to the east.

The foundation is set... it's way back from the street and will look like shit, just like that cheaply built new church down the street, just like Aldi's next to it (with no front entrance), and just EXACTLY like the shitty Rite Aid at 101 and Chester.... I am so sick of how this happens and no one cares. I know the Walgreen's in Lakewood (both of them) had to be built up against the street............................ oh well, so much for that aspect of making MidTown and Fairfax awesome. But hey, it makes a lot of sense.. RTA spends a couple hundred million rebuilding Euclid into an urban corridor and some committee approves suburban garbage designed stores to occupy this land. I can't wait for a Wal-Mart (joke) on Euclid and E. 55th.. set it back 3000 feet from the street and put up a fence and grass like Pierre's Ice Cream headquarters... so sad.

To the 'Cleveland' poster: I had a bad grafitti problem that was QUICKLY taken care of once I contacted the correct people within the city. Regardless, you might be moving your business out of the city, out of fear, but I did just the opposite. I moved into MidTown because I fear the suburbs. And whoever you sell your property to, will be moving into a real business district, raw and real.

^ I thought that's Rite Aid at 93rd and Chester being relocated, not a CVS.

^ Where is the Burnham Building?

OK 2 questions for you Detroit Shoreway residents and fans! 1) What's the scoop with the new contemporary going up next to the Shoreway at the end of a dead end street (I believe to be W. 58th St.)? It's progressing slowly but is starting to take form. It's extremely unique for Cleveland, particularly the open patio beneath the large windows that just went in. It's highly visible from the Shoreway - actually it's 100% visible from there. And now it looks like land has been cleared for additional construction directly next to it. Any word on this small BUT unique project? 2) W. 67th St. - wow! What an awesome street that I somehow never noticed, but the entire street has taken on an Italian theme. Everything from manhole covers to utility poles to front porches have been painted with Italian colors. Is this related to Fr. Caruso? When did this happen and what's the story behind it? It's very cool!

Good lord MayDay! 2 minutes and we have a winner! You win 50 Cleveland Clinic Brownie Points!!!!!!!!! :D

Yummy, this is a good topic that I think we should expand on! Galleria has a parking garage underneath that has a tunnel connecting over to One Cleveland Center. Huntington Bank has a tunnel that connects to the Am Trust and parking garage beneath. The Old Arcade has a number of tunnels that don't all function anymore. It is possible to get from the Old Arcade to the Holiday Inn Express and the National City Bank building complex either underground or without going outside. There is access underneath/adjacent to the food court of the Old Arcade that somehow inadvertantly connects to 515 Euclid parking garage's 2nd lower level. I also believe it goes across the street to the other side of Euclid and the other arcade's, but that one is most likely now closed and the one that was initially inquired about in the beginning of the thread. Also, there is a tunnel or enclosed walkway connecting the Carl B. Stokes Justice Center to Tower City near the food court. Also, the tunnel/path connecting Gund Arena/Jacob's Field to Tower City. The aforementioned tunnel from City Hall to Convention Center. There is an underground parking garage near Malls A+B that connects to Key Tower and several other nearby buildings including the Convention Center. Technically Tower City itself is an underground tunnel since much of the mall is beneath street level, especially the Rapid station. Someone once told me it's possible or once was possible to get from Tower City to Huntington Bank thru walking tunnels. However, my favorite underground tunnel in Cleveland is not downtown! It's goes underneath a famous street, it's less than 5 years old and almost has a very funky futuristic colored theme to it. Can anyone guess where it is?????????????? The true Cleveland-lover will guess first! :D

OK, I will think for the best this time. After high hopes for other parts of Euclid with major letdowns (e.g. Aldi's), there is now another new project taking place a few blocks east. This time it's Euclid at E. 79th on the southeastern corner. It's a huge parcel of land that's being prepared. I believe part of the parcel was already a field of nothing, but they may have also torn some small structure down. I believe what I saw today was some sort of foundation set way back from the road. Please God, please tell me that's not what I saw on this "promising corner". After all, it's across the street from a beautiful church, catty cornered to Beacon Place and almost adjacent (just an ugly ass fast food mecca inbetween) to MOCA/Cleveland Playhouse. Sure, the shopping plaza across the street sucks, but this is a major block on the future Euclid Corridor. So, the big question of the day: WHAT THE HELL IS BEING BUILT NOW????????????

