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You can take a rapid train from most of the neighborhoods listed above if you can't find a place downtown. Some other possible units you may want to consider: 1104 Prospect Ave http://www.prospectplaceapartments.com/ 1900 Euclid Ave: http://www.thecoralcompany.com/residential-1900-euclid.html Perry Payne Building: http://perrypayneapts.com/ CityLiving also has a decent list: http://www.clevelandcityliving.com/images/rental.pdf

Don't worry, it'll be winter soon enough. (That should even things out a little bit...)

All those you listed are great places to live. My advice would be to visit all of them and see for yourself where you would enjoy the most. And of course if you have anymore specific questions, feel free to ask!

Cool to see all this positive press...even if it isn't coming out of Cleveland. But maybe it's better that it's coming from around the world?? EDIT oh wait, this article above is from the PD...great that it's coming from everywhere!

Is this a new updated website??? http://www.downtownclevelandalliance.com/

I feel like this needs to be cross posted some where else. But, anyway: ---------------------------------------------------------------- Green Cottages make Cleveland EcoVillage even smaller Submitted by Marc Lefkowitz on September 8, 2008 - 11:32am. Posted in Gardening Green building Rebuilding cities Walkable neighborhoods EcoVillage | Marc Lefkowitz's Tomorrow (9/9) is the groundbreaking for the Cleveland EcoVillage Green Cottages, and, in addition to being the largest concentration of green building, it marks another historic moment for the area. It will be the first affordable development in Northeast Ohio to achieve the LEED for Homes certification of the U.S. Green Building Council, which promotes the design and construction of high-performance green homes. The five cottages continue the momentum of the Cleveland EcoVillage, where 20 ‘green’ townhomes were built in 2004 and completely sold. The Cottages are right across the street from the townhomes, and both are within walking distance of a rebuilt W. 65th Street Rapid station. The Cuyahoga Community Land Trust ensures they will be permanently affordable. ‘Green’ features include recycled and recyclable-content products, water saving products and a smaller (1,225 sq ft.) home which will cost less to heat and cool (also helping the affordability!). An ecovillage has a dense mix of housing, shopping, and promotes healthier living because streets are comfortable to walk and bike, and there's plenty of public places to play and even grow food. It supports the necessities of life in one place. And when you need to visit somewhere else, links to transit are within easy walking distance. The Cleveland EcoVillage is in a real city neighborhood, so it already has some of these elements. Even though it doesn’t have it all yet, it has three distinct green housing developments, an urban garden, and good transit connections. http://www.gcbl.org/blog/marc-lefkowitz/green-cottages-make-cleveland-ecovillage-even-smaller Note: they are some cool links in the article

Check it out from yesterday's paper. Very cool article!! ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.cleveland.com/plaindealer/stories/index.ssf?/base/opinion/1220689827248310.xml&coll=2 Cleveland orchestra raised the bar in Salzburg Sunday, September 07, 2008 Charles Michener The Cleveland Orchestra is back in town, and it de serves a hero's welcome. The reason is not simply the admiring reviews the players and their music director Franz Welser-MÖst earned during a three-week European tour. What made the Clevelanders genuine heroes in Salzburg, Lucerne, Turin and Milan was something rarely achieved in their rarefied sphere: They raised the bar of musical excellence in settings where that measurement has long been set by musicians steeped in the traditions of Vienna and Berlin, not in the grit of a city somewhere between New York and Chicago. And the effect on old Europe's most demanding listeners was electrifying. ........ Walking into the moonlit Salzburg night, I thought, "Do the people back home know how lucky they are?" Michener is a former senior editor at the New Yorker and classical music columnist for the New York Observer. He is currently working on a book about Cleveland titled "The Hidden City."

I've seen that guy too! Man, this guy has gotta have some gig going.

Case Western Reserve justifies ranking with 62-27 rout of Kenyon by From staff reports Saturday September 06, 2008, 8:04 PM GAMBIER, O. - Case Western Reserve University, ranked 19th in the country in Division III, opened its season Saturday with a 62-27 blowout of Kenyon at McBride Field. Case put up 443 yards of total offense in the first half alone and won their seventh straight season opener. The Spartans finished the game with 513 yards [163 rushing, 350 passing]. Their 62 points were the most scored since 1998, when they beat Oberlin, 70-12. http://www.cleveland.com/sports/college/index.ssf/2008/09/case_western_reserve_justifies.html

They have a live feed for every game: http://mediavision.case.edu/caselive/athletics.cfm or one step back: http://www.case.edu/athletics/varsity/broadcast/index.htm

CWRU is winning 62-0 at the end of the 3rd quarter...!

