Htsguy

Interesting....some partners are going to lose their lake views. Would have rather seen this property developed as a boutique hotel but it is great it will no longer sit vacant. This does not bode well for the Key Building (losing a tenant that leases 5 floors).

^Gee...isn't the Northeast Regional Sewer District spending tens of millions to "fix this".

^There is a picture on page 18 of the Cleveland Clinic thread.

^^What's this chef thinking. People go into a Mexican restaurant wanting and expecting spicy. If somebody complained about "spicy" food in my mexican restaurant I would roll my eyes and tell them to try a good Irish place.

^what about the council's blurry vision...the executive is not a dictator and everybody is going to be hunting for the limelight.

By whom? Osborne? Am I crazy or would this not be a great location for a boutique hotel. A block from the medical mart...and right in the "middle" so it is an easy walk east and west (offices on E 9 ninth and then those on Public Square) and north south (short walk to Euclid or Browns Stadium and othe lake front stuff).

Your insurance will uncover it eventually whether you tell them or not and more than likely your rates will go up.

^This guy either has way to much time on his hands or is really running out of good ideas for stories.

I don't think he meant "good food" is dead in Cleveland but the type of dining where you wear a jacket and tie and linger over many courses at very high prices. 15-20 years ago I could name a score of restaturants I would not have been caught dead in without a jacket and tie, now I cannot think of any (which I think is ashame but this is a nationwide trend). Really only one I can think of which is even close is Chez Francois in Vermillion and even there only jackets are required, not a tie.

By the way...who is going to the first meeting and reporting back....I don't trust the PD to be accurate.

Gee I really like having other posters only reprinting a portion of one of my posts so that it completely misrepresents the point I was trying to make. Somebody has a career in advertising waiting for them doing political commercials.

Mr. Mayor I wish I had a nickel for every time you and other posters reference the Global Lending Crisis....then I would be able to finance all these projects myself...it just doesn't see to sink in with many of the gang on the Board.

^^Yes

^I would not be a happy camper if I owned on condo in the tower and the rest of the project was developed as rental units no matter what the market or need. In fact I could imagine a few lawsuits if that happens. In any event it does not appear that any movement on any phase is likely (perhaps other than townhomes) if the project remains in Zarembas hands. It has been suggested on this board that they are having financial problems (as a result of the housing crisis I would imagine) as evidenced by their pulling out of Uptown.

I know very little about historic tax credits but it would seem to me that as part of the application process a developer would have to establish he has financing (or is 99% sure he can get it) in order for him to be considered a finalist for the credits. Why would the state waste issuing the credits for project that have little chance of going forward when they apparently have more applicants than availabel credits?

^^Tell you Twinsburg friend he should check out the number of armed robbiers in Solon this past year.

^I don't believe apartments were part of K and D plans for Ameritrust.

Agree with KJP re: including more modes of transportation and bus lines. While happy to see this "moving" don't really know how fast it will happen (article says 5-10...I think that is optomistic and anything can happen to plans that take so long...for example a change in administrations in DC to Republican), really don't know how "serious" (even though it should be) the city is. It seems that the only reason they are moving forward is because the RTA funding was going to disappear at the end of the month. Also discouraging that $350,000 was lost due to in action (even if there were some good reasons for the inaction).

Does anybody know if the MOCA Board met June 15 to offically approve going forward with the new building? (Tentative approval had been given to the architect to start construction drawings) I was just re reading a PD article from April and it indicates that the Board was to vote on that date, and the article suggested that if the "official" go ahead was given, renderings could follow shortly.

Is this the development at E. 69 th street? Isn't suppose to go all the way to Carnegie (that beautiful boulevard)? If this is the case I would imagine garage doors would be off of 69th or some sort of access from Carnegie at the rear of the property, not on Euclid. My biggest concern is what it will look like on Eucild...since some of it is warehouse space I am concerned about large stretches of blank walls.

^This weekend is the big Greek festival at st. "whatever' church on Center Ridge in Rocky River. Every year it tends to have an effect on restaurant business on a good portion of the west side as it is hugely attended (and the food is great). Also this is a big high school grad party weekend. One of my employees who just graduated from Westlake high was going to seven house parties today. Also, while father's day is really not that big a deal for restaurants (especially compared to mother's day), the people who do go out for that probably did not go out tonight.

^Miami is not a private school. It is a state school (although admittedly smaller than UC)

^population of Cuyahoga County is just shy of 1.4 million

^RR...not familar...where is this located. Thanks.

Thanks for the pics...my favorite is the first one showing the lovely Clinic surface parking lot with the chain link fence. Hopefully this area is a major focus of the developing master plan