^ Yes I did, but now I am moving to the east side! :D

3231: FEB Musky: CT? What do these terms means?????????

^ I was joking! It was a dark way of making fun of the poor light signal setup downtown... in places like NYC they keep the traffic moving. In Cleveland, it's wait for a green light only to get another red light. Impossible to speed as a result.

^ I haven't seen a patrol car downtown in years, at least not in the CBD. That's why I'm never afraid to speed heavily when the opportune arises.

Finally! Too bad I'm moving out of Lakewood and won' be here for the much-awaited loft midrises.

Well I recall back in July-August hearing about this new Barnes & Noble that would be opening up. Instead, what we got was a small college bookstore. I don't even think B&N's logo or name is on the sign outside. It's really not even remotely similar to a B&N store. What a letdown.......

Well, there is already a lifestyle center about to pop up in Seven Hills on Rockside Road, and also one in Brecksville off of I-77 and one in "downtown" North Royalton. They are all ahead of Solon in the planning stages (especially the one in Seven Hills), so I'd say that eventually in 2020 we'll just have 50 lifestyle centers and it will be the death of strip malls and shopping plaza's, but not the death of downtown, since we're getting a Stark lifestyle center there too... Yay for lifestyle centers. I can't wait for all 50 of them to sprout up.

Why don't they just put up a dog park in the middle of the Warehouse District so that all the yuppies who live there and walk their dogs have a place for the poochies to shiite instead of on the sidewalk.

^^ It's just an image I created on Microsoft Paint using lines and fill ins. ^ LOL! I just made another call to the mayor's action center and to the street cleanup program. I really hope this stuff can be cleaned up once and for all. I feel like a street so close to CSU and literally right in/next to downtown should not be going thru such bs.

A business owner on the street this morning saw the grafitti criminals in the act at 4:30 am. There were 2 people: a black male and a black female in their 30's. They were destroying more private property with their illiterate grafitti. The man is probably who keeps spraying "SUPERMAN" on every building and the woman would be "ANASTASIA", since those 2 names appear 10-20 times on the street. The police showed up very quickly but the perpetrators were already gone. Now the police have an idea where these people live (it's not too hard to guess, considering there are only a few houses on Perkins Avenue). Now let's clean this shit off the buildings and arrest these ********'ers.

It still hasn't been removed and I made a complaint 2-3 days ago to the "action center" in the office of the mayor. What a joke. I'd rather tag their faces though since they don't own no house or car or anything for that matter.

My street is COVERED in grafitti all over again. The same buildings that were cleaned up a couple of months ago are now 2-3 times as worse. I just called (216) 664-2310 as listed in the above message and it is the # to the law department for the city of Cleveland. The woman is a lawyer and can not help me. The other number is a man who has a speech impedament and told me "I'm trying to hel, helllllp you butttt call back, you call back, you call me back in 5 minutes, I'm trying to help you." Plus, this time, the street was just re-paved in dark black tar last weekend and so of course someone had to use the street as a drawing board for grafitti using white paint. Also, the building at 3500 Perkins is a gorgeous brick neo-industrial design that is now being offered up as open space lofts and of course someone had to write CUNT on the original brickwork. Now it's been painted over and the building looks like shit. This 1910's building doesn't deserve the culture shock it got from the people who think they run this neighborhood. I hate the people who are trying to ghettofy things, but in less than 10 years they'll be run out permanently by gentrification and I'll still be here trying to keep the place clean and safe for everyone. Anyways, to sum it up, I had to call the mayor's office to make a complaint. Who knows where the complaint will go from there. So sad and pathetic.

So which grocer is going in next to Target? Why would Giant Eagle do it if they're at W. 110 and Lorain. That one will have to close down. Will it be a Marc's? The family rest. will probably be Ihop.

What's the new construction now underway at the corner of E. 101 and Chester??? It's adjacent to the Post Office and across the street from the fire department. Also across the street from the new project planned for "Upper Chester". Building foundation is being set this week and is not up against the sidewalk (bah!) and it's quite the low profile project that it came out of nowhere and there is no talk about it. My guess is a lame 1-story building, maybe even a post office expansion. Whatever it is, I'm excited for new development but yawning at the fact that it'll probably be another bland structure in a parcel that was filled with potential. So sad..

^ Or if it's a freeway in Cuyahoga County, the speed limit is 60mph no matter what percentile.