Buck1974

So from these renderings, it does not look like they plan on completing the east side of the stadium. That is more than a little disappointing. That should be priority number 1.

Downtown Canton's Centennial Plaza project appears to be on schedule for completion.

Newest rendering for the stadium with the hotel in the background.

It is from a Canton McKinley High School Facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/cantonmckinleycom/photos/a.919593701429764.1073741828.393430577379415/1029094247146375/?type=1&theater

The north side of the stadium is nearing completion (the nearest side in the photo). Here is the latest on what the south, east and west sides of the stadium will look like. The north part of the stadium is where the stage will be located for inductions so the rest of the stadium is much larger for viewing the inductions and for potential concerts and other events.

Your assessment of the Canton area is really not all that accurate or even fair. Canton is not a big city and I don't think anyone on here said otherwise. But it is also not some tiny little hamlet. The metro is over 400,000 and add in the Akron metro and you are at about 1.1 million. Canton to Akron is only about 20 minutes in normal traffic and there really is no break in development between the two metros anymore. There is plenty of money still in the Canton Metro. Here is the current list of residential real estate for sale in the Canton area which is more than decent for a city and metro the size of Canton. http://www.cutlerhomes.com/listings/query.php?property_category=1&qsIntelligent=&state=39&county=151&radarea=1&pricemin=&pricemax=&bedrooms=&bedmore=1&bath_full=&bath_thre=1&garages=&garages_alt=1&sqfoot_low=&sqfoot_high=&acres=&acres_h=&yb_l=&yb_h=&stories=&reducedpricedays=7&vtycount=2&pastdays=&qsversion=2 Downtown Canton is much improved over the last 10-15 years. The Onesto Hotel has been completely restored into higher end condos and it is full. The adjacent Bliss Tower is currently being converted into higher end condos by the same developer. The condos will be more contemporary in that building. That building will also be full when complete. Downtown Canton's up and coming restaurant and art scene is doing very well. Much better than expected. All the naysayers are being proven wrong again and again when it comes to downtown Canton. Another developer is at least proposing and looking into a new highrise for downtown Canton that would be Canton's tallest (16-20 floor range). Whether or not it happens is unknown but the Hall of Fame development is having a very big affect on the area and will almost certainly result in further development, including in the downtown area, if all goes as planned. As to the HOF hotel you are skeptical about being built. The design is the final design, ground is scheduled to break in late summer-early fall. It is almost certainly going to be built.

New rendering for the hotel at the Hall of Fame Village in Canton.

LOL, duly noted.

I disagree with some stating that Canton has a so so skyline for a city its size. Here are some recent aerials I found of Canton. They are copyrighted so you have to go through the link. http://www.aerialaspectphoto.com/shop/gallery.php?mode=gallery&id=NTAyNDkxOGE5YzE=&page=1 Canton photos very nicely from the air. With a metro of over 400,000 though I do think Canton should have a couple more high rise buildings between 10 to 18 floors. But like the rest of Ohio cities, the suburban nightmare is still all too prevalent. Overall downtown Canton has vastly improved over the last 15 years. I wish the old YMCA was renovated rather than torn down but I guess the cost of asbestos abatement made that impossible.

Great thread. Canton is the big boy city in the thread and is very similar to Yougstown in metro size and in the number of buildings 7 stories and up so I am not exactly sure why Youngstown wasn't included. Canton's downtown is much bigger than the other cities on this thread. Here is a more comprehensive list of Canton's downtown highrise to lowrise buildings 7 stories and up. 1. Bank One Building: 190 ft. (15 floors) 2. Key Bank Building: 165 ft. (13 floors) 3. Bliss Tower: 153 ft. (13 floors) 4. Onesto: 148 ft. (13 floors) 5. Huntington Plaza Bank Building: 141 ft. (12 floors) 6. Renkert Building: 120 ft. (11 floors) 7. Canton Towers: 120 ft. (11 floors) 8. McKinley Park Apartments: 120 ft. (11 floors) 9. Canton City Hall: 110 ft. (10 Floors) 10. William R. Day Building: 102 ft. (8 floors) 11. Courtyard Centre: 100 ft. (8 floors) 12. McKinley Grand Hotel: 95 ft. (8 floors) 13. Heritage Apartments: 90 ft. (9 floors) 14. Stark County Office Building: 89 ft. (7 Floors) 15. Cherry Turner Apartments: 87 ft. (8 floors). Downtown Canton YMCA was just demolished in 2012 for a new YMCA. It's tower was 9 floors and 110 ft.

Very nice. Some good shots of dowtown Canton in the video. Canton looks like a decent sized town from the air.

One of the best photo tours of Canton I have seen on this or any other site. Downtown Canton has improved greatly in the last 10 years or so. Many upscale and casual restaurants have opened. An art district has developed and there has been a pretty decent amount of new construction though no high-rises. Canton really does need a new tallest to fill in and modernize the skyline. Canton is medium sized city comparable to Youngstown, Reading, Pa., Scranton, Pa., Roanoke, Va., Peoria, Ill and Kalamazoo, Mi. Canton seems to be much healthier than Youngstown at the moment. An event called First Friday takes place the first Friday of every month downtown. This event has been going on the past couple years and has brought real life back to downtown at night. Live bands are at most bars and restaurants and the new art galleries are open during the night. There is a good amount of pedestrian traffic between bars, restaurants and art galleries. There are a couple large projects in the works or proposed. The 13-floor Onesto Hotel which has been vacant since the mid 1970s is being completely renovated into luxury apartments. An old large factory just a couple blocks from the downtown center is planned to be turned into offices, retail and convention space.

Canton is not in that bad of shape economically or physically as some on here suggest. It is in much better shape than Youngstown, the city in Ohio closest to Canton's size. There are more upscale old neighborhoods in Canton than Hills & Dales, there is Ridgewood (within the city limits with 1920s and 1930s coloniel and tudor mansions), Avondale and the large old mansions on North Market Avenue between 37th Street and 44th Street. Canton is doing fine, no downtown in Ohio is back or every will be back to the glory days of the 1940s and 1950s because of urban sprawl, strip malls, corporate parks and horrid cookie cutter housing developments of which Canton has its fair share. If I ever get the time, I will get some better pictures of dowtown Canton and its prestigious old neghborhods and post them.

Comparing Canton to Wooster is like Comparing Cleveland to Mentor, apples and oranges. Canton is a very urban industrial city with a metropolitan area of 412,000 while Wooster is a small rural town of 24,000 and no real metropolitan area. If you are going to compare a city to Canton, it really has to be in the 300,000 to 500,000 range in metro, like Kalamazoo, Erie, Youngstown, Reading, Pa., Scranton, Roanoke etc... not Wooster.