weepinwillow

A Sleuth... I have a 6 year old Basset Hound who's quiet, house-trained and very friendly/patient (especially with little kids who seem to want to tug his ears). Though he is kind of a goofball. A little bigger than a small dog, smaller than a big dog.

no.. maybe someday, but not right now. We have our hands full with phase 1. I wish the Knitting Mills or Tower Press were dog friendly. *Sigh*

You have 6 to 12 months before your loft condo/house/thing is built. You need a place that allows a dog. You have between $700 and $1200 to spend on a one bedroom. You would like to be on the near west side or near east side (Lakewood or Cleveland Heights are too far away). You're a little too old for the 20-something scene but far too young for the early retirement scene. What's the best pace?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NfkH3Q4JOQ

Tyler Village is finishing phase 1 of the build out of a 1.2 million square foot re-development. We kicked it off with building 44 on Superior. Now we are starting phase 2 now, which will have a good deal of impact on the 36th street buildings. The fact is this is a huge project, trying to eat the elephant all at once would be nearly impossible so we need to go in phases. Frankly, without visiting the campus there will be nothing I can really say to ease your perceptions about safety. I know it's a safe work environment, I know that the women who left the Beachwood offices of DigiKnow for the new offices at Tyler seem to enjoy the campus and will walk off campus to some of the local restaurants in the area.

Safety has not been an issue here at Tyler, or really much in the area. I know the midtown area has had a much bigger problem as does the E. 20th and Lakeside area. Amenities include an on-site restaurant, available covered parking, free wi/fi hot spots, a dog station and dog friendly offices, we're close to the freeways, close to downtown w/o the hassle of downtown, close to the clinic and university circle, Dave's supermarket is right around the corner, we'll have an on-site fitness center soon, we across the street from New AsiaTown Plaza where there will be a bunch of food options as well as an Asian grocery store and of course, the Town Fryer is right next door when you want some gumbo and fried catfish.

Agreed, agreed, agreed.

anybody who wants a tour of what's happening at Tyler should feel free to set up a tour with me, just IM and we can work it out.

PC Helps space being built out pretty quickly. WW

One more article: New company reclaims old-growth wood from razed buildings Thursday, April 24, 2008 Fran Henry Plain Dealer Reporter There are dreams, harebrained schemes and promising business ideas. For a long time, Chris Kious wasn't sure which he had. But he couldn't stop thinking about the waste of sending old-growth wood to landfills after Cleveland houses and buildings were razed. He knew that beneath the wear, stains and gouges, the wood was beautiful and could be used again. Kious, housing services manager for the St. Clair-Superior Community Development Corp., was right. And after he wrote about reclaiming wood and other building materials for the group's March 2007 newsletter, he connected with P.J. Doran, 42, an Ohio City furniture maker. And a demolition contractor offered Kious a crack at salvaging materials from a building, the old Adelstein Pharmacy at East 79th Street and Cedar Avenue... http://www.apieceofcleveland.com/pdf/Plain_Dealer_4_24_2008.pdf

keep in mind, there were folks in place before whose atmosphere you're changing by being there, just as there were in Tremont and West 25th. Imo the artist/hipsters/urban-ites who pioneer the various locals of downtown Cleveland should recognize their culpability in the gentrification process. Not that it's a bad thing, as Cleveland needs dollars being spent downtown. I was at a party this weekend where two long time Brecksville grandmothers (baby boomers) were talking about going to W.25th for an old world style shopping experience and thinking how great it would be to live over there. I took it as nothing but good news.

Cleveland schools, E Prep charter join forces Monday, April 28, 2008 Thomas Ott Plain Dealer Reporter The Cleveland School District and charter-school operator John Zitzner find that the old adage, "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em," sometimes works for both sides. The district, which loses lots of kids to privately run, publicly funded charters, serves as the nonprofit sponsor that Zitzner's Entrepreneurship Preparatory School needs under Ohio law. E Prep, as the business-oriented school is called, is the only charter embraced by the city system. Cleveland school officials monitor Zitzner's charter in return for a sliver of its state aid. More important, the district can lump E Prep's promising test scores with its own and tout the charter as one of its specialty schools... More at: http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2008/04/cleveland_schools_e_prep_chart.html

Are we talking W.45th and Detroit? Carole, it looks like you have quite a few options for low priced housing in DS, OC and Tremont. Home prices will be dropping more soon, too. Bank of America is about to tell folks some pretty upsetting news according to a few friends of mine as well as some other bigger banks. We are looking at 2010 possibly as the time things start getting back to normal. That said.. blood in the street, so buy real estate!

