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MayDay, let me know if you want to walk around and snap photo's. You are always welcome. I can't make promises on future work, but tours I can. Thanks for all the kind words. Residential is piece that makes a whole lot of sense eventually here at Tyler. It's an fascinating project for me personally because I don't know of many opportunities in a city such as Cleveland (Buffalo, Pittsburgh, etc..) where you can control an entire neighborhood, not just a few houses or buildings on a block. Something that I hope comes across in this video is that we are very interested in our tenant's success. If there is a city program, or contact that we think could help one of our tenants we make sure to get that information in front of them, in some cases we can guide them through the process as well.

thanks for the advice. We will tweak it at some point next year, but this will be what we go with for a while

thanks all for the kind words. We are proud of this piece for sure and hope to start tying in our print media to it as well. We are very much exploring residential for the west side of campus, obviously there are hurdles, but we believe it would be a near perfect use for it considering the views of downtown and the lake.

http://www.digitalwebpost.com/tyler/tyler1h.html Take a peek at our new marketing piece. You guys are the first to see this, and it will eventually be on the website with working links etc..

To be fair, I want a millionaire's row. I agree that having a mix of income levels living in close proximity works better than sectioning off whole groups, I just don't think wanting some groups off the Euclid Corridor is out of bounds. In an ideal world I guess the market takes care of this, but perhaps we don't have that kind of luxury yet.

I think this is better left to MidTown people to discuss, as I don't know what is common knowledge, and what was more underwraps. I can think of two inkling's of projects one dealing with the piece of land on the other side of the bridge that would have been health oriented and another one that could have been housing or office close to where Billie Lawless' talking chicken was.

I can say with reasonable certainty this is not true. There have been more than a few companies and developers looking at this area. I don't think people are saying either service should be tucked away. In fact, Chester is a block away, has a bus line and could easily accommodate the housing. The Mental Health facility seems like a shame if only because the property represents one of the few significant pieces of land that has been amassed inside the city (by the CDC) and we are turning it over to the County instead of allowing private investment dollars to go there. (and there have been attempts by bio-tech companies to go there). What is really frustrating to me is that you have a ton of (federal)tax dollars going into the Euclid Corridor project that will now have been spent in order to create more (city and county) tax dollar spending on service providers. At some point someone is going to have to make some money to sustain these types of things as well as convince somebody who has a salary to live in the city in order to tax them to pay for these types of things. However, nobody who is running a business will be too excited about putting their business next to a shelter for the terminally homeless and my guess is that people looking to move into the city will now have more reason to avoid this area as a possible landing spot than they did in the past, despite the convenience of being located on the Health Line. If I'm a Case Student I'm sticking it out on the Hill instead of heading closer to downtown (thus spending my parent's money in Cleveland Heights rather than Cleveland proper). Finally, I don't think it's about filling the gap between Public Sqr and E. 55th. You have University Circle and CSU as two potential building blocks now connected the Euclid corridor project. Getting Case Students and CSU students to co-mingle with the Clinic, downtown and U.C. would do a good deal more than trying to get companies from downtown to spread out onto the Euclid (companies that tend to think Cleveland stops at e.13th anyway)

isn't there already low income housing in Cleveland? Maybe I don't understand the difference, but it would seem to me that market forces in Cleveland have created a good deal of low and moderate income options for housing.

Hts44121, could not agree more. Absolutely the worst possible development to go there. I'm not going to argue that you need to have these sorts of services, but you also need to protect your public investment. CHN has property on Chester, a block away from the Health Line. There is absolutely no reason to build this on Euclid other than to satisfy some misconceived notion of status for the people in charge of CHN's mission. The City should get involved and basically not allow this kind of development on the Euclid Corridor. Of course, the City will probably is pushing for it, so whatever. All I can do is shake my head.

Honestly, community gardens don't feel like strong economic drivers.

