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Where exactly is the new restaurant going to be located?

Athens... spent a month there one night.

Walking in and out of the W25th street station has been horrible over the last couple days. It doesn't look like it has been cleared once and snow piles have been pushed in front of it by plows apparently.

After a million-dollar renovation, the landmark Brothers Lounge will reopen March 14 in Cleveland by Joe Crea/Food and Restaurants Editor Friday March 07, 2008, 10:07 AM Peggy Turbett/The Plain DealerThe neon sign of Brothers Lounge glows bright on Detroit Avenue near W. 116th St. What was once a music lovers' landmark had become a dump. The Brothers Lounge had hosted some of America's greats. Buddy Guy and B.B. King performed there. Robert Lockwood Jr. graced its stage. So did Bonnie Raitt. By 2002, the 90-plus-year-old building at 11609 Detroit Ave. was decaying. A year later, it went up for sheriff's auction. It changed hands, but lay fallow -- like so many properties in Cleveland's handsome but scarred neighborhoods. More at http://www.cleveland.com/goingout/index.ssf/2008/03/brothers_lounge.html

And it's also the one that out drew every other city's festival in it's population category by more than 10,000 people from what I remember from the PD. I agree with McCleveland, if you don't know about it by now, you're a jackass or you aren't into independant films. That simlpe. Sounds like some people need to write letters if they aren't happy with soldout shows and 57,000 attendies...

The demo passed or the historic building designation?

Or the photo is just bigger.

Low quality, but hopefully it comes out.

Not quite, but well played. City must have put their "contemporary style" design team on this one.

I could be wrong.

They were going to, but I think that has been scrapped for the time being. It may eventually happen though. The developer also owns the Southington Building to the south of the Park Building, and has said that a future phase could be building atop the Southington. Only time will tell.

It is in Ohio City. SW corner of Lorain and W25th.

Just call it the 'H' or the 'HL.'

"I just hated the idea of combining the AT tower and the Rotunda." They're already connected. Have been since the Breuer Tower went up in 1971.

Sounds like Navy Pier has a challenger for the top spot of tackiest things in Chicago...

Yeah, the faux babbling brook is an especially nice touch. The Bond Department store would be a nice vintage one to have as well.

At least for a few hours every day... Seriously though, those sales numbers are great. Interesting that they recalibrated the unit selection by combining some- I wonder if that was done to accommodate specific buyers or to repackage the ones that weren't moving. As always, thanks for the scoop McC! I thought the initial units were small and oddly shaped. Granted my opinion about what is an "adequate" size is skewed. Every unit I've seen is a rectangle. Demo is complete and the new construction will be begining very soon.

The John Hartress Building was one of the most elegant buildings ever constructed in the city before it was cut up to make way for the Union Trust Building (now Huntington). Pretty sure it was made of cast iron and had very expansive glazing throughout. Similiar to French Art Nouveau of the early 20th century. An intersection at East 9th was also removed for the UT, which now serves as the service alley for the structure (off Chester or E12th), but the original facade of the John Hartress is still visible, althought the glazing has been filled in with masonry. You can still get a good idea of what the building originally looked like though. There is also a breakdown of the structure in the book "Cleveland Architecture: 1876 to 1976."

^Excellent breakdown of a complex situation. Hopefully you're right.

KA Architects has a new space at the corner of W9th and Superior (Warehouse District) that may have what your looking for: http://www.architectureoflife.com/9th_Street_Design_Studio.html

The Euclid Corridor could be considered a form of a street car in it's goal to become a new form of mass transit in the city if that's what you're talking about.

Couldn't it also be said that the death of standalone malls is the result of continued suburban sprawl away from areas that were built up in the 50's, 60's, and 70's, as opposed to a paradigm shift in customer preferences?

It is true that contemporary architecture has not always succeeded in creating excellent urban spaces, but it should not be a reason to be afraid of it. The cities and projects you mentioned above (Maple Heights, Erieview)were not exactly done by the best designers at the time. That is why we have to demand only the best thinkers and designers to create these contemporary spaces. If well done, the 2 could coexist and create a more dynamic space, as well as please all parties involved.

I have to give it to the construction workers on the ECP, they are out there working on these ridiculously cold days and are making progress. The first dual light post for the center median of the project has been placed just west of E12th.

Mrnyc, totally agree. Bring on anybody (Dutch or not) that is going to harness the identity of the Flats and transform it into an authentic, contemporary solution that marks this time in the City. NBBJ & RTKL certainly aren't going to do it. They have a track record of following the not always knowledgeble direction of the developer, instead of informing them of the possiblities that a site can hold.