Htsguy

I always find these thread kinda of funny. A bunch of "strangers" giving advice to another relative stranger (no matter how much you tell us about yourself) about such an important decision. I agree with one thing that was posted above...if it is a close call, family is the most important determination. You never know how much you appreciate them until they are not around. I never thought leaving college I would end up living in Cleveland the rest of my life but when I look back on it, the family thing was so important (something you don't realize when you are young). Not only the love and support but small example...I wish had a nickel every time during the past 30 years I had my mom or dad come over to my house to wait for a repair man or important delivery for which I could not stay home. Try getting a new friend in another town to do that for you. Again a small thing but stuff like that adds up over the years to make you life so much easier or more aggravating. (and don't get me started on all the repairs around the house Uncle Frankie and Uncle Tony had done for me or the ride at 2 in the morning 'cause my car broke down). Again sometime you really don't appreciate stuff like this when you are young.

Hard to tell from the pic but that cinder block type material at the base of the building looks almost as bad as the siding.

Again, still confused by this and the apparent loss of parking spaces under this plan (maybe I am wrong...again is this the case) but could there be more to this that is just not "out there". For example, is the garage at the point in its age span where it is going to need a massive infusion of funds for upkeep and they just decided to forgo the expenditure and go with surface lots. Pure speculation on my part, but like I said, this just does not make sense to me.

Could somebody explain how this is working? I mean demolishing the long term parking garage which is huge (and in my experience always full) for surface parking. Won't this result is much less parking?

I drive by very often and seems to me that there is always progress being made.

^I drive by every day....while I don't know what is going on inside I would be surprised, from the looks of the outside, if it will open in May...at least not early May.

If Geis renovates the W and S Building he will be my new American hero...I pass by that building every day and it just kills me to see it in its current condition (I hope before that the city fixes the crumbling curbs which are hardly 5-6 years old....must have been silly putty in the cement mix....better yet...put in granite curbs....yeah in my dreams).

^^Wow...Gabinet is still teaching? I had him for tax and that was one of the profs to whom I was referring. He had been there for a while when I was there so I guess he taught close to 45 years. Funny story about Gabinet. Again, he was a excellent prof....very patient in explaining some arcane material and it was a very interactive class with lots of hands up. Students would go up to him after class and he would stand around for some time answering questions. You really learned a lot from him. At one point during the corporate tax course, I was confused by a point and told a buddy I was going to go see Gabinet during his scheduled office hours for clarification. He told me "good luck". I asked him what he meant and he said I would find a very "different" Gabinet. I just thought he was blowing smoke. Well I went up to the third floor (again during his posted office hours) and went in to see him. He was all alone just reading. I very professionally approached him about the material and to my amazement, it was like talking to a stone wall. He was so different than in class. He barely grunted three words the entire time I was with him. I went back to my buddy and related the episode and he said I told you so....very strange and to this day I still cannot understand it....but clearly he had this rep. I still like to tell the story.

Hts121...like I have said many times on this board...we are really good at spending other people's money, no matter how speculative the venture might be.

Archangel....what does the student body think of the current faculty...TB had a number of negative things to say about the profs. Despite my above comments about the placement office in my days, the faculty was incredible...The majority of my profs were excellent, well regarded in their respective specialties and were at the school long term (I am talking 10, 20, 30 years). The student body respected them immensely.

Have to agree with archangel that many of the issues TB expressed are not unique to CWRU but are national problems. There is a lot of literature out there right now highlighting the concerns and the lack of attention to them by many legal institutions including the ABA. Moreover, don't think the worthlessness of the Case placement office is a recent phenomenon (you might want to think so since it affected you directly). The placement office you describe is very similar to that which existed 30 years ago. Maybe it is just the nature of the beast. Even at that time the focus was the top 20% If was like the rest of the students did not even exist in terms of resources, advice and effort. Actually, if was almost like you had some dreaded disease if you were not law review. You would arrange a meeting with the placement director and it was like she was just bored talking to you. It did not help that we were all looking for jobs during the Reagan recession (which we thought was bad at the time...I can only imagine what it is like now).

^Not quite sure what is meant by restricting out of class room experience. Are they now limiting students from having jobs with law firms? When I was a student I worked 15-20 hours a week my 2nd and 3rd years as a law clerk at a downtown firm with no problems, and many other students did as well.

Good luck and thanks for investing in the community.

Now all they need to do is start reducing the class sizes.

Just checked out the pics...I know this is major conceptual and very much "dream land" but I really cannot see the FAA allowing buildings that tall where platted in the pretty pictures

Oh my God...Steve Litt wrote an article saying a development could benefit from public impute. I think he has that on speed dial on his computer (allow me to mix my technologies). As worthy a goal that is, with which I very much agree, it get's kinda old after a while coming from him. I guess he feels he has to be pedantic on the subject since he does not believe it is happening enough.

Well the owner of that strip has got to be thrilled. It has been almost a year and half since it was completed and only now is just half filled with this new restaurant. Must be slashing rents to finally get it leased (and in such a high end neighborhood). Actually don't understand how restaurants are going into the spaces there. Really not configured great for restaurants. Finally...I understand where Chritz is coming from when she states that the last four months were horrible for her. I have heard a number of restaurant owners complaining that sales are down from the first quarter of last year. This is strange since that was still the height of the "recession" which we are now suppose to be coming out of. Perhaps it was/is the weather. I am sure $4.00 gas is not helping.

How is somebody disliking bad food snobbish? By the way, talking about one of America's great snobbish cities...DC...like most people in east coast cities when the topic of Midwest cities arises...but that is a whole different story and very much off topic.

I have not analyzed the constitutional questions, but if they are even close, where do they think they are going to get with this Republican Supreme Court? Of course, it should not be this way, but we are slowly losing our independent judiciary (unfortunately even at the US Supreme Court level) and every thing is becoming partisan politics.

I truly believe that the Mayfield Red Line station (given all that is happen in the area and the fact that it would bolster further office, retail and housing) is the most important project currently on RTA's planning agenda. That is why I think it is necessary to take the bull by the horn, look outside it's comfort zone, and look for sources of funding that it would not even consider tapping. This means seeking help from the city (despite its own financial problems) and from UCI, foundations and private sources, both institutional and individual. I am taking about fund raising similar to a project like MOCA and the art museum. We just cannot sit back and wait for funding from the federal government for years with our fingers crossed, as it clearly is not going to be there. This station will mean so much to the area and, given it is the second most important area after downtwon, to Cleveland.

I know Dick Goddard would not say this but Vermillion to me means a special dinner on the patio at Chez Francois.

Can this guy be a bigger dope....Raleigh is cool? Sure, in his old white man (by the way, this is me) suburban Republican mind. He is out to destroy this state and he doesn't even know it.

Quite frankly, I have always viewed the medical mart as simply the solution to getting a new convention center, which Cleveland sorely needed, and nothing more. In my mind the MM was always just the "cover" for the tax increase for the facility which was the only way it was going to get built and which nobody had the balls to propose (for years and years). I don't even view it as a convention center for out of towners, as there are so many more larger and shinier facilities throughout the country...it is something for us.

^Plus they are situated in the ass end of Little Italy near train tracks which could be an issue for a lot of people. They are doing an incredible job marketing these. Good job.

No room and owners don't want to sell or have inflated view of the value of their property.