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From The View from St. Clair: Beautiful Ohio The Greater Cleveland Film Commission, Cleveland Film Society, Cleveland Cinematheque and the Cleveland Institute of Art will sponsor a sneak preview of Chad Lowe's new movie Beautiful Ohio, a coming of age movie set in Shaker Heights, OH. Cleveland Cinematheque 11141 East Blvd. Cleveland, OH 44106 Saturday, October 21st, 2006 3:45 p.m. Beautiful Ohio stars William Hurt and Rita Wilson. Proceeds from the screening will benefit Issue 18 - the campaign to support Arts and Culture in Cuyahoga County. Producer-Director-Actor, Chad Lowe, will introduce the film and take questions immediately following the screening. Ticket prices are as follows: $9 for students and members of the Cleveland Film Society and the Cleveland Cinematheque. $18 for general admission $100 for both the screening and a VIP reception with Chad Lowe immediately following Tickets can be purchased at the door or reserved on www.issue18.org.

Conservancy hopes to create huge regional network of open land Friday, October 13, 2006 John Kuehner Plain Dealer Columnist Article Removed

Yeah, I'm actually interpreting that as a comment on Westlake, particularly in contrast to Lakewood/Cleveland. Hence the "culture shock" remark.

Cool news about the stadium... CSU's portion of Payne Avenue is currently a wasteland in desperate need of some new buildings.

Rapid repair hits $300,000 snag Thursday, October 12, 2006 By David Plata West Side Sun News Unsuitable soil conditions at the Regional Transit Authority's West 117th Street station reconstruction site will cost an estimated $300,000 to correct. We've run into some conditions that caused us to do some additional work, said Craig Kleve, engineering director at RTA. We're still on schedule. Our plan is still to open next fall. The RTA board on Tuesday is expected to approve spending some $300,000 to remediate the unsuitable conditions. The station, originally built in 1955, is at West 117th Street and Madison Avenue in Cleveland, on the border with Lakewood. Construction of a new, $4.7 million station began a year ago. Kleve said initial soil samples did not show the extent of unsuitable conditions, including old tank foundations, old buildings and old plumbing lines, dating to the site's earliest days, when it was a train station. It might have been silos for coal and the tinder box, he said. The area affected is mainly at the northeast portion of the site, where the new bus loop and parking area will be located. Because of the soil conditions, Kleve said, the ground has a higher moisture content than needed to withstand the weight of buses and cars. The station will be renamed Highland Square at West 117th Street, a reference to a neighborhood name used in the 1800s. Construction work on the new station itself is not affected. The latest expenditure is on top of nearly $220,000 in change orders approved earlier to excavate concrete structures, modify a retaining wall foundation, modify the elevator and shaft due to poor groundwater and subsurface conditions and more. Despite the added expenditure of nearly $550,000, Kleve said, the project is still within budget. We budgeted approximately $5.3 million for this project, he said. The bid was awarded at approximately $4.7 million. The contractor for the project is Ohio Diversified Services Inc. The station, which remains open during the work, is used by about 700 rail passengers daily and is a connecting point for the 804 Lakewood Circulator and three regular bus routes _ the 75X, 50 and 25. The remediation consists of building a cap over the unsuitable soil, then filling in the site, to allow an acceptable weight distribution. Kleve said the final remediation cost won't be known until completed. A reduced undercut test excavation and backfill was under way Monday. If it performs well, we'll continue with that, Kleve said. If it doesn't perform well, we'll continue with complete excavation.

More refugees from the West Coast return.

but atlanta's does? Nope, them either!

Somehow, Detroit scoffing at us doesn't bother me too much... :roll:

^Correct. It's supposed to have a restaurant. I know they're already in talks with someone.

^^This shouldn't affect Stark's Phase One, right? Though still discouraging to have these evil California parking buggers in our midst.

Stunning.

