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Since a few of the lamps blew off in the ridiculous wind storm a couple weeks ago the city decided to remove them and reinstall them in a bolted manner as opposed to the way they were originally fastened. Hopefully this is done quickly, but I think the city deserves some credit for responding and acting on this immediately.

Historic tax credits can be sold from what I understand

I always thought the Krenzler parking lots on Euclid and Prospect (with the parking structure in the middle) would be a great site for a large headquarters building. Saving on building a garage at the very least. I think we've all seen the design proposal there from the early 80's.

Those couple days with really high winds knocked a couple off. Hopefully they're fixed soon

I think those days with very high winds knocked a couple off. Hoping they're fixed soon Sounds like their maintenance has been turned over to RTA.

The problem with this is architectural, not engineering. I understand the building needs to function in a specific manner, but those constraints could be taken by a design professional and create something that performs for all stakeholders. Lack of creativity is the crime here.

Denmark makes power stations into ski hills, we turn pump stations into fortresses. Thanks NEORSD

I think these suggestions are over simplifying the process of designing a building to be set on top of an existing structure. The perimeter of the building was already defined when the garage was built.

I hope you're right, but tell that to Scranton-Averrill who would rather develop halfway houses and (not) maintain vacant buildings and property.

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Outside of buying clothes one really doesn't need to leave Downtown for the most part.

Their 1931 equivalents.....55 Public Square was built on the site of an old courthouse that was demolished that year. You're right, the building to the extreme right is the old courthouse, and the white building in front of it (to the right of the farthest right lamp post) is the Marshall Building which was at the NW corner of PS and Superior Ave. The Marshall Building was demolished around 1990 (give or take a year) to make way for the never built Ameritrust Center. IMO, the Marshall Building was a very classy looking building and a great loss to the CLE skyline. Great picture though. Thanks for posting it. The Marshal would have been a nice rehab into apartments with historic tax credits if it were still around...

No Higbee yet.

So are we to assume millennials are the only ones that enjoy living in cities? That the next generation won't take advantage of the ground set by the previous generation or two? It seems to me that this current influx of people has made it easier for the immediately following generations to keep the "trend" moving forward. The hard work, in many ways, has already been done.

Banks have nothing to do with bad design, and using them as an excuse is pandering to bad developers and architects.

This is a can of worms issue. I've never seen a flat roof that didn't leak, but I'm told (condescendingly!) by some architects that they perform just as well as a peaked roof. They don't put pitched roofs on 3-story townhomes because it would push the height in many locations over the 35' height restriction per zoning code.

Possibly the ugliest town homes in the City.

You know what that area needs near the Lakelink Trail??? Another surface parking lot. Thanks Jacobs (Downtown storage demolition).

This is ridiculous. Destroying the very things that make the area a draw. I'll never understand these people.

I don't have high hopes for a patient facility on property that should be a mixed use anchor of the growing commercial thoroughfare.

Very often site plans are submitted for a zoning review without a full knowledge of what the zoning code demands. In this case they may have just not known they needed bike parking, and may request to remove that variance from the list at BOZA.

This is just east of Banter. Good to see activity pushing this way.

I lived in the building next door for a while, that place will always be Rathskeller (version 2.0) to me. They'd let you smoke in there as long as you'd ash in the empty rocks glasses on the bar.

Another rendering over here with no skill in getting the perspective right.

I like it, and have no problem spending my tax dollars on something that invests in a successful facility while positively impacting a significant portion of downtown.