weepinwillow

My loft unit is 1,050 square feet. There is two adults and a basset hound living in the space. Does anybody have a good place to look for cool space saving and storage ideas? I've googled around a bit and have only found minimal useful tips. My dwell magazines have great ideas... if I was pulling in 4 to 7 million a year. Thoughts? One thought is to get rid of more stuff, I've purged a good deal already, hard choices were made, at some point, your cutting bone instead of fat, though.

I understand working with the current need, however, I prefer decks with usable space. Surface lots are a joke...and there is no guarantee that if we demolish buildings on St. Clair that a bunch of new development will occur. We have plenty of fill to do right now and its not happening. Look at the classic prime example on prime space right downtown with all those pitiful surface lots near the square and west of it near the WD. If you must create a surface lot, make it appealing for pedestrians as well..... a work of art with some trees/benches bricked areas..and if possible, keep it in the rear of a building so as to not have some giant frontage setback...AND... for GOD'S sake maintain it well! The ones downtown are always littered...they're rippled and busted up seas of impermeable ground which sends more crap into water. Nothing is uglier than those lots, even had we left the aging structures. Well, none of the buildings in question were on St.Clair, or even on any street (my point on taking out buildings on st.clair is that there is post ww2 building stock that was not built to last, not all historic buildings are created equal, imo). They were built primarily to support a now non-existent rail spur. I think we all prefer parking decks, but at $25,000.00 per spot minimum, it's not exactly a viable option without heavy subsides, something we've historically found either hard to acquire or extremely restrictive. Btw, if we built a Tyler Village today with the surfacing parking where it's going (tucked away behind the "to the street" buildings) many on this board would praise the design as forward thinking.

327, I'm pretty sure there's affordable housing options north of Euclid. Not sure if students want to live on Perkins or Payne, but I now people who rent for as little as $250 a month for a full house.

JDD is opening up a 3800 SF headquarters office on the fourth floor of building 31 (small office building at 36th and Superior). JDD will be bringing new jobs to the region as they are expanding from a small work force on the east side to a large sales team here at Tyler and a distribution warehouse at another Graystone building (Cleveland Twist).

In Kennesaw, GA citizens are required to carry a gun and apparently have not had a murder there for some time (25 years as of 2007) and crime has dropped. Personally, I think a small town like Kennesaw isn't a fair assessment on gun law consequences and extrapolating the effects to a city like Cleveland isn't exactly fair. But your comment made me think of that town. I'm of the belief that the city should really focus on crime first and foremost over any other service (including education, roads, etc..). If you can make the city safe first the other things will come. I also agree with Clevelander17, legalize drugs so the police can focus on violent offenders. There are plenty of wealthy suburbs which have not seen a murder for many years. And as it turns out, Kennesaw is now not one of them. From January of this year: I was interested in finding out more, so I found an article with the following quote: Now, it would really be interesting to find out the effects of such a law, but claims such as this are extremely shoddy research. Kennesaw went from a rather poor cow town to a boom suburb of the symbol of wealth and prosperity in the South, of course the crime rate dropped significantly. It's irresponsible to draw the conclusion that this was in any way correlated to the gun law. Oh, I agree. My fiancee is from a place close to that town and her mother ALWAYS mentions the gun law (among other things) when we drive through/by (really, if you are in Atlanta, you pretty much only drive by things.. ahh sprawl).

In Kennesaw, GA citizens are required to carry a gun and apparently have not had a murder there for some time (25 years as of 2007) and crime has dropped. Personally, I think a small town like Kennesaw isn't a fair assessment on gun law consequences and extrapolating the effects to a city like Cleveland isn't exactly fair. But your comment made me think of that town. I'm of the belief that the city should really focus on crime first and foremost over any other service (including education, roads, etc..). If you can make the city safe first the other things will come. I also agree with Clevelander17, legalize drugs so the police can focus on violent offenders.

KJP, I'd say that the Tyler Building has outlived it's owner, Tyler Elevator is no longer around. W28th, yes, you don't visit a city to look at parking lots. I don't think we should be tearing down buildings every five feet for another parking lot. I also don't think people go to cities to visit obsolete industrial space. Not all buildings have the ability to live a second and third life, many buildings built after ww 2 weren't even built to last 40 or 50 years (unlike a Tyler building or Richmond Brothers) Some times it's needed. The comment on St.Clair, I'm talking about all the single story stuff that can barely keep viable tenants in them. You aren't walking down 22nd and St.Clair saying, "now these are some great post war 50's style single story industrial buildings." There's a reason a place like Tyler has an emotional impact while a place like the former Sutton Hardware has little to no character.

