MuRrAy HiLL

Some inside pics from today: https://www.facebook.com/100064800723639/posts/753961560107195

What the heck?

I believe this is the final design: https://offcampus.case.edu/housing/property/2183-2185-cornell-rd-unit-2a/ocpee045nq

Beating a dead horse here for many forumers regarding the history here…but man, sure is nice to get back some of the massive amounts of lost density.

Rocky River ain’t cheap … near Bradstreet’s Landing … new construction: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/22700-Lake-Rd-503-Rocky-River-OH-44116/2082289126_zpid/

Facebook group links are tough to share…so here’s a screenshot instead. One of the last brick buildings coming down.

Great read … and sounds like we’re still getting Ukrainians moving here. Those featured here arrived in July and September of this year. ‘Grateful we are still alive:’ Ukrainian refugees spend their first Thanksgiving in Northeast Ohio By Molly Walsh | [email protected] CLEVELAND, Ohio – Tetiana Lysechko and her family fled Kyiv soon after the Russian invasion last year. Lysechko, her husband and her three teenage children only planned to leave their home in Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, for less than a week. After the war started in February 2022, they headed to Ukraine’s western border in cars but struggled to find a home. They eventually settled in Poland for more than a year before arriving in Cleveland on Sept. 28. - - - Krystyna Babailov and her family arrived in Northeast Ohio in July after living with her aunt in Canada following Russia’s invasion. Global Cleveland helped find a church to sponsor the family to help in relocating them to the United States. The 31-year-old lives with her husband and 5-year-old daughter in Cleveland’s Shaker Square neighborhood. She hopes to spend Thanksgiving and the holiday weekend with her family taking in some new sights in Northeast Ohio. So far, her family has been to the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo. She said she loves the nature in Northeast Ohio, especially Lake Erie. “We are grateful. Grateful because we are still alive,” she said. “It is very dangerous in our country. We are grateful that we have where we live now. We are grateful that we have food, that we have a job and that we have a lot of very kind people around us who help us.” https://www.cleveland.com/news/2023/11/grateful-we-are-still-alive-ukrainian-refugees-spend-their-first-thanksgiving-in-northeast-ohio.html

Pretty neat FB post: 📸 https://www.facebook.com/share/Ka29wUz4Ra6fRadW/?mibextid=K35XfP

One thing I didn’t realize until now, looking at my first picture above… the pillars on the new construction mirror the pillars on the Ford Apartment building directly across Hessler St.

^ what’s interesting to me is now your eyes look next door to the American Cancer Society building sitting on such a prominent corner. We turned a 1-story MLK library branch into an 8-story building. What can we turn a 2-story ACS building into???

And my quick update from Hessler urban landscape and the newly paved parking lot at Ford and Hessler across the street

Not quite immigration, but still a great read: Ukrainian exchange students find reminders of home during week-long trip to Cleveland BY MANDY KRAYNAK ● ARTS & CULTURE, EDUCATION ●NOVEMBER 10, 2023 https://thelandcle.org/stories/ukrainian-exchange-students-find-reminders-of-home-during-week-long-trip-to-cleveland/

Interesting, Mike Fratello is an investor: Cent' Anni, an Amaro-Focused Cocktail Lounge, to Open This Month in Little Italy By Douglas Trattner on Wed, Nov 8, 2023 at 10:29 am A long-simmering project in Little Italy will soon take flight. Cent’ Anni (12401 Mayfield Rd.), a posh little cocktail bar that has been in the works for some time, is expected to open in late November. Located in the rear of the building immediately west of Valerio’s, the speakeasy-style lounge will be a celebration of all things Italian. “I lived in Little Italy and I always wanted to do something that celebrated Italy and Italian drinking culture and aperitivo hour and amaro and all that stuff,” says operating partner Michael Paley. Paley's partners in the project include David Orloff, Bob Reiner, Mike Fratello and Valerio Iorio. https://www.clevescene.com/food-drink/cent-anni-an-amaro-focused-cocktail-lounge-to-open-this-month-in-little-italy-43076390

^ they are adding rows of seating behind both hoops … so there will be more than there currently is now. But agreed, it will still be a relatively small … but intimate … Gymnasium. EDIT: actually , it looks like more seating overall is going in than what is currently there. Also, the oldest section of the building is 1888 and the newest section is 1918-1919 https://casewestern.prestosports.com/facilities/adelbert_gymnasium

This link work? https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid0J3AXwkGSbGzhCrhYnTtyH5YwermNTtF8eaV53rHpqPnT6cUoYkqm9jczfA2vLmdzl&id=100063706480311&mibextid=qC1gEa Fantastic restoration on E. 50th.

Looks like this unique project went under the radar: This gym may arguably become one of the coolest basketball venues in DIII NCAA.

MINGA! … that’s the building where the Guardians were carved https://orderisda.org/culture/old-school/guardians-marker-unveiled-in-clevelands-little-italy-neighborhood/ EDIT: Should the Cleveland Guardians buy it, I wonder? Probably 100 ft from the Rocky Calavito statue as well. Do they need an Annex for baseball / history museum?

600 additional beds to be ready for 2024. ‘Topping off’ the South Residential Village: University President, Board Chair sign project’s final beam NOVEMBER 3, 2023 Fifteen months after crews started construction, the final piece of the South Residential Village’s structure is now in place. University President Eric W. Kaler and Board of Trustees Chair Fred D. DiSanto commemorated the achievement Thursday by signing the last long white beam before construction workers installed it. Known as a “topping off ceremony,” the moment marks a project’s key milestone in its progress toward completion. Work on its two new residence halls began in July of last year; it is expected to be ready to welcome students in the fall of 2024. https://thedaily.case.edu/topping-off-the-south-residential-village-university-president-board-chair-sign-projects-final-beam/

Work is keeping me back :( Cannot make it … enjoy crew (and menu looks good!!)

Mmm …out-of-town Bergers

Sorry guys too much to drink tonight … one more picture:

Corner of Cornell and Random:

New Fall enrollment numbers are out and new a milestone has been achieved — Case Western Reserve now has more undergrads than grad students… for the first time ever? Undergraduate: 6,186 Graduate / Professional: 6,080 Total: 12,266 https://case.edu/ir/sites/case.edu.ir/files/2023-10/ataglance (Fall 2023).pdf To put this undergraduate growth in perspective… Undergraduate Enrollment every 5 years: 2020: 5,430 2015: 5,121 2010: 4,227 2005: 3,949 2000: 3,434 1995: 3,429 1990: 2,799 This also equates to more graduates by shear numbers staying in the greater Cleveland area. A side story that isn’t really being talked about, Cleveland State hasn’t recovered since COVID era began, and is currently sitting at 14,118 students. CWRU is on pace to surpass CSU within the next several years as Cleveland metro’s largest 4-year college, unless CSU can figure out how to grow again.

First Floor looks pretty big from the inside: