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Too bad we have to rely on highway projects to get rid of urban plagues (see Opportunity Corridor and the 40+ EPA Superfunds sites along the Red Line/Norfolk Southern).

Here's a new project. Anyone know what this is? From the 2/16 Design Review agenda.... MIDTOWN BRD DESIGN REVIEW 2007-004 (Ward 7) 4600 Euclid Avenue (Exterior/Interior Alteration of Existing Building with New Fifth-Floor Addition) Related to previous case # M 2006-001.

Anyone know what this is about? It's from Friday's Design-Review agenda.... ADMINISTRATIVE APPROVALS Ordinance No. 195-07 : Authorizing the Director of Parks, Recreation and Properties to enter into an amendment to the Lease between the City of Cleveland and the Detroit Shoreway Corporation for a public parking facility located at 6518 Detroit Avenue.

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From the Board of Zoning Appeals' 2/26 agenda .... 9:30 Ward 13 Calendar No. 07-21: 3901 Lakeside Avenue Joe Cimperman 7 Notices The 3849 Group Partnership LLC, owner, and Escape, Inc., lessee, appeal to change the use from offices to a private club/ nightclub a tenant space situated on a 49.10’ x 120’ portion of a corner parcel located in a B3 General Industry District on the northeast corner of Lakeside Avenue and East 39th Street at 3901 Lakeside Avenue; contrary to the Off-Street Parking and Loading Requirements, places of assembly, dance halls and similar indoor amusement or recreation uses require a total parking area that is equal to three times the gross floor area, or 18,780 square feet, and 6,750 square feet of parking area is provided, and additional parking is required for all other tenants and uses in the building, according to the provisions of Section 349.04(e) of the Codified Ordinances. (Filed 2-9-07)

Why don't they restore the connector between Detroit Avenue and the Shoreway that existed in the early 1990s when the Shoreway bridge was completely rebuilt over a couple of years? The connector was located where the two roadways run adjacent to each other and there is nothing but a strip of grass separating the two.

I thought I had posted it under "Events" but I guess not!

I'm just a generous kinda guy!

When I lived in Kent in the late 1980s, I used to go through Tallmadge on Route 261 fairly often and used the traffic circle there. I recall rush-hour traffic backing up pretty far heading toward the circle, morso than on the traffic circles in Cleveland's eastern suburbs. Granted, the roads heading into the Tallmadge circle were all one lane in each direction and were more heavily used than Euclid Avenue. And there was no away to avoid the traffic circle in Tallmadge, whereas you have Chester and Carnegie to avoid Euclid.

I hadn't heard a peep about it. I would have loved to have given them some free PR in the paper. But if there was a press release, it might have gone to our entertainment editor. Odd location in Bedford doomed them? Odd Web site, too! I hope these folks don't get too creative for their own good. Still, it'd be good to have them here in Lakewood. P.S. does anyone know how to get a hold of them? I'd like to pass it along to our Lakewood reporter.

Greater Cleveland Partnership President Joe Roman: $273,333 What does this guy actually do?

Those have been talked about, and there are renderings floating around at a local architectural firm that shows one of those gaming facilities at Tower City Center. But, so far, it's just a confidential rendering.

Not yet, or at least not that I know of. Sadly for Graystone Properties, but good for Urban Ohio, the best place to find news about Tyler Village is right here.

It was discussed at the thread where all this originally started to have UrbanOhio become a 501©(3) nonprofit educational corporation and to have a presence at the kiosk at Star Plaza. Those are excellent ideas, but we'd have to have a mission, goals and strategies and a board (administrators) first. And, while the paperwork is being dealt with to create the 501©(3) organization (can take a long time -- it's the IRS!), UrbanOhio can use an established 501©(3) organization as its fiscal agent in the interim. I've done this several times with start-up nonprofits. I suspect you'll find a helping hand at All Aboard Ohio, EcoCity Cleveland or 1,000 Friends of Central Ohio. I'll post a draft mission statement, goals and strategies when I have a little more time.

Why do they need to demolish anything for the boulevard??

