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Bob Corna, partner and architect of the Stonebridge development, is a big proponent of redeveloping the downtown lakefront with publicly accessible parks. He doesn't agree with Stark's vision for the lakefront. (Just answering a question -- not attempting to take this thread in a direction that doesn't have anything to do with the thread's subject)

Oh - my - God! Did they carve the subway out of solid rock or is the rock face fake?

The layout of the units at the Metzner Building don't make any sense! Why put the bedroom between the kitchen and living room? Or put the kitchen between the bedroom and bathroom? While the exterior looks great, the interior has me scratching my head.

MrNYC, I shall post lots of pics, but I don't know if I can be as creative as you with that Cleveland theme! Veddy nice!

... wait, let me get my reporter's notebook! Super shots!

What's up with your tag line: Deemed Number One ***hole of the year by SORTA, The Ohio Department of Transportation, and UO forumers.

The press release didn't say. I suspect they might be additional exhibitors. They set up tables in the tunnel, right next to where the bridgework starts.

1) The Old Arcade - Yes 2) Westside Market - Yes 3) Cleveland Musuem of Art - yes 4) Cleveland Musuem of Natural History - Yes 5) Botanical Gardens - No 6) Servance Hall for Cleveland Orchestra - Yes 7) Playhouse Square (any of the playhouses) - Yes 8 ) Cleveland Metroparks Zoo - Yes 9) Rock n' Roll HOF - Yes 10) Great Lakes Science Center - No 11) Cleveland Browns Stadium (preferbly home game) - Yes 12) Quicken Loans Arena (preferably home game) - Not since the first year of Gund 13) Jacob's Field (preferably home game) - Yes 14) International Women's Air & Space Museum (Thanks 30 Rock!) - No 15) Little Italy - Yes 16) Lakeview Cemetery - No 17) President Garfield's Monument - No 18) Slavic Village - yes 19) Rockefeller Cultural Gardens - Yes, but just driving through on MLK 20) Rockefeller Greenhouse - No 21) Western Reserve Historical Society - Yes 22) E. 4th nightlife - Yes 23) W. 6th nightlife - Yes 24) Cleveland Public Library downtown - Yes 25) The Nautica Queen Cruise Ship (dinner or cruise) - Yes 26) Edgewater Park - Yes 27) Case ImPROV/play or West Bank comedy club - Yes 28) Great Lakes Brewery - Yes 29) Shaker Square - Yes 30) Ohio City - Yes 31) Tremont - Yes 32) Goodtime III - Yes 33) Steamship William G. Mather Museum - No 34) On top of Terminal Tower - Yes 35) The Agora - no 36) Woodland Cemetery- no 37) The Federal Reserve Building - No 38) Cleveland Playhouse - no 39) Karamu - No 40) African American History Museum - No 41) Music Hall/Public Hall - Yes 42) Cleveland City Hall - Yes, at least once a week to cover council, planning, committee mtgs 43) The Cleveland Police Museum - No 44) Miles Drive-In - No 45) Memphis Drive-In - No 46) The English Oak Room - Yes 47) Record Revolution on East 2nd & Euclid. - No 48) Top of Key Tower - Yes! EVENTS: 1) Feast of the Assumption (Little Italy) - Yes 2) St Patty's Day Parade - No 3) Cleveland Air show - Yes, in 1977, and watched it from Voinovich Park several times since 4) Cleveland Grand Prix - No 5) International Film Festival - No 6) Harvest Festival (Slavic Village) - No 7) Ingenuity - No 8 ) Hessler Street Fair - No 9) Greek Orthodox Festival - No 10) Cleveland Marathon - Yes, as they went by on Lake Road near my condo 11) Gravity Games - no 12) CMJ Rock Hall Music Fest - No 13) Puerto Rican Day Parade/Festival - no 14) Gay Pride Parade/Festival - no 15) The Rib Burnoff - Yes (the Bib Runoff!) 16) Clifton Arts Festival - Yes 17) Riverfest/Flatsfest - Yes

I didn't know Hornblowers closed! When did that happen?

Happy B'day!

Access to the Rapid station from I-71 is tricky. The reason is that the entrance to the Rapid station and the southbound ramps to I-71 is one and the same. The signage also leaves a lot to be desired. You may want to print these instructions and take them with you: + Exit I-71 at West 150th Street. + Get in the left lane of the two left-turn lanes. + Turn left onto West 150th and go under the highway. + Get in the left lane on West 150th. + Turn left at the next traffic light onto the access road for the Rapid station and the I-71 soutbound ramp. + Stay to the right on the access road to go straight ahead into the Rapid station. Fare is $1.75 each way per person. Consider getting a Day Pass for $3.50 so you don't have to fish for change on the way back from the game.

http://www.cleantechblog.com/2007/04/whats-up-with-conocophillips.html Monday, April 23, 2007 What's Up with ConocoPhillips? by Richard T. Stuebi On the clean-tech front, ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP) seems to be striving to take the lead among U.S. oil companies. In just the last two few weeks, COP has made two announcements of significance. * First, COP unveiled a partnership with Tyson Foods (NYSE: TSN) to produce biodiesel from animal fats (press release). * Second, COP joined the U.S. Climate Action Partnership, thereby becoming the first U.S. oil company to declare its support for federal limitations on greenhouse gas emissions to combat climate change (press release). ConocoPhillips is not yet in the league of Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) and General Electric (NYSE: GE) as major players that are driving environmental improvement on a mass-scale through the aggressive pursuit of capitalism across their core businesses.

CPP owns many of their poles. I couldn't give you a percentage though.

