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Danny Ferry resigns as GM of Cleveland Cavaliers By Brian Windhorst, The Plain Dealer June 04, 2010, 1:50PM CLEVELAND, Ohio -- In a decision that is surprising and perhaps throws the Cavaliers into more uncertainty, Danny Ferry resigned as the team's general manager today. In an interview with the The Plain Dealer, Ferry said the decision was mutual after the sides had talks about a new contract earlier this week. Ferry's five-year deal that he signed when he came to the team in 2005 was scheduled to expire at the end of June. Ferry will be replaced by top assistant Chris Grant, who has been functioning in the role of almost a co-general manager for the last several years. It will now be Grant and Gilbert who hire the next coach after another of the organization's top leaders, Mike Brown, was fired as last week. http://www.cleveland.com/cavs/index.ssf/2010/06/danny_ferry_resigns_at_gm_of_c.html

'Bodies' exhibit opens Saturday in downtown Cleveland By Thomas Feran, The Plain Dealer June 04, 2010, 10:54AM CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Naked bodies and revealing poses are the main attractions of a show opening Saturday in the heart of downtown Cleveland's entertainment district. High visibility is what presenters of "Bodies . . . The Exhibition" want. But instead of a risque show, the point of the display is family-friendly education featuring plasticized and dissected human bodies. "We find one of the best places to be is exactly [where] we are, on Euclid Avenue," said Dr. Roy Glover, the exhibit's medical director and spokesman, who grew up on the West Side. "Anybody that's interested in science will come here, and the people that wouldn't grace the door of a science center will walk past this place and say, 'Maybe we ought to go in and take a look,' " Glover said. Open seven days a week through October, "Bodies" features nine galleries of displays covering 14,000 square feet of street-level space once occupied by clothing stores. http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2010/06/bodies_exhibit_opens_saturday.html

I'm thinking the med mart will get some trickle down effect from this designation, not to mention, I'm hoping Philip's imaging will utilize their brand new show room options now downtown.

Great video...I have a girl looking to move Downtown in the next two weeks...I'm going to forward this video to her.

I honestly thnk this would be the best location. Fix up the LAST empty crappy storefront on Lower Euclid Ave, and have high, high visability.

http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2010/06/soldiers_and_sailors_monument.html Soldiers and Sailors Monument hosts grand reopening after $2 million restoration By Brian Albrecht June 04, 2010, 7:06AM CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Remember that scene in the 1939 movie "The Wizard of Oz" when Dorothy Gale's house is swept from Kansas by a tornado, crash-lands in Oz, and she emerges from its dreary, black-and-white confines to a world of dazzling color? When it comes to the newly restored Soldiers and Sailors Monument on Public Square, as Dorothy would say, "Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore." That's how Jim Tabaczynski, spokesman for the Soldiers and Sailors Monument Commission which manages the county-owned structure, recently described the two-year, $2 million transformation of the 116-year-old edifice, which will be the site of grand re-opening festivities tonight and Saturday. Gov. Ted Strickland will give the keynote address Saturday. http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2010/06/soldiers_and_sailors_monument.html

Lower Euclid Ave will be bumping next summer.... Back to the discussion to where Positively Cleveland is going to go..

Nwanna wins National Championship in the decathlon. CLEVELAND, OH (May 28, 2010) - Case Western Reserve University senior track and field student-athlete Obinna Nwanna (Maumee, OH) put the final touches on a storied collegiate career today at the 2010 NCAA Division III Track & Field Championships hosted by Baldwin-Wallace College in nearby Berea, Ohio. Nwanna won the National Championship in the decathlon, ending the grueling two-day event in hot and humid temperatures with seven personal best (PR) and over 7,000 points. He also became an All-American for the fourth consecutive time (Pentathlon in 2009 & 2010 and Decathlon in 2009 & 2010) in his career. http://www.case.edu/athletics/varsity/sports_men/trackfield/stats/2009-10/story_16.html Also from the Plain Dealer: http://www.cleveland.com/sports/college/index.ssf/2010/05/case_western_reserves_obinna_n.html

Vote "yes" Port Authority!! Cleveland Museum of Art asks Cleveland Cuyahoga County Port Autority to float $75 million bond issue for museum expansion By Steven Litt, The Plain Dealer June 03, 2010, 4:54PM With some low-risk help from the Cleveland Cuyahoga County Port Authority, the big expansion at the Cleveland Museum of Art can be finished in 2013.A vote Tuesday by the board of the Cleveland Cuyahoga County Port Authority could launch a $75 million bond issue needed by the Cleveland Museum of Art to finish its massive expansion and renovation on time in 2013. The museum is asking the port authority for the second time in five years to be the "conduit-issuer" of construction bonds, which will be repaid with donations the museum expects to receive in its $350 million capital campaign. In 2005, the museum sold $90 million in bonds through the port authority. Then, as now, the borrowing is intended to help the museum with cash flow, so it can pay construction costs in a timely manner while gathering donations from supporters over a longer period. With the new bond issue, as with the earlier one, the port authority's debt capacity and credit rating would not be affected. A "yes" vote by the port authority board, however, would mean the museum could snip a ribbon in 2013. http://www.cleveland.com/arts/index.ssf/2010/06/cleveland_museum_of_art_asks_c.html

I need to read more...thanks. I just assumed there would be more chatter yesterday and today if this were the real deadline. Midnight tonight...huh......

