Issis

lol~ yeah~ yeah~ i briefly *very briefly* worked on the new CSU masterplan~ ;D hmmm~ came to think... when am i coming back...? :)

well~ if you just want people to feel better walking along the streets, your idea is a pretty good one~ all i want is just to see people walking on the street. if you think... people are gonna walk by there anyway, why not make it prettier, i absolutely agree with you! and as you said, "this seems like a semi-easy creative quick-fix to the problem.", it's a really quick-fix! what if less and less people would be around? i don't take people walking by for granted, and certainly don't expect people coming just to see the window artworks. how many people would come to downtown if it weren't for work/school? and if those things disappeared in the future? forgive me if i'm not so optimistic on this issue. i do hope there are still people walking by 10 years later. and i do hope they are not just window arts but real store/office/apartment. there gotta be a reason for people to come, work, live, entertain, you name it. it won't change over night, but if it starts now~ the future we'd like to see will happen sooner~ ;)

yeah~ that's the project i was talking about. i just don't think filling in the windows with pretty stuff is gonna solve the downfall of downtown Cleveland. you gotta have real stores behind those windows to bring people back! i was mostly talking about the building east of Colonial Marketplace up to the parking lot behind the City Club Building.

isn't there a projet for the Euclid corridor underway? besides... is anyone gonna do anything about the building facades along south side of Euclid between e.4th and e.9th? they look pretty scary if you ask me, especially with all the empty storefronts. thanks to the canopy along the way, people hardly notice the deserted upper facades. but when you do look up... it's like... whoa~ what the hell is that???!!! :-o