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"...and a giant castle! With a beautiful fairy princess inside!" thats a lot to build all at once...

this is great, coming from a CIA student myself, this is exactly what the school needs. it doesnt need a crazy wavy whatever-the-hell kind of building. the "artist" part of this building needs to be from the people making it on the inside rather than the architects on the outside. plus look at all that potential for natural light, thats quite excellent. one of the things i hope they focus on are materials, i think thats what will really make the piece solid.

saw this on Crain's Proposed Triangle redo in motion Noted developers Zaremba Homes and MRN Ltd. are readying plans for a major makeover of the Triangle section of University Circle.

well i really feel like thats something thats missing with RTA's trip planner. An interactive map. Plus if Cleveland RTA could be on a main google page... exposure?... more use? especially for people visiting and dont know RTA's address or the fact that it has an online trip planner to begin with?

JMasek have you seen google transit yet?? has RTA done anything with google, i think this would definately help with what RTA has on their website http://www.google.com/transit

CIA is definately top-notch stuff... but i bet this is due to the industrial design major, which is great and all, but CIA is pretty amazing when it comes to fine art as well...

^i actually notice that when i fly to either newark or nyc, thats interesting

TLV... Tel Aviv? direct service??

whoa four car redline train? how do the platforms handle that?? also that picture looks amazing

wow! ok so this is officially the most exciting thing being built in cleveland...

i drove by it today, the exterior doesnt look bad and definately not like that building on W25th

its the Papyrus font used in the blue letters. its basically the font that comes with every computer that looks "ethnic" and therefore lazily used for South America, Mexico, The Mediterranean, Asia, and Africa themed things...

University Circle neighbors uniting Area’s neighborhoods, major institutions join to make development, revitalization a group effort By SHANNON MORTLAND 4:30 am, September 3, 2007 With a push from the Cleveland Foundation, individual efforts to revitalize and build in and around University Circle have come together as one movement. The foundation in 2005 formed the Greater University Circle Initiative after various people asked for its help in revamping and building in the University Circle area, said Margaret Carney, university architect and planner and associate vice president for planning and design at Case Western Reserve University. After two years of talks, the initiative finally is showing some progress. The initiative has brought together those in University Circle and the five residential neighborhoods surrounding it to collectively revitalize and build up the area, which many see as the up-and-coming hot spot in Cleveland, said Lillian Kuri, director of special projects at the Cleveland Foundation. “This is a moment in time where Cleveland is making huge investments,” she said. “We need a deliberate strategy in the area to leverage those dollars.” Indeed, Case, the Cleveland Clinic, the Cleveland Museum of Art and University Hospitals are among the institutions that have multimillion-dollar construction projects either under way or on the drawing board. Overall, Ms. Kuri said about $2 billion of new construction will be completed in the University Circle area in the next five years. But surrounding this construction are neighborhoods with many boarded-up and crumbling homes, as well as vacant and foreclosed properties, she said. Unless the neighborhoods are improved, people likely will continue to come to the University Circle area for one reason and then head home, instead of spending the day in the area, she said. “All over the country, people are realizing the sustainable future of both the institutions and neighborhoods are tied together,” Ms. Kuri said. Plans on the move The Cleveland Foundation has visited places such as Ohio State, Johns Hopkins and Yale universities to see how local institutions, neighborhood groups and developers have worked together to create a better overall community, rather than focusing solely on themselves, she said. The initiative now boasts cooperation among the Buckeye/Shaker, Fairfax, Glenville, Hough and Little Italy neighborhoods, the Clinic, University Circle and its institutions and the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority. The participating groups are working together on their revitalization plans, while still achieving their own objectives, Ms. Kuri said. For example, neighborhoods and institutions are working with RTA to redesign two aging transit stations at East 120th Street and Cedar Hill, she said. Though RTA must rebuild the East 120th Street station by December 2010 to accommodate the Americans with Disabilities Act, she said the stations have been redesigned to best fit the community’s needs. Maribeth Feke, director of programming and planning for RTA, said the stations are being designed to include more than just buses and trains. She said RTA is working with the local communities to make the station part of a development that could straddle the railroad tracks and might include parking, retail and a grocery store, as opposed to being a standalone RTA station. That station will be moved closer to Mayfield Road, away from its current location at East 120th Street and Euclid Avenue, and will become part of Case’s arts and retail district to be built at the intersection of Euclid Avenue and Ford and Mayfield roads, she said. Ms. Carney said plans for that development have been tweaked to include the new RTA station. “Plans for the arts and retail district have improved and are very different because of that station,” she said. New paths Case’s plans for the West Quad research park also have changed, said Ms. Carney, who has been involved with many aspects of the Greater University Circle Initiative from the start. She said the roads surrounding the West Quad, which will be built on the former Mount Sinai Hospital campus at East 105th Street and Hough Avenue, have been reconfigured to better link the West Quad, East Boulevard and the Louis Stokes Cleveland Veterans Affairs Medical Center. The new plan will rid the area of the confusing traffic circle known as “suicide circle,” which links Martin Luther King and East boulevards, she said. “We’re all looking to tame that beast,” said Chris Ronayne, president of University Circle Inc., which represents University Circle institutions. “It could be an inviting gateway into and out of the circle, or it could be a source of confusion and a repellent.” Mr. Ronayne has been a champion of redesigning the roads in and around University Circle to make them more user-friendly. He said the Cleveland Foundation and the initiative have helped UCI obtain money from local institutions to redesign suicide circle, which paved the way for UCI to get $3 million from the Ohio Department of Transportation to help fund the estimated $10 million construction project. He said UCI will use the same approach to fund other such projects. The Cleveland Foundation in June also awarded University Circle Inc. a $200,000 grant to study housing, safety and retail in University Circle. Howdy, neighbors But all these projects don’t equal a neighborhood, so participants in the initiative are working together to encourage more people to move to the area, said Vickie Johnson, executive director of the Fairfax Renaissance Development Corp. Fairfax for at least 10 years has administered a program in which employees of the Clinic and University Hospitals can get $2,000 to put down on a home in the area, she said, but that program this fall will be expanded to employees of all institutions participating in the Greater University Circle Initiative. Ms. Johnson said Case, the Clinic, UH and local foundations already have agreed to contribute money to a fund that is expected to have $5 million to give to local employees over five years. Foundation money will cover contributions for those institutions that can’t afford to contribute or are not permitted to participate by law, she said. Without the help of the Cleveland Foundation and the launch of the Greater University Circle Initiative, Ms. Johnson said such a high level of collaboration likely wouldn’t have happened. Ms. Carney added that University Circle area institutions had always largely focused only on their own projects, not trusting one another enough to share their plans. But plans seem to be coming together now that a non-partisan group is facilitating the talks, she said. “Collaboration really does work,” Ms. Johnson said. “We throw that word around, but you really can accomplish more as a team.”