1. St.Clair/Superior CDC is throwing Culture Fest this Saturday from 11 AM to 7 PM at Tyler Village. Free to all. Ethnic Foods, Cultural Displays, Live Music, Youth Art & Culture Activities, Live Performances and more... 2. I wanted to pass this note along from Indigo Imp: Hello Everyone! Things have been busy at Indigo Imp. Jester has been a hit and Blond Bombshell is proving to be a great Summer beer. Thank you to everyone who continues to support us. We passed six months of sales recently and couldn't have done it with out you. Please continue to support us! The Imp Brewery Store will be OPEN on Saturday, June 27 from 11 am - 7 pm during the St. Clair Superior Culture Fest. Check out the Culture Fest details here: http://www.stclairsuperior.org/CultureFest.html. Hope to see you Saturday! :-) To prepare for Saturday, the Imp Store will be CLOSED on Friday, June 26. Keep checking out the website for new places to enjoy Indigo Imp Beer! http://www.indigoimpbrewery.com/wheretobuy.php Cheers, Matt and Kathy

interesting.

I'd be interested to know about the results in Pittsburgh. European models less so, as there are so many other factors that aren't applicable.

I wonder if that would actually spur development or simply force groups who don't pay taxes into prime spots (non profits, government buildings) while forcing other companies to look even harder at the Suburbs. The thing about taxes and various government subsidies is it never seems to illicit the response one quit expects.

when will we see new Asia Town be done? I've been selling that project for 2 years now!

fyi, secretary of labor and the auto czar were at Tyler village yesterday being hosted by Frank Jackson and Chris Kious of a Piece of Cleveland. http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2009/06/cleveland_wants_federal_govern.html CLEVELAND -- Public officials and foundation executives told Labor Secretary Hilda Solis and auto czar Ed Montgomery Wednesday that they needed the federal government's help in turning Northeast Ohio into a bustling green economy. "We want to ensure that Cleveland is competitive in the emerging green economy," said Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson. "We want to be a leader in creating in jobs." The two dozen or so people attending the invitation-only breakfast meeting with Solis and Montgomery, said local governments and nonprofits needed more federal funding to create jobs and training programs. They said this money had to come with guidelines flexible enough to spur long-term employment and not just create temporary positions...

It's not so bad. I like seeing the progress. The main problem is trying to explain a 120 year old, traditionally mixed use building to a single use zoning code.

You can see what was underneath. Here is the tin: Here is the wallpaper: The plaster was coming down all over the place so most of the tin was hanging down or not connected to much. This space used to be the north east ohio communist HQ building (and now that my brother will live there.. probably is again.. ZING!) anyway, the big white chest in this photo actually has the hammer and sickle carved into it. (I'll take another photo later)

No. Tin ceiling was in bad shape. We saved the good pieces to re-use in other places, but we needed to strip the building back to the bones. Tin Ceilings were actually the drop ceilings of the 20's, they used to put this very ornate wallpaper on the ceilings before that.

Is he related to Art Vandaley from Seinfeld? :-D That's it.. I couldn't remember what the name was.

The ballroom ceiling or the 2nd floor apartment ceilings or the 1st floor retail space ceiling? We are bringing back the plaster work on the cove and putting up drywall for the ceiling in the ballroom. 2nd floor units will be drywall. 1st floor will be up to a tenant.

http://picasaweb.google.com/david.h.fleming/4309Progress02?feat=directlink does that work?

Thanks. We have 3 units. One 2,500 SF ballroom space and 2 1,000 SF spaces. All floor plans very open, large tiled showers (and I mean very large, like double a normal size). I'll post some times when we get closer to completion. http://www.facebook.com/p.php?i=751840216&k=R61T4V6S4XZM5BMGWJ5ZRQ Let me know if this link works for pics...

Last building on the east side going north (next to the restaurant) What kind of stuff do they do? I just was curious but couldn't find any info on them upon doing a quick search. Import/export, like Ed Vandaley.

on a small scale project in Ohio City, the 4309 Lorain building is ready to go so long as the city figures out how to get out of it's own way. hopefully soon I can start taking people on tours who want one.