UrbanSurfin

I hope to be there.

On crowded L trains in Chicago in the 1980s, when I had to stand, I tried to do so without holding onto anything. I called it urban surfing.

OSU has been in close contact with the University Area Commission throughout this process. UAC members like the idea of keeping it as a public school, as the number of families with kids in Weinland Park and Italian Village continues to rise. School-age urban demographics are changing -- though the school district and city officials don't seem to be aware.

The info in the summary appears to be up to date. In addition to meeting on April 9 with Chad Ketler of Community Properties, the housing committee of the Weinland Park Civic Association released a Weinland Park Commercial Study a few months ago (conducted by the Neighborhood Design Center).

Scrapped. The five houses will remain, but in a different form, likely without the party porches. The additional units at the rear will be built though.

Minneapolis and St. Paul have about 10 miles of shared border half of it in the river and half of it no more than an imaginary surveyor's line. They not only have separate and distinct downtowns, but also separate and distinct vibes, personalities and civic cultures. They take great pride in being from Minneapolis OR St. Paul, often disparaging the other. They tend not to think of being from The Cities -- its only called The Cities in the Outstate communities.

Michael (who's my next-door neighbor) moved to the Weinland Park because organizations he worked for were trying to fix it, and he didn't want to be an outsider telling people what their neighborhood should be like. He wanted to be part of the neighborhood, listen to his neighbors, and roll up his sleeves. He's a good man.

No formal design, but initial renderings presented to UAC-Zoning show a handsome building that will be a great addition.

What/where is the arcade? I didn't know San Francisco had one.

With the straightened cars and the buildings seemingly at at 45-degree slope, you might call San Francisco the City of Angles.

Nope. No storefront. This project had near-unanimous condemnation from the University Area Commission, but (naturally) it was approved anyway. Basically a giant rooming house. The concept of micro-apartments is fantastic, but cramming 274 of them into a single ugly box behind other ugly boxes is ridiculous. Micro apartments should have been scattered among all the other new buildings up and down High Street. Micro-apartments as affordable housing should be required in new residential buildings around campus -- and the rest of the city.

The number of wins isn't so important unless you factor in the number of games. The Indians have two of the five highest winning percentages in AL history -- including No. 1: In 1954 they were 111-43 for a .721 percentage. In 1995, they were 100-44 and .694. The Yankees won 114 in 1998 for a .704 percentage (lower than their .709 when they won 110 games in 1927). And Seattle's 116 wins in 2001 with a .614 percentage, while impressive, still falls below the Tribe's win rate in 1954 -- and far below the 1906 Cubs' incredible 116-36 record and .763 winning percentage.

I may be available!

The Rust Belt is also the Freshwater Belt.

Toledo and Dayton are two classic examples of this. Also, much of this is chronicled by Donald Barlett and James Steele in their 1991 book America: What Went Wrong. http://americawhatwentwrong.org/Barlett-and-Steele/ It grew out of a series they did for the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Tee Jay's used to be Jerry's Drive In -- that's where the giant neon arrow originated.

This is a good example of what's wrong with economic development in Ohio -- especially with JobsOhio. The focus is on counting jobs -- not on developing the economy. Will they be good jobs? Maybe. Will the profits stay in the Ohio economy? No. Will Ohioans have a chance to rise in the company heirarchy? Maybe not -- if this story about Chinese investment in the Dayton area is any indication: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/10/business/economy/ohio-factory-jobs-china.html Will this be a giant factory on a greenfield site that will add to sprawl and require everybody to drive great distances to get there? Or will it be in an urban area, in a shuttered industrial site (see above article). This job-counting mentality is something Kasich shares with Trump -- and it's built on an assumption that Ohioans and Americans need somebody to come in from the outside to "provide" jobs and take the profits elsewhere. But Ohio was built on homegrown industrial innovation: the Wright brothers, Charles Kettering, Charles Brush, Charles Goodyear, Harvey Firestone, John D. Rockefeller, to name a few. Economic development means investing in homegrown industries and innovations -- assuring an educated workforce rather than providing low-wage jobs for a foreign overlord that would love to colonize us.

A lotta good bones there, but I don't see much flesh.

How about a montage of seedy pawn shops just off Fremont?

I know Gertrude Stein was referring to Oakland when she said, "There is no there there," but it seems it would apply more to San Jose.

The outfit that renovated the building in the picture is interested the the building to the south (at the NW corner of 11th & 4th), but there's no activity yet. The pictured building has some activity -- something is going in there, but as of a few days ago there are no signs indicating what.

Ridesourcing apparently hurts transit ridership, adds to road congestion, and pollutes the air: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/06/nyregion/uber-ride-hailing-new-york-transportation.html?hpw&rref=nyregion&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0

It's a tough change for hospitals to make, and they're often forced by resentful neighbors to do so. Aultman didn't do much for its Canton neighborhood for a long time until all the current big planning efforts came up. In Columbus, one urban hospital on the near West Side is packing up and moving to the 'burbs -- leaving all its investment behind and building anew in a way that surely will affect health-care costs. Meanwhile, on the near East Side the ever-expanding children's hospital is finally talking to its neighbors and acknowledging its community after decades of tearing down homes for parking lots. Hospitals, universities, and churches are some of the biggest destroyers of neighborhoods in the quest for surface parking.

The Wellington was kind of a quintessential campus-strip building. I think it is the single greatest loss on High Street. My understanding is that the owners of the Wellington and the four-story former frat house behind it had been sitting on the buildings for years, letting them rot while while waiting for values to rise to the point they could make a killing. They got away with it because of anything-goes code-enforcement? Edwards did not buy the properties, but leased them for decades at an exorbitant rate. In a way, Edwards was victimized by unscrupulous landlords. Then again, they seemed willing to be victimized. and while Edwards has done some wonderful stuff downtown, the company's campus stuff is crap.

Nice! You covered a lot of ground for a "brief stop."