Heard today that the new "Asian Town Center" at E. 38th and Superior (across from Tyler Village) is scheduled to open for business within 6 months. One of the tenants will be Asia Food Company, currently located at E. 31st and St. Clair. It looks like some significant progress has been made at the site lately. I'm not a fan of the design of this place -- basically a strip mall with parking in front -- but with 82,000 sq ft of retail space and 16,000 sq ft of office space it will be an exciting addition to the neighborhood. It is hoping to attract Asian businesses currently scattered throughout the metropolitan area. You can see a rendering and some other info here: http://www.asiantowncenter.com

Welcome, kjmay. I agree with you. We don't have enough distance (time-wise) from the tower's construction to judge yet whether it's worth saving. Back in the 60s, lots of late-19th and early 20th century buildings were regarded as "ugly" or "undesirable," particularly downtown, and now many of us would kill to have them back. Just as importantly, it's wasteful to tear down perfectly sturdy buildings. Let the Breuer stand. By the way: A PUBLIC FORUM ON THE BREUER TOWER Thursday, Oct. 26, 2006, 5:30 - 8:30 p.m. Levin College of Urban Affairs, Cleveland State University, 1717 Euclid Ave. Register (free) at: http://www.urban.csuohio.edu/forum or call 216-523-7330 "It's a tough building to love, but is it wise to tear down one of only two Cleveland-area structures to be designed by the world-renowned architect Marcel Breuer for a new County Administrative Center? Join design professionals, historians, preservationists, sustainability experts and other concerned citizens in a public discussion to learn more about the Breuer Tower and the pros and cons of replacing it or renovating it. Light refreshments will be provided."

Fantastic!!! PR Newswire could also help attract aspiring journalists... it is often regarded as a stepping stone to writing for newspapers and magazines.

I kinda like it without the roof extension.

THREE buildings are to be demolished? Exactly which ones?

Yay! :clap:

I finally watched the documentary last night. Sobering. In a way I hate that they picked us to be the emblem of sprawl-based decay, but perhaps it will force leaders in the region to sit up and take better notice (if they're actually watching). There are certainly brighter beacons of urban hope here than Fairfax and Hough; I wish they had focused a bit more on Tremont, and also included a neighborhood like Ohio City or Detroit-Shoreway. I thought the post-show discussion was poorly handled. At one point, that moronic "Ideas" host mentions that places like Pittsburgh and Detroit have a head-start on us in terms of downtown revival. Detroit? Ahem. And then they interview someone from St. Louis as a model for best practices in downtown revival. Now, I haven't been to St. Louis in a while, but from what I've heard they have some great neighborhoods but their downtown is still pretty dead (much like us). Philadelphia, Pittsburgh or even Milwaukee, I could see.

We just need to get this whole project scuttled -- the bridge, the Innerbelt reconstruction, everything. I'm hopeful we can under the new Democratic regime that will be taking office in the state house this fall. :)

There are a couple of good video interviews on Cool Cleveland this week. Avenue developer Nate Zaremba: http://www.coolcleveland.com/files/video/NathanZaremba.wmv http://www.coolcleveland.com/files/video/NathanZaremba.mov Avenue homeowner Ellen Evans: http://www.coolcleveland.com/files/video/EllenEvans.wmv http://www.coolcleveland.com/files/video/EllenEvans.mov

CSU settles on student-center architect Wednesday, October 04, 2006 Steven Litt After six months of up and down negotiations, Cleveland State University finally has hired New York architect Charles Gwathmey to design a new, $33 million student center. Gwathmey will serve as part of a team including the Akron architecture firm of Braun & Steidl, CSU Vice President John Boyle said Tuesday...

Let's get the castle away from these losers once and for all! Boarded-up Franklin Castle haunted by foreclosure, liens Wednesday, October 04, 2006 Michael O'Malley Plain Dealer Reporter Franklin Castle, a gutted, boarded-up "haunted house" on Cleveland's West Side, could be heading for sheriff's sale because of delinquent property taxes. The Franklin Boulevard property is also strapped with more than $13,000 in liens filed by construction and lumber companies for unpaid bills.

A public meeting is being held on the future of the W. 25th Street Corridor: Saturday, Oct. 14 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Metrohealth Campus, in the 170 Rammelkamp conference room Free parking and refreshments provided. The meeting is being held by the Clark Metro Development Corporation, along with the following sponsors: Ohio & Erie Canalway, CharterOne, Dollar Bank and Ohio Canal Corridor. For more information call 216-741-9500, x15

Great find 8SOG! I put it up on photobucket so we have it for posterity... though unfortunately it's a little small. http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a291/blinker1_2000/Miscellaneous/csuwindmill.jpg