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Wow.

The worst is when the pics of the bathroom shows the toilet with the entire seat up.

Yeah, I'd say this is the last set of columns they can do before jumping.

The loss of this area makes me absolutely sick to my stomach. This is an example of local (CDC, City) and regional (transit authority) having no foresight on redevelopment or simply even a sense of optimism. Demolition was their only tool. What replaced this pales in comparison by any measure.

^... at the expense of a more densely populated and expansive neighborhood at a major junction of mass transit.

The PD states that the City lost about 250 residents last year. That's basically zero. I predict a small growth in the City population next year: for the first time in 95% of forumers' lives.

Does it create competition for the tax credit? Potentially muddying the waters in much the same way the May Company Building didn’t win the $25,000,000 historic tax credit, the very project that instigated the credit?

Would hate to see the Ontario Street Cafe nite the dust if the garage goes.

Great addition to the growing near west side, but the design overall is standard C+ Dimit.

^i want to be there

^How do you know it failed? The north and east sides are not fully enclosed since there is not much solar heat gain on those facades. It doesn't excuse not continuing the facade on those faces though.

Lower photo is probably 1957 (55 Public Square under construction) and the middle one is probably a year or two earlier. I like the big Coke sign at W3rd and Superior.

Just think if we could have kept the vast majority of the building stock of those lower 2 photos and pushed the office developments of the 60's, 70's and 80's and Gateway further east and south. That Superior Avenue photo is awesome.

I've read that the Hickok Building was of the same quality on the exterior to that of the Old Arcade. This was a huge loss, as was the building directly to the west. Just crazy how retail chains were able to completely wipe out significant structures and replaced them with much shorter buildings (Bond and Woolworth a bit lower down Euclid).

The real problem is that he has inhouse designers that are used to doing suburban projects, and now they're doing urban infill.

Not bad, spend $2,000,000 on the build, sell it for a $1,250,000 loss...

All the "successful" cities from this article lack the historical baggage of transitioning from a large scale industrial economy in the 20th century, and the extreme racial/socio-economic issues that accompanied that situation. I have nothing against them for it (I guess), but rioting and steel mill closures didn't bury Austin or Columbus in the 1960's. Cleveland, Pittsburgh and Detroit are obviously still digging themselves out with varying levels of success. To me it's not much more complicated than that.

LAND Studio has been involved with some of the best (Public Square) and certainly the worst (speakers downtown) pieces in the landscape. No level of consistency to expect great things from their management.

The guy that designed it isn’t even really an artist from what I understand, his only credentials are that he owns Super Electric.

5th City was used as well for marketing. Seems silly to go with a less prestigious ranking

One of the dumbest things I've seen in a while. Yes it sounds like it's happening.

No, they won't. There wasn't a Cleveland Landmarks Commission (created in 1971) in place when the Euclid Avenue Millionaires Row succumbed to commercial development after a streetcar line was rerouted directly down Euclid in 1915 (it had detoured via Prospect for 50 years previously). No similar dynamic is in the cards to threaten the beauty of this wonderful street. Developers don't want the headache or the expense of trying to win approvals from the Landmarks Commission to demolish these lovely homes. Because Franklin Boulevard is a protected historic district, anything that's going to get built on Franklin will occur from this point eastward and it will occur only on these unsightly, windswept, trash-strewn parking lots that restrain an urban neighborhood's vitality and property values. Any other assumptions are mere fear-mongering. Don't let facts get in the way of a neighborhood argument KJP. All these block clubs are the same; Duck Island, Franklin/Clinton, they want control of everything that goes on in their neighborhood and when something isn't EXACTLY what they want they become obstructionists and lean on the zoning code for support. Ironically the zoning code has a lot to do with why many neighborhoods or portions of neighborhoods are in terrible condition.

Why do several Cleveland companies call themselves "Sixth City?" Why not go with the actual high water mark of "Fifth City?" This never makes sense to me.

The 90's boom may have been bigger in the suburbs, but as far as I can tell nothing like the current rate of residential construction has happened in inner neighborhood Cleveland since the 1920's or maybe even earlier.

^Especially David Ellison...