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I don't entirely agree with this. Although they would take significant land acquisition and redevelopment, I think that besides the three you list, the W. 65th, Superior, Windermere, and (to a lesser extent) West Boulevard stations have at least moderate TOD potential. I do agree that the routing of the red line is problematic, but that's something we've discussed here many times.

I guess the one thing I would add (sorry for so many separate posts) is that I wish the Schofield were going to be done in time for the Gay Games. It would be perfect, and having accommodations like that would leave a very positive impression of the city with a lot of people.

I thought that they maintained very tasteful balance between the very contemporary interior design and the historic features of the building. I'm pretty sure that the Allegro building was always a hotel, so it's not quite apples to apples, but they still did a lot of renovations. It was a very cool space, but very comfortable and affordable at the same time, and they offer a complimentary wine reception every evening! If the Schofield turns out similarly, it will definitely appeal to the younger, hipper crowd, and I think it'll be a big asset for downtown.

I stayed at the Hotel Allegro in Chicago this past weekend, which is a Kimpton hotel. If the Schofield is going to be anything like the Allegro, I'm incredibly excited.

Not that it helps now, but there was a MAC store in Tower City that closed about three years ago :-/

So that's one vacant storefront on Euclid between 18th and the freeway in an older building (Cousin's Cigar,) and they were evicted because CSU is planning to move administrative offices for NEOMED and a health clinic there (plus the whole smoke-free campus thing.) Doesn't sound too shabby to me. Even so, the presence of one or even several vacant storefronts doesn't necessarily mean we can't accommodate more. With the way CSU is growing, we need to anticipate future demand and not just focus on the current conditions (which aren't bad to begin with anyway.)

When I click on that link, Cleveland comes up at number 4 *shrug*

^ Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the City rumored to be considering the Trinity site for its relocated kennel? That would be another gross underutilization of that land, IMO

He was inside the station?! I think stuff like that is pretty uncommon, but it does happen. I was physically assaulted at the University Circle station, and there was a somewhat high-profile beating of a transgendered woman at the W. 65th station a couple years ago.

Great set! You really captured the feeling of the event. You also caught local development celebrity Ari Maron on camera!

Strap, that was fascinating. Thanks for posting it!

Wow, thanks for the great recap! This is actually really great news. I was genuinely worried about what the exterior of the base is going to be clad in. Definitely looking forward to seeing the pictures!

I guess this could probably go in a number of threads (Marketing the City, Immigration), but I like it here! This is a cute little video of some people 'rapping' in Chinese about how great Cleveland is. It's a parody of a song by a popular Chinese hip hop group about Beijing, and if the comments are right, maybe it'll help spread the word about Cleveland in China :)

I would actually say this stretch of Lorain is more of a parking district or vacant than institutional, at least on the south side of the street, and changing that will be building by building. So no, one storefront won't change it, but it's a start. I guess it really is a lost cause, though, since Ignatius controls most of the land in that immediate area (mostly for parking), and I highly doubt they're interested in giving any of it over to development.

It's not going to be a perfect fit, and there isn't another building out there that would be. They could build David Ellison's proposed casino building from 2005 ;-) http://groupplan.dhellison.com/proposed_casino.php

Well, it certainly looks better in those renderings than it does at present, and it's not the worst use in the world. I just worry that having too large of an institutional presence along Lorain will kill any incentive for pedestrians to stroll west from the Market.

It's certainly not as direct for Tremonters, but the multipurpose path has been nice for Ohio City. I'm glad the city got concessions out of ODOT, but our neighborhood didn't get much out of the deal.

Fwiw, Michelle threw out 370' as the height in the comments section, which is right around what people were guessing a few pages back. Good job, guys ;-) EDIT- whoops, Clefan98 beat me to it!

I've personally always loved the building at 3026 Scranton Rd. I have no idea if it's for sale or not, but it's a lovely building, and it was built as a telephone exchange for the Cleveland Telephone Co.

I personally like Zone. I was surprised that Cummins' race was so close. Not living in the ward, I don't know a thing about Kazy, but from what I gathered from last night's reporting he ran on a platform based around addressing crime in Clark-Fulton, and development around W. 25 and Clark Avenue. I don't think Cummins is a bad councilman, but those two points of Kazy's are definitely the two biggest issues to tackle in that area, IMO

I liked them, too, though it was a bit off the beaten path. Hopefully more people will start to buy into revitalizing Lorain Avenue... there's some great commercial stock there (and I personally prefer it to Detroit.) Maybe this new breakfast place will be enough of a "destination" that it can anchor a mini-resurgence there.

Yeah, my point was that a lot of the inner ring is actually quite well-served by the Metroparks, especially on the West and South sides. I can certainly understand feeling frustrated with the system's decision-making, but just because you don't have a county-run park in your individual community doesn't mean that they don't add value. You're just as eligible for free admission to the zoo on Mondays as any other county resident, for example, and you're not really a far drive from several parks. I guess I see it the same way as the health and human services levy- I haven't ever benefited from any of the programs it funds, but they're good for the overall community, and if I needed them, they'd be there. As an aside, I think the reason there isn't much Metropark activity in the hilltop communities is largely historic/geographical. Most of the parks are centered around rivers and river valleys, and the Heights clearly don't have much in the way of that because they're on high ground. That's changing (see the lakefront parks), but there isn't much open land to conserve in those areas anymore.

That may be the view from the Cedar Road corridor, but I don't think Lakewood, West Park, Brooklyn, Parma, Newburgh Heights, Cuyahoga Heights, Garfield Heights, etc. would necessarily agree.

My brother was robbed at gunpoint on W. 116 about a month ago. It's definitely getting rough over there.

These are fantastic! You really did go just about everywhere!