oh man Papyrus... it looks nice and that entrance is a really cool idea

^well i would say thats an unfair statement that somehow profits=good art, because someone who could make it easily as an artist in say nyc due to the volume of possibilities might just be getting by in cleveland with a day job waiting tables. theres always this discussion at Spaces Gallery on their role in "training" people on what is good art verse letting people decide for themselves since a lot of it is subjective. why doesnt tyler village allow residences...?? that place looks perfect and ripe for live/work space. and speaking of artists being priced out, that does happen in cleveland, not at any alarming rate, but look at Tower Press. when it opened it was this innovative new plan to bring artists downtown by jurying their artwork and giving them cheap affordable space. and now? now its twice as much for rent and that program no longer exists and that was just in a matter of 5 years...

did anyone go to the Front Room Gallery 2 year anniversary event last night?? if not, id recommend checking out their gallery. http://www.frontroomcleveland.com/index.html

man i dont even remember making this post... delegation for what, Chagrin is cute and small-town "perfection"...

i think i saw one thats like six steam shovels facing in on each other in a circular shape...

well "this year" as in "this school year" so i would assume in springtime. i do feel the same way that its kind of early still and its all rumors im hearing right now. however i have to say that the designing process has been going on for quite a while now, its been a year now since the architects have started seeking input from the community. they're expanding towards the McDonalds on the glassy/atrium side of the building at E115th and Euclid Ave.

Lately I've been hearing from a lot of people that CIA plans to start their construction this year and then it will take about 3 years to complete. apparently its a very interesting design, its code name is being called "the wave and the kiss" in the way its being designed. which sounds interesting and exciting. unfortunately they've opted to sell the building near CMA which is really unfortunate since they could have used that to redevelop into condos/offices, etc...

^ i dont know if thats dead, im pretty sure the CIA expansion has taken on the train station there

I hear the reason Parish Hall is closing is because their rent is getting raised, which to me is very unfortunate. sometimes i think with things like this "letting the market do its thing" is not the right solution...

i think this is the full article to that Commissioners approve yearlong Lake Erie wind turbine study Project would sit three miles offshore Friday, August 24, 2007 Tom Breckenridge Plain Dealer Reporter ......

whoa some of those look like they might be altering the skyline... awesome that the big stuff is going in first rather than last...

i thought this would piss me off a lot more... whats that weird facade of one of the apartment buildings for? that looks so strange in the rendering...