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its from the PD heres more of it http://www.cleveland.com/cuyahoga/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/cuyahoga/1102588524123860.xml

darn i double posted this this is a shock, i mean i thought RTA was all negative towards rail/rapid stuff

RTA Strikes Deal for Development at Rapid Station RTA has reached a tentative agreement with a developer to build a complex of two hotels, four restaurants, a bank branch and an indoor parking garage at the Brookpark Road Rapid Station. Developer Gilbert Singerman could start construction next year on the $16 million 1,000-car parking garage and rapid station. Singerman would have three years to line up hotels, restaurants and other tenants. An RTA board committee gave its OK on the project this week. The full board votes Dec. 21. whoa

More in store for downtown December 06, 2004 By HENRY GOMEZ It probably won't compete with Sushi Rock or Sushi 86, but the soon-to-open Constantino's Market in downtown Cleveland's Warehouse District plans to include the Japanese delicacy on its menu of prepared foods.Owner Costas Mavromichalis said construction holdups have delayed the opening of his much-anticipated store on the floor level of the Bingham Building on West Ninth Street. Mr. Mavromichalis said he hopes this month to open the 9,600-square-foot grocery, which landlords are promoting to prospective downtown dwellers. For more info, click the link www.plaindealer.com

me on the lovely cleveland lakefront lol where the powerhouse behind me isnt the one where cool people hang out in. unless theres something im not aware of...

wow... sprawwwwwl, how awful

well i think so. theres so many little/medium sized art events that happen in the neighborhoods and several burbs that coordinating them into a downtown event and week long festival could really do some good for the cultural scene of the city. Think winterfest in june heh

Community working to blend arts, technology Money sought for Cleveland festival Thursday, December 02, 2004 Carolyn Jack Plain Dealer Arts Reporter A proposal to stage a major arts-and-technology festival in Cleveland is gaining momentum, winning support among leaders of the area's top business, government and arts organizations. The festival, tentatively titled Ingenuity, is being organized by Cleveland Public Theatre founder James Levin and arts activist Thomas Mulready. They plan to start it in 2005 or 2006, with participants such as the Cleveland Clinic, NASA, Case Western Reserve University, the Cleveland Museum of Art and other artists and arts groups. The festival is "the most exciting collaboration in Cleveland," said Lev Gonick, chief information officer at Case and an adviser to the festival. "I think James and Thomas have done a huge favor" for the community by starting it. Levin and Mulready revealed project details at 2005 budget hearings held Tuesday by Cuyahoga County commissioners. In making a public pitch for $150,000 from the county's discretionary fund, Levin said the festival would offer public performances and art and technology displays in unusual indoor and outdoor downtown locations such as storefronts, arcades, alleys and street corners. The county has already pledged $30,000 to the festival from its Destination Cleveland program, which promotes tourism. If enough funding is found, the festival would be launched in 2005 with a five-day "pilot" festival from Aug. 31 to Sept. 4, said Levin, a local attorney. He noted that the Pittsburgh International Festival of Firsts, launched in October, has already earned attention for that city. Levin also said he hoped Cleveland's festival, which would showcase the area's own arts and technology groups, might grow into a high-quality festival like Spoleto USA in Charleston, S.C. Successful festivals such as Spoleto USA have been shown to have a significant economic impact on their home cities or regions. Levin and Mulready, creator of the CoolCleveland e-newsletter and the now-defunct Cleveland Performance Art Festival, plan to expand the festival over three years into a nine-day summer series of events centered at first on Public Square and lower Euclid Avenue, but eventually moving into other city sections such as the Flats, Playhouse Square, Cleveland State University or University Circle. By including technological creativity in the festival, they hope to help festival-goers discover the intersections between the arts and sciences, the organizers said. "All of the future economy of this region is going to be based on technology" in industries including arts and culture, Mulready said. The festival's initial estimated budget is $1.4 million, with $250,000 of that to come from earned income, including ticket sales, Levin said. The rest would come from corporate sponsorships being explored with the assistance of executives at IMG Worldwide, Inc., he said. The county's $150,000 would help the festival attract backing from other donors, Levin said. A written project summary for the festival contained steering and advisory committee rosters listing an array of civic, corporate and university leaders such as United Way Services President Michael Benz; Cleveland City Councilman Joe Cimperman; Tom Yablonsky, director of the Historic Warehouse District Development Corp.; Parkworks Executive Director Ann Zollar; and SAFMOD Artistic Director Neil Chastain. "I'm so excited about what this is going to do for the economy . . . and the local artists," said Cimperman. "I think it's a tipping-point event." Participating arts and technology groups listed include the Cleveland Museum of Art, Great Lakes Science Center, Tri-C JazzFest, Apollo's Fire, African Soul Dance Theater and Spaces art gallery. Individual artists are also included. A decision about county support for the festival is not tied to the commissioners' 2005 budget process, so no deadline has been set for it. http://www.cleveland.com/search/index.ssf?/base/entertainment/1101983669172470.xml?eaall