The demo and alternatives analysis can and should be carried out simultaneously. The results from the demo would be incorporated into the alternatives analysis. Joe C wanted the demo done with buses. My response is that since some people will ride trains but won't ride buses, this won't tell us as much. My suggestion then is to have a demo offering buses and trains, and see where the ridership goes. The rail demo isn't just to look at the amount of ridership, but who's riding, where are they riding, why are they riding, etc. Also, the analysis needs to look at community impacts to see what long-term investments might need to be made for noise abatement, station locations, bus feeders, amenities, etc. By the way, Westlake and Lakewood city councils also passed resolutions of support and are now on record as supporting this project.

The Cleveland-Akron-Canton is coinciding with the West Shore Corridor project (Cleveland-Lorain) because there is now an effort to combine the two in joint requests for funding (federal for planning $$, state for demo $$). NS is saying that if two demo projects are desired, do them at the same time so that the sponsor doesn't have to come to NS again to work things out. But a demo in the CAC Corridor probably wouldn't go all the way into downtown Akron due to the expense. An earlier proposal was to have the CAC intro service end at Tallmadge and Home avenues north of downtown, just off Route 8. That may be the option again this time.

Sarcasm? If so, the emoticons can be quite handy! :wink:

http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/cuyahoga/1171709786159150.xml&coll=2 Ad catches policeman's eye, he catches suspects Sting nabs 3 women accused of soliciting Saturday, February 17, 2007 Gabriel Baird Plain Dealer Reporter A sexually explicit ad in the back of Scene magazine caught the eye of an undercover Cleveland police detective. He called the "Freak of the Week" and invited her to a hotel room. Then he called the "West Side Nympho," the "Asian Sensation" and a dozen others. ... Plain Dealer researcher Jo Ellen Corrigan contributed to this report. To reach this Plain Dealer reporter: [email protected], 216-999-4141

I think Akron Metro which owns the track will give them a break on the insurance costs and other operating expense. U.S. Rail Corp. runs a dinner train in Michigan (Adrian?), so they have some experience with this. As for the track upgrading costs, I don't know if U.S. Rail is paying for it or if someone else is.

What would the harm be if this flight landed all the time at Hopkins on its way from AMS-IAH? Might be a nice traffic collector for this part of the U.S. and take some heat off EWR.

Here ya go!

It was an oversimplification on the newspapers' part. What the report said is that ODOT has spent and would continue to spend significant funding on new Interstate capacity in metropolitan areas while rural state routes have neglected pavement and bridges. And as we have seen with the three most-costly metro-area Interstate projects (Inner Belt in Cleveland, I-70/71 split in Columbus, I-75 in/near Cincinnati), these don't necessarily bode well for the health of their urban cores. Here is what a pertinant part of the much larger report actually says: BUDGET CUTTING IDEAS  Reprioritize Major/New and Major Bridge program criteria and project lists to cut unnecessary projects and those not contributing adequately to Strickland goals of economic development or fix-it-first and intermodal connectivity.  System Capacity evaluation vs. Corridor Capacity the interstate system is “gold-plated” while roads linking to them (and under local control) are crumbling or at lower levels of service and condition.  Conduct Statewide Assessment of how investments contribute to the system and economic development. The Jobs & Progress plan is essentially a political document not a transportation planning document. The projects represent a wish list for locals and a justification for a gas tax increase by Taft Admin. AccessOhio is a long-term transportation plan required by the FHWA, but it is essentially an existing conditions report. As a result, neither of these documents are tied to the economic or transportation system performance of Ohio. There has been no assessment at this time, how these contribute to increasing gross state product.

We could do those things in between making money giving unbiased tours to prospective firms seeking to locate downtown or near downtown. When I mean "unbiased" I mean not having a developer show a tenant around driving the prospective end-user/tenant to their property/plan while bad-mouthing a competitor's site. The only special interest we have here is the betterment of the city. That's worth just as much as the knowledge available here. Here's a marketing tool: I while ago, I put together a downtown map with color-coded dots all over it, each one representing a planned or under construction development project. I never got around to labeling them all. As a marketing piece, it works better without the labels.... "Do you know what all these development projects are? We do. We're Urban Ohio. Contact our Cleveland office today so we can schedule a tour to show you what all those dots are and how your project might fit in among them..."

She was talking in terms of redevelopment efforts which are often much smaller, with spot redevelopment by different firms. Most of that is driven more by the lack of availability of a large piece of land. The clearing of the former Eveready Battery complex allowed a rare opportunity to do a large-scale village concept.