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I was up in Quebec City earlier this year and they had native wildflowers growing in the medians and alongside the roads. I don't see why we're so obsessed with grass in our medians/shoulders, get some color in there- especially if trees are out of the mix now.

Perhaps it's a silly question, but walking in today and hearing and seeing all the work going on, is there an estimate for how many day to day workers there are on site?

Holy crap I love this design, it's something unique and also something you'd see in major metropolises, as long as it has street retail (coffee shop, bakery, etc.), I'm totally in!

Coming N on 71, to Pearl. I'll take a picture from Old Brooklyn, its hulking when approaching the city from the neighborhood on Pearl.

I still have hope, the photo on the right wasn't a 1-1 comparison, I'll try and walk by one of these days and see how that's been coming along. I know they've still been working on the interior bigtime, so hopefully it isn't a 'done deal' granted, the grand opening is like Sept. 30?

More photos of lighting.

Holy crap, what even happened? It's almost like it was intentional, yesh.

Totally agree, for what it's worth, she did mention the issue with vendors not policing themselves (*cough cough produce terminal*), but I've got a couple ideas on my own that can hopefully help folks understand the geography of the space and vendors (I'll share it on here of course! just need to find the time).

So I was on the tour of the WSM/Parking Lot put on by Cleveland 2030/GBC last night and wow, I wasn't going to put it on blast, but all I kept thinking was the city is woefully incompetent at managing the market. Aside from the parking lot tour, the actual interior part of the tour seemed like a PR/hitting back campaign on the part of Felicia Hall towards the vendors which included not taking any type of blame for the loss of vendors (saying it's from generational turnover/lack of interest on the part of the vendors children, etc.). My favorite quote from Ms. Hall (which was echoed repeatedly) was "it's not my job to market their businesses", speaking of the vendors, and that she sees the city as more of "a landlord" than a partner, which is so so wrong. Additionally, she made the comment that at the end of the day she's a manager. Ms. Hall spoke in platitudes and buzzwords such as turning the mostly vacant wing of the produce hall into an *incubator*, and also working with CSU to get the vendors into the *social media* sphere, and a seemingly empty idea of turning the old locker room into a demonstration kitchen. The market needs an actual MARKET MANAGER in charge, with experience in other public markets and one that is open to not just being a landlord- the market wouldn't be anything without the vendors and it sure sounds like the city doesn't realize that and refuses to accept that. All I kept thinking was "don't BS a BS'er", it was easy to see right through the words (hence my frustration in this rant...).

Lol don't show this article to Frank Jackson: https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/milwaukee/2019/08/20/three-scooter-riders-cited-riding-freeway/2060787001/

Exactly the point I wanted to try and make but wanted to try and keep things development related, thanks for providing documentation. @clevelandspirit care to counter?

Meh. I thought the purpose of Metro - as a public hospital - is meant to serve all residents of Cuayhoga County, not make a profit like pseudo non-profits CCF and UH. I'm not in the mix, but I really doubt it'd be possible (or even legal) for CC to buy them out. The campus right now is built for medical care of years past, much like many buildings in town aren't built for modern offices with wifi, data cable runs, etc., and it's a much needed upgrade.

I could be wrong, but I assumed that the interior panels are lit in some way to make them pop- at least that's what I got from the renderings.

Great photos @BJBaes looking through the different views- it'd be tough to nail down which direction I'd want to face! The apartments and views look great!

Obviously too early to say, but I wonder if this bad news will have an effect on the demolition request before CPC. Edit.... @Mendo answered my Q in the Gateway Forum...

To echo what I posted in the JHB comments, brought my DSLR to work today and got some shots after- Lumen is too tall to really be standing under it expecting a full shot-what a great problem to have! ?

Brought my DSLR to work today and got some pics afterwards. If you're bored it's pretty awesome to see the crews work on the facades during the day and it also looks like they're getting concrete poured/it's already set on the floors of the furthest east building.

Pics from my bike commute this morning (hence the meh quality) #cranes

Yikes. I like to consider myself a bike commuter and there are times that merit that level of yelling/screaming/outrage, but this specific case isn't one of them, self-righteous folks are annoying no matter their mode of transportation. I'd like to see our city and state be more progressive with allowing Idaho Stops, actually enforcing passing rules, building meaningful bike infrastructure (not just sharrows, and building actual protected bike lanes [not whispy cycletracks] - see Montreal for wonderful examples) and [not so progressive] in enforcing speed limits, but alas this is the world we currently live in. Sorry you had to deal with a jagoff this morning (as always see the bike portlandia skit lol)!

Man those posts are so annoying. Kind of like the dude on twitter that claimed that the addition of chairs (and pedestrians!!) and whatnot took away from the streetlife of the street because parking was eliminated. Maybe your coffee just sucks and people would rather go to PHX, Rising Star, or somewhere else with good beans? Also, if you're complaining about car parking for A BAR maybe you should rethink things. I try and side with business owners when their grievances make sense, but comeon, is it really that hard to embrace an idea that embraces and adds to city vibrancy?

We were driving into downtown Saturday night for PHQ's Silent Disco (go to it if you can make the next one!!!), and almost all of the stories were lit up with construction lighting. Holy crap it looked awesome! Was going to get a pic, but wouldn't have done it justice.

Great piece. It's super early in the process but two things - I wonder if any of these would be condos, and I hope they have balconies as part of the project as shown in the STL proposal- I feel it'd add a selling point as well as some great views!

I wonder what the chances are the city requires ground level retail for a parking deck? Not a huge fan of Kamm's in general, but there is something to be said about the strip of shops and retail they have on Lorain.

Thaz a big crane!

Coming down Euclid from Wade Oval Wednesday