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The William McKinley monument in Canton.

It's also worth mentioning that Cleveland, Cleveland Heights, and Toledo all have domestic partnership registries. Not sure about other places in the state.

I also think that the fact that those students don't live together on or near campus plays a role, and at least in France, it's much less common to entertain guests in your home. In my experience, young people in Europe do drink (and over drink) plenty, but since they have to do it in bars, clubs, or some other semi-public space, there's more restraint. I wonder if the state would consider selling special licenses for Sunday beer sales. That would give bars/restaurants/whatever a choice, and bring in a little extra money at the same time.

The corner of Euclid and Mayfield has a few options- Uptown Grille, Rascal House Pizza, Qdoba, and Falafel Café across the street. Farther down Euclid (at like E. 116,) there's Indian Flame, Mi Pueblo, and the Euclid Tavern. Murray Hill Rd. (technically Little Italy, but closer to Case than some of the others I mentioned) has a Tea House Noodles. If you walk to Little Italy, there are a lot more choices. Depending on how much you want to spend, you could check out Presti's, Trattoria, Mama Santa's (a classic!) etc. Most of the restaurants are on Mayfield, so I'm sure you'll find something if you just walk up and down the street.

Interesting that this topic would come up again. Here's a map of Cuyahoga Co. school districts showing municipal boundaries: http://www.puc.state.oh.us/pucogis/newcntymaps/sd035.pdf No, and Columbus, OH is probably the best example in the state. Large parts of "Columbus" aren't in the Columbus school district, which has made annexation easier to swallow for a lot of people.

Keep in mind that I'm car-free, so I really don't know about rates, availability or whatever, but my first thought (as it's literally across the street) was 515 Euclid. Does anyone here have any info about that particular garage?

Are you thinking of the Masonic Auditorium at E. 36 and Euclid? That's a different building.

I'd like to see RTA replace the proposed WHD West Side transit center with one at the NCTC. That would give us another direct connection between the bus routes and our rapid transit system, a one-seat ride to the Ohio Hub trains, and there's probably more physical space for the buses down there than in the WHD.

Just one minor correction- there's now only one bus line, but it runs every 35 minutes (and every 45 nights and weekends.) It's only hourly very late at night, so it's not a problem unless you do your shopping between midnight and 4:30 am ;-)

The Toledo Blade did a report in 2008 on Ohio downtowns and reported 84,000 in downtown Cincinnati in 2000, and 72,000 in 2003. http://toledoblade.com/assets/pdf/TO48871622.PDF Note- these are only private-sector jobs.

Hi Minerva, As a car-free Clevelander, I understand where you're coming from! With respect to safety in Ohio City, I will say this: everyone has a different comfort level, so visit a neighborhood at different times of the day and night, and trust your gut. Crime does happen in Ohio City, but it's far from the city's worst neighborhood, and most incidents tend to happen along the main drags of W. 25 and Lorain. From what I understand, the more residential interior of the neighborhood has less crime (especially violent crime,) but again, only you know what you're comfortable with. If you want to expand your search, you could also look downtown, in Shaker Square, in Asia Town, in Tremont, in the Coventry and Cedar-Fairmount areas of neighboring Cleveland Heights, or certain sections of neighboring Lakewood. The first two are especially convenient if you live without a car. Good luck with your search, and please feel free to send me a PM if you'd like to hear more about my experience living car-free in Cleveland (which I've done for several years now.)

Great pics! Do you have any of the Cleveland Fed's banking lobby? I agree about the condo conversion, although it's already a mixed-use building, so it wouldn't be too much of a stretch to add some ground floor retail à la 668.

I don't think we have a West Side Transit Center thread yet, so this could go here or in the larger RTA thread: RTA reignites downtown transit center idea By STAN BULLARD 4:30 am, June 14, 2010 New grants and a new strategy have exhumed the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority's long-buried idea for a transit center west of Public Square in downtown Cleveland. ... "Transit centers in other cities serve as parts of multiple-use projects that can include parking garages as well as residential, retail or office space. With such an idea in mind, the Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency recently awarded RTA a $75,000 Transportation for Livable Communities Initiative grant to study potential sites and designs for the center in the Warehouse District. The nonprofit Downtown Cleveland Alliance also contributed $10,000. RTA and the Historic Warehouse District Development Corp. last month formed a committee to select a consultant to perform the study, said Maribeth Feke, RTA director of programming and planning, who also serves on the development corporation's board. She said the study would establish a transit center plan that would spur economic activity on vacant or underutilized parcels in a manner consistent with the neighborhood." http://crainscleveland.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100614/SUB1/306149992/1039/TOC&Profile=1039 Since you need a subscription to read the rest of the article, here's the gist: The idea was proposed in 1998 as part of the Euclid Corridor plan. RTA currently has no money to build the transit center, but federal grants could be a source. Cimperman says that the WHD neighborhood's input is important. Tom Yablonsky, executive director of the HWD and vice president of the DCA, suggests that the project could help with finding financing for a mixed-use project in the current lending environment, and architecturally speaking, address the historic building stock of the neighborhood.

