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Here you go.

Yeah. That's the new one!

Second pic is from the CPC January 7 agenda. The first needs no introduction. I see Geis has managed to come back with a design in homage of downtown's ugliest new building. They certainly have a knack for making something brand new look both cheap and dated.

Or maybe....

Did they break ground today??? I drove by Taza and it looked empty, so I assumed that nothing had happened.

Could someone please show the location of 43 the Pearl on a map? I cannot find where Columbus intersects Brevier, for some reason.

Crane is in the air! Sorry for the picture quality. Key Tower's windows suck.

I get that the Geis architects have an industrial background, but I really wish they'd pick up a magazine, surf the internet, or simply look up when they drive around. I bet their wardrobe sucks too!

Right now, someone is crapping their pants at SW's Ministry of Secrecy.

^ Interesting. The 50's modernization must not have been the first. Here's the view in 1916.

Baker's offices in One Cleveland Center are the firm's finance "back office." All of Baker's Cleveland lawyers and lawyering-support staff (receptionists, secretaries, paralegals, copy centers) are in Key Tower.

^I'm surprised by the brick. All the old photos I have seen of the this building (pre-50's modernization) showed a cut stone Beaux Arts facade at the lower level.

I have said it before, but I will say it again. This is a surprise to no one who knows the Cleveland legal market. There are, *maybe*, a couple of law firms that could financially (on the basis of profits-per-partner) and (just as importantly) from a marketing standpoint theoretically justify the lease rates on new-build Class A space. But, this is Cleveland, why would they? They’ve got pretty sweet offices right now— that are hardly packed or overused due to Covid. Everything else is just a game of musical chairs. One firm shrinks, another one rises by the same margin. In fact, I bet that game of musical chairs will very soon be demonstrated at Key Tower….

I had no idea 41 West was so big!

Good! I hope the other developer hires a decent architect. Geis' building on E. 12th is a turd.

Historical tidbit -- Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew decided to make Singapore a model, garden city after watching the steady decline of Lusaka, Zambia in the post-colonial era.

^ I am assuming the bank, whose name is emblazoned across the top.

Boy, that is one dreary picture.

Yep. In Cleveland, we put the vinyl up front!

Just walked by it. It still looks the same as the March 8 photo, above.

And they're sycamores. Hopefully that happens in real life too.

Loathe to say it, but the restaurant renderings really remind me of TownHall.

"Valor Acres" is such a corn-pone name. 🙄

Are roundabouts more traffic-calming than traffic lights? With all the traffic lights removed, it looks like Franklin would become a dirt-biker's dream.

I hear you guys. Whoever is designing townhouses in Cleveland needs to travel a bit more. I reckon that a typical brownstone plan requires some excavation and a basement foundation, which is expensive. Although it is difficult to see, I'll bet that these townhouses are on slabs, have ground-floor rear-loaded garages, and that the principal entry is into a pointless "bonus room." That seems to be Cleveland builders' modus operandi of late.