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That is a really cool idea and tough to get the exact angle/scale but good start

I apologize, there was this little thing called the Depression. -Cleveland Oh, and the little thing now called the Great Recession. -Cleveland

I am looking forward to something getting started also. Not much input, but wanted to be the 3000th post on this topic :-D

Does anyone really know if this contingency fund is/was to include construction as well? For all we know, since we just found out about this fund, there may exist a construction contingency as well. Or like someone else noted, it may already be built into the total price tag. Nobody really knows since I doubt anyone on here has seen a cost breakdown.

Hot in Cleveland Month day, year By Josephine Minutillo "Talk to most architects in Ohio and they’ll tell you it’s a pretty conservative place. But while design innovation may be a hard sell for local architects, the state has had an astonishing track record in the last decade for giving cutting-edge foreign architects their first shot at building on American soil, arguably more so than more “forward-thinking” locales on either coast. " http://archrecord.construction.com/features/encounters/1009Cleveland/1009Cleveland.asp

I may stop in for a drink also.

Or instead of Saks 5th Avenue we are getting the Dollar Store....or Goodwill for that matter.

The two unsuccessful teams will be offered a stipend of up to $1 million to cover their costs of preparing the proposal. If the team accepts the stipend, its technical proposal becomes ODOT's property. This part of the article takes the cake. So the Ohio Department of Trash is willing to offer up to 1mil for the rights to these proposals, some of which I could have presented by copy and pasting the I-480 bridge. Awesome. More at: http://blog.cleveland.com/architecture/2010/08/odot_bridge_designs_mediocre.html

What a shame that they are planning to bulldoze that course. It is such a unique course and I loved playing there. I also worked on the maintenance crew for 8 years and runoff is a fact of life on all courses I would think. It's too bad they couldn't do some thing to create a filtration barrier along directly affected holes...9, 10, 12 & 13. This bums me out.

The "too small" thing is lame. Make it work. And yes...OMLL ^^ I thought the same thing. Sure if you throw enough money at it you can do whatever you please. I highly doubt the commissioners were working with an unlimited budget when they first investigated using this building to consolidate their offices.

Yeah I love that vantage point to see the skyline. I had always seen photos from that area but never knew where it was. Stumbled upon it yesterday and wow...what a great view. It was interesting to actually see that lift bridge in action.

Just a few from quite a beautiful city.

Never thought I'd see a bogo deal for real estate.

I don't understand why people are so adamant about having a bike/pedestrian lane on the new bridge. Like it is such a hardship to use the Lorain/Carnegie bridge practically right next to it. Get over it already.

Hotel McCleveland for all the leg work you've put in on this :wink:

House on Mackinac Island

tucked away in the residential areas of Charleston, SC

You are correct. It is at the Wynn I thought that tackiness looked familiar! Yeah the yellows, reds and oranges are a bit overwhelming in that casino.

You are correct. It is at the Wynn

Say good bye to the fountain, it is being torn out when the plaza is redone. :( Really? I guess there won't be any more annual "fill the fountain with soap" days. I miss Ray's...ahhhh

You named the railroad company. Congrats, FerrariEnzo!! It was built by the Cleveland & Mahoning Railroad Company of Cleveland in 1856 to link the coalfields of Warren and Youngstown to the port of Cleveland for shipment worldwide. Later in the century, the flow worked in reverse as iron ore from the Mesabi Range in Minnesota came to Cleveland and was offloaded onto the railroad to the steel mills of Warren and Youngstown. The rail line was leased in 1883 and later acquired outright by the Erie Railroad of New York City. But when the Van Swerigen brothers bought the Erie (and other railroads), they relocated their corporate headquarters to Cleveland in the 1920s. While the Erie's offices were moved to Terminal Tower, their passenger trains didn't yet. Instead they partially followed the route of their iron ore trains out of the Flats past the location MayDay photographed. The Erie continued to serve their depot at the foot of old Superior Avenue until 1949 when they relocated their 12 daily passenger trains to Cleveland Union Terminal (beneath what was then onerously called Cleveland Union Terminal Tower!). Most of the Erie's passenger trains traveled to Youngstown and Pittsburgh, but one daily round trip went overnight to New York (Hoboken NJ) via Binghamton NY. Their trains also had through coaches and sleepers that switched to/from other railroads' trains from/to Chicago, Detroit, Washington DC and Philadelphia, among other cities. In 1960, after the Erie suffered worsening losses due to competition from new highways and now the new St. Lawrence Seaway, it merged with the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad to form Erie-Lackawanna RR. E-L kept their headquarters in Terminal Tower until 1976 when it merged with six other bankrupt railroads into Consolidated Rail Corp. (Conrail), which was created by the federal government (then sold to investors via the largest stock offering in U.S. history in 1986). As the steel industry in Warren, Youngstown, Sharon, Alliquippa and Pittsburgh faded from existence, so did the 20 or so daily ore trains that passed the location MayDay photographed. In 1982, Conrail ripped out the tracks to the old Erie RR ore docks on the south side of the old river channel (southern boundary of Whiskey Island) which also had Hulett unloaders. This section of the old Erie Railroad right of way, which once saw up to 40 daily freight and passenger trains, will likely be the new route for the Towpath Trail. But I thought you might like to know a little bit about its history. The wealth of historical industrial and passenger rail knowlege you possess always amazes me KJP.

I absolutely love these old photos of the busy street life from the early teens. Thanks for sharing! If only I could travel back in time to experience that for a few days.

"As the city moves forward to fix the roads, RTA will seek about $40 million in federal money to relocate its bus terminal and extend the rail tracks. That project is slated for 2014," I was expecting this portion to be completed sooner and am shocked at the price tag to extend the tracks maybe 800ft. But crossing the insane intersection diagonally is no walk in the park. The track extension construction should be interesting for motorists passing through the intersection.