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With today's method of producing construction drawings on CAD, I always find the original ink drawings on linen fascinating from the early 20th century. The level of time put in plus the size of the details is always great to look at. Richman Brothers 1915 LN Gross Co. 1917

February project update.. http://www.cuyahogacounty.us/pdf_home/en-US/ConventionCenter/ProjectUpdates/HCD_ConstructionUpdate_0215.pdf January in depth progress report.. http://www.cuyahogacounty.us/pdf_home/en-US/ConventionCenter/ProjectUpdates/January2015.pdf The tower crane is scheduled to be raised around the beginning of March.

That's because the current owners at the time bought the St. Louis Browns, while still owning the Spiders. They transferred most of the good players from the Spiders to the Browns, which rendered the Spiders basically a AA Minor League club.

I'm not sure of max capacity but I was there this past summer during the AHA light installation and gay games last summer and the slope was packed after the opening ceremonies. You could drive a dump truck on top of the roof structure. The majority of the depth is made up of these Styrofoam type blocks (which are light weight) to cut down on the depth of soil. However, I was told the weight capacity of those white blocks per square inch is so high that you could drive a truck over them. So a large crowd could easily gather. I don't believe the soil is deep enough in the large lawn area to support trees however. But that's just a guess.

First look: Cleveland Museum of Natural History $150 million expansion plan to commence in spring CLEVELAND, Ohio - After nearly a decade of planning, design and redesign, the Cleveland Museum of Natural History will begin construction this spring on the first part of a five-year, three-phase, $150 million expansion and renovation. The project is aimed at giving the nationally respected institution a sustainable, light-filled, high-tech home better suited to its mission and collections than the dowdy, architecturally dull, midcentury complex it occupies on Wade Oval, where it has grown through accretion since 1958. "I think it's going to completely transform the experience of all of our visitors," Evalyn Gates, the museum's director since 2010, said of the expansion project in an interview Thursday. "It will play a leading role on a national level in terms of what natural history museums can and should do for the public and the understanding of science." Gates said about a third of the total project cost has been raised so far, (up from $39 million last year) and that the museum has cash in hand to start the $20 million first phase, which includes construction of a 300-space parking garage off East Boulevard on the north side of the complex and a new Perkins Wildlife Center on its south side, off Jeptha Drive. The cost of the project will be $25 million more than estimated three years ago. Designed by the nationally respected Denver architecture firm of Fentress Architects, with a team of consultants on exhibits, sustainability and other specialties, the project will involve tearing down about a fifth of the museum's existing, 230,000-square-foot complex, and then rebuilding and expanding the footprint. http://www.cleveland.com/architecture/index.ssf/2015/02/first_look_cleveland_museum_of.html#incart_m-rpt-1

yawn

Maybe their Vestor fund raising didn't go as they had hoped?

The Spiders Taphouse....after the Cleveland Spiders which preceded the Indians.

^She is really coming together nicely!

That entire façade is nothing but receiving docks, stairwells, mechanical/electrical rooms, storage etc. It is essentially an alley, which typically do not have many windows, if any at all. I know the GCHI has windows facing that side, so I suppose they could have included some fake windows with spandrel glass. But in my opinion, I'm fine with no windows.

Photos from the monthly December progress report. The last one has a room mock up they constructed.

Ann Zoller, executive director of LAND Studio, a nonprofit organization leading the management of the Public Square project, said the city's investment in improving underground utilities should not be considered an additional cost of the $32 million project. http://www.cleveland.com/architecture/index.ssf/2015/02/city_to_consider_spending_5_mi.html#incart_m-rpt-1

