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^Its cool to see the Innerbelt lit up in this photo. Very noticeable. Also I wish the Erieview group of buildings along E9th could work on some lighting. It would make a huge difference.

The lighting is coming together. They are still said to be tweaking it though.

The Vault Gastrolounge at the 9. New sign. http://planning.city.cleveland.oh.us/designreview/drcagenda/2015/11062015/index.php

New pumping station from NEORSD. http://planning.city.cleveland.oh.us/designreview/drcagenda/2015/11062015/index.php

More signage up at design review. http://planning.city.cleveland.oh.us/designreview/drcagenda/2015/11062015/index.php

Something called The Wild Eagle Saloon is going into the Howell Building at 921 Huron. The building was purchased by Geis sometime last year.

More locally based retail, the type that truly make a city unique is coming to Downtown with the opening of CLEpets www.clepets.com at the 5th Street Arcade. http://www.freshwatercleveland.com/devnews/clepets102715.aspx

Skyline completes Renaissance Hotel purchase with mystery partner As Toronto-based Skyline International Development Inc. (TASE: SKLN) announced completing its anticipated purchase of the landmark Renaissance Cleveland Hotel in downtown Cleveland, it answered one big question but raised a new one. Skyline said in a Thursday, Oct. 29 news release that downtown's largest hotel — until the new Hilton Cleveland Convention Center Hotel comes on line next year — will retain its priceless Marriott Renaissance franchise agreement. The hotel’s status in the international Renaissance brand associated with convention operations and the much-vaunted Marriott system of standards had not been previously addressed by the Toronto-based hotel owner and developer or the seller, CTF Development Inc., an affiliate of the Taiwan-based Cheng family. The family owns a global hotel empire. The new question Skyline raised is that it has an equity partner in the purchase it did not identify in its news release. That partner fronted $14.5 million of the landmark hotel’s $20.5 million purchase price, Skyline said, and Skyline invested $6 million in the property. http://www.crainscleveland.com/article/20151030/NEWS/151039988/skyline-completes-renaissance-hotel-purchase-with-mystery-partner?X-IgnoreUserAgent=1

^Yes it would make for a great demolition scene.

Solstice Steps ribbon cutting tomorrow. Also, from Litt. http://www.cleveland.com/architecture/index.ssf/2015/10/lakewood_solstice_steps_give_c.html#incart_river_home

^huh well that's interesting. If someone can put it in their brain tonight to check out that sign tomorrow. Look for a developers name/logo or a bank/financed by...

This is on the PassovGroup website, they love these spec renderings. Just looking to gauge interest. It is described as 235k sf of office space with 8.5k retail. Very Rockside Roadish.

Just a reminder if you haven't heard 'live' brain surgery from UH/Case Medical Center on National Geographic TV. Started at 9pm.

Quote from the article: "No one is going to afford this, especially not the crowd you see downtown Cleveland because downtown Cleveland is a bunch of extremely homeless people or extremely rich," said another downtown resident. Man Oh man, there are seriously some dumb people in this world...

Coaches owe the team an apology. This one is on them. Leaving 4 points on the field by passing up the early FG and not kicking the extra point, trying to outsmart everybody. Defense played their asses off, offense played well enough to win. Like my father use to say 'Stupid Browns'!

Let Lebron sit on a beach somewhere till about mid January. Nice and rested. Ya Mon...

Nice video profile from NeoMG on one of the owners of FWD. Talks about his love for Cle and downtown. Seems like a great guy working to make his city better. Also hints at a future project.

Downtown Cleveland lakefront development could see city funding for infrastructure, parks. http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2015/10/downtown_cleveland_lakefront_d_1.html#incart_river_home Great work by mjarboe[/member] for clearing up questions I had regarding 'site b'. I was wondering what happened with that component of Phase 1. Pace hopes to break ground on that 4 story building late in the year. Also that Cleveland Pickle and Cleveland Bike Tours are possible tenants, along with Pace who plans to move his office there. Thnx Michelle!

Two things we can't get enough of in Cleveland, downtown promotional videos and Cle themed t-shirts. Well in the latest promo video from Destination Cleveland you get both!

If you read the history of that space on the Old Stone website it doesn't sound like that property was ever in jeopardy of leaving the churches hands. http://www.oldstonechurch.org/the-arts/history-architecture Especially when the Standard Bank pretty much dissolved into two other banks not long after the building was constructed. And I can't find any evidence of a 'Phase 2' anywhere.

Especially when 20,0000 sq ft gets you naming rights these days. He could probably have an older building like Erieview Tower tomorrow if he wanted.

..But Mulloy, a graduate of St. Ignatius High School in Cleveland, has even bigger ambitions, according to his bio on the company website: “Jack plans to one day build a 60-story BuyerQuest Tower in downtown Cleveland.” Man that is our kind of guy. It's refreshing that a CEO sees his hometown in that way. We are not use to that kind of loyalty. What we usually get from CEO's at companies like Eaton and American Greetings is " one day I hope to build a large, sprawling, space sucking, carbon wasting complex in the diversity free suburbs, yes that's my dream"

http://www.crainscleveland.com/article/20151011/NEWS/310119990/reserve-square-renovation-is-kds-latest-large-project?X-IgnoreUserAgent=1 Reserve Square renovation is K&D's latest large project. October 11, 2015 by Stan Bullard Apartment owner and manager K&D Group of Willoughby usually is thought of as a firm that reduces the amount of office space in downtown Cleveland as it tackles residential redevelopment of old office buildings. However, K&D Group's growth has made it into a substantial office landlord in the city center, and it's expanding its business to show that. After buying the Keith, Leader and Halle buildings over the past year, K&D has a portfolio of about 1 million square feet of downtown office space that it intends to keep as offices. The company plans to convert Leader, 526 Superior Ave., and Halle, 1228 Euclid Ave., to mixed-use projects with upper-floor apartments, low-level offices and continued first-floor retail space. It intends to retain as an office property the Keith, 1621 Euclid Ave., which K&D bought as a potential home for office tenants needing to be relocated from its buildings. Asked if he ever thought K&D would own this much office space, Price said, “Not on your life.”

^Yes that would have been nice. Or if the whole building could have been rotated 90° so the entrance would have been on Ontario. But it was not uncommon for buildings of that era to have a blank wall. From what I recall when Weston bought the Standard it was mentioned that the buildings elevators are along the back wall so punching in windows was not feasible. Even if the historic tax credits allowed it. Our only hope is maybe the OldStone Parish building which is the structure just South of the Standard can be replaced one day with something taller. But that property has been in the churches hands for a long long time.

New signage for the Marriott.