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Just this Scene article from about a month ago. It says Augustish: http://www.clevescene.com/scene-and-heard/archives/2015/05/27/first-draft-of-mabels-bbq-menu-sees-light-of-day

I noticed last night that construction has started on the Corner Alley. I'll try to take some pics of it after work today. Edit: from Tuesday night

It does. Vine St, Main St, Crocker Park Blvd, etc. The business address are listed as the street they are on, not as a general Crocker Road address.

HUD's Harriet Tregoning urges Cleveland to improve plans for Opportunity Corridor roadway and development By Steven Litt, The Plain Dealer Follow on Twitter on June 30, 2015 at 9:18 AM CLEVELAND, Ohio – A senior federal official from the Department of Housing and Urban Development praised Northeast Ohio planners Monday for creating the Vibrant NEO 2040 vision in 2014, a framework that calls for a more compact and less sprawling future across the region. But she also challenged Cleveland and Cuyahoga County to do a better job of designing the city's Opportunity Corridor so the $331 million road project helps create jobs and dense, walkable neighborhoods in a long blighted part of the city. "You could either get it gloriously right or horribly wrong," Harriet Tregoning, principal deputy assistant secretary for community development at HUD, said in an interview during her daylong visit. http://www.cleveland.com/architecture/index.ssf/2015/06/huds_harriet_tregoning_urges_c.html

^ I rode the tail for the first time last night. I'd definitely say it was 'beautiful'

^ Was part quip, but also quite serious haha. All very true points. I just have to look back at the evolution of cell phones to see an example of that. Back in 2007 during my freshman year of college, I didn't have a smart phone and got along just fine. Now that I've had an iPhone for a number of years, it's difficult to remember the times before I could easily google something on my phone or look up directions via Google maps, even though it wasn't that long ago. I'm curious as to what I'll be saying in 2020 about "how I can't believe we didn't have _____ back in 2015!"

^ I do vaguely remember those days in elementary school. The first paper I ever wrote was in third grade and I wrote it on an electric type writer. We finally got a computer by the time I was in fourth grade though and never looked back

My God, how did you people do it?

That was supposed to open in January, it's still not open?? (Been a little while since Ive been to Uptown)

Here are a few photos I shot this afternoon. There has been some significant progress made on the exteriors of Flip Side and Toby Keith's.

^ Cleveland Clinic Holiday Inn Edit: Whoops, beat me to it

Was a mid- 2016 opening date still on the table when the RNC bid was made? Perhaps it was, but regarless now, it's not going to happen.

Do we?

"The governor announced $2 billion in highway spending, $1.35 billion of it new, as part of a long-range plan to give the state road system 57 percent of the transportation pie rather than the 45 percent share it received under Gov. Martin O'Malley. Hogan said he was keeping the promise he made to Maryland voters to make the state's roads his No. 1 priority." :roll:

I actually thought St. Louis had a pretty good downtown. I had always heard that it was lackluster, but I thought it was better than the downtowns of any of the Ohio cities. I do agree about Ballpark Village. It's better than the empty lots that were there before, but it's the same type of mass produced, inauthentic Cordish development that you see in Baltimore, Philly, KC, Louisville, etc. And their neighborhoods are gorgeous. The housing stock alone makes you feel that you are in an East Coast city--so much brick. I especially loved the stretch on Lindell across from Forest Park, just beautiful. Another thing I noticed in all three of these cities (and really, in most cities I travel to) is how few overhead utility wires they have throughout the city. Almost all major thoroughfares all had buried power lines and had consistent street lamp designs. It seems like a trivial thing, but the feel of a neighborhood can drastically improve without overhead wires. This is something that always bothers me about Cleveland.

A big blow was dealt to Baltimore today as Gov. Hogan axed the proposed Red Line. Not all was bad news though, the Purple Line in suburban DC is still moving forward Hogan says no to Red Line, yes to Purple By Michael Dresser and Luke Broadwater The Baltimore Sun Dashing Baltimore's hopes for a long-anticipated east-west light rail line to improve its transit network, Gov. Larry Hogan said Thursday that he will not build the $2.9 billion Red Line across the city. "We are not opposed to public transportation. We are opposed to wasteful boondoggles," the governor said. "The Red Line as currently proposed is not the best way to bring jobs and opportunity to the city." But Hogan, making his first public appearance since announcing Monday that he has cancer, offered mass-transit advocates a limited victory by giving conditional approval to construction of a slimmed-down version of the Purple Line light rail project in the Washington suburbs. He said the state would reduce its up-front share of construction costs from almost $700 million to $168 million, while requiring Prince George's and Montgomery counties to shoulder more of the burden. http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/politics/bs-md-hogan-transportation-20150624-story.html

I didn't, but it's currently under construction. Here's a view from the Arch: I haven't looked up any plans for what they're doing, but hopefully it will improve the waterfront. EDIT: I just did a Google image search to see what it used to look like...yikes, yeah, that looked awful

I can't disagree with the "worst roads of any major city in the country" designation, at least from my personal experience. The only places where I've seen worse road conditions are Jackson, MS and Belize.

As someone living in Cleveland without a car, I can't agree with both of these statements enough. Bikeshare and Car2Go are two of the things I miss most about DC. The issue with bike share though is that I'd worried about its success given the pitiful state of our bike infrastructure on our streets. Regardless though, Dayton even has a real bike share system. Dayton! (No offense to Dayton...) I just hope that when we eventually build a comprehensive system that we don't use Zagster.

I never knew that story about McCuddy's, that's too bad. It was interesting going to the Cell the day after going to Wrigley as the two experiences could not have been more different in every way. I actually didn't dislike the actual ballpark as much as I thought I would, it's a perfectly fine place to watch a game, it's just nothing special. My big beef with the Cell though is that they technically don't allow upper deck ticket holders to enter the lower concourse area at all. You're relegated just to the upper deck area. Granted, it didn't look like it was being fully enforced the night I was there, but it still seems ridiculous. Also, I didn't originally post this picture, but you can see the location of old Comiskey's home plate amid a sea of parking: And here's a view of the stadium from the entrance of the L station:

I was riding my bike around Ohio City last night after dusk and it was the first time that I actually felt a bit unsafe while riding my bike. There were a lot of sketchy characters out walking around the neighborhood. It's quite unfortunate

^ Yeah, but actually the same article from CityLab that KJP posted a couple days ago

^ Gobal Center* (which we're apparently calling it "the Globe")

^ I know it's a ways off, but will there be an RSVP and/or cost required for the August event?