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Agreed to a certain point, but those were built with old growth wood, true 2x dimensional lumber, different building construction standards all throughout. It's comparing apples to.... well rotten apples i guess. These new buildings are built cheap, and are not built to last. They are built, to stabilize financially, be sold, and be tore down and new ones built.

Can someone explain to me why the STATE senate has any say over COUNTY taxes?!? Columbus controlling way too much of Cleveland's decisions. This one i just don't understand, any tax experts out there?

Absolutely. They are maximizing the height code allows for wood construction, which is much cheaper than steel or concrete, and the labor is more readily available. Not sure what the lifespan of these buildings are. 30 years, maybe 50, just a guess. A concrete building will be here 100 years from now.

thought the same thing, but I assume it's because there is no plan to build a dome on the lakefront, and this graphic is specific to domed stadiums?

Stan was incorrect - ABR presentation says 298.

That first sentence is absolutely not true.

Marika's not an architect. To be accurate she says she's an architectural designer.

The project received zoning approval. It's not a new parking garage, they are actually using a large piece of the existing warehouse to the south of the Westinghouse building as a parking garage. Basically renovating the existing warehouse building that they were planning on tearing down and creating a parking lot, and undeveloped land. The warehouse will be cleaned up, decorative exterior lighting added to it to accent the brick columns and decorative brick work, and entry points, with storefront and canopies, created across from each new apartment building for access. It received unanimous approval, and city design review committee applauded the reuse of existing warehouse construction rather than creating a parking lot.

Saw this on Facebook just now.... City of Cleveland Mayor Frank G. Jackson and Ohio Governor John Kasich recently announced that funding for a vital lakefront development link is confirmed, allowing the West 73rd Street connector to Edgewater Park to begin construction in 2013. The new underpass project supports the ongoing economic and community development of the Detroit-Shoreway neighborhood and helps put people to work. This project supports Mayor Jackson’s vision of opening up the City’s lakefront to residents, businesses and visitors and ensuring that all of Cleveland is connected to its most vital natural asset – Lake Erie.

It's quite impressive, you can see it from Eddy road on the freeway.

Unique thrift on Lorain just east of Fulton. Suite Lorain's, (i think it's still there) on Lorain, east of 65th, can't remember the exact address. There's also a Unique thrift store somewhere in the Biddulph plaza off of Ridge. I know they have furniture, but I think there is a clothing store there also. Tons of vintage in Cleveland/Lakewood on Detroit

I really hope this doesn't change the cost of food/drinks even worse than it is. 5 years ago you could get cheap food/drink now it's like being on west 6th. That's not why people go down there, for fine dining.

Yes the project is under construction. Footers are to be poured in the next couple of weeks.

I love this, because it starts to extend that renovation of Detroit further west. I've always thought that these buildings were the next logical progression of rehab.

Sunday morning on the Tom Beres "Between the Lines" portion of the news on WKYC they were talking about the delay of the opening, and they were all pretty sure that the temporary space would be opened ahead of time, and the city is definitely pushing for this. Their comments were that we would most likely be the first ones out of the gate with this temporary casino and that would be a positive thing.

Yeah, agreed, very similar to the Cedar Lee.

I also noticed this. And a lot of comments below have been praising them on the good news, saying things like, this is what Cleveland needs, and we need to hear more good news like this.

the homeless transitional project by CHN is across the street. The proposed project is an elderly apartment building with ground floor community/future retail spaces on Euclid.

The blue is a rain screen system called Abet Laminati. It's a composite board that lets the water run behind it. much more durable and a better finish than Hardie Panel.

Not a coincidence at all.

I don't know, manage tens of thousands of employee's, bring in the best of the best in medicine, build a brand name that is recognizable around the world. i guess not much. They may not have the people to do it on hand but with their recognition they could easily draw the right people to venture into the world of selling and marketing the products they use and probably develop, since they are on the cutting edge of everything medical.

Ooooh that's an easy one, it's cheap. And the code allows it.

If designed well as noted in the "drawing" above this could actually work. Two things; could it be built over the railroad tracks and be used as a "bridge" to the waterfront. And if not why does it have to be built at the end of the mall, why not two smaller buildings on either side of the mall, framing the mall, making it a bit smaller but than injecting tons of people into this space as they go into either of the buildings.

I beleive there are multiple cameras at this intersection, but I think they are more for security than speeding. Those red light cameras are huge and quite noticeable, I don't think they are being used for that but don't know for sure.

What the heck does this statement mean... "Cleveland, for instance, has been trying for three years to create a “Medical Mart,” a convention center and hotel complex that would host specialty medical trade shows, the foundation of which would be the famed Cleveland Clinic. According to Welki, however, the idea has stalled because of bureaucratic infighting and inertia." That last statement seems to be blatanly false currently. This article just seems to be a slash article on Clevleand, Detroit etc... I think sometimes articles like this are written because they're easy and the readers agree, as it validates there choice to have left one of these cities. This article brings up a lot of issues that Cleveland is at the forefront of dealing with; i.e housing the less fortunate, the foreclosure epidemic, pollution of our waterways, but instead of showing what is being done here in a positive light they just focus on the negative. Every point in the article has a counterpoint and unfortunately until this city starts touting the counterpoints change will not happen. The funny thing though, as I read some of the comments afterwards it made me feel like I was reading the PD. Jeez the people that post on these sites are all the same.