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hmm that icon that shows up with the three question marks made it look more dramatic. im just wishing they would announce a date already about it in their newsletter. on a side note we're on the 20th page of this thing and ground hasnt even been broken lol

hah i love the last line

August 16, 2006 The Avenue District Poll - Recap If you lived in Downtown Cleveland at The Avenue District, would you consider reducing the number of cars you own? Yes ( 50%) No (38%) Who needs a car anyway?! (11% ) The Avenue District poll results show that 61% of respondents would either consider reducing the number of cars they own or would not own a car altogether! Clearly, if you lived and worked downtown the need for multiple cars is greatly reduced. Think about the extra savings you would have just by eliminating that extra car payment. Combine those savings with special discounted interest rates, a 15-year tax abatement, and pre-construction pricing and there is no better time to reserve your new address at 1211 St. Clair in The Avenue District! With groundbreaking right around the corner, pre-construction pricing will not be available much longer. To schedule an appointment or to learn more about The Avenue District, visit Frank Lalli, Sales Manager, in the Galleria at Erieview or call at 216.589.8524. Whats "right around the corner"??? Im skeptical probably due to District Park hah

Seeking a site for a hospital Facility for severely mentally ill may go to Fairfax neighborhood Thursday, August 17, 2006 Harlan Spector Plain Dealer Reporter A desolate stretch of former industrial land on the East Side may come to life as home to a new state psychiatric hospital. The land off Quincy Avenue in the Fairfax neighborhood is the favored location for a public hospital to treat some of the severest mentally ill patients. The Ohio Department of Mental Health is looking for a site in Cleveland to build a replacement for its antiquated hospital off West 25th Street, formerly known as the Cleveland Psychiatric Institute. "To get 20 contiguous acres in Cleveland is a challenge in itself," said William Denihan, chief executive of the Cuyahoga County mental health board. More at cleveland.com http://www.cleveland.com

hmm however to be fair its had a considerable amount of more people using it ever since those new Case dorms have been built.... hmm so does TOD work? heh

^very true I'm wondering though if there will be more public art or "creative" lighting for underneath those bridges. walking under the one to the E120th rapid station is like a friggin cave. not well lit and quite narrow.

wasnt Manka Design Studio the one that originally proposed ideas on Hotel Bruce?? Thats local.

hmm the food isnt that amazing, its more of just a funny quirk that you got swedish meatballs at a swedish furniture store...

Cleveland's NASA complex delays pink slips CLEVELAND Workers at the NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland can breathe easier today. The space agency says it's indefinitely postponing layoffs. In June the center landed the right to manage part of a new space exploration project. NASA Glenn has more than 16-hundred full-time employees. The good news about delayed pink slips could be temporary. NASA must deal with a new emphasis on space exploration and away from aviation research which the Cleveland center has pioneered.

^ yes the snooty staff is definately in place. i was there just last week. i thought it was kinda bland and over-priced. but the fabric quality is nice?

I really cant believe these estimates, its a bit crazy to think the city is losing population at the same rate as the 1970s... i mean by next year we'll be under 400,000?? does that mean we'll be the size of Toledo by the time 2010 comes??

renderings? ah well... id say 8-10 would not really be much of a "tower"

^ 15-20 stories??

Buffalo Columbus Cincinnati and Detroit are all cleaner too... than Cleveland heh

