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Good catch. Those buildings are between 29th and 32nd.

grrr...so the original clinic building is not good enough to leave standing? No appreciation of heritage??

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So sad for the community: MetroHealth closing Asia Plaza Clinic, moving services to Broadway Health Center CLEVELAND, Ohio – Beginning Dec. 1, members of Cleveland's Asian community who have been going to the MetroHealth System's Asia Plaza Clinic for health care will have to travel to MetroHealth's Broadway Health Center, at 6835 Broadway Ave. The move – which MetroHealth publicly announced less than a month ago – is not sitting well with some in the Asian community who think that the health center (also known as Asia Town Health Center) will be too far away. Even though the same staff is moving to the Broadway site, "The new location is outside of the Asian community," said Lisa Wong, president of OCA Greater Cleveland - Asian Pacific American Advocates. http://www.cleveland.com/healthfit/index.ssf/2014/11/metrohealth_closing_asia_plaza_clinic_moving_services_to_broadway_health_center.html

From case.edu: Case Western Reserve and Cleveland Clinic expand education campus to include dentistry and nursing November 25, 2014 Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland Clinic are expanding their health education collaboration to include dental and nursing students on the campus already planned for the institutions’ medical students. The news comes as the university and hospital system submitted designs and renderings for the 485,000-square-foot quadrangle building to the Cleveland City Planning Commission in advance of meetings next week. The world-renowned architecture firm Foster + Partners designed the Health Education Campus to stand on the same 11-acre parcel originally designated for the medical education building. Located on East 93rd Street between Euclid and Chester Avenues, it will include even more of the cutting-edge technology and innovative learning spaces previously planned for medical education. “Studies show that team-based health care improves patients’ experiences and results, lowers costs, and increases the job satisfaction of those involved in care,” Case Western Reserve President Barbara R. Snyder said. “Yet most of our education programs still separate the professions throughout students’ academic careers. This project allows us to bring these future health care leaders together from the very start, and to do so in a thoughtful and intentional way.” http://thedaily.case.edu/news/?p=34711

While this employment connection between the HealthTech Corridor institutions and surrounding communities is still underdeveloped, it's being promoted through initiatives such as University Hospitals' Vision 2010 — in essence, a plan to buy local to jump-start community wealth. Such efforts are a far cry from the 1950s through the 1990s, when University Circle leaders were often criticized as adopting a fortress mentality toward surrounding neighborhoods.* *Except, of course, for the Cleveland Clinic who continues to wall off pedestrians and surrounding streets.

http://observer.case.edu/juniper-police-headquarters-to-be-torn-down-replaced-with-new-alumni-wing/

East Cleveland continues to struggle financially. Annexation, please happen! East Cleveland is on the verge of financial collapse By Jeremy Pelzer, Northeast Ohio Media Group on November 24, 2014 at 12:39 PM, updated November 24, 2014 at 5:35 PM COLUMBUS, Ohio—East Cleveland is insolvent and on the verge of financial collapse after a recovery plan has proved "inadequate," according to state Auditor Dave Yost. City officials are now looking at creating a new recovery plan by the end of the year in hopes that they can continue to pay police, firefighters, and other city workers. http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2014/11/east_cleveland_is_on_the_verge.html

Well I liked Cleveland before it was cool... :D Who Knew Cleveland Was Cool? Quite a Few Good Writers Amanda Teuscher, Rachel M. Cohen November 24, 2014 It’s clear when I look at Google Analytics that when we run a piece about old train stations, anybody interested in train stations is going to read that piece. Or anybody interested in Lebron [James] or sports is going to read our sports coverage. Then you also have all the Rust Belt expatriates. They went to the Sun Belt; they went to the coasts; they’re fascinated by what’s going on at home. We’ve now gotten to a point where if a topic is interesting to someone, they’ll find us and not think, “Oh, this is some tiny little Cleveland thing.” We have a huge number of readers who are very invested, and some of them tend to think more regionally. But city loyalties run very deep. http://prospect.org/article/who-knew-cleveland-was-cool-quite-few-good-writers

Sounds like you're on the right track...I'd do at minimum - Playhouse Square winterfest http://www.playhousesquare.org/events/detail/winterfest - 5th Street Arcades shopping - Westside Market (Saturday morning) - Playhouse Square holiday showing...lots to choose from! http://www.playhousesquare.org/events - Rink at Wade Oval with real ice http://www.universitycircle.org/events/2014/11/wade-oval-winter - Little Italy (Presti's) -- tons of families go there...quick, cheap, and good Some other side ideas: - "A Christmas Story House" and Museum (may be super crowded) http://www.achristmasstoryhouse.com/ - Cleveland Botanical Gardens (I believe "Glow" is going on for their Holiday themes) - Cleveland Museum of Art

It happened on Friday night. KJP you're too quick...I think I may have had that post up for 20-30 seconds before I realized my error and scrubbed it!!

If Johnny threw punches... http://deadspin.com/report-johnny-manziel-involved-in-huge-brawl-after-fan-1662687093

Yeah, not a fan at all of the charging to get in. Hopefully, at least the security check point bottleneck from last year will be corrected. Can anyone else pick up the tab? Cleveland Foundation? Casino tax? :)

Anyone go? Announcement should be over by now.