Where did this deadline come from?? This is today...? Squabbling lawmakers put Cleveland 'early casino' at risk Tom Beres Updated: 6/3/2010 6:23:23 PM Posted: 6/3/2010 6:05:06 PM CLEVELAND -- Thursday is the deadline. The clock is ticking. And Cleveland's plans for a starter casino are in jeopardy. When Ohio voters approved a constitutional amendment plan to put casinos in four Ohio cities, the measure included a June 3 deadline for lawmakers to create a governing body for casinos and some basic regulations. Mayor Frank Jackson is upset that lawmakers are putting politics and personal issues in the way of Cleveland's and other cities casino plans. An early casino in the former Higbee building could create jobs and start revenue flowing to the city before Dan Gilbert's main casino opens in 2013. Legislative leaders are trying to resolve the issues. The House may stay in session Thursday night, trying to meet the deadline http://www.wkyc.com/news/local/news_article.aspx?storyid=137326&catid=3 More: Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson pushes state legislature to get a casino bill done as deadline arrives By Reginald Fields, The Plain Dealer June 03, 2010, 4:22PM COLUMBUS, Ohio - Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson on Thursday called out the state legislature for potentially delaying a crucial vote on a casino enabling language bill that lawmakers are still squabbling about. Despite knowing since November when voters approved Issue 3 -- the constitutional amendment allowing four casinos to sprout up in Ohio -- that they would have to pass the enabling language, lawmakers are still at the Statehouse addressing the issue. And the clock is ticking. Their deadline to get a bill done and shipped over to the governor for his signature to become law, according to the constitution, is midnight. They are now within hours of that deadline. http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2010/06/post_13.html

And Crains: Philips Healthcare to invest $33M in imaging center at UH Case Medical Center By CHUCK SODER and JAY MILLER 3:07 pm, June 3, 2010 Philips Healthcare, a worldwide leader in medical imaging systems, will invest $33.4 million in a new Global Advanced Imaging Innovation Center to be based at University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cleveland. UH Case Medical Center will collaborate with the company, which bases its computed tomography and nuclear medicine businesses in Highland Heights, in a five-year partnership to research and test a variety of medical imaging products developed by Philips. Backers believe the imaging center will boost Northeast Ohio into a worldwide center for imaging technology because it will include radiology experts from business and medical research who will coordinate clinical research and develop and commercialize advanced imaging technologies. http://www.crainscleveland.com/article/20100603/FREE/100609915/1007&Profile=1007

From Ideastream: Cleveland’s Health Corridor To Include New Philips Imaging Center Thursday, June 3, 2010 Topics: Economy, Politics, Health Cleveland's Health and Technology Corridor received an official state designation that many believe will help increase its global competitiveness in medical innovation. ideastream's Bill Rice reports. Governor Ted Strickland declared the Corridor stretching from University Circle to the Cleveland State University a state hub of innovation and opportunity. Shah: “Philips could put this center anywhere in the world. They’re headquatered in the Netherlands, they’ve got operations globally, but they chose to locate it here in Cleveland because of this unprecedented collaboration and connection between the clinical institutions, the research institutions, the state, the city and the county.” http://www.wcpn.org/WCPN/news/30940

Wow...who would have thunk it. Cleveland has the lowest umemployment rate in the state. Thanks for sharing.

One of the two new places going on W. 9th: Fortress brings upscale clubbing to Warehouse District By John Petkovic, The Plain Dealer June 02, 2010, 5:51PM The crowd inspired Zdenko Zovkic. Creating a niche within it made him a success. In 2003, Zovkic, 40, opened XO Prime Steaks, the upscale restaurant at 500 W. St. Clair Ave. in the Warehouse District. Rather than chasing the masses, Zovkic targeted a select set looking for a place where shorts and flip-flops were a no-go amid the fine dining and white tablecloths. Zovkic has just opened Fortress --1360 West Ninth St. -- with noted party promoter Arnold Hines. And, like XO, it runs counter to trends in the Warehouse District. http://www.cleveland.com/dining/index.ssf/2010/06/fortress_brings_upscale_clubbi.html

