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Was thinking the same thing. Do you think that in the short term there will be an unintended consequence of a dramatic increase in Redskins products?

The added foot traffic should be a nice benefit to the Warehouse Dist.

Hilariousness www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlJEt2KU33I

That was NOT pretty....but hell yeah!!!!!!

News that year was a "computer simulation" had him hitting .400 AND the Indians winning the World Series.

According to Gwynn's doctors, his cancer was unrelated to chewing. Yet still, you absolutely have to wonder.

It's been a privileged watching Gwynn play all those years. Class. Act. Always. I've been listening to ESPN Cleveland all morning.....so naturally I had to get this sad news from a friends text. You don't want to interrupt talk of what Johnny Manziel did over the weekend.

1. Stand up paddleboarding 2. clvlndr's dream.....BIKER BIG CITY USA

I think the building looks great. There was some reservation (even on part of some Marous employees) on how the EIFS would perform in an urban setting. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exterior_insulation_finishing_system Aesthetically, looking good. I suppose time will be the true test.

I hope Samsel can stay around. Maybe they can open up their building a bit for ground floor retail? Anyhow, they are a part of some great history. Cuyahoga River fire - Frank Samsel, ran clean-up boat Frank Samsel Frank Samsel -- and his 56-foot boat, the Putzfrau -- played a large role in that work. Now retired, but owner of Samsel Supply Co. in the Flats since 1958, Samsel and his crews on the Putzfrau -- German for "cleaning lady" -- began first by picking out large debris and then sucking up flammable and chemical liquids. Samsel said he wasn't surprised to hear the river had caught fire -- and remembered a later incident that could have ended worse. "Are you kidding? We once cleaned up a 164,000-gallon gasoline spill," he recalled recently. "I mean this was bad, this stopped all railroad and marine traffic, but we didn't tell anyone about it because we didn't want some nut coming down there smoking a cigar." Samsel said pollution was so pervasive on the river that his crew wasn't even called out unless there was an oil slick or other known industrial spill of more than 2,000 gallons. "The river was always dirty, that was the way it was," he said. "And it never froze, there was so much heat in the water coming from the cooling waters of the steel mills." But the Putzfrau began to make a dent in some of the surface pollution on the river. "But in a 16-hour day, we could pick up 100 cubic yards of debris and 15,000 gallons of oil a day," he said. "And we had spills that would take four or five days, so there was a lot of stuff on that river." That "stuff" included everything from fats and grease from slaughterhouses and rendering plants along the river to acids used in steelmaking or dyes from paint plants -- along with much of the raw or partially treated sewage from the entire Cleveland-Akron area. But Samsel said that debris collecting at the mouth of the Cuyahoga wasn't all industrial waste. "When spring floods would come, picnic benches, screen doors and automobile tires would come down and mix in with the industrial waste," he said. "The industrial got blamed, but it was like the old Pogo comic strip said: 'We have met the enemy -- and it is us.' " http://www.cleveland.com/science/index.ssf/2009/06/cuyahoga_river_fire_40_years_a.html

I think they finally got the memo. Lots of people working this morning. Along with lots of traffic congestion and idiot drivers being ridiculous, and this includes YOU 55 Route bus driver.

Lots of fun going on at the Park recently. On Thursday I stopped by after work. Beer trucks, live music, people with bottles of wine and thousands of people all over. I would've never believed this could be happening at Edgewater. twitter.com/bOmNIGXcnz

Just about everything is being used over there except for a few of the riverside buildings. The large building with the reddish covers over the windows is Samsel Supply and is still being used as such. Back in the early 90s when the Flats was party central, I thought Samsel would make a fantastic boutique hotel. I'm sure Samsel got offers over the years from developers seeking to convert it into housing, hotel, restaurants, etc. They must really like their location. I was thinking the same thing. I bet they haven't gotten the right offer to relocate. I'm going to assume, if someone wants their space, they will need to find them a new space, that is centrally located that fits their needs as well as makes them look like good corporate citizens. From what I recall there are a lot of ridiculously heavy parts or machinery that are still in use inside the building. The Samsel's suggested it would be cost prohibitive to relocate.

^ Seems like people are really hating on this architecture for LI.

Literally! I mean, it's going to be strange looking west down Superior and not seeing the actual horizon!!!

It is a good story. The people who ran this restaurant had perhaps the most amazingly asinine business idea I've ever heard; to hire underprivileged people to provide job opportunities, yet without adequate training in any manner of professional conduct or customer service. I'm not certain whether this was the entire staff, but the percentage was enough to make people not want to go back.

It is my opinion that they are chicken coops!!

Yes! I always had a soft spot in my heart for this one...

Agree. There's a fine line between giving some life and color to storefront windows vs. a glaring bandaid that screams out "this isn't blight!"

Just want to say that the planting and landscaping along E 12th has gone into overdrive the past few weeks. It's looking very nice along an otherwise desolate stretch.

Prospect has an incomplete feeling to it. I don't think any amount of aesthetic improvements will actually cure this.

A thousand times this ^ We have to better tie together the existing assets. I'm interested in seeing how the developers are going to work with Browns/Rock Hall/Science Center to better make some sense out of connecting these integral parts.

Clarification: Gold Coast DENSITY...not the architecture.

Amen. I have a consistent, guiding philosophy. I believe that anything that you can get in the suburbs you should be able to get in the city. Cleveland is geographically big enough to offer something for everyone (or most people). If a Crocker Park on the lake is what it'll take to get some people here, fine with me. I've articulated here and elsewhere my belief that the Flats East Bank project, for example, appears to be an explicit attempt to create an urban answer to Crocker Park Crocker Park on the lake would be terrible. Now, a 2014 recreation of Lakewood's Gold Coast on the lake would be a much better option. And I don't want to hear about Burke's flight path. We all know.

^ Yay!!