i do kind of wonder what this "ETB-Only Zone" downtown is also its not just the typical articulated bus shape, its "train bus" or something like that. The way it looks is different. and the news calls it "the new rapid line" so i dunno. Its a dedicated lane. And that tends to be what i want when riding public transit.

three of the redline rapid stations are going to be renovated as well. which is good, since right now i prefer tower city and W25th stations to be FAR better than U Circle and E120th urine/old bowling alley smelling ones

actually that does sound about average for the new big townhouses in tremont. some of the rehabs in ohio city go for that much as well. and downtown the one cluster of rowhouses in the WD go for about half a million. I think there needs to be a good mix tho. Like with Little Italy, they dont need anymore. Just fix up the older stuff.

New Tremont townhomes planned November 29, 2004 By STAN BULLARD Bergen Village, a $12 million townhouse development, soon will rise at the Tremont home of trucking company Midland Concrete & Sand Transportation Inc., which plans to expand in the neighborhood.The 36 townhouses with asking prices upwards of $290,000 are being developed by a partnership formed by owners of the land at 2235 W. Fifth St. and Keith Sutton, president of Sutton Builders, a prolific Tremont builder based in the neighborhood. More at crainscleveland.com http://www.crainscleveland.com

oh this is looking real nice, the blue glass stuff looks awesome. imagine it at night!

I dont know how much this will help as far as image, maybe less resistance in convention groups coming to town? But i mean it isnt like the city is setting the curve in gay rights due to the repeal... its just back on par with the rest of the country. I hear Topeka has a DP registry... heh This article has a slant. That the main reason to repeal it is all that "do it for the economy" shit So its about money??! cmon. Wheres the articles about the fact that the law was flat out prejudiced? and that gay people are just as important as anyone else in society? Where are the editorials from enraged liberals that such a law exists? Is that really the mindset there? "We dont want to appear to be fag bashers so that young people will come live here... and that the convention business will get better" because thats the kind of image im seeing here...

LOL wtf?? downtown cleveland is so much better! maybe im not so into shopping, but i like the fact that its real, the amount of art galleries, the amount of places to eat. And by far if you're into christmas decorations, a damn mall christmas tree is crap compared to the stuff downtown.

^ oh well thats obvious, cincy and cleveland are the REAL big cities where columbus isnt quite so. not that it isnt urban. why doesnt columbus have other major sports venues? i mean i think it could very well support 2 or 3 different kinds of sports. but see i think this issue highlights the problems some cities have. being reliant on one thing, the sports shit. and when the team does bad or leaves the city all the retail and area around the stadiums suffer. Im glad cleveland realizes this now, heh i mean its nice to see other paths being taken in making downtown nice rather than just relying on the stadia to fix it.

umm two words "Burke Lakefront". If that place had gotten something like this wed be demolishing it right now lol

ok then i shall cuss out the Eurotrash that wants to build this instead. And never say never with the cow part. i live in a suburb of 30,000 thats only about 9 miles outside of cleveland. and one day i discovered a small dairy farm next to a sub-division.

^ no! this kind of stuff doesnt need 900 acres! it would be even more amazing if they could fit it down along the lakeshore. Theres this thing called "the lakefront plan" where the city of cleveland wants private investment along the shoreline in city proper. They could be in the new space the city bought from the port authority. Or the parking lots in the Warehouse District, or the urban praries of midtown. Less spread out and taller? that would be a hit around here, but no, somehow Amherst gets the favored location rather than Cleveland. So backwards. This is just pseudo "urban stuff" built on suburbs because being a glorified cow town isnt cutting it in the "global economy". And this is why i hate why Cleveland is so splintered, every region and city in the metro is only looking out for itself, which isnt good whatsoever. Besides, those quarries look like theyd be nice as a nature preserve. another reason why building over them with highrises is riduclous heh.

eenie meeny miny moe...

oh wow those are some awesome looking things. I would say that NW Ohio's flat landscape is best suited for something like this, also right along the coast of Lake Erie in NE Ohio. heh it can get quite windy there. I went to the beach a few weeks ago and could barely stand up it was so windy.

thats so risky though, its like they're trying to build a city over night.

lol are you shitting me? "Cleveland" Quarries Project... a massively urban $1 billion development... and its gonna be built in Amherst... wow... ridiculous... how could this community even support this once its built?!

