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He's referring to the East 80s and East 90s. The East 80s area of Quincy was industrial, being the site of the long-gone Schmidt Brewery. But in a lot of Cleveland neighborhoods, industry was built in residential areas, or residential built around industry, to put jobs within walking distance of the labor pool. Today, that makes these industrial sites, once cleaned, ideal for live-work lofts, artists' lofts and other places for start-up businesses.

Cool. I hope that translates into good attendance figures, solid gift-shop sales and more hotel/restaurant revenues. Who knows, maybe some of those out-of-town visitors will be sufficiently attracted to the vibrancy of places like Tremont and Ohio City to relocate here. How could they not be! :wink2:

That's why I was hoping someone here would have the answer. But I can't spend another entire evening searching through photos at Clevelandmemory.com for the answer....

That's true. You may be thinking of Higbee's, Deech. If that's the case, offices for the convention & visitor's bureau are going into Higbee's.

They do. The demolitions are needed to start putting in the infrastructure for the new street grid. New construction will follow, although some might be possible to do simultaneously. For example, Front Street needs no realignment, and construction on two locations for the office component could start before the other aspects of the project do.

If the highway trust funds goes bankrupt in 2008 or 2009 as is forecast, and if our elected officials fail to come up with other revenue "enhancements" or cost savings, tolls may be easier for the truckers and AAA to take. The alternative is ever-worsening road congestion, decaying pavement and more bridges that are considered deficient. In fact, increased use of tolls are on table.... http://www.surfacecommission.gov/commissionlinks.htm

Ha Ha. NWS records show Cleveland has had 9.5 inches so far in December, and 1.4 inches in November. And that was at Hopkins, the least snowy side of town. Unfortunately, it's melting fast, with most of it likely to be gone by Monday morning. http://www.nws.noaa.gov/climate/index.php?wfo=cle

All three buildings that have the Corner Alley on the first floor will have residential added to the upper floors. MRN Ltd. is doing the residential component, with Trifecta responsible for the Corner Alley and 4th Street Bar & Grill. Don't know about soundproofing, but this wouldn't be the first bowling alley to have housing above it -- see Parma. By the way, the middle building had Sisser's jewelry in it in 1948 -- I found a photograph showing that. Sisser's is on East 4th now. In later years, the middle building had a Thom McAnn shoe store, and then a pawn shop called Best Deal. I still can't tell what this building's original retailing purpose was when it first went up in 1916. Oh well. I suppose it's a trivial matter...

No. There are no plans to change the operation of the Waterfront Line. If ridership increases as a result of the FEB's completion several years from now, then RTA will probably consider changes. None of the construction intrudes on the RTA Waterfront Line's right of way -- although there will probably be a lot of construction vehicles crossing the tracks on Main Avenue. Nothing will be built over the RTA tracks.

I realize Mr. Howells is a quiet, unassuming man, but I hope he gives this project more promotional buzz than he has. He's a local guy, so he ought to understand how huge it would be to offer housing on Public Square. By the way, I came across a couple of interesting pages about the Park Building and the Southworth Building in Clay Herrick Jr.'s 1986 book "Cleveland Landmarks." Too much was written to retype it here, but I'll see if I can do an OCR text capture.

Do not fear and please be patient. The West Shore Corridor group continues to meet regularly, is getting more detailed in their subcommittee tasks, and working on addressing longstanding concerns. In fact, the next stakeholders' meeting is this Wednesday, a day after several West Shore law directors will meet with NS, to make sure the agreement on limiting freight train traffic isn't impacted from running commuter trains on the West Shore Corridor.

Some computer screens, including my home screen, can't show the entirety of images that are larger than 575 pixels. But there is a way I can -- and probably you can, too. Put your mouse's cursor on the image and click on it. Then use the right arrow key to scroll right. Wha-la! You should be able to see the whole image -- including Jacobs Field.

Where is this neighborhood in relation to downtown? I've never heard of Boston-Edison before but I would like to visit it. It took me a full scan through the thread to realize you weren't showing pictures from the cities of Boston and Detroit!

I was able to find the information for myself at http://homepage.mac.com/jjakucyk/Transit1/map70.gif It looks like there were four streetcar lines at one time between the CBD and Uptown -- Clifton, Vine, Sycamore/Dorchester and Reading. Correct? Did any of these have catches to prevent streetcars from rolling backward in the event of brake or motor failures?

But Jacobs Field is visible to the right side of the image.

Not in western Cuyahoga County, and probably not in southern parts of the county. These are all pretty well developed, and not as wealthy as Cuyahoga County's eastern suburbs (check the average per-community home prices for example). However you might see something like this in parts of Lorain County and, more likely, Medina County.

Were there any streetcar lines that connected downtown to uptown? If so, what route(s) did they use?

John, I just got a call from a friend in Cincy that the city will be doing a cost-benefit study of five potential streetcar lines. An advisory committee is being set up and the study should be done by about April. Does that sound about right? Any more information you can share? Thanks!

Noozer - I beat you to posting the article. Haha. But the message of your last paragraph needs to be put in any letter to the Other Paper. It exposes a glaring hypocrisy in the reporter's own critique. The writer never bothered to learn about the project yet that never stopped him from forming his own opinion of it and let his opinion intrude into the story. It's not even a case of the pot calling the kettle black, because the streetcar working group was diversely experienced in transportation, land use, business etc. and, when they did not have the information they needed to make a balanced decision, they took the time to get it. The reporter took no such steps. An incompetent criticized the adept.

Anyone know the name of the middle building on Euclid that's part of the three-building Corner Alley complex? Michael Auger didn't know what it was, either. I see from city records that it was built in 1916. It is in between the former McCrory discount store and the ex-Kresge's (precursor to today's Kmart). This has become an irrational mission for me. I searched more than 100 Euclid Avenue photos at ClevelandMemory.com but could find no views that were close/clear enough of the the location see what the middle building was. In one photo from 1948, I think a sign on the building said Sisser's (the jewelry store that's now on East 4th), but part of the sign is blocked. The last use of that middle building was for a Best Deal pawn shop, according to a Google search I did for the address -- 410 Euclid Ave. If anyone has any info, I would really appreciate it.

I poked my head in there this afternoon, and a man asked if he could help me. I introduced myself as a Sun reporter and apologized for making an unannounced visit. He introduced himself and handed to me his business card -- Michael Auger, a managing partner of Trifecta Management Group. He invited me in, gave me an interview and then gave me a tour, including the four private bowling lanes in back! I was astonished and thanked him for his graciousness. A class guy. I will submit the article for next week.

You will burn in New Urbanist Hell (the suburbs?) if you do that.

Thanks!

Now THAT I can believe.

The Other Paper sucks. I encourage you to tell them so, and why. For some good source material, see the Schumann study that was summarized at... http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=9684.msg144809#msg144809 ++++++++++++++++ http://www.theotherpaper.com/TOP12-7/12-7_coverstory.html RUNAWAY TRAIN? A Downtown streetcar system is about to snatch millions from other projects By Erik Johns / December 7, 2006 It was just a few sentences in a much larger speech. Mayor Mike Coleman gleefully envisioned a Downtown with streetcars humming along Broad and High streets. The trolleys would shuttle people around the city core without the physical nuisance of walking or the emotional trauma of taking a COTA bus. But Coleman inserted an important caveat: “It must be affordable to build and operate without a citywide tax increase.” The idea got its requisite ovation during the 2006 State of the City address in February, and Coleman moved on to talk about other things.