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isnt there already a phoenix near downtown?

i think that if you're going to do a campaign that shows off the community then.... show off the community... theres plenty of opportunity to do so. granted i do agree the PD is being stupid about this particular development because it just sounds like a pissy after-the-fact detail that they're writing an article about.

i dont know if im too excited about this student center, it doesnt seem theres been a descision on what to use as the design elements. its really quite the hodgepodge. something as confusing looking as this structure should not be the thing that is the center of it all that unifies everything... notice the conceptual design for the performing art center... its one type of style worked throughout the building... i think its wonderful that CSU is thinking ahead and charging forward, but if stuff like this is just pushed through real quick its going to look half-assed like this building. i have the same feeling as i did before with those conceptual line drawing renderings as i do now. and thats because if you start like that you kinda end with that except maybe a little more polished. i mean seriously they need to do some "keywords" exercises in designing this or something and then going from there...

thanks everyone, it was amazing to go up there and check the place out. totally panoramic view of everything including the lake with a bunch of colorful sailboats. apparently photographers have wanted to go up there and ask to many times, but theres a lot of safety issues (no sides) and its a 3 story building

^thats how i felt about the Cleveland+ campaign, that booklet is so packed with stock photos... at least 60-70 percent

City OK's Ameritrust Tower demolition By STAN BULLARD 2:52 pm, June 29, 2007 Cleveland City Planning Commission has cleared the way for the 29-story Ameritrust Tower skyscraper to join its namesake bank as an item that exists only in Cleveland history books. With a 5-2 vote, the commission approved Cuyahoga County’s bid to demolish the high-rise in order to make way for construction of a massive county office complex consolidating nonjudicial employees in one location from throughout downtown. However, the county may need to climb a similar hill again. The commission required the county to explore saving the adjoining 1010 Euclid Avenue building, which it also wanted to raze, and converting the structure to residential lofts or commercial space. The county will need to return to the commission with studies addressing that topic before it can raze the 12-story building east of the skyscraper, said commission chairman Tony Coyne. The county owns the building at 1010 Euclid because its purchase of the skyscraper included multiple surrounding buildings and a parking garage. However, the skyscraper’s fate for month has dominated the debate over the county megaproject. “It was a tough decision because the tower has so much visibility on the skyline of Cleveland,” Mr. Coyne told Crain’s this afternoon. Siding with numerous architects and preservationists who wanted to spare and reuse the tower were Norman Krumholz and Lillian Kuri, who cast this morning’s dissenting votes. Dating from 1971, the skyscraper is an example of famed architect Marcel Breuer’s modernist work. Mr. Coyne said the county’s representatives made a persuasive case that the tower’s tiny 15,000-square-foot floors and other shortcomings made adaptive reuse problematic. On the flip side, the planning commission also required the county to determine if reuse of the 100-year-old 1010 Euclid building could incorporate the 1908 Ameritrust rotunda building. Mr. Coyne said. The county must develop and submit to the commission a master plan and urban design guidelines for how it will redevelop the skyscraper site. Mr. Coyne estimates it will be a year before the tower goes down. I think its more promising that the 1010 Euclid building isnt permitted to be demolished yet. This could be great as a rehab, but also as a way to confine the area in which they plan to build so as to perhaps maybe make the new tower taller...? maybe?

I've sent my comment card to Continental about getting service to Frankfurt. It would be nice to be connected to the center of Europe and also's the continent's main hub airport heh...

i'm having a hard time picturing where this is going... is this right across the street from the student center in that lone skinny parking lot within all those 6-7 story buildings... i dont have a photo of it, but i drove by it last night and saw it no longer a parking lot and fenced off.

^I would say Frankfurt. that should be the next one it tries to get

i know on I-77 its the way the highway is designed since everything is oriented to get downtown as both of the left handed lanes, so you have people completely avoiding the right hand lane by the time E55th is coming up. also as far as side streets with two lanes in cleveland some of them are a.) not marked with a dotted line or b.) constantly have people parking in the right hand lane when they shouldnt be. This happens every now and then on Chester near the churches. so a lot more people tend to drive in the left lanes.

walking by it the other day one of my friends described it as "very east 4th street"... this thing would be fine minus the wild colors/materials

whoa that looks so weird...

so in this building's windows are some giant posters of downtown, i was wondering if someone got a closer look as to what they were of. renderings/etc..

well two of the huge draws such as House of Blues and the Corner Alley are very much curiousities for people in the suburbs, and thats not to say that no one else from the city goes to these. However, ever since both of these started, the street has been considered a success story along with strands of lights, sculptures etc. Which is great, im not complaining, buuuuuutt for the amount of stuff going up over there, theres a lack of residential going up in the surrounding area. Which also leads to only new restaurants and not new shops/stores.(unless im wrong and something is brewing??) To me when i see four more restaurants and or clubs go up in that area it just looks like imports from the warehouse district. perhaps it takes way more time for this and im being overly critical, but i dont see it as a success story, the whole thing seems more like an experiment in another part of town at this point.

as much as i want to root for downtown, this place is more of a cluster of restaurants for suburbanites to try out... also whatever happened to that 515 euclid residential tower...??

what has to go?? sprinkle some employees in that picture and some other building activity and that looks like any scene in any typical large american city...

oh it looks like it belongs near the cleveland clinic...

LOL!! These are the two other members of double dutch will take you higher!! one of which is my boyfriend... its so weird how people who looked way more "interesting" were giving us weird looks...

is it larger than a bread box? what is this, 20 questions? lol

this is pretty awesome, whenever i walk that back alley near peabody's i always wish it were more in use for pedestrians. this is some nice urban infill

i got that same letter back and im sure some poor intern had to put those together... i dont understand though as to why they didnt use these figures when deciding on a place to build.... this just makes me want to write them another angry letter...

wait so almost all of this is not residential?

did it have a histroic facade??

i dunno, i see so many more people riding bikes, driving smaller hybrid cars, mopeds, etc in cleveland than they had been 5 years ago... i dont understand how demand could still be going up...