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too bad in unless one of you kids are trust fund babies we are all too poor to be developers.still....how hard is it to float a trailer on the water? eh, if your idea is good one you can do it. You just have to convince the person (or persons) who has the money.

artwalk still happening this Thursday

I think the Asia Town Center is more focused on looking onto Payne Ave more than Superior, so while we like having them as our across street neighbors, that lot is more like back-lot parking and truck traffic pathways. What I'd like to see is a way to bring the focus of Superior onto Tyler and down 36th street eventually. And that's in the works. FYI putting a building on an existing parking lot is rarely an easy process.

st.clair/superior by 36th and superior. The new Asian Plaza is going in across the street.

pub fare/comfort food, I believe. I'll post info on the arts walk when I get a chance..

Thought I'd post this photo of a gallery space we have in Tyler... I just think it looks cool. On a side note, I've got news that the restaurant is officially opening on October 2nd. Had to get some permit's taken care of, but we've now got a date. The brick's on Superior have all been cleaned up and we're looking at the street scape plans for 36th ST right now...

FYI: We're planning an Arts Walk here at Tyler for September 27th from 5-8 PM. Also, just had a marketing firm come through from the burbs.. all left with smiles on their faces.

I don't have accurate numbers to that. Safe to say over 200 people working there now between office & industrial users. I'f say we would like to have all of building 44 leased up with office users by the end of the year.

except that the $1250 a month for rent is converted living space with two bedrooms and not raw studio space. My only point is that there is an absolute glut of space for creative people to use. Upper floor warehouse space is cheap space in Cleveland. If you don't live in it it's legal, too. Seriously, scrounging up $250 a month for a 1,500 SF space between a couple of other artists should not be that hard ($75, $50 a month per person). We're talking a part time job here. I have no animosity towards artists looking for cheap space, and often help them find it at Tyler. I'd also point out that if someone is using a space illegally, is it really "for" them?

I love the idea of live/work spaces, you're still going to need some viable business' to employ those who will be doing the living and working. I know that some of the housing bets that were placed earlier haven't gone as planned due to the reality of the Cleveland market. At the end of the day it has to make sense. If I'm going to put in $50 a SF I think it's reasonable for me to try and get paid back for that plus interest. I could always put that same $50 into the stock market and not bother with trying to rebuild Cleveland. The only other issue I have on live/work is the headache of dealing with the city itself. Cleveland's zoning rules, design review, etc make it 10 times more difficult to get something done than it would be in Boston or New York. It makes absolutely NO sense to have such an archaic system in place for a city trying to get out the industrial age.

I don't know that I said profits equal good art, just that there is sometimes a cost associated with doing what you want to do. To do live/work we'd need to boot out everybody on the west side of campus 1st. Then we'd need to put in about $20 million in improvements. If you want to see artists get priced out, have $20 million go onto a note. Then we'd have to hope that the housing market could net $10 to $11 a SF. That same 1,500 SF place that was $250/mo just jumped up to $1,250/mo. I'm all for working with artists to figure out solutions for their needs. What I don't get is why there is this feeling that they should somehow be above regular market forces. What's great about the Front Room Gallery is that they took it upon themselves to rent a large space so they could subdivide it and get other artists cheap studio space. The opportunity to do that is all over Cleveland in general and in Tyler specifically. I don't think it's up to a landlord to provide it, but up to the user to find it, though.

FYI, every lease signed at Tyler says the space can't be used as a residence. I would guess that your friends are living illegally in various warehouses in and around Cleveland. Should a fire marshall or building inspector find a person living in a space without the proper zoning and life-safty standards met he could easily shut down all operations at a building, as well as lock people out of their "home" and/or business. that said, Cleveland in general is EXTREMELY affordable for artists or anybody else. You can rent upper floor warehouse space for as little as $1 a square foot in some places. That would make a 1,500 square foot space cost $125 a month for as-is space (plus heat and electricity). If artists are getting priced out by $2 or $3 a SF, maybe it's time for them to consider the workforce. Finally, we work with groups like the Front Room Gallery and a Piece of Cleveland to help them find space that is affordable on campus. The Garage space was donated to the FRG by Graystone for the evening's event. We are also looking at demising some of our larger floor plates into 1,000 to 1,500 SF units of raw warehouse space for more artists on the west side of campus. I know that at least one member of the Graystone team goes into the office on the weekend with the express purpose of working with artists and their needs.

yeah, I didn't go to this, but I hope it went well. The Gallery exhibit looked very good, I hope the garage worked out for the band and double dutch troupe.

Tyler Village could soon be totally wireless from front to back... so my, uh, source says. Also, a tech company from out past Solon is taking a long hard look at what Tyler has to offer. More info as it comes, of course.

neither, it's outside the music world.

I'm not sure I'm at liberty to disclose that, just that they picked up an exclusive in a realm outside of pop music/rock etc..

Ante Up also nailed a big time contract outside the "rock/pop" realm recently. Those guys do a great job.. and their studio space is pretty amazing as well.

we had our broker open house with great success last night. Opened up some eyes on what's possible in our space. The proof will be when we become a regular stop on a broker's tour. Right now I have 3 or 4 guys who I can count on to show us off.. I want 20 to 30, if not more. The sooner we can fill up our office space, the sooner we can start looking at the live/work aspect on the western side of the campus.

just feelers right now. 1st thing is to get an energy audit done.

FYI: this week I've got a marketing firm, a biotech start-up and two different gaming industry firms looking at space at Tyler. I know, I know... nothing with out names, but I haven't let you down too bad yet, right? We also have a huge open house planned for all our brokers out there, as well as some feelers out on photo-voltaic (sp?) for our saw toothed south facing roof's.

It closes in October.

really too bad about Parish Hall closing, though. Tat was a fantastic little venue for indie bands and art showings.. or art bands and indie showings.. just loved the DIY space..

what, another recording studio at Tyler? maybe so.. looks like we're getting more and more of the musically inclined types asking about us! Suits me just fine, the more cool sounds, the better!

didn't I mention this earlier in the thread? Yeah, this deal has been done for a while, and they will go on the 7th floor overlooking Superior ave, next to APG and above DigiKnow.

I doubt you'd see full on "gentrification" in Tyler, at least in the next 5 to 8 years. We're getting office tenants now for the large building that butts up to the railroad bridge. Then we are looking at more office tenants down 36th street on the east side of campus (between the new Factory restaurant and building 42). We have plans for indoor parking in two vacant floors on the east side of campus. To gentrify the place we'd need a couple of factors, one being condo living. That plan is in there, but it's at the tail end. I think Euclid Ave around CSU and the various downtown neighborhoods will see gentrification long before Tyler sees it, if ever. Frankly I don't think we have the critical mass that supports that in such high volumes anyway.