Cleburger

2 bits pal!

I had a good friend who lived in the Knitting Mills who said they constantly had problems with car break-ins and even direct armed robberies in and around their parking. The suspects were never seen driving away--always leaving on foot.

I'm not opposed to anything that repurposes any building in downtown and brings it back to life. What I don't like about the potential is the way the voters of the state of Ohio were sold on this with the new development, and now it seems to be open to interpretation. So at the end of the day, I have no problem with them taking the rest of the Higbee. But I do want to see the riverfront site developed.

That's cool! Nice work!

The people you see in those pictures paid $45 to attend this event, to ride transit, to eat, drink and hear what the developers had to say. You didn't. ;) Wow now there's a promoter! :)

You're right--I shouldn't be so cynical. But with their revenues failing to meet expectations (something the skywalk won't solve), my gut instinct tells me we'll be waiting a long time for Phase II, if ever. But for now, I'll keep my fingers crossed with everyone else and await the news.

:roll: Gee the first 1:15 is an air raid siren. That's original! :roll: Maybe they could have introduced a megaphone also. :roll:

Gee there's a surprise. And there's your Phase II. :roll:

Its not you, it's me. For some reason my creative mind can't properly visualize this. Everytime I close my eyes I picture the 5/3 bank building on Superior. I have no reason for this, it just happens. :)

I can't say that I've seen a lot of kids on bicycles in downtown at any point of the day, and particularly not past midnight. I also usually don't see alot of kids over 12 riding bicycles either. These are the ones that are 'starting trouble'? I don't think kids that age should be out that late period.... but the real troublemakers IMO tend to be in the 18-21 range. That's why I don't think that curfew enforcement will really solve any percieved problem. Right the 18-21 year olds that also like to park in the middle of the street at closing time and not move their cars!

What is the origin of the term "Shoefly?"

Just like on Clifton, where they had to pour the handicap ramps, even though the sidewalks they lead to are so pitted and uneven because of tree limbs that no wheelchair could ever pass!

Yes. You'll note that on the Chester extension, very few buildings to this day actually front on Chester, and it's been some 70 years since it was extended ... And for many of us on the East Side, esp in the Heights, Chester was the closest thing we had/have to a freeway downtown. And today, even with those pesky traffic cameras, it's the preferred "fastest" route downtown -- used to be an unwritten rule that if you maintain a speed of 35 mph you could travel nonstop all the way into downtown, and it used to work (until now with more ill-timed traffic lights and the happy apartment development adjacent to CSU ... Chester, like the OC, was developed to speed traffic to/from University Circle, it was never designed to attract development... And you could argue that the OC is even worse/more extreme because the OC, is in fact, envisioned to extend an actually freeway stub with this higher speed highway "boulevard." When I lived in Little Italy I had it down to a science. Chester inbound at 37 mph, Carnegie outbound (in the days when Carnegie had the lane-conversion arrows that confused many a suburbanite!).

Did anyone see Masterson hit Santiago with the pitch on TV? I was at the game and it looked as though he squared to bunt and stepped in the way of the pitch (outside the box). Just wondering what those watching at home saw. Of course it ended up being the turning point....

Further proof this is being spearheaded by some old dudes thinking it's 1965.

Great news--bids are in on Clifton!

Looking forward to it. My first game of the season in attendance. Should be a good one!

When I worked at SOHIO I loved that Wendy's and Mr. Hero! Nothing like a good Mr Hero after a rough night out. Their only problem for lunch locations is they tend to be too slow! Back to the regularly scheduled thread topic....

If it's the same people that run the Cleveland.com site I'm not surprised. That site looked and felt outdated 10 years ago. It's clunky and rarely works as it's supposed to!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hofbrauhaus.JPG Uh yeah Bumsquare. I've been there. Many times. I usually have recollection on the way in, but not so much on the way out.... Maybe it's the rendering above, at the strip-mall height of a Chi-Chis, and overly-red roof that is giving me this thought? The Chicago one even more-so. Seriously put the three of them next to each other and tell me what you think. There is a nod to the original, but the scale is off, so to me they look like a Mexican restaurant at .

Not sure it's related, but I saw the police had some E 9th closures for the Puerto Rican day event at the Muni lot.

I just drove by and saw park employees running weedeaters and cleaning....ON A SUNDAY! Another step up from the state-run Edgewater! It continues to get better!

Is it me, or does that seem like Latin tinged architecture on a German themed restaurant?

Just bought my tickets for Tuesday. Trying to hit at least one more game in the Detroit series. There were lots of seats on Indians.com. Not looking great for attendance.

This is why a place like Metropolis (or the Lift even further back in time) was great. They provided that club niche, but weren't dropped right in the middle of a neighborhood which inevitably leads to problems.