KJP, I don't think it's about me being closed minded. I'd love to have structured parking on the north end of the campus with a dynamic high rise market-rate apartment complex on top of it looking at the lake and the city. Ultimately we have to work with the market that we have, not the market we want. I also think that tearing down buildings isn't always a bad thing. It often times is painted as such, but in reality I can think of tons of building stock in and around Cleveland that is holding the city back. You could take down a mile and a half of St.Clair today and we'd probably be in better position for new development than we are now.

we have, unfortunately the costs associated with structured parking are so great that we would have to charge close to $200 a spot to re-coup the dollars invested (and that's at a paltry 7.5% over 30 years). The market in midtown calls for free or very cheap parking, and it's doubtful that we could ever get a premium for spots. It's telling that few if any structured lots have been built in the Cleveland area without heavy tax payer subsidies. when it costs 25k per car for structured parking, the ability to get it built through private investment isn't quite as fees-able. At one point we had plans to ramp up the 2nd floor of one of our buildings and maintain the structures coming down. The costs associated with that were huge, and only netted us 66 new spots. Demoing the buildings in back (and keep in mind that these were terribly inefficient buildings) netted us 327 spots and was able to be done for a fraction of the cost. We don't currently have plans for future demoing of buildings, though.

ha! well, in order for Tyler Village to continue to allow for me to post things you do like, steps like this one needed to happen. We had brokers not even bothering to show our space because of lack of parking capacity, and worse still, telling their clients not to bother when asked about it (true story). Without parking we don't fill the space, we don't fill the space we don't continue doing the development and go back to warehousing or mothballing the project or future improvements. Urban idealism meets urban realities. Hopefully we are able to meet somewhere in the middle.

Demo of back spaces making way for very needed parking. Sad to lose some of the buildings, but between the inefficiencies of space and the fact that our success is driving our need for more surface spaces, so be it. We will also be adding some green areas to the landscaping.

Shopped in there a few weeks ago, love it. Great piece for the neighborhood and a nice amenity for companies renting over at Tyler Village as well. The build out on the inside is fantastic.

Snippet of home tour wandering around the 3rd floor of our project.

We were on the Ohio City Home Tour this time round. Our hope is to be on the Saturday event as well next year, but some complications came up. Went well, many people seemed to like the space, though complained about the stairs (I don't get it, you are walking around looking at historic, turn of the century homes, people. There will be flights of stairs to climb). Quite pleased with the event overall. N Nobody minded my private outlaw motorcycle meth strip club on the first floor, either.

Ha! I meant private as in my brother and I would run it. I have relationships with oddball music acts outside of Cleveland and my brother is a chef, so we'd host small events.

We are on the Home Tour over at 4309 Lorain. I tried to get some photos of the old Speak in Tongues while in operation, but it looks like that will have to happen next year. We are completely leased for the renovated units (note my relief) and are now looking for a viable first floor tenant. In the mean time, the bar on the first floor was completely cleaned up and we are considering turning it into a private "club" of some sort. Still in formative idea stage..

well great, where do I post all the great things done over on Lorain in the 40's if this is the "OCMDD" now? And what's my brand? <sarcasm>The Ohio City Antique and Meth Corridor?</sarcasm> On a serious note, we're excited to be part of the home tour this Sunday! Hope to see some UO users!

Cafe' is open with free wi/fi, sandwiches, coffee and various healthy options for snacks. If you have a chance drop in. Open from 8:30 until 2:00 M-F (though these hours may be extended after they gauge what works).

John Deere is coming from 2 floors at Erie Tower. I don't know what you mean by housing contingent. We started off looking at all of Tyler for housing. After switching directions towards office, tech, education and arts uses we are back looking at live/work market rate apartments somewhere on campus. The only acquisition we are looking at is land for additional parking.

So a couple of lease's have been executed: Moss Media has made their home at Tyler Village and should be operating by mid-next week. John Deere has brought their Cleveland offices to the Old Factory Restaurant space (Factory left due to various issues). A little corporate America across from Ante Up Audio and next to E Prep! Solutions At Work (SAW) is opening a Cafe in the old administration offices of Tyler Elevator. Assuming they pass inspections we are looking at a March 22nd opening possibly! In the mean time, Gotta Groove records is getting some national press, PC Helps is actively hiring more people, Sparkbase is at capacity in terms of employees, Nu Life Fitness is hopping and and Village Prep kindergarten is in full swing.

What incubator? Can't say, don't know what their confidentiality level needs to be at.

450,000 of 540,000 SF for the east side of campus.

there's active work being done on that front that include plans, etc.. looking for financing now, like everyone else.

updates: corporate client looking to move offices to Tyler. (company hurt by recession, needs less space from downtown office) post start up tech company looking at leaving incubator space for it's own office, would be hiring once in. Media Design and branding firm just signed a lease March 2nd. Cafe close, plumber has a couple of hours and will need to pass inspection. After that, Cafe Tyler (actually, I don't know what the name will be) will be open to the public and our tenants. Large suburban tech firm looking at possibly taking 35,000 SF of space at Tyler. 3,500 SF user looking at the 4th floor of building 31. Would also take 12,000 SF at a separate facility in Cleveland for it's distribution arm. Would be hiring 20 or so people right out of the gate.

how do you find out "what happened" on a block? I was driving to my parents house last night in Shaker when I saw a ton of police, looked like guns drawn on a man standing on the sidewalk (no non-police vehicle in sight). My folks had no idea it was even happening. I guess I could talk to the neighbors, too.