5 Public Markets Worth Traveling For The public market has been around almost as long as civilization itself. Even an event as relatively recent as the founding of our country was celebrated at the old public markets that served each town as a a central meeting place. Today, even with all of the Walmarts and Sams’s Clubs across the country, there is still something to be said about buying something local, from a local or made from a local. Here are five great examples of markets that are still thriving today. West Side Market – Cleveland, Ohio Cleveland’s oldest continuously operating municipally owned market opened in 1912 serving the growing population boom of the early 1900s. The building stands 241 feet by 214 feet with a 137 foot tall clock tower and when opened contained 109 stands selling everything from meats to produce to hard-to-find ethnic foods. Today 113 vendors sell their wares and are as diverse as the ethnical make up of the city, with some of the tenants even dating back to the original 1912 opening. Food network magazine named West Side Market “America’s Best Food Lover’s Market.” http://www.travelpulse.com/news/features/5-public-markets-worth-traveling-for.html

And lets not pretend that just because it isn't significant to any of us or few of us that it isn't important.

For all we know they've been working on securing a large tenant in order to develop the site. It would be nice for this site to be developed already but it's their prerogative to do whatever the hell they want to with it.

January update: http://www.cuyahogacounty.us/pdf_home/en-US/ConventionCenter/ProjectUpdates/HCD_ConstructionUpdate_0115.pdf

Night shot

I obviously am familiar with Stark's WHD plans, but were there other times that plans of his never came to fruition? You all are making it sound like he's known to be a super flaky developer. I don't think many here are trying to make Stark out to be a flaky developer, just that there have been so many announced projects over the last quarter century and the majority have not had a ground breaking, or steel rising, including Stark's Warehouse Project. Remember Ameritrust Center and the glass tower after it, both announced for the Jacobs PS site. How about Courthouse Square on Lakeside Ave. just west of west 9th street. There was also plans for the Museum of Transportation & Industry on the lakefront; the never constructed condo tower on E. 6th & Euclid, etc.. These are just a few of the un-built projects that were announced in the past. I will smile a lot more when I see ground broken, and steel rising for NuCLEus. That is true but those weren't all Stark developments. I think the WHD project from Stark was a little too ambitious, plus he owns the nuCLEus property unlike the WHD lots. I would think that would help speed this up a bit no?

I don't see this potentially taking renters away from May and Huntington if those are converted. Would it be safe to assume that the rents in Starks development would be much higher than the typical rents that you would see in a historic building conversion?

Holy Hell! Nice!

Looks to me like they are forming the 7th floor of the cores. They are currently forming the columns for the fourth floor.

^Me too! I can't wait until it's completed with a ground floor retail or restaurant with patio seating. After walking through a wood tunnel for 4 years it will be stunning.

Downtown Cleveland, Akron miss out on 'catalytic' tax credit, losing to Cincinnati Music Hall CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Downtown Cleveland and Akron lost out to Cincinnati on a major tax-credit award Thursday, casting a pall over redevelopment prospects for the historic May Co. building on Public Square. The Ohio Development Services Agency announced that the state's first "catalytic" project award - a $25 million tax credit for historic preservation - will go to Cincinnati Music Hall, a cultural icon that hasn't been renovated in decades. "A restored Music Hall will bring more people to Over-the-Rhine and downtown, encouraging further development and investment," David Goodman, the state agency's director, said in a news release. "Using the hall for more performances and events will result in new demand for restaurants, housing and other services in the neighborhood." The news, a boon for the Cincinnati arts and cultural community, was a blow to downtown Cleveland, where two massive buildings were in the four-way race for the big-ticket award. Now a local developer team appears unlikely to proceed with an apartment conversion of the May Co. building, a largely empty former department store. Plans for an overhaul of the former Huntington Building, now called the 925 Building, on East Ninth Street are murky. http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2014/12/downtown_cleveland_akron_miss.html#incart_river

Though I am pretty bummed May didn't get the credits, it is true that there is already a lot of development around the building. From what they say, the Music Hall has virtually no new development. Improving that building could be a 'catalyst' for new development around the area, which it currently sounds like is in bad shape.

For whatever reason they didn't show up on my screen originally.