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There's a lot of Nigerians working on the east side, especially at Whole Foods in University Heights.

There is another secret little road nearby another golf course in South Euclid. Several of the houses are immaculate and at least one is by Walker & Weeks! But yes, the ones in CH are not endangered by this development.

I love making and working with Cleveland maps! I actually used to have all 27 neighborhoods lined out on Microsoft Streets & Trips, but now use Mac so I don't access those files anymore. I have resorted to a gigantic map by Rand McNally of Cuyahoga County, which I had laminated and mounted. I then use dry erase marker to draw lines and use tacks to mark points. I'd be interested to give you info. if you like regarding anything. One of the most enjoyable things is trying to find a way to not only track the 27 neighborhoods but also some of the neighborhoods in the inner rings: Cleveland Heights in particular. Cedar-Fairmount and Coventry for example are neighborhoods, but it's not so easy to draw the boundaries. When you factor in the new "Forest Hills Historic District" it gets trickier since it lies in both neighborhoods. All in all it's fun to work on and over time by not only plotting maps but driving/walking through the areas, you learn where real boundaries are, such as main artery roads and whatnot. As for Little Italy, that is within University, and Quadrangle is the official title (or at least it was) of CSU/Tri-C/St. Vincent. Some of the neighborhoods and districts are intertwined, such as MidTown, AsiaTown, Artists Quarter's, and so forth. As for even further micro-neighborhoods, some exist, some no longer exist, such as Poznan and the aforementioned Big Italy. Again, if you'd like to know more, just ask, or you're welcome to stop by and see my map - it's in my office downtown.

I used Trafalgar Square off the top of my head. Just about every single neighborhood in Pittsburgh has a fantastic page. As ClevelandOhio demonstrated, German Village has a lovely entry. You will also notice that German Village makes no mention of population declines or wage information, whereas Tremont and Ohio City do.

I am just curious about a few things. I am sure my fellow UO'ers can put some light to this or help me out. I have edited some Wikipedia pages multiple times and have always tried to include information that is relevant and pertaining to the article. When I lived in Lakewood, I created many of the sections, such as neighborhoods, schools, etc. I also created the "Gold Coast Lakewood" page. However, when I moved to South Euclid, I have noticed it is a poorly constructed Wiki page. I have tried on at least 3 occasions to update the Wiki entry by adding a picture, info. on the Cedar Center development, and also about other things such as the Metroparks and even the new Oakwood Commons. Every single time I try to do ANYTHING to add to the page, some head honcho guy immediately removes my information. The last time I edited the page, I added info. to the new Cedar Center project, which I have been following closely and he removed the info., stating "This is not a real estate brochure". What the hell is that supposed to mean? Many Wiki pages contain development and project news - all over the region, the country, and across the world, so I don't understand that at all. Furthermore, no matter what I try to do to help the page, it always gets removed. My other problem is trying to understand why Cleveland and all of the inner ring suburbs absolutely have to have the population count for the past 5-6 decades listed, yet none of the wealthier suburbs or most of the cities around the rest of the country ever show such a stat on their page. For example: Chagrin Falls, Moreland Hills, or even Mayfield Heights DO NOT show this stat, yet Cleveland, South Euclid, and Cleveland Heights do, as an example. When I tried to remove this stat from South Euclid, it was brought back within 20 minutes by this same person. I have no qualms about the stat being there, so long as it's distributed to all of the cities, suburbs, and townships - but something seems very wrong when it's only listed on the inner rings that have suffered. This doesn't make the city look very attractive to only list negative things and when I try to add positive things, they are removed. Again - I am not only trying to list positive things to promote my city. That is not my issue - my issue is that someone on Wikipedia is preventing any editing to a page that is supposed to be editable by anyone. I have cited my sources in the past, especially on Cleveland and Lakewood's pages only to see removals there too. While this may seem like a rant, all I am trying to get across is my confusion why it's so difficult to make our local Wiki pages more attractive, informing, and educational for viewers. A quick look at any Wiki for any city or neighborhood in anywhere in Europe or most of the USA always produces extremely beautiful bold pictures and positive information. A gander at a Cleveland or Cleveland suburb page usually gloats about our poverty, population decrease, how dangerous the city is, and usually has an AWFUL picture of the city. I almost feel like someone out there wants Cleveland's Wiki's to look like sh!t. Just my opinion, and I hope others would share their viewpoint on this thought I've had. The entry for Detroit-Shoreway states underneath a picture of a row of empty storefronts, "Gordon Square, Detroit-Shoreway's retail hub and slated to become an arts area in the near future." And the main entry for Cleveland focuses mainly on our population declines. Is that really the most important thing about Cleveland? That page however is a star page, meaning it's even harder to edit. As a perfect example, look at Trafalgar Square's entry @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trafalgar_square - and notice how it compares to say, our most famous neighborhood in all of Cleveland, Tremont: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tremont,_Cleveland I figured why bother fixing up Tremont's entry, because it would just get reverted back. What does it take to make our Wiki pages awesome? Sadly, anyone outside of Cleveland who views the Tremont page would hardly find it to be informing or enticing. Hell, if I was an out of towner and saw that, I'd think Tremont was an absolute shithole. Unfortunately, it's one of the coolest neighborhoods in Ohio. I could give more examples, such as my hometown of South Euclid, which has a really crappy Wiki page. This turns into a "be the change you wish to see" but when I be the change, some person is taking it all back with the click of a mouse button.

