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^ thanks very informative! I'm actually more referring to mentions in the media about Cleveland becoming an all night destination. Should've been clearer.

It's really interesting to see how this place will interact in the neighborhood. But anyway, it looks like it will be an amazing venue. ps. Some outlandish perspective....I'm from NJ and I don't know a single Nets fan. Not one. I'm guessing their fan base will increase dramatically.

i believe most assumed 24/7 operation. If they do have closing hours, that could be a real pain with everyone leaving at the same time. I assumed that, too. But I haven't seen anything directly related to it (without having to actually go through what was voted on). Okay I was just thinking, it is really weird we haven't heard much on hours of operation. Isn't it a pretty big deal to have such an unprecedented 24 hour operation in the heart of the city? The large number of late/all night visitors should completely change the personality of downtown. I think the issue is ripe for a PD article.

Thanks for doing the legwork! Okay, we can all assume the casino owners would want to be open 24/7, right?

Sure. It would technically be the "same" casino.

i believe most assumed 24/7 operation. If they do have closing hours, that could be a real pain with everyone leaving at the same time.

The walkway plan does look kinda sterile. When we see that house, it's easy to imagine how its future restoration could enhance the campus, to make it warmer and inviting, like this:

I like the stickers. They were tastefully done and, they educated me as to a great local event. p.s. For the first time ever I saw an official picking up trash on W. 25th. Long awaited, but much appreciated!

To me it's a no-brainer to make this Greek revival house part of the walkway plan. It could be a bike shop, coffee shop, information center, cafe, etc.

I was pretty ticked off to read this. I'm pretty sure I posted this on UO when it was originally published. I really hope the owner was able to get past this counterproductive, backwards b.s.

Seeing Hts. pics I'm thinking it would be really nice if the road surface of Lakeside and St. Clair Avenues could take on the characteristics of the park. This would aesthetically connect connect the three sections and better avoid a disjointed Public Square 2.0 effect.

Now THAT place is outstanding! It's exactly the kind of space we're missing here in CLE. Inviting. Inventive. Functional. Thanks for posting.

It's looking so far like the windows have a blue-ish tint. Very cool. I think the color tone is a good compliment to the red brick in the Warehouse District.

^ also, one point of the article was that the casino would make surface lots more profitable. :-(

Interesting article. I did find this comment by the author kind of off-putting: Walkable cities make people more liberal by forcing them to get along with diverse neighbors... So, the author is suggesting conservatives don't get along with diverse neighbors, I suppose. Then again the use of ultra-dumbed down and overly simplistic categories like "liberal" and "conservative" always bothers me.

Why Don't Conservative Cities Walk? By Will Oremus | Posted Tuesday, April 17, 2012, at 12:44 PM ET Reading Tom Vanderbilt’s series on the crisis in American walking, I noticed something about the cities with the highest “walk scores.” They’re all liberal. New York, San Francisco, and Boston, the top three major cities on Walkscore.com, are three of the most liberal cities in the country. In fact, the top 19 are all in states that voted for Obama in 2008. The lowest-scoring major cities, by comparison, tilt conservative: Three of the bottom four—Jacksonville, Oklahoma City, and Fort Worth—went for McCain. What explains the correlation? Don’t conservatives like to walk? You might think it’s a simple matter of size: Big cities lean liberal and also tend to be more walkable. That’s generally true, but it doesn’t fully explain the phenomenon. Houston, Phoenix, and Dallas are among the nation’s ten largest cities, but they’re also among the country’s more conservative big cities, and none cracks the top 20 in walkability. All three trail smaller liberal cities such as Portland, Denver, and Long Beach. And if you expand the data beyond the 50 largest cities, the conservative/liberal polarity only grows. Small liberal cities such as Cambridge, Mass., Berkeley, Ca., and Paterson, N.J. make the top 10, while conservative cities of similar size such as Palm Bay, Fl. and Clarksville, Ten. rank at the bottom. Substituting density for size gets us closer: Houston, Phoenix, and Dallas are notorious for sprawl, while New York, San Francisco, and Boston are tightly packed, partly because they are older cities whose downtown cores developed in the pre-car era. As they grew, their borders were constrained by those of the smaller cities and towns that surrounded them. That’s not the case with many Southern and Western cities. Jacksonville and Oklahoma City, for instance, are vast in terms of land area, encompassing suburban and even semi-rural neighborhoods as well as urban ones. That still leaves the question of why urban density should go hand-in-hand with liberal politics, however. I see four possible categories of explanations. 1) Liberals build denser, more walkable cities (e.g., Portlanders supporting public transit and policies that limit sprawl). 2) Liberals are drawn to cities that are already dense and walkable (think college grads migrating to Minneapolis rather than San Antonio, or young families settling down in Lowell, Mass., with a walk score of 64.1, rather than Fort Wayne, Ind., with a walk score of 39. 3) Walkable cities make people more liberal (by forcing them to get along with diverse neighbors and to rely on highly visible city services such as parks and subways). 4) The same factors that make cities dense and walkable also make them liberal. read the rest: http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2012/04/17/_.html

Indeed!

Bottle of win.....priceless.

"Tri-C wants to build a parking garage on Carnegie across from Progressive Field." Sorry if I missed it, but where is Broadway mentioned? edit> hey that is the hilton garden inn, damn mov2 you have good eyes! i stand corrected.

This garage looks really suburban, and does not measure up to the what should be surrounding the ballpark. The impending bridge traffic only increases the need to transform the area into a "safe" place that's more walkable. There is a good amount of potential in that lot, that is I'm assuming it's the surface lot adjacent to the brick road bordering the historic cemetery. There is a lot of character; it deserves something special. That there is planned retail on one side of the proposed garage is not enough to redeem it. The "Jake" has been plagued with some bad urban planning. All the parking garages have made the hood sterile and not very walkable. It's disappointing that the whole place is so auto-centric. It doesn't have to be that way.

Been leaving for work @ 5:30 am. I've noticed that with all the construction lights on, this building is starkly visible for miles, from the west where Clifton turns into the Shoreway.

^ Thank you!

I just wanted to see some pics of Public hall's decked out interior. Do any exist?

Was gonna say Long Beach looks really cool. Should have added some LB Dub All Stars for the soundtrack, MayDay style.

Even if it is super preliminary, it's a beautiful thing to see those blocked out windows open up.