I live car-free in Tremont, and I can tell you it would be a huge benefit. Walking the Abbey Avenue to Lorain-Carnegie route, it takes me nearly an hour to walk to Tower City from my house. It takes about half that time if I cut through the Flats. I actually do mind walking over both those bridges, since the sidewalk on Abbey Ave. has a concrete barrier that retains all of the glass shards, flaked concrete, broken branches, and rocks that end up on the sidewalk. The Lorain-Carnegie bridge is somewhat better, except for the foot-deep holes in the sidewalk where something used to be anchored (utility poles?) and the traffic that treats the bridge like the freakin' Indy 500. And as for RTA, with the latest service cuts and re-routing, it takes about a half-hour to get to Public Square from my house. My walk through the Flats is competitive with that. If I miss a bus, depending on the time of day and day of the week, I could be waiting 45 minutes to take a 30-min. bus ride that I could drive in 5, bike in 15, or walk in 30. Now, I choose to be car-free, and on the whole I don't mind RTA, walking, or biking (though I do resent the condition of the bridges,) but you should understand that a multi-purpose lane on the Innerbelt bridge would be a great asset from a resident's standpoint. It would make my neighborhood an even better place to live.

Tudor Arms is going to be a Doubletree.

Though I don't think it's feasible because of space restraints, I wish they could put in some kind of traffic-calming feature (landscaped median, etc.) People don't seem to realize that the speed limit doesn't magically jump to 50 just for the bridge, and it can be really intimidating for cyclists and pedestrians alike. Since they also seem to think that the Abbey Ave. bridge is an acceptable detour, I hope they also offer to re-do it, preferably with bicycle lanes. At the minimum, get rid of the dang concrete barriers that make the sidewalks and side of the road one long stretch of glass shards.

Positively Cleveland says the 14 million are people who live at least 60 miles away: http://www.positivelycleveland.com/contact_us/about_us (under "Cleveland Plus Tourism")

Totally agree about the Red Line headways. I think that the reason the no. 81 was routed down W. 25 was to continue the direct Lakeview Terrace to Steelyard Commons (Walmart) connection that used to be provided by the 807 circulator. As a daily 81 rider, I completely sympathize... It is beyond irritating to me that it now takes a half hour to get downtown from Tremont, especially when it used to take half that time. Don't even get me started on the 45-minute headways. At least it's still 24-hour service... for now... RE: the circulator vs. standard buses for shuttles, I seem to remember seeing something posted here that said that the circulators don't actually save much money compared to the larger buses. I think the gas use is similar, but the biggest cost per run is the cost of the driver, which is the same for both. My memory could be failing me, though.

Sent you a pm.

FWIW, as a Tremont resident, I often see people running at night, especially in the northeast quadrant of the neighborhood. I personally do a lot of walking and biking at night, both by myself and with friends, and have never had a problem.

The argument that people living outside the core city and county don't do much to financially support our cultural institutions is kind of weak, in my opinion. Any time someone from outside the core buys a pack of gum, or a drink in a bar, or a pack of cigarettes, they pay the associated taxes. The vast majority of their spending might not occur in the core, but at least some of it does (and probably a large portion of their entertainment dollars.) The other point that came to me is that we citizens of the core have the privilege of voting for these taxes, either directly (e.g. Gateway) or through our elected representatives (e.g. Med Mart, via the county commissioners.) If we disapprove, it's our prerogative to not renew Gateway or vote out the commissioners. Joe Geauga and Linda Lorain don't have that choice, and that's the tradeoff. Although I would likely support a more regional tax-sharing structure, I think the article is approaching the issue from the wrong angle. Whether or not it's true, the "you owe us" argument hasn't done any good so far. We can find a better approach.

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This is excellent news, and I hope that the roll-out includes a marketing campaign. Something along the lines of, "Ohio City- we're open the other six days of the week, too ya know!" ;) In all seriousness, though, I was sitting at the Koffie Café and enjoying the hum of the pedestrian traffic on a Saturday morning a few weeks ago, and thought to myself, "There's no reason OC couldn't be like this every day." I hope that better marketing could help catalyze that.

Another little Cleveland easter egg in the new movie- during the scene at the hospital, the phone numbers on the clipboard have 216 area codes. Who knew that Springwood, Ohio was an inner-ring 'burb of the Cle? ;-)

A section of W. 37th was called Fairlawn: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ohcuyah2/maps/streets/westno.html