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One of the first times I was in town walking around Euclid, I was like 'oh cool! they have a fancy athletic club' then smelled the entryway/green carpet that had been pee'd on who knows how many times and the abandoned state of the entrance lol, glad to see the conversion just about complete.

In case you were wondering Allard has one of his stupid hot takes again, does this dude ever stop? For once can he be optimistic? https://www.clevescene.com/scene-and-heard/archives/2019/10/03/city-block-is-just-kind-of-a-futuristic-mall-at-tower-city-now Lots of "questionable quotation marks" in this "piece"

This was my view in Old Brooklyn the other morning - Ben Franklin Community Garden - it's massive and a wonderful place! Hard to believe the garden only has 10ish days left ? (my peppers disagree with this deadline...)

Wow, what progress. I almost forgot about walking by and hearing the plastic window covering flapping in the wind, or the unforgettable musty smell emanating from the trio. So glad this is happening!

Well as someone who lives in Old Brooklyn and uses this cycling route daily, it's been a very long year without much of a plan to keep cyclists and pedestrians safe. But alas, they're wrapping it up, woo to the next phase!

Hopefully they're faster than the Jennings Rd. stretch, I swear it's been under construction for 2 years at this point, thankfully they only have the RR crossing left! Edit: I get it started in July of 2018, it feels like it's been two years. Also, the RR crossing is NOT finished, so it is NOT fully ready for use. Yesh, didn't mean to ruffle so many feathers.

@Pugu same with @WindyBuckeye - my reaction was moreso for the construction of the towpath, continuing progress towards full connectivity, not towards the street closure. I don't live in Tremont and only know this area through biking, but do many people actually use the street south of 7th? It seems like it's mostly used for street parking, and rarely have I seen a car traveling towards Literary, but those are my observations, I'm probably wrong haha.

god that was weak, their insta was even worse. I haven't had coffee yet, but I think I'll think the same later today? Was looking forward to seeing areas outside of the lobby - hallways, units, etc., oh well, maybe I'll have to be a 'prospective tenant' to get those photos lol

Hopefully they just put up a huge billboard on top, a la you-know-where

Steam vents maybe, but I think a major cause are construction crews setting up heavy equipment on it without using protective measures. I feel construction crews are the largest contributor, not to mention freeze thaw cycles probably don't help either.

I just got back from the GIS Conference in Columbus and can't help but think of Nationwide's 'campus' down there, with tunnels and tubes running about and very little street presence. I know that was built when planning concepts were different, but it really is a dead zone to outsiders. To echo @mu2010 I hope the city pushes multi-use and retail in the area (it may be dead down there now w/empty storefronts, but 3k centrally located people will demand retail and good lunch options!).

Supertall! 3500ft!

If i had to guess his spot is right on Schaff Rd/Hinkley Pkwy in my hood of Old Brooklyn ? actually on the lot where homeland security wants to put their new office thing.

Good points! It was kind of a nudge on my end for some protected bike lanes or something (i dont see the midway happening anytime soon), so many roads downtown are like this- even ones with huge buildings amd residents. The more traffic calming/road diets/BRT/streetcars the better

No news, just proof our roads are about 3 lanes too wide. 445pm Friday aka rush hour

As seen from the Avenue District area

Crocker Central! ? Love, love, love the idea of a water taxi. With consistent service, it could really be something!

Ah! I missed this, did you attend?

A couple pics I got while walking over to CSU last night

A young adult I volunteer with took me on a tour of the CSU Film school yesterday, I never realized what amazing views the Ideacenter had. Being up there really highlights the density we don't necessarily see from the street-minus the northern facing parking lots ? What an amazing learning space!! Kind of hard to apture what I was going for, but here's all the roofs of the theaters in Playhouse Square. Pretty cool to see the other side, and just how hulking these spaces are...

First rendering of the new SHW campus! (was looking through historic photos on here and came across this gem, thanks @YABO713!)

I'm adding to the derailment of this conversation, but a cost of sprawl is the subsidizing of highways and the long ranging costs associated with roads as we expand them and build them further and further from the core. I'd argue that a healthy tax abatement is much cheaper in the long run than building a 14 lane highway to Aurora.

? Ezra, if NuCLEus is such a problem as you've made it, sell the parking lots and your rights and give them to a developer that has perspective. Edit2: also dude, these are surface parking lots that are a blight on the city, quit with the start stop BS and either commit or get out of this area. How many times have we been teased with 'groundbreaking' announcements only to have them scuttled because of some small reason- most recently prevailing wage? If you can't support NEO construction workers at a union wage, then you don't deserve NEO tax credits. With that, I need more coffee lol

I've never contributed to this side of UO, but this definitely struck a chord. While it was nice to have spending money from my pizza shop job, I lost a lot of friends over my schedule and not being able to go out on the weekends and just be a kid. Looking back on it, I made maybe $115-130 per week? Sure, I was able to pay for clothes and to eat out at denny's (lol) and pay to repair my '92 Tempo, but I also missed a year of football, basketball games and all that crap. Teen work isn't going to leave a dent in the overall tuition problem, BUT the one takeaway I did get from working in the service industry is respect for people busting their asses in kitchens, delivering and whatnot, thing is, you don't need to be in HS to learn that.