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"Our anxiety - about the past, about memory - is in direct proportion to our success in destroying it." -Rem Koolhaas, in "Endless City"

What was up with the meltdown on the Rapid lines around rush hour yesterday?

It's funny how having so many smaller buildings in comparison to their modern replacements makes the city seem so much larger. These pictures say all that needs to be said to people who think having a 70 story skyscraper is better than having several smaller buildings. The Termial Tower just blows everything away in scale. Love it.

^That is a true sign of younger, more well off people moving back into the city. Of course that takes a thought process to look deeper into the facts, which apparently is something the pd can't comprehend.

What is the deal with the rocks in the Clinic reflecting pool? I thought there was going to be fountains? Although if it had fountains it really wouldn't be a reflecting pool I suppose.

The back is quite interesting, and the reason it was all the cast iron ornamentation is because the alley you were walking in was a street that connected E12th and E9th before the Huntington Building was built, marooning the street and the incredible John Hartress Building. That poor building really was abused.

Nope. From what I have heard there is a new performance based space being developed there. Don't know off hand. I'll see what I can dig up at work this week...

I've never seen more construction workers hanging out eating lunch than the amount that were outside CR and Park Building. There must haev been 100 people leaning against May Co.

I've worked downtown for 5 years and have never been approached by rebar guy, but looking forward to listening to his schpeel.

This is really getting ridiculous. First the Eagle Avenue Bridge is decommissioned, then Riverbed is permanently closed because of the moving earth, now this. How much more infrastructure can the city and county neglect. Getting around the Flats is getting more and more inconvenient.

Columbus Road bridge in Flats closed for repairs, has uncertain future Posted by James Ewinger August 22, 2008 00:12AM The county is considering whether to raze or replace the city's severely corroded and long-neglected bridge.The Columbus Road Lift Bridge in the Flats was a federal gift to Depression-era Cleveland. It stands today as a rusting, time-blackened hulk that may cost recession-strapped taxpayers more than $31 million to mend. The city, which owns the bridge, closed the span last week for at least two months' worth of short-term maintenance. The county, meanwhile, is considering whether to scrap it, fix it or replace it with a new span... http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2008/08/columbus_road_bridge_in_flats.html

They've set up some plywood boards in front of the BRT Station so nothing damages the glass.

There's a guy that wears a Burger King "King Hat" through the streets of Cleveland, refering to himself, "not as a homeless man, but as a homeless GENTLEMAN." He is very articulate, and often rhymes when he's rapping for money. Also, there is a mentally handicapped man that roams the Warehouse District and Ohio City, waving at attractive women and yelling, "hello Ms. Wonderful!"

Dollar Bank took quite a beat down in front of a crowd of onlookers after work today.

Having brick is all fine and good, but they could have at least made an attempt to design something that from the looks of it will take up a whole city block. If I didn't see the name of the firm at the top of the rendering I would have thought it was my favorite local architect serving as the designer. Oh well, it's only Euclid Avenue I suppose...

Wow great, vinyl. What a great, durable material that will last at least 8 years. It's funny how many firms around the country cut and paste designs wherever they can simply to make a buck. I'm embarrassed to be in the same profession as these slugs. This thing really sucks.

I like the last line of the article.

East of E12th there are no barrels to be seen.

It's being wrapped in fiberglass which is erosion proof, and out performs stone. The metal studs are what the fiberglass is being fastened to. I spoke to a rep that is doing the work on the tower a few days ago and got the lowdown.

My family is from Campobasso and my great grandfather was a servant at a large estate (not sure where however). He actually would have married the daughter of the wealthy industrialist, but the thought of his daughter basically marrying a peasant didn't go over very well. I remain in the middle class to this day. The family eventually followed the Collinwood-Euclid-Mentor path. Crazy to see some of this information on UO.

They open it up during lunch on occassion. Feels like they're due to do it again soon.

I grew up around Edgecliff in the East 200's along the Lake, a rather dense assortment of larger houses. It's quite a contrast to what is shown in this thread (although I did live in the bungalo area of Euclid as a tot).

Joe C's comments seem to be consistent with the line of poor leadership that this city has had for several decades: rarely looking at the present as a time to plant the seed of future development.

Ok, is Litt misreading these skybridge ideas (they are horrible)? How in the hell could there possibly be a need to have a bridge crossing over to E4th and there being a bridge landing in front of the Arcade?