They broke ground today on Gordon Food Services. It was all nice and cute, a white tent with a few people holding shovels. I almost stopped by to ask why a GFS is something to be proud of, but I decided that it wasn't worth the time. There's also a picture of the GFS, with parking on all sides. Looks like a TGI Friday's, pretty pathetic actually.

I was thinking, which correct me if I'm wrong, but because the development is being stopped and moved to Summit County, that means all the buildings we tore down were torn down for nothing?

I seriously think we should run against him. What a joke.

Asian Services in Action is on Perkins and my business which is on Perkins is surrounded on all sides by Asian residents, 8 houses lining E. 32-E. 33-Perkins.

Civ is good, but have you tried Le Petit Triangle's espresso?

Nice, but I don't think it's possible for a new salad place to outdo The Stone Oven in Eaton. Their salads are the best ever (and they also have locations in Clev. Heights and downtown)!! 8-)

There's a couple of new places that just opened/opening up around town: Bon Apetit - a french cafe next to Moe's Southwest Grille on Euclid Avenue. Now open. "Name unknown" - located at E. 30th and Euclid, it's a cafe serving Middle Eastern food. Now open. "Name unknown" - located in the old Mama Mia's of Lakewood, this is going to be a healthy fast food place. Not yet open. Sorry for vague info, I am just trying to share what I do know, hopefully others can share more info.

Very nice chronology in pictures, thanks for sharing!

Dan, your generalizations of the east side suburbs is off imo. Saying SE is in the midst of an identity crisis is exactly the stereotype I was referring to before. Calling CH this big left city is off because only some of the residents are "left-leaning" - hardly enough to call the entire community of some 50k people that. If that was the case, then Severance's mansion would never have become Wal-Mart. Some of the most interesting architectural houses in Cuyahoga County are in South Euclid - take a drive down Belvoir and you'll see some houses that truly stand out. Notre Dame's campus is growing and recently completed dorm expansions and has acquired the land/building of it's inter-connected Regina for further expansion. Need I mention some of the other things that make SE what it is: The library, probably one of the most beautiful in all of Ohio, Sand Ridge Country Club and houses designed by Walker & Weeks that sit abut it, the Metroparks (shared with Euclid and Richmond Heights) is a gorgeous walk or bike ride anytime of the year, and as mentioned before, the green initiative involving the plans to turn more houses green and the community gardens that have been popping up, sponsored by neighboring Whole Foods. Independent places like the Zumba studio, One More Step dance studio, Amir Foods, Phoenix Coffee (yeah CH has two), Warehouse Beverage - ALL located at Mayfield-Green makes for a very nice pocket of small and independent retailers. Not to mention Mandel Bakery, Rachel's Caribbean, Batiste Cajun, the Bavarian Tea House, the 3 authentic Jewish eateries at Cedar-Green, as well as all that was lost at Cedar Center before it got torn down all make up for a great mix of unique places to NE Ohio. There's also a dog park, a fairly large medical site (UH Suburban), and most importantly of all - the promise of added green space at Oakwood as well as the public space at Cedar Center North - if and when it happens, but at the very minimum, proposed for the future. I think of SE as just another inner ring suburb like CH, Euclid, and Lakewood - full of potential, full of issues to be addressed, and full of thinks to discover.

