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Ghetto??? Hmm.

Liminis? Convergence-Continuum is still there I believe. They have a show going through this month.

Haha yes! Let's reverse the CLE-COL migration. (Fixed for the pet peeves and confusion.)

We're all saying pretty much the exact same thing, but downtown is downtown. If they're going to use population numbers, they need to make them the same regardless of what people in a region call downtown. The amount of census tracts needed to get to those inflated numbers is crazy. It makes it look like Milwaukee or Indianapolis are as urban as Minneapolis. It's just bad reporting/fact finding. Yes, they used CBRE's information, but they should still have a responsibility to look into the data prior to writing an article which compares cities against each other. There was a recent article comparing school districts around the country as well and it was the same sort of BS.

It makes me insane the way they compare cities to one another, yet do not actually compare them apples to apples. CBRE is being quite liberal in what they call downtown in some of those cities. Milwaukee has around 7-10,000 people living downtown yet they say 31,000? There was growth of 20,000 people downtown in 5 years? I have a hard time believing that. Cinci at 15,000? Kansas City at 20,000? Indianapolis at 27,000? If you're gonna do three square miles in some of them, do it in all of them or just compare actual downtown to actual downtown.

Surprising lots of positive commentary on there. My favorite being from iHEARTCLE22, "The suburban basement crowd is losing and their tears are tastier than ever!" Except that guy is the biggest troll there is on Cleveland.com. He turns a positive thing into a negative. Yea, he makes me cringe. He's had so many profiles deleted lol. The negative comments always come from the same people as well. They just fight back and forth so it looks like a lot of people are commenting. How anyone can say this development is a negative is beyond me.

This is the second happy hour write-up that I've seen for Crop Kitchen. Still haven't made it there.

Resurgent apartment market resurrects Cleveland building (With photo gallery) "Demand for Southworth’s rentals is such that Rich Cicerchi, whose Cicerchi Development Corp. of Cleveland owns the building through an affiliate, said prospective tenants will start moving in Dec. 1 although construction will be incomplete. Construction workers will be finishing the job on a floor-by-floor basis through early next year." http://www.crainscleveland.com/article/20151123/RENEWSLETTER/151129931/resurgent-apartment-market-resurrects-cleveland-building-with-photo#utm_medium=email&utm_source=ccl-realestatereport&utm_campaign=ccl-realestatereport-20151123

Yea, I don't get that either. I also lived in Miami for a few years and they are a million times more anti-transit than Cleveland. They have floors and floors of parking for every single building.

So they're looking to break ground early 2016 on the 23 story building with the 8 story brick building surrounding it. Looking at the picture, I'm trying to figure out how that will work. It would seem that just the one random building would look strange surrounded by a sea of parking lots. Unless they mean the portion of the development that abuts Stark's building, it will be Stark's building, blank space - 23 story building - blank space. Anyone else read that different than I did?

I like it...simple!

Now there's some great news!

Our biggest concern with the Cleveland side is the extreme price differences within that small neighborhood. We're going to drive it again today and go to the open houses for our top two tomorrow to look with fresh eyes.

We just bought a 1/2 mi-ish from here and this is a very positive development. Like willyboy[/member] said, it is a very close knit neighborhood and you get to know your neighbors pretty easily. We're looking at two places tomorrow in Fernway and one on the Cleveland border one house over from Shaker. It's amazing how as soon as you're one street over from Shaker, the quality instantly diminishes. It'll be interesting to see what other retail/restaurants/office the new development gets. Hopefully they get more commitments. Yeah, when we were moving everything from the old house in Middleburg to the new one we came up Kinsmen->Ashby->Warrington. The difference along Ashby as you cross from Cleveland to Shaker is stark. My parents said it was like driving into pleasentville. We looked for a long time in the Fernway neighborhood. There are some nice houses there and we did make an offer on one but it did not pan out. I think the homes on that side of Lee, compared to the Onaway area, are a little smaller. My wife does kind of wish we had ended up there as we would be closer to the new Mitchell's, but I digress. Hope you end up in the neighborhood. Let me know if you have any questions. So you're on Warrington? We have a friend on that street. Our top two properties are on Haddam in Cleveland and Elsmere in Fernway. The Haddam house is amazing and a huge lot but higher priced than the Elsmere house and that street is immaculate.

There's a place on Haddam, which is Cleveland. The house to the left is Shaker and those to the right are Cleveland. It seemed at neighborhood drive through that there were many issues with not keeping up landscaping, peeling paint, and just an overall almost unkempt look. It was still decent but not the high standards that most of Shaker enjoys due to their insanely strict guidelines. I've noticed the same on Chadbourne, Ludlow and Keswick. Not saying it's a rule, just an observation. Hopefully Cleveland and Shaker can continue to work together to bring projects such as the Transit Village development. I really think that is a potentially huge project for that area.

And the never-ending saga continues....

We just bought a 1/2 mi-ish from here and this is a very positive development. Like willyboy[/member] said, it is a very close knit neighborhood and you get to know your neighbors pretty easily. We're looking at two places tomorrow in Fernway and one on the Cleveland border one house over from Shaker. It's amazing how as soon as you're one street over from Shaker, the quality instantly diminishes. It'll be interesting to see what other retail/restaurants/office the new development gets. Hopefully they get more commitments.

The only thing I truly didn't like was the Vine Court Lofts. It seems like a cheaper knock off of the worst Battery Park units.

You'd think Canada would be going ape-sh!t. They get a lot of the residual on their shores.

The confusion may be around downtown and areas in the city of Cleveland which are experiencing huge growth in educational attainment, but the metro area as a whole was lacking in 2010. I believe most of the growth they've spoken of has been in the last couple of years.

Technically counts haha. This is amazing news! We are looking to buy in Shaker and the Cleveland encroachment was slightly making me uneasy. This will definitely help with that! Now they just need to work more with Cleveland to continue coming up with plans to reinvest in the southern and western borders.

Sounds like some inside pics too :D

Wow Bethlehem was quite nice!

Also, Brigade from Beachwoood place... Thinking Beachwood really may become a mid tier mall after this shakeup. Or hopefully it's getting some of the mid tier stuff out to have room for higher tier. With what's announced so far, I have no reason to make the additional drive. I'm curious if Banana would leave Beachwood or it will be an additional store for the east market.