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So this is saying Downtown has a vacancy rate of 5.8% so is the actually occupancy rate 94.2% instead of 97%?

Yes they have been sooooooo dependable :wink:

Yeah I look for it everyday when I walk past it but can't find it. I'm starting to doubt it's opening but it wouldn't even make sense because they just had a leather store that failed. My question is what's the deal with the empty storefront by either things remembered or payless, that awning was there for years but they all of a sudden take it down now, it seems weird to me. Also I meant to mention that I saw some people inside that large empty space by the gourmet popper about a week back I wonder what that means if anything....

Well all these rumors are just falling apart

Tiffany & Co. is Opening a New Location in Greater Cleveland Area After 98 years and three generations of being in the jewelry business in northeast Ohio, Berger and Silver Jewelers will be closing. The store's current location at ETON will not remain vacant for long, as Tiffany & Co. and their iconic little blue boxes will be moving in to fill the void. Tiffany & Co. Vice President DIane Brown announced the company's plans to open up shop in the Woodmere location, saying on Tuesday in a statement: “We look forward to offering our current and prospective clients convenient access to excellence of design, quality, craftsmanship and superior service that are all hallmarks of Tiffany’s great heritage.” http://www.clevelandleader.com/node/18603

Chicken Max being taken down

Fantastic to see

Sammy's restaurant returns, coming to Cleveland's PlayhouseSquare this fall: Restaurant Row Visitors and workers dining in Cleveland's PlayhouseSquare district have lost a place to eat -- but they're about to become reacquainted with a name long familiar to local diners. Meanwhile, Art Falco, president and chief executive of PlayhouseSquare Foundation, confirmed that the former Star restaurant will become Sammy's At PlayhouseSquare. "This is Sammy's coming back downtown," says Denise Marie Fugo, co-owner of the catering company that bears that iconic name. To that end, starting in August the space will get an architectural redo, creating an entrance right off of Euclid Avenue while replacing the restaurant's back wall with an expanse of windows looking out onto the Ohio Theatre. The facelift should more effectively beckon guests entering from either the street or PlayhouseSquare's adjoining parking garage. The remodeled 200-seat restaurant and 20-seat bar (repositioned to the center of the dining room) is expected to open in early October, in time for the premiere of the 2012-2013 season. Fugo says that the new restaurant will employ between 35 to 50 employees, including a yet to be announced new chef de cuisine. http://www.cleveland.com/dining/index.ssf/2012/07/sammys_restaurant_returns_comi.html

So is the streets cape with the medians and brick crosswalks included as well or is that just to make the rendering pretty? The median shown already exists, but doesn't have a brick crosswalk through it. http://goo.gl/maps/Ier4 I know the median does not run along the whole project. It ends in front of where the old csu art building once stood Basically I wanna know is will the street scape work in the rendering be included in the final product?

Ah I see....excitement gone now :(

55 floors?! That's tall I would love to see that! (doubtful though)

So is the streets cape with the medians and brick crosswalks included as well or is that just to make the rendering pretty? The median shown already exists, but doesn't have a brick crosswalk through it. http://goo.gl/maps/Ier4 Two questions....Is that part of Chester concrete instead of asphalt? Also will they put the brick down?

I kinda figured that was the building you were talking about....but I don't see how because it's not blinding IMO, but that's just me. Now I definitely can see your beef with the reflective materials on this building you need sunglasses for it. If you are there at the right time, yes it is. Painfully so. I think the curve helps to concentrate the sunlight. This has been a problem with buildings curved horizontally for years. There was recently a major case of this in Vegas, the building was causing people to get severe sunburn in very short time spans. The UH building seems to do something similar, maybe to a lesser extent. That's what happens when you try to think outside the box on these designs there are flaws and I guess reflective ness is one of them.....I wonder if the FEB tower will do the same is it the same material as the UH building?

The brick shortage is real

So is the streets cape with the medians and brick crosswalks included as well or is that just to make the rendering pretty?

Ok Understandable but there must have been nothing they could do about it...in the rendering I think they underestimated the steepness of the hill and realized it would be nearly impossible to build a storefront.

Public Square traffic study by Nelson Nygaard a strong first step toward a greener downtown by Cleveland's Group Plan Commission One of the great truisms of city planning is that small amounts of money spent early in a design process can have enormous positive or negative effects down the road. That’s what makes it big news — and good news — that a traffic consultant has recommended closing Ontario Street for two blocks as it runs north-south through Public Square. The $120,000 study completed by Nelson Nygaard, a San Francisco consulting firm, is a critical first step in making all of downtown Cleveland greener, livelier, more beautiful and more hospitable to development. A revitalized Public Square could play a completely new role in the life of the city. It could be an inviting refuge that bursts to life on regular occasions with concerts and other public events that are difficult to stage with ease today. The positive effects would likely ripple across the city’s core, from the Warehouse District to PlayhouseSquare, from Tower City Center to the Mall, the city’s rising medical mart and attractions at North Coast Harbor. http://blog.cleveland.com/architecture/2012/06/public_square_traffic_study_by.html

I kinda figured that was the building you were talking about....but I don't see how because it's not blinding IMO, but that's just me. Now I definitely can see your beef with the reflective materials on this building you need sunglasses for it.

What's the 2nd one?

That's a bit extreme it's still pedestrian oriented that hill is just too steep to try and put a storefront in. It's honestly not that hard to turn a corner and walk in the storefront, obstacles come up and this is one of them. If you think this is a brutalist styled "bunker" I'll take it over the ones we have now.

State Funding: $0

No, ha, this is a building at MIT. You had posted a picture of the model saying you liked the building. They haven't selected an Architect for KSU yet. Haha I forgot I posted that it's a nice building though

Here is how that project turned out. It has received very good accolades. It was designed by Japanese Architect Fumihiko Maki. It's a good deal bigger though at 163k s.f. The new Arch. building is planned at 120k. This is a final design and when is it planned to open?

Has there been any national retailers that have agreed to sign on to phase 1 at least let alone phase 2?

Gorgeous :clap: