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The colonial arcade is open to 9pm weekdays for the fitworks gym. Not sure about weekends.

I wonder if they'll sell of the complex as one or pieces. The smaller buildings at Prospect and E 9th would be great for residential. I wouldn't shed a tear if they razed the Breuer tower. But only if they do something big in it's place. Maybe a highrise wrapped around the bank rotunda at the corner. It doesn't have to be 30 floors but something close. The comment about new market tax credits is interesting. Correct me if I'm wrong, but that's predominantly for development in low-income areas right? Would anybody consider putting subsidized housing downtown in any large amount?

I have high hopes and extremely low expectations for this entire project. I'm hoping for something grander than just a bunch of apartment conversations. There has to be a new construction project in one of those plans.

Both facades are white terra cotta. I think that's what gives them such a similar feel too me. The color and texturing. I'm not generally a fan of preservation for preservation's sake and this situation stinks of it. Regardless, I hope CSU gets it done right and it doesn't look like the Horseshoe welcome center with a new structure wrapped around the old. Whether that means razing it or keeping the facade.

The McCrory buildings on East 4th look pretty similar. It's too bad CSU got held up. This the building we're discussing? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wolfe_Music_Building.jpg

Aww it was a quiznos?! Should've bee on Euclid in one of the storefronts I would have ate there. It actually was in the storefront space on Euclid. I walked by it every day going to the gym. Maybe if they were open after lunch time they would get my money. There aren't nearly enough sandwich shops open past work hours.

Maybe he means the added traffic from people being diverted from Ontario onto the outer roads would require serious changes to the bus paths around PS? I don't know. More than likely, Calabrese sees this as an opportunity to shoehorn some pork into the PS project for RTA improvements, even if they aren't necessary. Would that surprise anyone?

You act as if the buildings in the Warehouse district were torn down because there was a lack of parking. The buildings were empty and underutilized because people were leaving the city in droves as suburban sprawl got worse and worse. You've got bigger problems than a lack of pedestrian walkways if a surface lot is more profitable than a semi-empty building. And why don't you ask the restaurant and business owners in the Warehouse district how they feel about the surface lots. I think you'll be surprised by the answer. That area has been fairly successful over the last decade. I was pretty disappointed when the Stark Enterprises plan (or some variation of it) went tits up. See this is where the urban fantasy dies. If I need my car once a week, then I still need a parking spot downtown. And until more people live and work downtown, you will need somewhere to put the 25,000 people coming into the city for Indians games, or 6000 people coming to the casino or 60,000 for Browns games. And let me fill all the daydreamers in on a little secret -- the city is competing with 60 years of some of the worst suburban sprawl I've seen anywhere in the country. The key to getting people back into the city is to make it easy and convenient to get here. It's how they hooked me. Fell in love with the area and moved in this Spring. You would think I would be the first person begging for a nice park area... Crossing a busy street is no more difficult than crossing an empty one. Wait for the little white "walk" sign, then go. As a side note, rush hour is rush hour because people don't live downtown. Tearing up infrastructure is not going to convince anybody to live downtown. It'll only convince them to find a job that is closer to home in the burbs. That is a beautiful fantasy. How about getting the 90% of the people commuting into the city to live downtown first? Then we can start talking about this drive-less society.

Thankfully the decision is not up to you. And yes the city should cater to the auto. Because that is your consumer right now like it or not. And nobody stuck in traffic around PS is going to say, boy that's a nice park. I wish I lived here. Things are changing around here. They are going in the right direction as people move back. This dream about living in a car free city is a ridiculous. I can run from one end of town to the other on foot in 5 minutes. Take away my car and I might as well live in an aquarium fishbowl. People need there car and need easy access to the city. Pedestrian unfriendly? Give me a break. I've walked to the warehouse district and nautica pavilion several times through PS and it was as easy as can be.

I think we can all agree there is potential to clean up PS. Where we disagree is just how to do it. :) One of the things I love about the city is its accessibility. Getting into, around, and out of the city is easy. Closing Down a throughway that connects two major routes hurts that accessibility.

I don't understand the obsession over combining the squares into one space. I like how each has it's own style and design. I would entertain the idea of thinning the roadways so they aren't 5+ lanes wide. But closing even one of them? How about spending some of that money for more streetscaping, lights, trees, etc, or repaving the horrific streets.

I say raze the structure and let the casino complete their parking structure. I'm all for preserving buildings of historical significance, but a 3 story sh*tbox that's been neglected for decades does not fall into that category for me. Though I do find it somewhat shady that Rock gaming bought stake in the building under a different LLC. Essentially muscling their way into having it demolished so they could own the entire block. But that's business I guess.

Superior and Ontario are major routes through the city center -- Superior especially. In the last week I've been stuck in traffice getting into the city twice northbound on Ontario to get to Euclid. And there wasn't even a baseball game in town. But I should be greatful since it's only 4 hours a day and at least it's not Chicago or New York. :? The city has too many individual projects that don't mesh with each other. In their infinite wisdom, the city designed Euclid so I can't turn left onto E.4th, so I need easy access to S. Roadway. The far right lane on Ontario is basically right turn only into the casino parking deck. The far left lane is the people getting stuck having to turn left onto Prospect because the road is closed to public square. And the middle lanes are people confused as hell as to where to go. Closing either rode through PS doesn't seem like the way to go. I'm not opposed to reworking some of the lines around public square. But I wonder when the traffic study was done because it mustn't have been in the last month or two since the casino opened. How about another one NOW during the summer when there are more people downtown.