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What great "historic" building is being demolished for the station? I agree that we as a society don't value the existing urban fabric of this country, and that we should do everything we can to redensify our fair city while respecting what exists, but pigeonholing yourself into a realm of individual building design that is predetermined is just plain boring. Palijandro, thank you for proving my point with that previous comment. "BURN CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE AT THE STAKE!" Agree to disagree...

^Lame. Even Europeans, with their centuries old city centers, have the guts to pepper in a few contemporary buildings onto their urban fabric. This is one building that sits at the boundary of 2 hopefully future integrated neighborhoods. Interesting that the Old World always wants to be new, and the New World always wants to be old. Puritan conservatism I suppose.

It will also take up the storefront to the left if I remember correctly.

There is no reason to replicate and disrespect past architecture with illegitimate, "historic" design. If design should be anything, it should at least be truthful to the viewer. Throwing crocker park type buildings all over the place would be a wasted opportunity.

It's unfathomable to trade a possibly functioning, public, active convention center for a movie sound stage. If this thing ends up at Tower City because the mayor refuses to sell... I just can't really explain how disappointing it would be.

People, it's the contrasts of architectural styles (as long as the contemporary is tastefully responsive to the historic urban fabric in terms of density, street engagement, and scale) that make cities interesting. To place one of the crappy off the shelf Wendy's fast food restaurant type stations that we have on the west side above the bridge at Mayfield it would be truely embarrassing. It's not like anything is being torn down to accomodate this new station, it should be viewed as a welcome addition to a dynamic urban neighborhood.

Tall buildings certainly aren't a sign for successful cities, but sh!t, we've got the tallest buildings between NYC/Philly and Chicago. Never really understood this supposed knock.

I'm not really a huge fan of the design myself for the record.

It's not the aesthetics that ccars is questioning if I'm reading the posts correctly, it's the "over the top" facility in terms of infrastructure.

I've never heard anybody complain about a transit station being "too good." Not sure what the issue is here.

Anyone else notice the steel going up for the building next to Brothers Printing, filling in the gap between the buildings, and guess what, without a tree lawn.

Before going to bed last night I noticed work lights in a space in the United Trust Bank Building at W25th and Lorain. Broke out the binoculars and saw that there were several people in the 3rd from top floor cleaning out the space. Not suer whats going on in there but I'm hoping this is part of the renovation to apartments/offices. Either that or they were cleaning up a crime scene.

I like how the city skyline peeks in the background in many of th ephotos.

A sad day when the design of public infrastructure is meant to DISCOURAGE an action rather ENCOURAGE an action.

What an uninteresting building, although I commend McNulty for continued development in the neighborhood.

Yeah, I can't think of a worse location. The current context is sun scarred asphalt with the standard McDonalds and Rx Mart.

I'm surprised society never looks at how dangerous driving actually is. These idiots have no problem driving 80mph in rush hour traffic, but try convincing them to walk down Euclid Avenue and they would probably erspond with some BS about it being dangerous. Certainly more likely to die in a car crash than murdered on a city street. We are all pedestrains.

Bring back the W14th Street Bridge.

Can't imagine how the Greek Orthodox Church could be happy with ODOT, they have a freaking 10 lane city raping artery as a retaining wall 5 feet from their front steps.

Wrong bridge, wrong location, wrong planning, wrong... What it will be is a Valley View Bridge with a few functionless engineer designed trinkets near the eye level of drivers passing at 70 mph. I can't think of anything less important to making this mesh with the context. Although, they probably consider the context to be Toledo to Ashtabula. At least we can look forward to ODOT demolishing several more examples of our industrial past (as if we haven't lost enough buildings, let alone neighborhoods in the first round of freeway building), losing land for downtown development, visually crowding the Hope Memorial Bridge, removing exit ramps for local business, poor aesthetics, creating more worthless land along the riverfront, pandering to a non-sustainable form of transportation, no pedestrian or bike access... Anything else?

In response to the comments on that link: It's funny that when the citizens of the US ask for help in this recession people don't understand that this is the type of infrastructure that adds economic value to the present and the extended future.

This is excellent news.

How is putting the CC on the mall anywhere comparable to something in Detroit. It's not like we're putting this thing out on E55th. Gilbert, stick to winning a championship and leave the city building to people that (maybe, ok, they don't , but they're right in this instance) know what they're doing. And really, other than FCE, Gilbert, and Dolan, where is all this critisism that the PD speaks of coming from?

You know what keeps occuring that lets these properties fall into diserpair and move towards eventual demolition? Suburban sprawl. Other than maintaining demand for these structures through stopping suburban sprawl (hopefully the economy, rising values of farm land, and peak oil make this happen naturally), what steps can be made to avoid not just demolition, but the things that lead up to demolition, because that's really the problem. You need to kill the virus at the start, as opposed to knowing the virus and allowing the host to become ill and then attempt to save a dead corpse that's too far gone. What may need to be created is a department that knows the neighborhoods building by building, land owner by land owner, define what problems are occuring in real time with these people, and having the funds to implement solutions and avoid situations like we had at E57th and Euclid. Connect these owners with banks or other institutions that can help them maintain their investment. As much as I loved those buildings, they were obviously too far gone for anyone other than a multi millionaire with a heart to reverse the decades of neglect they had withstood. Another possible way may be for the city to create a bank of existing owners that want to sell their properties, and connect them with people such as myself who would be interested in purchasing these still useful and well kept structures. Maybe the Mayor makes a big press release for this process, shakes up the people that may other wise just let the buildings go to sh!te. Make it a big deal and see what happens.

MTS, give us a break. It was said to make a point. Deal with it.