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Yep...already surpassed drug stores in total number of locations. It's ridiculous.

Wild Eagle Saloon, huh? Think this is filling the void of Toby Keiths not going into FEB?

Their slogan should be 'Keep Worthington Shrinking".

Good news here! They hinted at this on the last Take a Hike tour. Metroparks plans "greening" for 1.5-acres of the future 20-acre Canal Basin Park "Sean McDermott, chief planning and design officer at the Metroparks, said the agency would install grass, walking paths and trees on the 1.5-acre parcel, making it easier to walk from Columbus Road and Center Street to Heritage Park on the Cuyahoga River, just northeast of the Center Street Swing Bridge. The parking lot that will be removed now wraps the eastern and northern sides of the short row of buildings that contains the Flat Iron Café at northeast corner of Merwin Avenue and Center Street on Columbus Road Peninsula in the Flats." http://www.cleveland.com/architecture/index.ssf/2015/11/metroparks_plans_spruce-up_of.html#incart_gallery

Yea, Monday as in yesterday lol. They're a mess. Some awesome info in those few pages!

According to the most recent DCA Quarterly Market Update, downtown Cleveland is now over 13,000 residents. The Leader Building will be the next larger building to come online followed by Corning Place. We need some major construction to start. This 300-500 units a year isn't cutting it. On top of that, condos are selling nearly as soon as they are listed. Clearly, there's demand. I just want to see someone stick their neck out a little to prove that the market is there. Obviously it's not my neck, but if I had the money, I would. Price per square foot is increasing each quarter in both sales and rentals. Rehabs opportunities are slowing which will lead the way to new builds and higher PSF. It can be so frustrating being in Cleveland sometimes but we're getting there!

"Meanwhile, construction crews recently blocked part of East 6th to start renovating the Garfield Building, which is the former home of National City Bank. Crews have been at work removing the façade. It will soon be renamed Corning Place and will house apartments and retail. Right across the street, work is also expected to soon begin on 200 new apartments to be constructed above the 515 Euclid parking garage."

These disconnected shopping centers make no sense. Have to go to Legacy for this store and Beachwood for this store and La Place for this store and Eton for this store and now throwing Pinecrest in the mix? So ridiculous. After having to go to Eton twice this weekend and dealing with that horrid parking lot and Chagrin traffic, I would prefer not to ever again.

By the way, found this with some pricing for the apartments. Not sure how legit it is, but seems about right, $1,450-4,500+. http://www.apartments.com/the-schofield-residences-cleveland-oh/hqjph12/

Huge! I was also impressed with Key Bank's hold on the Pacific NW (from an earlier acquisition as well). There are everywhere in Seattle/Portland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KeyBank#/media/File:Keybank_footprint_2010-05.png Hopefully this brings some of the jobs from Buffalo with it. Cleveland usually gets the short end of the stick with acquisitions. It would be nice to see a reversal.

I always pick up from the upstairs. So much less stressful. Most go to the regular pickup so you miss nearly all of the traffic.

It just goes to show what one man with a ton of money and extreme civic pride coupled with a generational move back to the city can do. Awesome!

While other poster(s) call this place the greatest thing since sliced bread, I agree. Banana and White House Black Market are the most upscale stores there. The fact that they "modeled" this after Easton should be an embarrassment to Easton. I'll continue going to Kenwood when in town. This development is not meant to be a downtown, it's meant to service the middle income earners in the area.

X2 but the Euclid Ave one must be doing pretty well for another one to open a few blocks away.

Yea, that's one of my pet peeves...doing brick and not wanting to pay the money for full brick. Do we know the address of that one? I remember the render quite some time ago. Curious what that sold for. Super excited about 45th/Lorain though.

I don't recall urban beach volleyball being part of this!!! That is exciting!

So are you a condo owner? We use to rent condos for holidays, but since we like South Florida so much, me and my wife are considering buying our own condo(if we do so, it would be a newly built building, most likely the Sabbia Beach). We would stay there for the winter months and we like to rent it out the rest of the year. So i have some questions you might answer. first, can you figure how many weeks of the year a condo is rented. If it doesnt fill, it would be a bad investment, but i think that won't be the problem with an oceanview condo. Just want to make sure. The 2nd one is the Tax situation. Do i have to pay taxes for the extra income in Florida, or in Ohio, where we will be living the rest of the year? would really appreciate the help I just rented a condo while I was down there and moved to Miami for a bit but am back in beautiful Ohio now! If you buy in the right area you should have no issue renting your unit, especially if it's oceanfront. I don't know much about the tax side of things but I did find this...hope it helps. https://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc415.html

The title of that is so deceptive. Cities to avoid? More like sections/neighborhoods.

These are actually really fun and intense! I did one with a group of attorneys in Miami when I lived down there. I just read Cleveland Heights got one as well. Both this one and Cleveland Heights look better than the one I did.

Must be hard to know something you can't share!

Interesting another Akron based chef can't make a go of it in CLE. That is a crazy turnaround for setting Bold up...three days?! Wow. They must be changing nothing.

Ran across this in the comments section of cle.com - remember this eyehrt?- eyehrtfood2 Mar 21, 2014 "Believe it or not Dieselbuck, I keep a spreadsheet on this... Here is a list of 26 upscale and/or trendy retail and restaurants chains that are in many cities our size (these are not pie in the sky retailers...). NEO is the 16th largest population market in the country (Columbus is 30th, if you're curious...).. The 19 other markets in the top 20 have an average 21 of these 26 chains. NEO has none. Columbus has 14. Pittsburgh (23rd population) has 20, Indy (29th population) has 14 as a comparison. The 26 (two of which may be part of the announced Beachwood Place lineup - but we'll see... ) are noted below. Many of these are in all but a few of the top 20 - or even top 25 markets - basically except for CLE - so there is a market for them: American Girl, Armani Exchange (in 19 of top 20 markets), BJ’s Brewhouse, Bass Pro or Cabela’s (in 18 of top 20), Burberry (in 18 of top 20), C Wonder, Capital Grille, Club Monaco, Cole Haan, Contaner Store (in 18 of top 20), IKEA (in 18 of top 20 markets), Juicy Couture, Louis Vuitton (stand alone store), Love Culture, Lovesac, Lucy, Oakley, Neiman-Marcus (in 19 of top 20), Puma (18 of top 20), REI (in 18 of top 20), Ruth’s Chris, Seasons 52, Tommy Bahama, Tory Burch, Vineyard Vines, West Elm (17 of top 20)... This doesn't include stores that don't have quite the penetration - like Von Maur or Cooper's Hawk or Kona Grill or others that are desirable and in many markets - but not the majority of top 20." We're starting to make some retail strides.

Well, Sammy's old spot is getting a new look. Welty Building Company will move Cleveland office to former Sammy's in the Flats "Welty Building Company, Ltd., a 70-year-old company based in Fairlawn, has signed a lease on much of the first floor of the brick complex on West 10th Street. The company and its furniture subsidiary, Environments 4 Business, are the first tenants lined up for an office redevelopment of the buildings, empty since the well-known Sammy's catering and events business closed in 2013. A group led by Cleveland-area investor Joel Scheer plans to refashion the buildings as an office complex called Settler's Point. The name is a nod to the nearby site where Moses Cleaveland's surveying team landed in 1796 to sketch out a town on the east bank of the Cuyahoga River." http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2015/09/welty_building_company_will_mo.html#incart_river

If only the Landmarks-planning website had a like/dislike button. :clap: Hope this goes somewhere.

Better move over toward the "Opportunity Corridor".