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It's funny how over you get of Miami Beach when you live in the area. It's a giant tourist trap with hotels that have been redone in the last ten years. Locals just laugh at the obsession.

These don't belong in NE Ohio. They don't suit the way we drive. The one at Pettibone and Richmond is too small and some genius piled up a bunch of rocks and trash in the middle. It's all but a two way stop when traffic is heavy on Pettibone. If South Florida can figure them out, Cleveland certainly can.

Exciting news! I'm super curious how they're going to redo the space as a children's museum.

Ohio City is long overdue for apartments. -Sidenote.....did they typo the address? 3700 is the next block. I thought they were demo-ing the gold colored apartments for a moment.

Hmmm Developer of nuCLEus eyes RNC's business "The office space and apartments in developer Bob Stark’s plans for his nuCLEus development in Cleveland’s Gateway neighborhood aren’t expected to be open until some time after 2016. But Stark told a Cleveland City Council committee last week that if the Republican National Committee can’t soon find a significant chunk of office space as it builds toward its presidential nominating convention in summer 2016, he might put up as much as seven stories — 200,000 square feet — of raw office space for the party’s convention planning needs." http://www.crainscleveland.com/article/20141206/FREE/141209869/developer-of-nucleus-eyes-rncs-business

What's up with Indianapolis getting called out for arts and food and Cleveland gets....religion?????

THIS is exactly why nothing should be demolished until finances are in place. THIS is one of the things that makes this city so irritating.

Hopefully nobody here. (Meant for Mendo.)

I'm absolutely shocked. (Not really.) The few times I went (usually being dragged there by friends), the staff was consistently rude and arrogant, the service was subpar, and the food was not worth the price. The downtown outpost was the least pretentious and most tolerable of the three.

Oh wow...I've been gone too long apparently haha.

So they only have the Short North location now?

Keep chiseling away!!

In the latest shots, does there seem to be enough room to build underneath if funding is found and the various groups come together? My initial thought was yes, but I'm not in engineering. http://www.cleveland.com/architecture/index.ssf/2014/11/cable-stayed_design_preferred.html#incart_m-rpt-1

I'm curious how much that will cost...it's pretty dang cool.

I don't think we've seen anything since that future land uses presentation talked about it.

OMG if only I was back in Cleveland now.....

Stark and J-Dek's nuCLEus project wins unanimous conceptual approval from Cleveland planning commission I'm digging Stark's energy and thoughts. "But Stark said nuCLEus would bring national retailers and restaurant companies back downtown. He also predicted the development would convince suburban office tenants to return to the urban core. As for design aspirations, Stark said he wanted to activate every street edge around the project with restaurants and storefronts. He said it was a mistake in the 1960s, 70s and 80s when the city allowed an earlier generation of developers to build modern-style office towers without lively shops and eateries lining their lower floors. The mistake is that the buildings did not think about the streets, did not think about walkability," he said. "They were not designed with interactive conditions to encourage interactive relationships." http://www.cleveland.com/architecture/index.ssf/2014/11/stark_enterprises_nucleus_proj.html#incart_river

LORD...third tallest building? Does nobody fact check prior to reporting?

Hopefully we see more and more of this type of investment.

Definitely would want the multiple towers versus one supertall. Sure, you can see the supertall from a distance- but our downtown has plenty of room for 60+ story towers in the future, if and when the market allows. Adding the density with multiple 20+ story towers is what I would prefer. Agreed. The 350-550' range would be nice for multiple buildings. We already have height, some filling in of holes would be nice!

I found it strange that they showed income growth from 2000-2012 but showed average income as of 2010. If they have the percentage of growth through 2012, shouldn't they have average income through 2012? -Side note: Post 1,000 wahoo!

Over 600,000 event attendees projected through 2019 so far. That's a lot of potential eyes on Cleveland....very exciting! Occupancy has stayed over 74% as well with average daily rate increasing to over $140 per night. "62 EVENTS HAVE BEEN BOOKED IN THE LAST 3 MONTHS, SINCE THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF REPUBLIC NATIONAL CONVENTION" http://www.downtowncleveland.com/media/228481/q3_2014_spreads-2-.pdf

Vacancy of Class A and B down to 18.6% and asking rates up to $18.89. "Downtown Cleveland has seen positive net absortion in the office market in five of the last six quarters." http://www.downtowncleveland.com/media/228481/q3_2014_spreads-2-.pdf

Interesting projections. I'm wondering how they're coming up with 23,000 by 2020. Unless they're assuming trends will continue and many more projects will be announced. Also, interesting to note that occupancy dipped to 95%. I'm curious if they count all apartments in buildings that are opening over time even if they're not done yet or if the older buildings are losing to the newer buildings. "The Opening of The 9 and the Residences at 1717, sending the downtown residential population over 13,000 while maintaining over 95 percent occupancy among market rate apartments. DCA projects this population will grow to nearly 18,000 by the end of 2017, 23,000 by the end of 2020 and to 25,000 by the end of 2022." http://www.downtowncleveland.com/media/228481/q3_2014_spreads-2-.pdf

Exciting and Perfect timing with National attention on that site.