Wind powering up in Ohio It’s real, it’s here, it’s working, let’s make more! In the last couple of years, wind power has crossed the threshold in Ohio from eco-dream to market-driven reality. The transition is being driven by new turbine technology that is making the cost of wind power competitive with other forms of generation, the deregulation of the electric power industry, growing consumer demand for clean, renewable power, and the work of alternative energy organizations like Green Energy Ohio (GEO). Here are some of the recent developments: Serious windmills: While other parts of the country, such as the Great Plains, have greater wind resources, new wind maps are showing that Ohio also has commercial-grade wind. That's why the municipal utility in Bowling Green installed two 1.8 megawatt turbines a year ago. The sleek, aerodynamic turbines stand 390 feet tall and are the largest turbines in the U.S. east of the Rockies. They supply around three percent of the city's power needs and have been so successful that the Bowling Green utility is working with other municipal utilities in Ohio and Green Mountain Energy to install two more. Other big turbines are spouting up in southwest Pennsylvania (a big installation is visible along the Pennsylvania Turnpike by Somerset). Lake Erie wind: The most promising sites for wind turbines in Ohio are expected to be out on Lake Erie, but most wind measurements on the lake have been made at water level, not at the height of turbines. To plug this data gap, GEO recently received funding to install a wind monitoring station on the Cleveland Division of Water's intake crib more than three miles offshore. Once the wind resource is confirmed, it's possible that commercial-scale turbines could soon be sprouting from the shallow waters of the lake - generating clean power for thousands of homes and helping to give Cleveland a new image. "Our idea is to make it a visionary statement for the city - that we are going into the new century with some clean-power options and put Cleveland on the map with this," GEO board member Fletcher Miller told the PD. Wind jobs: In addition to being cool and clean, wind turbines can stimulate economic development in Ohio. A recent study found that the 20 states that would potentially benefit the most from the growth of the wind industry, receiving 80 percent of the job creation, are the same states that account for 76 percent of the manufacturing jobs lost in the U.S. over the last 3 1/2 years. Indeed, Ohio could be a leader in many aspects of turbine production, including tower fabrication and welding, electrical components, instruments and controls, and software. Canton-based bearing manufacturer Timken, for example, is predicting exponential growth in their sales to wind turbine companies. And Ohio farmers are embracing wind power as a reliable, low-cost power source for farm operations, as well as a potential source of extra income by leasing space in their fields for commercial turbines. Wind conference: One more sign that wind has arrived is the Ohio Wind Power Conference (which took place November 9-10, 2004, in Cleveland). Organized by GEO, the Ohio Department of Development, and the U.S. Department of Energy and it brought together industry leaders, utility representatives, government officials, technical experts, and activists to discuss where the wind market and technology are headed. It's fitting for wind power to come to Cleveland. After all, Cleveland inventor Charles Brush built the first automatically operating wind turbine for electricity generation in 1888 behind his Euclid Avenue mansion. Wind is the world's fastest growing energy source with double-digit growth. We have all the ingredients in Northeast Ohio to become a leading center in this emerging industry. http://www.ecocitycleveland.org/ecologicaldesign/energy/wind_power_ohio.htm Perhaps they could get rid of some of those old power plants on the shoreline if this comes about. btw that first wind turbine looked like this hmm imagine that in someones backyard lol

Group Suggests $3.5 Billion Rail Plan for Ohio The Ohio Rail Development Commission is rolling out a $3.5 billion plan to develop a passenger rail network throughout Ohio. The plan calls for an 860-mile system that serves 22 million people in Ohio, five neighboring states and southern Canada. Up to eight trains a day would provide fast travel that connects people with major downtown centers, airports, and sporting and arts events, according to the nine-year plan. However, the commission acknowledges there is no funding in the pipeline.