Cleveland VA Medical Center launches major construction, renovation to keep pace with private competition By SHANNON MORTLAND 6:00 am, August 14, 2006 Once a white-washed, drab hospital in University Circle, the Louis Stokes Cleveland Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center is getting a $250 million face-lift that will affect its services across much of Northern Ohio. In addition to its plans for a 240-bed hospital tower on the Wade Park campus, the medical center this fall will break ground on a new parking garage, a home for 122 homeless veterans, and an administrative office building across East 105th Street from the University Circle hub, said William Montague, director of the medical center. Plans also are brewing to expand or consolidate outpatient centers in eight geographic areas in the Northeast quadrant of the state, all while continuing the $110 million renovation of the existing 800,000-square-foot Wade Park location, he said. “We consider our competition to be the local private hospitals, not other VAs, so we expect it to look every bit as nice,” Mr. Montague said. Following current trends in private hospitals, the veterans medical center slowly is replacing the white walls, tiles and drop ceilings with more home-like features, such as wood floors and wood accents along the hallways. A two-person interior design team now chooses art for the hallways and patient rooms to soften the sterile environment hospitals are known for. The spinal cord injury area that once housed 16-person wards has been converted to rooms with two beds each, Mr. Montague said. Veterans with spinal cord injuries tend to have much longer hospital stays than other patients, so they prefer to have someone else in the room to keep them company, he added. Doing more, doing it faster But the Stokes center won’t just let construction happen around it; some will pitch in to help. The hospital on Oct. 1 will launch its own construction company to renovate the basement and first floor of the existing hospital grounds, he said. The Stokes center is hiring 60 employees to staff the construction firm, which has been funded for four years and will be given $10 million a year for renovations, Mr. Montague said. A design for those two floors already has been completed, and construction will begin this fall, he said. Doing some of the work itself was easier on the hospital than trying to manage so many projects being done by numerous construction firms at the same time, he said. “We’ll end up spending the same amount of money in the long run, but it’s getting a lot more done a lot faster,” Mr. Montague said. In another first for the hospital, the Stokes center will wade into the public fundraising pool to build a Fisher House on East 105th Street, Mr. Montague said. The Fisher House serves as a home away from home for families of veterans who are staying at the hospital. Run by the nonprofit Fisher House Foundation Inc., VA hospitals are required to raise a portion of the funds to build the home, which averages 5,600 square feet and typically costs $1 million to $1.5 million to build, said John Gennaro, facility planner with the Stokes center. Congress has appropriated funds for the rest of the projects on the Stokes campus. “Philanthropy is normally something we don’t get involved in, but they do expect the local VA hospital to generate significant local interest before they bankroll the whole thing,” Mr. Montague said. No more drips As construction begins on the Wade Park campus, the Stokes center is preparing to raze 40 structures on its 102-acre campus in Brecksville, he said. The land, which has been rezoned for office/laboratory space, has been leased to the city of Brecksville for 75 years, but the fed-eral government has an option to sell the land during that time, he said. Services at the Brecksville campus will resurface at the Wade Park campus’ new 280,000-square-foot hospital tower, which will open in 2009, Mr. Montague said. Construction will begin next spring. About 1,000 of the 1,300 jobs at Brecksville will be transferred to Wade Park, he said. The consolidation will save the Stokes center about $28 million a year, mainly in transporting veterans between the Wade Park and Brecksville campuses for various treatments and programs and in heating, ventilation and air conditioning, Mr. Montague said. The Brecksville hospital was cooled with window air conditioning units, and its windows and roof leaked, he added. In the next few years, eight of the Stokes center’s 14 outpatient centers in Northeast Ohio will be expanded or combined. For example, a 60,000-square-foot center will open in 2008 in Parma, and the Stokes center is proposing to consolidate two locations in Painesville, Mr. Gennaro said. A dose of charm The physical projects are the latest in the Stokes center’s improvement efforts. Like many VA hospitals, the Stokes center had a long-standing reputation for substandard care and poor patient service, Mr. Montague said. “The VA did have some negative factors from days gone by, (such as) shabby old buildings,” he said. “Patient satisfaction didn’t have the standard it should.” Mr. Montague now sends all employees to “charm school,” a nine-week program during which they’re reminded to do things such as smile and offer help to patients and visitors, he said. The hospital also has improved surgical outcomes by adhering to the same quality measurements that public hospitals follow, he said. “Over the last 10 years, we’ve shown significant improvement,” Mr. Montague said. “The hospital is now extremely clean, and it wasn’t always.”

Wind-power firm aims to blow into NE Ohio By JAY MILLER 6:00 am, August 14, 2006 A renewable-energy services firm is planning a move to Northeast Ohio. Bryan Starry, site manager for JW Prairie Windpower LLC, told the first meeting of the Cuyahoga Regional Energy Development Task Force that his firm believes the region has great potential for wind turbine installations. Juwi, JW Prairie Windpower’s Germany-based parent company, has solar and wind power installations in more than 35 locations around the world. Mr. Starry told the task force the company is interested in a local office because it believes the region has the potential to support a significant wind power industry.

sounds like this project is a go now, probably should be moved

^wow why cant that be something to promote cleveland to everyone... instead of the mid 90s "itll rock you" theme thats always used

i did hear a thing that the reason tuition spiked up so much is that one of the Gund's moved out of town and stopped altogether or donates considerably less money to the institute now.

^ yea exactly, i wonder why they didnt do metro areas.

Type: Mixed-Use Project Name: 515 Euclid Avenue Parking Garage & Tower City: Cleveland State: OH Client: Ohio Savings Bank Features: 524-car spaces on seven supported levels plus grade with 11,000 sq. ft. of ground level commercial/retail space, 20,000 sq. ft. ballroom and 240 residential units. Description: The 515 Euclid Building is situated on the northwest corner of East 6th Street and Euclid Avenue. It is a mixed-use development designed to house 524 parking spaces beneath a 240 unit high rise, luxury condominium tower. It will also contain a 20,000 square foot ballroom and 11,000 square feet of grade level commercial retail. The urban site has dictated an architectural solution conducive of a downtown office building. The structural framing system is cast-in-place concrete with a combination of glass and cast stone panels as the architectural facade material. The pictures above show the completion of the 524 space parking garage and the rendering on the right shows the next phase of this project, a 19-story vertical condominium addition. DESMAN is the prime Architect and Structural Engineer of Record and Parking Consultant. Richard Fleischman Architects are the Design Architects. thats what it says on the architech website

^oh hilariousness, itsfunny that people will take ColDay comments seriously in the first place! anyway i would argue that something titled "The Official *I Love Cleveland* Thread" *technically* shouldnt even mention cleveland at all and just complain about how awful columb...erm The Suburb of OSU is...

http://www.cleveland.com/podcast_files/business/kroll.mp3 more about cleveland developments

The Case dorms arent big?? Im pretty sure the rest of the development phases for it include LEED as well... universities are the current big project construction boom in Cleveland and most of them are green buildings...

Cleveland will appeal to those with diverse tastes By Arthur Pollock Thursday, July 27, 2006 CLEVELAND - This Ohio city serves up much more for visitors than duct tape and rock and roll. The 10 beautiful acres of the Cleveland Botanical Garden (216-721-1600, www.cbgarden.org), for instance, are a perfect retreat after a busy day of sightseeing. You can unwind in the tranquil Japanese garden or inhale the heavenly fragrances from the rose garden. If you have trouble growing a little basil in your back yard you’ll be impressed with the herb garden, with 3,500 herb varities... bostonherald.com