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Almost all of the land that lies at lake level downtown is dirt that was excavated during the huge building boom of the 1910-1920s (including the Terminal Tower complex.) The cliff where City Hall etc. sits overlooking the lake is actually Cleveland's natural shoreline.

I went for the first time two years ago, and it was awesome. Tried to go again last year, and it didn't seem like anything was happening, so I'm wondering if they got the same kind of warning.

I know it's historic, but I personally hate the block C. I'd prefer a classy script C (which is probably why I always liked the "feather I," and was sorry to see that phased out.) I also agree that few people find the Indians name to be offensive, and that Wahoo needs to go. I don't see any real reason to change the name, but I looooove the Guardians idea. I can imagine all the silly scoreboard animations they could make with a golem-like Guardian hitting a ball out of the park or whatever.

This is correct.

I think you'd be surprised where the population center of gravity would be for the Cleveland MSA. Using the racial dot map at http://demographics.coopercenter.org/DotMap/index.html (and some superior spatial relations skills :P ) I estimate it's somewhere around University Circle or Coventry. There is more population east of Cleveland than west, and a lot of it stretches along the Lake Erie shoreline. There isn't much total population to speak of south of Maple Heights/Bedford on the east side, and the larger southwestern populations of Parma, Strongsville, etc. are more than offset by large populations northeast of downtown in Lake County and Euclid. Fwiw, in 2000, the population center of Cuyahoga County was in Newburgh Heights. I haven't seen the 2010 centroid anywhere, but I wouldn't be surprised to learn that it shifted southwest given the staggering population losses on Cleveland's east side. Dunno about the MSA, though.

There are actually a lot of people who think that. I'm not saying this is the perfect solution, but I get where FitzGerald's coming from. Actually, come to think of it, I believe it was County Council that first brought up the idea. I think the Issue 7 opponents (i.e. CAST) were off-base with a lot stuff, and I got a ton of crap from my friends for criticizing them, but they did bring up more than a few good points. I appreciate that Fitz is trying to get the most out of our investment in Gateway and CBS, and the facilities and tax were indeed sold to us as an investment.

Why is this such a bad idea? The biggest reason Cleveland and Cuyahoga County want professional sports downtown is that they bring in visitors (and therefore outside spending and tax revenue,) so why shouldn't the County encourage the teams to get butts in the seats? Maybe tying a little money directly to attendance makes more sense, but attendance is related to performance to some extent (for the Cavs and Tribe at least.)

Crain's had a blog post out a couple days ago highlighting a report from the University of Chicago's Cultural Policy Center that analyzes the "creative economy" in nine cities, including Cleveland. Since it gives a bunch of demographic data about the artists in these cities, I thought this would be a good thread to post it in. It's pretty long, but among the findings are: * Musicians make up a disproportionally high percentage of Cleveland's creative workers (the highest percentage of any of the nine cities, actually,) and a disproportionally low percentage of visual artists. * A larger proportion of Cleveland's artists work in printing or related manufacturing-oriented areas than other cities * Cleveland has a proportionally outsized concentration of chefs and head cooks * Cleveland has a higher concentration of creative class workers than the national average, and compared to the other cities from the study, we're below San Francisco, Denver, Boston, and Chicago, but above Philadelphia, Houston, Baltimore, and Phoenix. (Remember that this is a per-capita measure, not absolute numbers.) The report is pretty Chicago-centric for obvious reasons, but I thought it was an interesting read, and there are a lot more details than what I put here. Here's the pdf: http://culturalpolicy.uchicago.edu/creative-economy/creative-economy.pdf And the Crain's article: http://www.crainscleveland.com/article/20140529/BLOGS03/140529771/cultural-policy-center-report-shows-that-the-state-of-clevelands

^The map was generated using geotagged tweets, so it's solely based on written instances of "y'all"

More like by far the biggest African American population in Ohio, ameeeiirite??

PaulI, thanks for all the pictures you've been posting lately! I love this project, and it's looking really cool

Unfortunately, they're probably pretty mainstream for Cuyahoga County :-/

I really like the possibility of using the extension to drive revitalization along St. Clair in South Collinwood, but I wonder if the North Collinwood alignment would have more potential because of synergy with the CDC efforts there. It's a tough call. Either way, I'd much prefer a streetcar over BRT.

Regrettably, Lakewood is still in Ohio, so they wouldn't escape the jurisdiction of the OIU...

I second the Estates, it sounds very much like what you're looking for. There's a pool in the subdivision, and it's right next to the Westlake Rec Center

Most of the development in Detroit-Shoreway has been either north of Detroit or within a few blocks south of it. It's definitely rougher as you get close to Lorain, and I would say that of all the west side rapid stations, I feel least comfortable at W. 65th (especially at night). It's still really upsetting to hear about this, though.

I'm not sure what you mean by the "Edge", but those types of families already live in Edgewater and to some extent in Kamm's Corners and parts of Old Brooklyn. There's plenty of opportunity for housing stock replacement and densification in those areas, too. University Circle already has John Hay, where one of the constituent schools (Early College) was the highest-ranked high school in the REGION based on state test results. The east side already has most of the district's special program schools, too. Why not spread it around a little bit, particularly when it could help bolster West Park, which is undeniably the most stable (if fragile and starting to slip) neighborhood in the city?

The PD is reporting that police said "most" of the 23 arrested were from outside of NEO. http://www.cleveland.com/lakewood/index.ssf/2014/04/brawl_in_lakewood_saturday_tha.html#incart_river_default

I just spent a week in Dallas. Their downtown is D.E.A.D. More vacant and boarded up storefronts than I could count, and their office vacancy rate is somewhere around 25%. I got kicked out of a bar at 10 pm because they were closing. Except for the light rail lines running through the middle, downtown Cleveland blows it out of the water in a huge way. If the "build it and they will come" approach doesn't even work in one of the most robust metro economies in the nation, why should we think that it would fare any better here? You could argue that Gateway is further proof of that, or that Gateway is part of the piecemeal approach that Cleveland has been using to successfully revitalize its downtown. Either way, those arguments are rather academic at this point because like it or not, the facilities got built, and now we have to figure out how to pay for their upkeep.

This relates to a question that I've been ruminating over myself. What percent of alcohol and cigarette sales are made in small, locally-owned establishments, and what percent are made at non-local chains? I don't mind giving that nickel to the little guy (since I assume they basically eat the tax right now,) but in the case of Circle K, Giant Eagle and the like, aren't we just giving a different set of billionaires a break? I would bet the vast majority of cigarette sales are made at chain locations, but I'm not sure about alcohol. I'd just be curious to see that information.

As a daily rider and frequent cyclist, I have never seen it happen

That's really cool, thanks!

Well if we're gonna be pedantic, neither is the moon. But Ptolemy and the other ancient Greeks and Romans considered all seven of those objects to be "planets" (a word which means "wandering star", btw), and that was the dominant belief for centuries. Eighth and State, do you have any more information about that picture (who took/made the image, information about the telescope, etc.?)

Awesome set of pictures! Thanks!