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I can't imagine that a 2-year old would enjoy a 5-mile hike any more than walking around the pier/lakefront. When I was about 4 years old, I remember my parents taking my younger brother and I downtown for a show at Playhouse Square (Sesame Street Live I believe). For exercise and the experience, we parked in the WHD and walked all the way to PHS, and then back afterward. We absolutely loved it and is still one of my favorite childhood memories. Beat the pants off a lame hike in the woods for me.

I agree, but I think some of them are. We just went .500 in 10 games against the 3 AL division leaders (with 7 of those games on the road) even after 4 "encouraging losses".

No, but it's encouraging to me that we were right in a game where we made a ton of mistakes against a great pitcher for the team leading our division. It's also encouraging that we're scoring some runs and that the offense should only get better with Choo coming back (and hopefully will get better when Grady comes back as well).

Not a huge baseball or Indians fan but Detroit only won because of the error in the first inning. That game would have gone into extra innings if it weren't for that and who knows what would have happened at that point. Not to mention Santana's near 2-run blast late in the game. Yes, Verlander won, but he sure didn't make it seem easy.

Uggghhhhh...I thought Santana just gave us the lead.

Yeah, but so does perspective, haha.

You'd think they'd fix that, haha.

I don't want your excuses! :P In all seriousness, Phoenix has Public Square surrounded (E. 9th and W. 9th), but unfortunately, there are many other options closer to the square, and even though I think Phoenix is well worth walking an extra block for, obviously there are enough people that don't that the Phoenix on W. 9th was the odd man out.

Blasphemy!

Maybe we can get a Dunkin' Donuts in there!!!!!!!!!

Isn't the height of the Courthouse measured from the river level since the back goes down below Huron (which is a bridge at that point)? I would think the base is at nearly the same elevation as that of the new tower.

KIPNIS!

Our main office is in Jersey City. Nearly everyone from Jersey City that schedules a meeting asks us if we're in the Central Time Zone when any of us in Cleveland are going to be included in the meeting. Over and over again. It's really annoying. One coworker from Jersey City recently came to our office for some training and wanted to explore Cleveland. I offered to show him around. He really wanted to see the lake. He couldn't believe when he saw it that you couldn't see to the other side.

Yeah, but you can see at least 100 feet of the crane in that photo. I doubt the crane is that much taller than the building will be. Besides, I would have to think it's going to grow as the building rises. I was just by there today and there's no way the cranes are reaching 400 feet into the air at this point. This building is going to be almost as tall as the Federal Courthouse, isn't it?

Walk off HBP in the 14th!?!? Whatever, I'll take it.

Is anybody else still watching?

EDIT: I just noticed Whipjacka beat me to it.

A block south of Lorain on the west side.

I was just there a week ago and it looked like it was close to opening (if I'm remembering correctly).

So you'd like to tear it down so the site can be 100% parking?

Is the crane currently taller than the building will be when finished? If not, then you should be able to see a lot of the building from that vantage point.

I don't disagree with you about true walkability. My comments about topology were directed at what I believe affects the walk score on the website.

The walk score does account for the hills if they're near a residence. It doesn't calculate the walk score for an arbitrary spot in the hill though. I believe the radius the walk score takes into account is one mile. Thus, if the hills are within one mile of a given residence, they will affect the walk score (unless of course there are so many amenities within a mile in the opposite direction of the hills that the spot still has a high walk score). If people have hills on one side and tons of amenities on the other, they're going to have a high walk score (and they don't have to walk the barren hills to get where they need, I'm talking about the big hills where there is nothing, not the hills within neighborhoods that can make a 1/2 mile walk feel like 2 miles). I'm not sure what you mean by "restricting yourself to your own little village". The walk score doesn't expect that you should have to walk 3 miles to get anywhere. It only takes into account what is very close to a residence. I don't see why you think people would have to walk up and down large hills where nobody lives to get places if the places people go are concentrated in the valleys.

It is my understanding that the walk score for a city is calculated by averaging the walk scores for all residences in the city. Thus, mountains with nothing on them only lower the walk score for residences bordering them. I don't believe they calculate a walk score for an arbitrary spot in the woods on the side of the mountain and factor that in. Residences in Pittsburgh are nearly always located in dense neighborhoods in valleys out of necessity, so most of them will have high walk scores. Of course, I could be wrong on their methodology. However, it wouldn't make sense to "penalize" a city's walkability by factoring in areas of the city where nobody lives.

Cincinnati is the most walkable city in Ohio because of topography, and Pittsburgh is more walkable than Cincinnati for the same reason.