Well, I think there are many people banking on the idea that aging boomers will want to shed themselves of their high maintenance houses in the burbs for easy to maintain condos, these are who those 250k on up condos are aimed at, imo.. the problem is that these people can't sell their homes for what they have valued at. The first time home buyer with great credit and some saved up cash has a real advantage in Cleveland right now, so long as they are willing to bite off what they can chew. Math, I'm not sure what you are looking to pay, but all I see are for sale signs and for auction signs around OC. I would say it never hurts to make an offer. People can ask the market for what they want, but there is no law saying you can't offer what you want and go from there.

As a Realtor focusing in these areas (I assume) have you been seeing price drops as developers start feeling the pinch of interest rates biting at their heels? My comment on adding affordable housing is that housing is affordable in almost every neighborhood of DS and OC. Right now buyers can be extremely picky on what they buy because there is a large glut of housing stock available compared to those shopping. Eventually the prices you are looking at in the various DS developments will either fall, or we will start to see people who finally moved their current home shopping the market and filling those $280k homes.

Yep. I'd say, in general, there are more than enough affordable options for people looking to own property in Ohio City and Detroit Shoreway available. New construction and totally renovated re-habs are simply more expensive to do. We also need to attract more wealth into these neighborhoods, imo. I love what's going on in DS and OC. If folks are asking too much for their new condos, the market will eventually shake it out.

You can find homes for under 200k in the Detroit Shoreway area. They might not be new construction. One of the mistakes made in the housing debacle was that there was this notion that everyone should own, no matter their ability to keep up. We should be encouraging those friends of yours who are looking to own not to look at new condo's being built in the various high rent districts, but instead the existing housing stock around those areas, assuming they can afford it.

still trying to picture what these pods look like..

to get back on topic, there is about to be a ton of work happening to the storefront section of building 44, as we start build-out on the fitness center and our 2 floor garage (built into floors 1 and 2 of 44, 44A and 47).

still, you need many folks to sell there house first before they can buy the condo downtown, and Cleveland is still a good ways away from attracting young families because of the schools and various crime issues, real or perceived. That does limit the amount of buyers for the amount of housing stock available. And it's compounded with the issue of financing, as even if you have a young person with some money for a down payment and a want to live in OC or downtown, the banks still might not finance with only the condo as collateral. This is a great time to have cash.. of course, maybe that's always true.

I know.. though I sometimes feel like people cling a little TOO tightly to structures that are both functionally obsolete and have too many real problems tied to them to ever have them brought back. What's scary is we may see people protecting empty Super WalMarts some day as "historic" artifacts of our proud retail history. Eh. Anyway, we have plans for some open areas E Prep will be able to use on our campus.

we plan on knocking down as many historical buildings as possible to accommodate both a soccer field and expansive parking lots.. (j/k)

http://www.ecitycleveland.com/eprepschool/new/

fyi, really good story on sound of ideas today... John Zitzner just mentioned us on WCPN/NPR. So I'll follow it up saying that E-Prep is preparing to move here to Tyler Village in the fall. roughly 30,000 SF growing to as much as 100,000 SF.

I don't think Jay Lofts is for sale, or really any of Heartland's projects. Heartland the business is done, the developers in Heartland still want to see their projects through. Lastly, with the market so bad, developers are shopping as much as they can, but the banks aren't lending. Anybody who needs big time financing to buy real estate is having a hard time getting loans. It's doubtful that you could buy Jay Lofts and borrow enough money against the project to come close to paying for the renovations. Not many developers, even the ones with actual cash to burn, like bank rolling projects like this out of pocket simply because the returns won't be high enough. OPM, OPM..