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To be sure, advocates need to plan for the adverse impacts of density, including traffic and congestion. The people that write this sort of crap amaze me. The author is talking about experiencing UC without a car, but then calls density a problem. Using public transportation would obviously illeviate these traffic problems. Density is the answer, not the problem. These PD writers seem to be trying to write something positive (Gomez is another), but then there is one sentence in their articles that reveal their total cluelessness of the urban condition. Damn.

Phenom Penh is Vietnemese/Cambodian.

Looks better than a parking lot. As well as KPF's proposal for the county.

Kassauff is certainly on the list of Clevelanders who are a barrier to progress. Isn't he responsible for the development for the FBI building and Channel 3? What a piece of shit.

Never on Sunday Restaurant. Reminds me of a photo from CMP. Look at all those kick ass signs on Prospect...

I don't go anywhere with the name "Crocker" or "Legacy" in the name if at all possible...

Joshua Hall is just the buildings. I think it was the name of the guy that built the building in the early 1900's, not a Hall named after Joshua. The building is just west of the now defunct Bottums Up. I'll post some pics of the interior and exterior when I get a chance.

As of this afternoon 3 of the 4 units in the Joshua Hall Building have been sold.

Thsi thread is something else... I don't even know where to begin... again...

I'm part of a group of 3 that has started working out the basic concepts and development scenarios.

The "potentness" was a comment on someone's remark that the drinks are watered down there. Now I know they meant the mixed drinks (and they definetly are), but just throwing that out there in jest. I've been known to throw down the Triple Diamonds in my time in Fireneze. I heard I had a good time out there...

Well, the experience started off with a pleasureble walk down Bridge Ave from my apartment to JM. Arriving around 6:45 revealed a half filled dining room, the two of us took a table in the middle with chairs facing the big screen tv which would soon be showing the Cavs game. Greetings and drink service were prompt, and the Dos XX ice cold with a more than ample lime on the side. Fried plantains and chips and salsa for apps was ordered and again arrived quickly, and in the words of my girlfriend, "these are the best plantains we've ever had here because of their unusually crunchy exterior, and a warm and succulent interior." 15 minutes later the entrees came. A vegetable quesadilla for me and a mushroom and garlic quesadilla for my girlfriend. Because I usually get the steak q, I wasn't as happy as I normally was with the entree, but it was still the best thing in OC for $5.95 (except for 4 or 5 egg rolls from Phenom Penh). And for the price, 2 beers, chips and salsa, fried plantains, and two quesadilla entrees, the bill with a 20% tip was $34. We were full, and pleased with JM's service, drink potentness, and food value on all accounts, and plan on continuing a roughly monthly visit to this neighborhood staple. I was going to bring my camera to capture the excitement, but I thought it might be a bit much.

With all this Johnny Magno talk, I'm going there for dinner tonight inspite of all the neysaying. I will relay the experience afterwards.

Touche. I've never written that word before. Looks strange.

Let's see how many different ways you all can say JM and Tommy's sucks. You have somehow filled a whole page up.

Damn. I'm surprised everyone is so critical of JM. Is it really neccessary to get very fast service for every meal. Just chill out and drink a couple Dos XX on tap and wait for the plantains and quesadilla to show up, then tip less than you normally would if service is bad. I can't believe this conversation has went on this long.

Guv, I'm with you. JM is damn good.

Great thread. That mall has to have been designed by the same firm that did Euclid Square Mall. Seating details are nearly identical. Unfortunately, Euclid Square has only an outlet Dillards and 99 out 99 storefront abandoned. Creepy thing is that I grew up going to that mall and it is now completely abandoned, yet you can still get into it to walk around to see the dried up fountains, and they still have the mall music playing in the background. Disturbing to say the least.

Well now we can see that the president of the university is bashful to make any sort of statement for the university by looking at his current track record: Choosing Gwathmey Seigel to do the student center, and wanting to hide a very interesting, cutting edge technology next to the freeway. I say put the turbine in the crappy front lawn of the Urban Affairs Building if it makes sense technically.

Per the article, they are cutting out left turns at the two intersections. And the more of that lush front lawn that is taken up, the better.

Pelli did Key Tower. Harrison and Abramovitz designed Erieview Tower, Pei did the masterplanning for the overall Erieview development. While Pei and Vinoly are world recognised, they aren't breaking new ground in architecture the way MVRDV and FOA are. I'd say Pei and Vinoly are B+ architects, while MVRDV and FOA are A+. Certainly nothing scientific about that ranking system...

Northeast Ohio has certainly inserted itself into the conversation of contemporary architecture on a global scale: CIA by MVRDV MOCA by Foreign Office Architects Akron Art Museum by Coop Himmelbl(a)u.

That's a bold statement. We'll see if you can back it up.

Here's what the loser is doing. Isn't "Conservative Think Tank" an oximoron? Blackwell joins conservative think tank Friday, February 16, 2007 Mark Naymik Plain Dealer Politics Writer Ken Blackwell, last year's Republican nominee for governor and former secretary of state, is pushing a conservative agenda again. Blackwell, whose 2006 campaign platform included cutting taxes and expanding school choice, has joined the Buckeye Institute for Public Policy Solutions, a Columbus-based conservative think tank. He will receive a stipend under a fellowship named for former President Ronald Reagan. "He will be doing it all when it comes to disseminating our conservative viewpoint - he'll be speaking and representing us at the national level and preparing pieces for publication," said David Hansen, president of the Buckeye Institute. ... www.cleveland.com

^Finally more news on that? MVRDV and Foreign Office Architects (MOCA) on the same block in Clevleand, f yeah.