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Consider adding an arts/cultural component. I'd like to have more in depth news on the music scene. You could talk to venue owners, promoters, fans and artists who reside in or are coming to CLE. And it would be cool to know a bit more about the films that are playing at Cinemateque, Cedar Lee and Capitol.

THanks for that imagery!

I think the way to beat them is to play a physical, Eastern style game. The Warriors are a finesse team that haven't been pushed around enough.

Now that would be transformative. What really floors me is how a city with an unlimited amount of solidly build warehouse space has managed to completely miss out on the whole urban/loft residential movement. You would think that the Hilton Quaker Oats project would have spurred some more creativity and interest, but apparently it did not.

I don't want to make this an Akron punching bag thread, but I came to NEOBuckeye[/member]'s conclusion years ago. Build Canal Park + Then tear down most of Oneal's Building - U of A renovates Polsky + U of A closes off the bulding to Main St. - Renovate historic building into Jillians + Immediately tear it down for cookie cutter dorms - Build Infocision Stadium on campus + Virtually no spinoff development takes place - Now I love the little section of downtown with Musica and the beautiful Art Museum of course, and the library 2.0. But the thing with Akron, to me is, it's always one step forward, one step back. Like there's never enough traction. It's very frustrating.

Is that balcony "Cleveland Brown" orange?

Seeing this building all lit up at night is going to be glorious.

If the Chargers move, which seems an inevitability now, I thought I'd put allegiance behind my #2 team: Cleveland. Then I thought about it for a bit. What kind of masochist purposely decides that the Cleveland Browns are their favorite team? Nope. I've seen enough bad football to last two lifetimes. I am much more likely to go into NFL hate mode at that point, and get more into MLS and NHL. And of course the Cavs....thank God for the Cavs.

Well Gov. Kasich made the exact comment that I predicted he would.

agreed. but it will be back on the ballot again soon enough, hopefully as a better piece of legislation Nope. It got crushed. No one will touch it for awhile. I predict an amendment will not be ready for next year (a presidential election) and thus this has no chance until 2020. In the meantime I predict 10-15 states and perhaps the federal government will legalize. I hope someone is keeping track of all the $ we will lose out on and all the unnecessary $ we will spend jailing our citizens (as well as their time served) in the interim. Wow, I sure hope you're wrong.

Agreed, I hope they brand it with something original and unique to Cleveland, and don't slap on a generic casino chain branding. It always felt like a missed opportunity to renovate a beautiful art deco building by laying down yards of horse shoe carpet. Outside of the carpet I believe that the renovation turned out beautifully. The carpet doesn't really bother especially for what the building is getting used for (as well as I don't pay it much attention when walking). Agree. The Horseshoe turned out tasteful for the most part. The full "Ancient Rome" treatment of a Caesars would have been far far worse.

^ 4/4 insightful comments. I didn't expect that.

I hear ya. I'm not big on country western image for CLE. It got pretty dicey for a while with the mechanical bull craze lol.

My question was "why not the Packers or someone else?" He wanted a team that was close enough to see home games. He started out by rooting against "the enemy." But then he got turned lol. The Steelers, he said, had stable ownership, stable coaching staff, a winning culture, blue collar, were competitive every year...basically everything he hoped the Browns should have been before the NFL decided to help destroy the franchise.

They're probably drooling somewhere, unaware that there's even a game. I think the level of apathy for the Browns is reaching Rome Crennel era depths, even though this team is way better than back then, even at a lowly 2-7. I now have friends who actively root for the team to lose (as long as Haslem owns them) and met another guy who made a convincing argument as to why he made the painful, nearly unthinkable transition from lifelong CLE to PIT fan.

Nice read!

^ Interesting. This is close proximity to the existing market inside of the former Embassy Suites building. Also not too far from Heinens, which has turned into my favorite lunch spot when I'm in town.

Correct. That was merely wishful thinking on my part. I wish there was some kind of incentive to correct the parking garage setbacks; these garages are especially bad in the Avenue/9-12 District. In Columbus in the area between campus and Short North I've seen residential constructed along parking garage setbacks. It can be done.

^ The last pic illustrates why I suggested the new building wrap the adjacent parking garage, fronting St. Clair. It's a real street killer.

True. I'm a bit torn on the two story residential so close to downtown's tallest buildings.

A little misleading because a single company doesn't control the production of liquor in Ohio. But I digress. It's not that important. It does all pass through the State's Control System. Even if I own a distillery, I have to sell the product to the State, then buy it back to sell it to a consumer (I will admit I am simplifying things a little here) It's probably a safe bet that a lot of liquor producers/handlers have since become libertarians!

Ugh...that guy. Another reason why I absolutely hate going to the airport anymore. So unnecessarily stressful.

Agree that the grass/trees are well maintained, but so much of this area of downtown is in desperate need an urban makeover.

Good stuff. And Litt's article explains the history of the Ohio shoreline in a nutshell. Step 1: Leave virtually no public access to the water http://media.cleveland.com/open_impact/photo/lake-erie-propertyjpg-848261918b10797d.jpg Step 2: Divert pollution and tons of garbage onto the beach http://imgick.cleveland.com/home/cleve-media/width620/img/opinion_impact/photo/14357903-mmmain.jpg Step 3: Throw tons of industrial landfill on the beach http://image.cleveland.com/home/cleve-media/width960/img/plain-dealer/photo/2015/10/26/lakewood-solstice-steps-completion-420a868d907d35ab.png Step 4: Destroy beach with tons of rocks, concrete and rusting re-bar to simultaneously stop and exacerbate erosion http://clevelandhistorical.org/files/original/b6dbcc76b0b4c6c06b819c4b203d1e78.jpeg Step 5: Tear down beautiful buildings in the vicinity http://clevelandhistorical.org/files/original/1721cd9deea73e2914aac96b098c8053.jpeg Step 6: Do nothing for decades Step 7: Begin the long long and expensive process to try and remedy 100 years of horrid decision-making http://image.cleveland.com/home/cleve-media/width960/img/plain-dealer/photo/2015/10/26/-52eda56728b9e2dd.JPG

^ They won by 30, and LeBron had just 12 points. Love looking intense. Mo looking ten years younger. MOZGOV looking really energetic too. This is going to be such a fun season!