Great! But all it takes is $1 million to be the fastest publically available in the US? grant to put cle on the tech map with 100 gigabit internet karin connelly | Thursday, November 20, 2014 OneCommunity and the City of Cleveland have announced their plans to install a 100 gigabit-per-second glass fiber internet pipe along the Health-Tech Corridor (HTC) in Midtown. Currently, the fastest internet in the area is 40 gigabits. While major research universities like CWRU and Ohio State are networked through 100 gigabit systems, the city's new high-speed internet will be the first and fastest of its kind in any major metropolitan area available for commercial use. Any office building along the network, such as the Global Center for Health Innovation and BioEnterprise, would have access to the high speed service. The large, above-ground “nodes” will be located at Ideastream at Playhouse Square and CWRU at University Circle. The network would run between the two nodes and tributaries would run off of Euclid to serve other pockets in the HTC. The $1.02 million project comes from a $714,000 grant from the Economic Development Administration (EDA), $200,000 from the city and the remaining funds from OneCommunity. The HTC and CWRU are also partners in the project. Work is to begin on the project in early 2015, with completion scheduled for September. http://www.freshwatercleveland.com/innovationnews/highspeednetwork112014.aspx

Would anyone be surprised if the Geis wasn't in this redevelopment project? ...Their involvement in the Hofbrauhaus and experience with previously publicly-owned property?

Forest City Brewery embraces history as it sets to open in Cleveland By Marc Bona, Northeast Ohio Media Group on November 21, 2014 at 8:00 AM, updated November 21, 2014 at 8:12 AM CLEVELAND, Ohio – Jay Demagall spends his days thinking about the past as much as the future. He and his business partners have a spring target date to open Forest City Brewery in the Duck Island part of Cleveland's Tremont neighborhood. It's one of the latest brewing endeavors in a city that has embraced craft beer as a creative industry that appears to be sustaining its growth. But it's the past that Demagall embraces. The 43-year-old plays vintage base ball – two words, since we're talking 19th century here – using old-style rules. He has a degree in history from the University of Toledo. He rattles off historical footnotes of old ballplayers and Cleveland history. And the brewery, which will sit at Columbus Road and Freeman Avenue, already has nostalgic connections to an era gone but not forgotten, at least not by Demagall. http://www.cleveland.com/drinks/index.ssf/2014/11/forest_city_brewery_embraces_h.html

Not sure if I saw this posted anywhere: Joe Haden set to open shoe store in Cleveland The store will be a re-branding of the Lakewood shoe store United Sneakers. The Restock will sell consignment shoes at discounted prices in their new Prospect Ave store location in downtown Cleveland. The address for the new store is 645 Prospect Avenue Cleveland, OH 44115. If you are interested in visiting the store, the grand opening will be on Black Friday (November 28), just in time for Christmas shopping. http://www.waitingfornextyear.com/2014/11/joe-haden-set-open-shoe-store-cleveland/

Announcement will be at 2 PM at the GCHI. Open for all to attend.

http://youtu.be/Xjrl7orCBkY

Interesting, I didn't make the connection the all-brick turn of the century house next door would be demoed for this crappy addition.

A new video on the dynamic nature and collaboration of University Circle:

Well Downtown is going to be so quarantined off, it's going to lose much of its cozy feel anyway. But plenty of people will use it ...reporters, aids, attendees, etc

Couldn't they at least have an arched awning to give a nod to the building architecture? Cleveland Landmarks Commission signs off on Drury Plaza hotel project, with some reservations By Michelle Jarboe McFee, The Plain Dealer on November 13, 2014 at 3:38 PM CLEVELAND, Ohio -- In a hopeful sign that the empty Board of Education building will become a hotel before mid-2016, a representative for developer Drury Southwest Inc. showed plans for the project to the Cleveland Landmarks Commission on Thursday. Drury Southwest Inc. has cleared out the old Board of Education building and is getting ready to start more intense construction for its hotel-conversion project. Cleveland Landmarks Commission; Drury Southwest, Inc. Drury is in the running, again, for those state tax credits. The state expects to announce the awards, the spoils of a fiercely competitive process, in late December. Meanwhile, the hotel developer is pulling together permits and permissions so that construction can start fast - and can be completed before politicians, delegates and reporters flood downtown for the 2016 Republican National Convention. http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2014/11/cleveland_landmarks_commission_3.html#incart_river

New Cleveland entertainment-recreation area gets more exciting with opening of Crooked River Skate Park and Brick and Barrel winery-brewery By John Petkovic, The Plain Dealer on November 13, 2014 at 6:00 AM, updated November 13, 2014 at 12:58 PM CLEVELAND, Ohio -- We associate entertainment districts with things you can buy – hubs of consumption where you go for a beer, food, maybe a game, some shopping. Slowly and surely, a very different kind entertainment area has been taking shape along Columbus Road. Welcome to Rivergate Park, a 2.8-acre area just north of the Columbus Road Bridge and Hoopples bar. It's one of Cleveland's most unique combinations of industrial and natural environments – a stellar mix of bridges and wild greenery. For years, the biggest reason to go there was Hoopples, one of the area's best dive bars – an old-school joint with a great view of the city. You heard of Hoopples long before you heard of Rivergate Park. Then came the July opening of Merwin's Wharf, a full-on eatery owned by the Cleveland Metroparks that sits along the Cuyahoga River. It provides a stellar view of scenery and is part of a new direction that will wed recreation and entertainment. http://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2014/11/new_cleveland_entertainment_re.html