Check out the love from Terry Pluto: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Success of Case Western Reserve football team restores lost pride Friday, September 05, 2008 Terry Pluto Before every football season, the Division III polls come out and you can be sure to find Case Western Reserve . . . Yes, it is time to stop the presses when CWRU is ranked, as the Spartans enter Saturday's 1 p.m. opener at Kenyon - anywhere from No. 10 to No. 19. School officials believe the most recent time it happened was in the mid-1980s. "The right thing to say is I believed it could happen when I went to Case," said quarterback Dan Whalen. "But no, I didn't expect us to be ranked. One of my high school coaches told me when I was going to Case that I'd get a great education, but don't expect a championship." http://www.cleveland.com/pluto/blog/index.ssf/2008/09/making_their_case_soaring_spar.html

I'm starting to think maybe it is time Cleveland re-did it's Amtrak station/setup. I did ride it last month, and walking from E.9th to the station is about an unpedestrian friendly as you can get. Note: To top i all off, the walk is even on a downward slant because of the hill. Lastly, when I got to Penn Station in Baltimore, the station was completely surrounded by walkable residental, as well as a college campus. I literally walked over and knocked on my friend's door two blocks from the train station. I guess my point is, I love their setup compared to ours!

^^No problem. I bet someday soon we will see something like a statue--the local awareness is starting to get more press and the superman copyright is finally being shared as of this year.

Interesting article.. http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2008/08/obama_in_toledo_rebuild_cities.html Obama in Toledo: Rebuild cities Posted by joe wagner August 31, 2008 21:48PM Toledo -- Sen. Barack Obama's Labor Day weekend message to Ohio was a welcome promise to spend billions of dollars to rebuild America's crumbling cities. Midway through a holiday campaign swing through Pennsylvania, Ohio and Michigan -- critical states in the November election -- Obama drew loud cheers Sunday afternoon when he said, "We need to allow communities like Toledo to get back on their feet." The Democratic presidential nominee appeared with his running mate, Sen. Joseph Biden, at an invitation-only town meeting where Obama took about a half-dozen questions, all pertaining to the economy and education.

I don't know if this video has been posted before, but this one is from 1954: .www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRj4_qkqgXo .www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVhTdKnDUW0 EDIT: "Embedding disabled by request"

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/02/us/02superman.html?ref=us Repairing a House With Superman Ties By GEORGE GENE GUSTINES September 2, 2008 NY Times In comic books, Superman was born on Krypton and rocketed to Earth on the eve of his planet’s destruction. In real life, the Man of Steel was born more than 70 years ago in Cleveland, a creation of the writer Jerry Siegel and the artist Joe Shuster. The author Brad Meltzer will conduct an online charity auction to raise money for an exterior restoration of the childhood home in Cleveland of Jerry Siegel, a Superman creator who died in 1996. Bess Greenberg/The New York Times But even Superman may not have been able to save the childhood home of Mr. Siegel, who died in 1996. The house, at 10622 Kimberley Avenue in the Glenville neighborhood of Cleveland, has fallen into disrepair, and an online charity auction begins Tuesday to raise money to restore its exterior. For more, click the link

FYI, the Cleveland Plain Dealer did a cool write up on Cincy today: Sensational Cincinnati: Lively museums, dining lead cultural revival of the 'Queen City' http://www.cleveland.com/travel/index.ssf/2008/08/_for_cincinnati_travel_details.html

Violent crime down in Cleveland Saturday, August 30, 2008 Mark Puente Plain Dealer Reporter Violent crime is dropping nine months after Mayor Frank Jackson unveiled a tough-sounding plan to aggressively go after gun-toting guys roaming the city's neighborhoods. Homicides are down 25 percent this year compared with last year, and overall gun crimes are down 10 percent, according to city statistics. ... Homicide rates are fluctuating across the country. Killings are down in Baltimore and Los Angeles but up in New York City, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Columbus and Washington, D.C. ... http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/cuyahoga/12200853725750.xml&coll=2

www.kentnewsnet.com/media/storage/paper867/news/2008/08/25/News/Flashes.Look.Forward.To.Showdown.With.Eagles-3403577.shtml]http://media.www.kentnewsnet.com/media/storage/paper867/news/2008/08/25/News/Flashes.Look.Forward.To.Showdown.With.Eagles-3403577.shtml Flashes look forward to showdown with Eagles Thomas Gallick Issue date: 8/25/08 Section: News With less than a week until the Kent State football team meets Boston College in Cleveland Browns Stadium, Kent State coach Doug Martin is confident about his team's preparation...

So...what's the report. Who went?? EDIT: Sorry, I'm a little premature. I noticed the event let out about 15 minutes ago...

I can't go now...please fill us in!

http://www.wkyc.com/news/local/news_article.aspx?storyid=95293&catid=3 Cleveland: Browns help break ground for new field at rec center CLEVELAND -- Up and coming football players on Cleveland's west side will soon have a field of their own at the Gunning Park Recreation Center...

Sorry to bring this thread back for this, but... The other side of the Harkness buildings are notably ornate as well; I wandered back there today and it's interesting what still exists... even if it is being used as a loading dock (the portions enclosed by Huntington Bank only accessible via alleyway on chester). Any condo with windows facing the other side of euclid ave could have some promise, especially if that area could get spruced up a little bit. If anyone is walking past, check it out.

Also, I don't know if this has been posted yet, but UPTOWN now has a website--not too shabby! http://www.uptowncleveland.com/retail-opportunities/