You may be thinking of Bob Stark, who is interested in changing the routing of the Waterfront Line north of the freight railroad tracks along the lakefront and west of West 3rd Street. The city is still interested, but is limiting their interest to developing Shaker Boulevard's median in the area of the Warrensville Road. I've heard nothing recent about the areas farther east along Shaker.

Ohio City also has a full-service grocery store (Dave's) and the incomparable West Side Market. While tremont has no grocery store, it does have the nearby Steelyard Commons (across the highway from Metrohealth) which opened its first two (Home Depot & Target) of 50 stores earlier this year. More will open between now and the end of the year.

Unfortunately, we do. Greater Cleveland is an EPA air quality non-attainment area. Most of the pollution comes from mobile sources -- cars and trucks. But most Ohio metro areas are in non-attainment. Ironically, Honda wouldn't consider putting a new plant in an Ohio metro area because new factories cannot increase emissions to those already emitted by mobile sources and, to a lesser extent, factories and power plants. So Honda chose Greensburg, Indiana rather than have to install air pollution control devices. I suppose it also didn't want to risk having the EPA slap fines on it or require more emission control equipment in case it didn't comply with a surprise mandate. It's the same story for other prospective industries looking for new plant locations. They're staying away from metro areas in non-attainment. And EPA regs will get tougher starting in 2009. Unless we can clean up our mobile-sourced air pollution, you won't see any new emission-belching factories opening up in Greater Cleveland for a long time.

True. Ohio City and Tremont are similar areas in many respects. One of those similarities is that Tremont is also on the wrong side of the river. Since you will be working at MetroHealth, have you also considered Old Brooklyn or perhaps the Midtown Towers area of Parma? See http://www.midtowntowers.net/ or consider other apartments in northeast Parma (in the area of Broadview and Snow/Rockside). Many apartments in Old Brooklyn are typically up or down units in historic homes. But it sounds like an historic home isn't for you unless it's been substantially renovated. But I suggested Old Brooklyn because it's just south of Metrohealth and a decent neighborhood. Unfortunately, the neighborhood immediately surrounding Metrohealth is not very nice. Tremont (east of Metrohealth), Ohio City (north of Metrohealth), downtown (farther north), Old Brooklyn (just south of Metrohealth) and Parma (farther south) are all decent areas. Areas around and west of Metrohealth are drug/gang infested. The hospital campus itself is pretty safe and patrolled by hospital security. I don't mean to drive you away from downtown Cleveland. I love downtown. You may also like the Gold Coast area of Lakewood. That's where I live. There are 15,000 to 20,000 people living in this square mile. The Edgewater neighborhood on the Cleveland side of West 117th Street is also pretty cool. Around here, there's 24-hour restaurants, drug stores and lots of transit to downtown Cleveland. The choices of apartments are extensive. Look for apartment buildings along Clifton, Lake, Edgewater and Cove. Try to stay north of Detroit Avenue. Rougher areas are south of Detroit Avenue, especially in Cleveland. Most of the apartment buildings were built in the 1960s. You'll find some from the 1970s and others from the 1950s and earlier. If you have questions about specific buildings, streets, or neighborhoods, don't hesitate to ask.

Can you describe the footprint on the West Bank?

I owe a phone call to some people to find out what the deal is. The rising number of residential units is interesting. But what struck me was the square feet of office space -- 500,000 to 1 million?? Um, the 38-story Erieview Tower is 703,205 square feet, according to Bear Stearns Commercial Mortgage Securities Inc. I believe the old Higbee's building is about 500,000 square feet. Both the residential and office components have gone way up.

Bridge went boom! All gone... I could see that some, especially elderly residents of that neighborhood were sad to see it gone. They just stood there for some long minutes, watching the dust drift away.

[move]BREAKING NEWS!! BREAKING NEWS!! BREAKING NEWS!! BREAKING NEWS!![/move] The demolition contractor will make another attempt at imploding the Fulton Road bridge at 6 p.m. TODAY (May 1st). The zoo will close at 5 p.m. As before, the media and the public interested in watching the demo will be directed to the Brookside Reservation. The park is located on John Nagy Boulevard. The entrance to the boulevard is off Ridge Road, immediately south of I-71. There is a threat of severe thunderstorms this afternoon, and the implosion could be delayed if there is lightning in the area.

All parties (ODOT, contractor, demolition subcontractor, the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo, police etc.) met late Monday afternoon. No decision was reached on when the rest of the bridge will be imploded.

As promised, though overdue, here are my pictures from the Cleveland+ campaign rollout from last Thursday (April 26).... Gathering at the big hangar at NASA Glenn Research Center: Media interviews already underway (if I remember right, the reporter is from WCPN): Heading to the plane outside NASA's hangar: Seats are filling up, with the plane soon to be full: Seconds after take-off, Hopkins Airport terminals pass to my right. One of the region's economic engines: More economic engines -- Interstate 90 and CSX Transportation's sprawing intermodal freight yard in Cleveland's Collinwood neighborhood (Euclid is in the distance): One of the Youngstown TV news stations films a film on Cleveland+, shown aboard the flight: We made two complete circles over Northeast Ohio, above Euclid, Avon, Medina, Akron, Warren, Painesville and back in toward Hopkins. On final approach, we fly over my neighborhood -- the high-density Cleveland-Edgewater and Lakewood-Gold Coast areas: Above Interstate 90 and the Triskett RTA Rapid station: TeamNEO CEO Tom Waltermire getting interviewed by Beth Skilling of Inside Business back at the NASA hangar: Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson answers a WKYC Channel 3 reporter's questions: That was it. The economic development organizations, mayors and other officials then had lunch at the hangar while I sped back to the office to get back to work! Hope you enjoyed the photos.

I LOVE Devo!

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