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Had some college buddies in this weekend from Atlanta and we stopped at the Art Museum. Both friends commented on how impressive Uptown/UC was - both noted that they were not aware that Cleveland had neighborhoods like this. Felt pretty good, I have to tell ya.

Cha pizza is the pizza of God

Kernels by Chrissie is hands-down the best in the city

I'm convinced that J D Power awards can be bought. Have you noticed that entities that hire JDP as a consultant always perform well in their surveyts? Have Sam Allard from Scene look into it. Dude shreds every award/ranking Cleveland ever receives.

Disappointing, but reasonable. A single payer scheme will blow away the whole company, unless they can become some kind of payment center. But Bernie Sanders said single payer will work and the rich will pay for it?

^that's your spot, KJP[/member] !!

The density of Uptown is outstanding. PACKED with 5-20 story buildings.

^Where was that cover picture taken?

The bones are certainly good. I would love to see a nice little development with some street frontage where the old Hollywood video used to be. As long as Old Fashioned Hot Dogs doesn't get priced out of the area I'm all in favor of continuing growth. Having said that, Forest City Shuffleboard is a ton of fun.

Okay I love Lorain Ave but let's pump the breaks on the Georgetown comparisons for a minute

Campus: - Fenn Tower - Euclid Commons - Smaller student housing Campus District: - The Edge - The Langston - 1900/1919 Euclid - University Studios Off campus (not included): - Statler Arms - Halle Building - Reserve Square

I might be wrong but I believe your numbers are actually low. When Berkman arrived at CSU, 900 students lived on campus and another 600-700 in the campus district. As of last year (unless I am wrong, which I could be), I believe of CSU's 17,500 full time students, approximately 4,500 live in the Campus District. Berkman has said openly that he would like to get the enrollment of the school to around 25,000 with at least 10,000 living "on campus."

^ Perhaps discussed in another thread. But, see a growing city like Portland and Denver... THOSE are the type of homes in demand and being renovated. Parma's cronyism is among the worst in the county... They still cannot settle on a city charter, one of only two cities in the state without one. Until the fat is cut in the bureaucracy, political self-preservation will always outweigh progress in Parma. Parma Heights and Seven Hills are both nice little cities, though.

I always say that Parma could experience a transformation like Lakewood if they would just end the crony politics.

Lol you mean the circular gravel path? That isn't beautiful to you?

It's not about the height as much as it is the site size, and the constraints of staging a crane, and being able to boom out. If you rememebr, Stonebridge in Cleveland was 12 stories, but was still able to go without a tower crane. There was plenty of room to move a crane around and boom. You could have a super tight site however with building on either side that require a crane to be above the site versus on it. Snavely project on 25th and Detroit had to be darn close to needing a tower crane as the utilized that whole site. Site constraints are what I believe it comes down to. Most of the Columbus sites are right on High Street, which is their main thoroughfare and right in the dense university district and busy downtown area. And for this reason I give Cleveland all the credit in the world for the flowering and exciting CSU campus district. Unlike Short North and University District, Columbus is the near 150-year old home to internationally-renowned OSU which has 58,000 students who have historically been residential. Cleveland/CSU created something out of pretty much nothing. Until only a decade or so ago, CSU was a cold, concrete commuter-student jungle. It was a dead zone of fast foods and honky-tonk rip-off joints not really catering to students immediately after Playhouse Square. Those converted mixed-use apt/retail buildings a decade ago at 1900 Euclid was a start... Now it is a lush residential college town of green grass, lots of budding student apartments and dorms and bright, increasingly lively commercial district of old and new mixed use buildings. The movement between PHS and CSU is becoming almost seamless (save the gaudy archway screaming Playhouse Square). The Edge is already up and running and soon (X your fingers) we'll have the 32-story PHS apt tower which will further spill over into Campus District... It's all good! It amazes me to see the transformation at CSU from when I was a freshmen there in 2010. We had the annual Ohio Land Bank conference at the Wyndham (Crowne Plaza) last week and I took a walk that way just to check out the changes I knew occurred. It was packed, pedestrian activity everywhere, and not just from classes letting out. The places that have filled in along Euclid and the added density that is taking place, it was so nice to see. It's obviously not just Euclid as Chester has changed so much as well with student housing and eateries and the new engineering building, and it seems like Chester is about to see a lot more growth. I remember we would always head down to University Circle to that former Mexican restaurant that is now a 5-story? apartment building, and it's hard to think in just 6 or 7 years it was all just massive surface parking lots along the Healthline stops in Uptown, but that's discussion for another area and another thread. Walking back to the hotel it was nice to see continual activity from CSU, PHS, all the way down to 9th. I did a project my senior year in college (2013) on how to revitalize Euclid Ave near CSU. Little did I know...

^While I will always support construction and growth, you almost have to feel bad for the businesses near Short Vincent on E. 6th.

You forgot pierogis.

Still mad at Cleveland Scene and Sam Allard for their public outcry re: the extra 221 seconds I spent on the bus everyday.

^ Would it also be correlated to available, skilled man power?

Haha! You caught a pic of my aunt and uncle shoving their face with food

People occupying buildings, by its very nature, encourages street activity

The crane is erect and so am I

End of October, thank you!

I just took the bar in July... let me heal