Firenze98

Interesting note on the front page story...."stands 280' now but will eventually attach itself to the office building and grow to 380' " So visualize another 50 feet above the current crane height and that should be the approx. building height.

It cracks me up how giddy we all are about ONLY a crane for crying out loud. Just wait until we see steel and the building rising. Anyone who can't check the skyline each day will be flocking to UO each day to look for photo updates as if they are waiting to see how high the presents are under the tree crane. :-)

It is a little vanilla however it's not like this is some iconic structure that warrants a Zaha Hadid, Morphosis or Libeskind type designs. Horseshoe Phase II should definitely not be vanilla though.

That is true...good point.

Even if it was 100' I wouldn't care.....it's new construction in an area that is dead right now.

It won't surprise me if they approve the hamster tube is built. The other thing I noticed was there is signage on the building noting 'restaurant'. I don't like the idea of a restaurant in that location. It will be too convenient for the patrons to go to that instead of venturing over to E4th.

'Bella Uno' It certainly is a beautiful one.

Or to enter that Grand Central/42nd Str. subway!

Thanks! I really wanted to get some shots from the StoneBridge apartments old viaduct but their private security blocked it to only residents. The fact that there was the Janet Jackson concert going on, they didn't want a bunch of people hanging out there, making noise and trying to watch the concert. Nice move.

A nice Friday evening down at Wendy Park finished with some shots of the Jacob's Pavilion during the Janet Jackson concert. I thought I told Higgins to keep my yaht at the marina

I could get used to seeing this up for a couple years.

Yeah, but you can see at least 100 feet of the crane in that photo. I doubt the crane is that much taller than the building will be. Besides, I would have to think it's going to grow as the building rises. I was just by there today and there's no way the cranes are reaching 400 feet into the air at this point. This building is going to be almost as tall as the Federal Courthouse, isn't it? I don't know the exact finished height but I assume this building will be at least 100 feet shorter than the Federal Courthouse.

The website says Fall of 2011 for Phase 1. Not sure if your 2013-2014 timeline was meant to include both phases.

A couple of shots form the CCMM website. Nice to see they are continuing to work into the night :-). These appear to be a mat foundation for something....doesn't appear to be the Medical Mart. Actually the webcam shows it already completed, just below and next to the MM.

Horseshoe Casino Cleveland aims to draw new crowd to downtown attractions Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania -- As night deepened on a summer Friday, electronic dance music pounded inside Drum Bar, a cylinder-shaped nightclub with big-window views of the Ohio River and the Pittsburgh skyline. Ayisha Morgan-Lee and Marguarite Matthews, both 28, sipped cocktails and flashed bright smiles as they laughed and shouted with friends. A dozen yards away, on the main floor of Rivers Casino, slot machines whirred and blackjack dealers called for bets. Outside, in an amphitheater that cascades to the water's edge, a local rock band sang to gamblers and boaters alike. Neither scene lured the young women, who were enjoying a girls' night out in their new favorite hang-out. In addition to providing gambling games, the Steel City's first and only casino offers a club scene, live bands and city views. "Sometimes I'll play some slots, sometimes not," said Matthews, a doctoral student at the University of Pittsburgh. "If you're not really a gambler, you can still come here and have a good time. I think it gave people another alternative, and in a part of town we didn't used to come to." The Rivers, a new kind of casino, attracts a new kind of customer. Young professionals and bridal parties descend on a complex built on a former steel mill just across the river from downtown, in an urban setting that defies casino-industry tradition. Developers in Cleveland are about to take that concept a giant step further. Horseshoe Casino Cleveland, when it opens next year, will be the only casino standing on the public square of a major American city. To read on: http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2011/07/horseshoe_casino_cleveland_des.html

Or when Mr. & Mrs. Cleaver in North Royalton hear about the random acts of violence in Downtown, they automatically think that something like that will happen to them. So they say "no way I'm going down there". That seems to be a common comment when I talk to suburbanites who don't regularly go Downtown. "why should I go there when I'll probably get mugged or my car broken into"

So help me understand this....the eastbound design may be different than the westbound design? You'd think they would be the same no? That's like taking the front end of a cruise ship and sticking the ass end of an aircraft carrier on the back. Both big and sturdy but completely different.

