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Excuse me, MMPI doesn't give a damn about FCE, as opposed to trying to give them the finger. "What do you think of me?" "I don't think of you."

I think the fact that MMPI is involved in this project has made the process be more honest than it generally would be. Jackson has no leg to stand on in this arguement, and FCE must be pissed that they really are powerless in the whole situation. MMPI is an out of town developer that has no problem sticking it to FCE and is looking out for their best interest, and in a way, the County/City's best interest because they are both the same. MMPI wants an on time, on budget project, that is a successful and profitable, same as the county. FCE has no motivation for the first two.

I'm not necessarily a supporter of a lakefront convention center, but to say that it wouldn't offer public access to the waterfront has never made sense to me. The Mall is certainly open to the public, and there was no reason why a public lakefront park wouldn't have been part of the plan, and may have actually jump started lakefront development. However, if the arguement is that we don't want another white elephant along the lakefront, I can get behind that. In the end, the existing site makes the most sense.

I see the Huntington Building being converted to county offices, unless Forest City gets a bone and the county moves into the Higbee Building. Don't know the logistics of that, but just throwing it out there. In the beginning of this whole conversation I was all for the TC site, but as time went on, the current site really makes the most sense. And throw in a passenger rail hub with connection to the 2 other C's, Lorain, RTA's service, and a hopefully expanded Amtrak rail schedule... The quicker the AmShack gets demolished the better.

It would be a scaled down Performing Arts Center and ALSO the Allen Theatre.

E4th has newly opening 1 bedrooms above Corner Alley if I remember correctly. You could spit on the Healthline below on Euclid Avenue from there if you wanted to.

Cleveland Heights and Shaker Heights remain excellent cities, probably due to the fact that they are "isolated" from freeway exits and sh!tty strip malls that define the the edge of freeways. Is this point not obvious?

I was going to say the same thing.

Bring that 3rd car onto the Red Line. It just looks cooler...

A new book store is going into the former "A Friendly Bookstore" on West 25th. It's called "Horizontal Books," whatever that implies.

Manipulated Yogi Berra quote: "Nobody uses the Healthline, it's too crowded." rocknroller, your quote doesn't make sense. It's all relative to the size of the city. If buses are half full that means that there are too many buses/trains, which is wasteful to taxpayers. An acceptably crowded bus does have several people standing while riding. If people are that lazy that they can't stand for 15 minutes, I'm not sure what to tell you. RTA services 250,000 people a day, I think that's a pretty decent number.

Well, Frangos certainly has control of a lot of parking lots. Hopefully they can start filling in the gaps in the area south of Prospect.

"Some were held on Mall C/B but at some point I think this was stopped due to structural concerns." Untrue, and ridiculous. I do agree that many of the festivals that are in the horrible Tower City ampitheater should be moved to Public Square/East Fourth/ Prospect Avenue. Tower City Ampitheater probably turns off more people than it gets in there. Moving the Burning Riverfest to Nautica was a disaster in my opinion. Who likes hanging out in a glorified parking lot on a hot summer day.

People have been doing their shopping out doors for centuries, and remain attractions in any number of cold weather cities. What's the attraction of driving, parking, walking through an asphalt wasteland, and into a generic indoor space that could conceivebly be in any place on earth. How the trade for urban shopping was traded for suburban malls was made I'll never understand.

It also comes down to the perception of the busses being longer than the typical bus, so it seems skinnier. Also, with this Coppola person being obviously way off on her assumption of the busses having half as many seats as a normal bus, how can it even be published. Again, we know this is false, but every suburban jackass probably takes this woman's word for gospel. Does the PD actually check facts before they publish this stuff? Apparently not.

That fountain is embarrassing.

"Levels of nostalgia are directly related to the success with which the past has been destroyed."

Man, the shadows that fall on the Terminal Tower are sweet. The gradient shadow that falls on the rounded parts, the deep shadows at the colonades, etc. Can't wait for all that scaffolding to be off and get it lit up again.

Just continues the decades long comedy of errors that has been this city's viewpoint on demolition. I'm once again speechless on the plans for these once proud structures that have been pilaged and basically thrown in the trash. Our landfills are home to more history than our present city. Depressing that this region is still willing to trade structures like these for eifs clad garbage and cul-de-sacs.

H Service on the E-Line trolley was returned to its original hours of 7am-7pm M-F when the 24/7 HealthLine began operations. Why should RTA place service on top of service? It's bad practice to compete with yourself. How do the trolleys connecting the Warehouse to Euclid Avenue overlap service? The Healthline goes no where near the intersection of W9th and St. Clair. Good luck getting 1 million riders on the trolleys next year...

Which post are you referring to? The first video when the guys are on the observation deck.

Anybody know how one would approach the city about taking over a structure on the emergency demolition list?

Notice the still intact buildings on the south side of Prospect. Thanks for tearing those down parking lot bastards...

Lakeshore Drive is hardly pedestrain friendly from what I remember. It's basically a highway just like the current Shoreway. If development could be encouraged at these new intersections north of the railroad tracks, I think this project could be a success.

Honestly, that's probably one of the better architecture building in the country.