I live very close to this proposed project and also received a brochure in the mail. I am still taking in all of the pro's and con's of Oakwood but if it's going to be anchored by a Costco, that would be enough to make me not only oppose the entire project but also consider moving further east. I'm already frustrated that GFS is the anchor store of Cedar Center North. SE is trying to promote a green neighborhood via several routes - the community gardens and the green houses that have been built are both excellent implementations so far. It'd be a damn shame to contradict that by bringing the worst possible retailers into the community. On a side noter: One thing I am a bit unclear of is why people keep assuming CH residents are all about mom and pop stores, oppose big box development, and are true urbanists, whereas SE residents seem to be "desperate for development" and don't care about gaining parks and keeping big box retailers out. If anything, SE is one of the most un-big box suburbs in NE Ohio. We have some very nice shopping centers filled with local/mom and pop/ethnic selections unseen elsewhere. I speak highly of the Jewish eateries at Cedar-Green. I've seen that stereotyping on Cleveland.com and on here and it's simply not true. The other stereotype is that all of the storefronts on Mayfield in CH and SE are vacant. They are almost all filled and being used by mom and pop stores - or as I like to refer to it as Salon Row, because there must be 20 salon's along Mayfield near Warrensville. Each one does excellent business from what I see as I pass them daily. I am watching Oakwood and Cedar Center North closely but for the time being, I am focusing on something closer to my backyard - another planned development in SE that is going to be hit or miss @ Cedar-Miramar across from University Square.

Does anyone know what's going on along Cedar and Miramar, across the street from University Square (Target)? The former synagogue that got torn down has been vacant for several years. About a month ago, a new house was constructed on the far east end of the land. Just yeterday however, all the mature trees were cut down on the remaining land. I'm guessing that houses are not going in there since the landscape was just hacked down. Anyone?

Costco would immediately turn me against this project too...

I got excited about this Brandt guys new place. So I went to his website because he has a Blue Canyon chain. The website describes this gorgeous cabin in the beautiful woods of a national park, so I see the Twinsburg location is on Wilcox Road. I think, oh wow, this place must be some sort of secluded place in the CVNP, very cool. So I Google Wilcox Road and realize it's a big box nightmare off the I-480/Route 82 exit, neighbors with hotels and other crappy chain restaurants. I hope the lovely description of the new place downtown is accurately described and not just false hope.

That church is beautiful. Oh well, I guess it's better to let some people in suits approve the demo rather than God coincidentally blow it up.

The demo crane is raised to take down the two vacant towers on the south side of Euclid near E. 75th-ish. Too bad they couldn't save those, they were a piece of Euclid history.

The entire segment between I-271 and Richmond has been built out completely, with UH being the last major piece of land on that part of the Chagrin Highlands. That hospital cost 300 million to build - not a bad thing to wait 20 years for. So, I don't understand your question. If you are referring to the land north of Harvard, west of Richmond, then I would venture to guess that they had the time, money, and patience to wait to attract the right tenants.. Oh I don't know, maybe they were waiting for what is happening right now with Eaton and AG, two of the few remaining Fortune 500's in our county just happen to want to move there. There still remains a large piece of land east of I-271 on the Orange side. I don't know if Lifetime Fitness is part of the CH, but I am venturing to guess that it is, and that is another large development, along with all the office buildings across the street. I too, would like to see our downtown prosper and it sucks that we can't be like Chicago, but to come on here and discuss what IS actually happening (as good or bad as it is) shouldn't lead to "closing this thread". I'm sorry I'm not also saying they should move downtown, but I am being realistic - they're considering outer ring suburbs and Chicago. They never even considered downtown or the city of Cleveland.

Can we stop! Seriously. Put a lock on this before it gets out of hand. Can we stop what? I'm stating a fact, that the most powerful developers/real estate group in NE Ohio owns the Chagrin Highlands. That's been known since Mayor White was in charge.

Given: Chagrin Highlands, the owner's all live in Beachwood and that's where all the big development is taking place. The regional leaders and men behind closed doors decided years ago to make the Chagrin Highlands the location of our remaining Fortune 500's. Sherwin-Williams is next to move there with Eaton and UH's new hospital. Just look who owns the Chagrin Highlands and the answers fall into place.

I'm surprised there's no discussion of the MEGA DOPE modern structure going up on the corner of University and W. 11th. It's hard to tell if it's just a contemporary house or something more, but it's definitely modern as hell. It's still just a frame but all be damned, I see something amazing being built. Forum Architects are the ones behind this wall of windows of the city.

This is such a sick nightmare. Of course our new governor would do this. Just when we thought our new county government would solve our problems, the only man more powerful in the entire state decides to step in.