Is the healthcare industry really buying into the medical mart concept? Going back to those innocent and optimistic days of 2009 when the three-city medical mart competition was just taking shape, one thing has always been clear: For any of the projects to succeed, the healthcare industry would have to buy into the untested medical mart concept. That is to say, the success of any medical mart would clearly be dependent on hospital purchasing managers seeing value in visiting a single location with a wide array of vendors peddling their wares to the hospital industry. And it’s likely those hospital purchasing managers wouldn’t feel compelled to visit any medical mart unless the building was stacked with tenants that are at the top of the various sectors of the healthcare industry. To use an always-popular sports analogy: LeBron James and Alonzo Gee are both professional basketball players, but which one do you think is motivating America’s sports fans to part with their hard-earned, noncollective-bargained dollars to buy tickets? http://www.medcitynews.com/2011/05/is-the-healthcare-industry-really-buying-into-the-medical-mart-concept/ Also worth reading is a reply in the comments section below by the Medical Mart's Director of Public Relations, Dave Johnson. Sort of a response in his comment to the negative reaction to the list of tenants. Missing from the article is the in-depth background research into the healthcare industry that would provide a clear understanding of the influence of the Cleveland Medical Mart charter tenants in the healthcare industry, rather than merely looking to a listing on the stock exchange or referencing another article in a local publication.

Their goal is 1000 signatures. #154

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Health care-focused furniture company lands in Nashville medical mart The Nashville medical mart has a signed five-year lease with another anchor tenant, publicly traded furniture maker Steelcase's (NYSE:SCS) health care-focused brand Nurture. Nurture plans to occupy up to 4,000 square feet of space in the Nashville Medical Trade Center, which is slated for a 2013 opening, according to a report in he Tennessean. http://www.massdevice.com/blogs/medcity-news/health-care-focused-furniture-company-lands-nashville-medical-mart Nonetheless, the property developer behind the Nashville medical mart, Dallas-based Market Center Management, has a long way to go. Market Center has said it needs to lease 60 percent of the approximately 1 million square feet of showroom space before it can secure the financing to begin construction of the 11-story mart, and it's nowhere near close to that number, which raises doubts as to whether the projected 2013 opening date is still realistic. Bummer :yap:

Who is regretting pushing to save that decrepit Stanley building? I'm sure they could have worked out a design that would save the Columbia building while using the acreage taken up by the Stanley building. Now the Stanley building is going to sit there like a large pimple.

An interesting read on the Medical Mart building facade evolution. http://lmnts.lmnarchitects.com/parametrics/mm-geometry/

To get jobs, areas develop industry hubs in emerging fields CLEVELAND — Alex Nudelman, a strapping 49-year-old, confidently pushes buttons on a computer-controlled milling machine and suggests it's ready to sculpt a small piece of metal. His instructor stops him, noting Nudelman has not programmed in all the tools needed to shape the metal block. A journeyman autoworker who was laid off in 2009, Nudelman is taking a community college class here so he can work on the more sophisticated gear powering the region's growing cluster of medical device makers. If all goes well, he may soon be churning out spinal implants instead of seat brackets. http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/manufacturing/2011-06-06-hubs-for-manufacturing-jobs_n.htm Also posted on the Cleveland MMCC site http://www.clevelandmedicalmartonline.com/clevelandmedicalmart/index.cfm/news/regions-hope-industry-clusters-will-draw-jobs/

Ha! I came to U/O to post Connie Schultz' column as soon as I found it, Firenze98. While I scanned the four pages, the radio station cued The Cure: "Lullaby" and it reminisced on what this city looked like when I moved here in the 1980s. Julia's got soul. great minds think a like eh? She's sort of real life Hot in Cleveland gal.