I don't think we have a thread on the monument... Historic emblems restored in the gardens of Cleveland's Soldiers and Sailors Monument By Susan Love, The Plain Dealer June 02, 2010, 10:00PM CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Every time historian Tim Daley looks closely at downtown Cleveland's iconic Soldiers and Sailors Monument -- perhaps while leading a school tour or passingly admiring, for the 100th time, the massive granite and sandstone Civil War memorial -- he sees something new. Daley recently has been finding a lot of detail work to admire in the 1894 landmark that towers more than 125 feet above the traffic and talking buses circling Public Square. Architectural gems in the structure, built to honor the 9,000 Cuyahoga County residents who served in the Civil War, stand out again thanks to a recently completed $2 million restoration. From the end of the 1800s until the early 1940s, flowers in three of the surrounding rectangular grassy areas were arranged to reproduce 24 U.S. Army corps badges (designed as a system of organizing groups within the Army); in the fourth grassy area, on the Superior Avenue side, five badges of post-Civil War organizations were reproduced. http://www.cleveland.com/insideout/index.ssf/2010/06/post_28.html

Hoping to spark season-ticket sales, Cleveland Browns plan 'open house' on June 12 By Bill Lubinger, The Plain Dealer June 03, 2010, 1:20AM CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Browns fans are being invited to slip into a stadium seat, check out the views and buy into the hope that the losing will finally stop. Browns Stadium becomes an open house Saturday, June 12, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., for a "select-a-seat" event. Fans can choose seats for full or partial season ticket packages for the 2010 season. The best available seats will be tagged. Admission and parking, in the North Port Authority lot, are free. Fans should enter through BrownsTown on the north side of the stadium. Of the stadium's 72,300 seats, the number of season tickets held slipped to about 55,000 last season from 60,000 the year before. When the Browns started 1-11 before winning their last four games in 2009, the team played under the threat of having home games blacked out on local television. http://www.cleveland.com/browns/index.ssf/2010/06/hoping_to_spark_season-ticket.html

FYI: Changes in Cleveland's RTA rail service begin this weekend By Plain Dealer staff June 03, 2010, 9:30AM http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2010/06/changes_in_clevelands_rta_rail.html

To put it bluntly, that absolutely sucks. Let me guess...for a surface parking lot? Possibly the casino? I understand that the building has been deteriorating for years, but it must be one of the last from the early days of the Central Market area, I would think. Here's a picture of floors 2,3 and 4. If anyone if confused where this building is, here's the streetview: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=2135+Ontario+ave,+Cleveland,+OH&sll=41.497344,-81.691632&sspn=0.01027,0.01442&gl=us&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=2135+Ontario+St,+Cleveland,+Cuyahoga,+Ohio+44115&ll=41.502519,-81.691654&spn=0,0.01442&z=16&layer=c&cbll=41.49735,-81.69164&panoid=ZV-pa1xFvrcxo0QtEMhKtQ&cbp=12,5.75,,0,0.93

Welcome, and and I think you have one of the best locations Downtown!

Overall, ParkWorks is doing some amazing things for Downtown. http://www.parkworks.org/currentp-downtown.html Also, check out the "Neighborhoods" with the Buckeye sculpture we saw from the previous Buckeye photo thread. The Malls and Public Square will obviously be the biggest things on their resume.

Anyone have any updates on how the "BODIES" storefront is looking? I won't be there until Sunday.

"All of Ohio's biggest cities will eventually have hubs, which are designed to boost promising industry clusters and the urban neighborhoods around them. " This quote is the most interesting. It's almost as if Ohio is starting the reverse the trends of the past and focus more on it's urban cores again.

the latest Lebron news and gossip: Chicago billboard for Lebron: http://www.chicagobreakingsports.com/2010/06/bulls-fans-wooing-lebron-james-with-billboard.html Lebron on Larry King Live: http://sports.espn.go.com/new-york/nba/columns/story?id=5241556 "Keep Lebron in Cleveland" rally at Crocker Park http://www.wkyc.com/news/local/news_article.aspx?storyid=137161&catid=3 Also CWRU....http://www.waitingfornextyear.com/?p=29053 And of course, the Michael Symon story...which is on hundreds of news sources already: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/02/iron-chef-to-lebron-james_n_597973.html

"chief city planner in the 1970s" -- that right there makes me want to kill myself... So much "good" was done in the city planner department during the 70's.... I heard the man speak during a case colloquim a few years ago. He was against the Euclid Corridor and Public Transportation in Cleveland, clearing stating that "Cleveland is a car city." A few people on a stage and audience questioned him on that and he wouldn't budge. I kept thinking to myself "this is a professor at Cleveland State??"