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Surprising lots of positive commentary on there. My favorite being from iHEARTCLE22, "The suburban basement crowd is losing and their tears are tastier than ever!" Except that guy is the biggest troll there is on Cleveland.com. He turns a positive thing into a negative. Oh, well, I don't often venture too far into the comment area. But I appreciated the sentiment. Also, here's a story from WKSU about the development: http://www.wksu.org/news/story/45000

Surprising lots of positive commentary on there. My favorite being from iHEARTCLE22, "The suburban basement crowd is losing and their tears are tastier than ever!"

Also this from Crains: Improving public transportation could bolster Northeast Ohio's economy, Cleveland Fed study shows Improving the public transportation network in Northeast Ohio could bolster the economy by creating better access between jobs and employers to enrich the labor force, according to new research from the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. In a study released Monday, Nov. 23 dubbed “A Long Ride to Work: Job Access and Public Transportation in Northeast Ohio,” authors Brett Barkley and Alexandre Gomes-Pereira point out that the largest share of the regional workforce — those with only high school diplomas — have the lowest level of job access, and access overall varies widely. In outlying counties, for example, less than 10% of regional jobs can be access by public transportation in 90 minutes or fewer. http://www.crainscleveland.com/article/20151123/NEWS/151129901?X-IgnoreUserAgent=1&X-IgnoreUserAgent=1

Unfortunately light rail is not in any of RTA's long term master plans. Instead, they are looking to do BRT on the major radial artierial roads. But I agree with you

It is indeed. They did a great job with it. The building houses an Aloft Hotel and an W XYZ bar in the main lobby area

And our Chief of Regional Development is a Gilmour alumnus...

I recently concluded another fall travel season, and with that I made about a half dozen trips to the Motor City over the last couple months. Here are a few pictures from my travels. Started the season off with a Tribe game at Comerica on Labor Day weekend. Finally saw a win there for the first time since '07. I'm constantly annoyed how Cleveland is still in the dark ages with its coin operated parking meters downtown. I had to take this to show that even Detroit has upgraded These next six are from Campus MartiusPark in downtown Detroit. This is one of my favorite urban spaces in the Midwest M-1 Rail tracks! Detroit's only currently operating "rail transit" system- The People Mover Some Woodward Ave shots The Ren Cen I ventured over to the east side to check out Grosse Pointe Park. The border between the Pointes and the city of Detroit was pretty striking. This first picture is the intersection of Kercheval Ave and Alter Rd in Detroit. Here's the border between the two cities And the view from the other side And the nice quaint main street area of Kercheval in the Park For some more contrasts, let's go to Indian Village The following two pictures were taken literally one block from each other The Detroit River is great for watching ships make their way around the Great Lakes An old Nike Missile site turned park The famous "Spirit of Detroit" in front of city hall Sweetest Heart of Mary Catholic Church St. Florian Catholic Church in Hamtramck Cadillac Place in New Center. Former home to GM, now offices for the state of Michigan The beautiful Fisher Building And of course, the Guardian Building Back to Campus Martius Lobby of the recently restored David Whitney building The Book Tower, recently acquired by Dan Gilbert Capitol Park-- the site of the old Michigan Capitol building when Detroit was the state capital Over to Corktown... "The Corner" The old Tiger Stadium grounds The Detroit riverfront The oldest known house in the city of Detroit A great "rail to trail" greenway- the Dequindre Cut, which is currently being extended Detroit's original cathedral church, Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic Church Grosse Pointe South High School View of Zug Island from downtown I forgot to add this last one. You can't go to Detroit without getting a coney. It had been a few years since I did a Lafayette vs. American blind taste test. To the ire of many Detroit locals, I always preferred American...and the taste test again proved that American is superior. Although, the best coney I've had in Detroit is from Duly's in SW.

CLE-OH. Kind of has a ring to it. I am still outspoken in the thought that the casinos should have been built in the Flats during its heyday, and open containers allowed within the entertainment district. I'm not sure I can get behind that nickname. It just reminds me of this:

Great set! I love all of the unique views. It was sad to see the Steve's Lunch pictures though, as well as the building in picture above, which we also lost to a fire this year :( Which building is now lost? Left or right? The one on the left. http://www.newsnet5.com/homepage-showcase/live-huge-fire-breaks-out-at-w-92nd-and-lorain-in-cleveland

I went to post this in the 2016 RNC thread, but noticed that it is still locked... 2016 Republican National Convention unveils logo, designed by Cleveland firm By Andrew J. Tobias, cleveland.com Email the author | Follow on Twitter on November 23, 2015 at 10:00 AM, updated November 23, 2015 at 10:42 AM CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Cleveland's status as the home of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame will be incorporated into the political history books, through a locally designed logo unveiled on Monday for the 2016 Republican National Convention. The logo features a red elephant — the symbol of the GOP — walking atop a stylized, blue outline of an electric guitar with three inset white stars. It will be a prominent part of all official convention-related materials and communications, according to Steve King, the leader of the GOP committee organizing the convention. http://www.cleveland.com/rnc-2016/index.ssf/2015/11/2016_republican_national_conve.html

Great set! I love all of the unique views. It was sad to see the Steve's Lunch pictures though, as well as the building in picture above, which we also lost to a fire this year :(

^ Andy* Cross

Syracuse has the advantage of being the safest city from natural disasters in the US: http://www.cbsnews.com/media/top-10-safest-us-cities-from-natural-disasters/11/

Agreed. I know there's some contention about this, but buses shouldn't be on Public Square, imho.

^ The Hawley House was actually on the southeast corner, so right across West 3rd from Stark's building.

Oh my God that's awful. I'm glad nothing came of that. That building is so ugly. Why don't they just tear it down and move HQ to NuCleUs or 515? I'm assuming that building is much older than it looks, but just has an ugly facade on top, like the Schofield did. Anyone know if that's correct?

5 renderings? I can only think of the plan from Stark about 9 years ago. Which other parties are you referring to? Jacobs was not onthis lot, and was killed in the recession. There were the Stark "Pesht" plans, the Gilbane/Asher plans (http://www.cleveland.com/warehouseguide/index.ssf/2009/03/asher_family_rhode_island_deve.html), and the RTA scheme (pretty embryonic). Someone also posted some very cool WRL renderings of a hypothetical Eaton Corp. HQ along Superior Ave on this site, I believe, but it was never clear why those existed. So thats just 4. Only the Gilbane plans ever seemed as serious as this current one, though. This is the first time that a proposal has been primarily residential though. That makes me more optimistic since that market has been consistently strong in recent years, not only in downtown Cleveland, but in central parts of cities across the country.

Besides Stark's plan, what other serious development had been proposed and brought before City Planning?

I've been waiting for this news for years. I almost want to cry

I can't wait for this park! Between this, the Towpath, the Lake Link Trail, FEB, etc, the Flats will be a completely different place in 5 years. I hope this will also finally bring about a statue in honor of arguably Cleveland's most important historical figure: Alfred Kelley.

Geis has toned down the plans for Wild Eagle a bit. Still not a fan of the sign: http://planning.city.cleveland.oh.us/designreview/drcagenda/2015/11202015/index.php

I found an interesting quote from Leonard Ronis (RTA's first GM) in an interview with the PD in 1977. 38 years later, it's time to seriously have that discussion...

"Unknown basements of previous, long-defunct buildings have also posed a challenge." That's interesting

I just noticed that literally 5 minutes ago. I'm kind of embarrassed by my level of excitement for that. The campus district could really use a Taco Bell now though...