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Hey everybody, I 'm looking for some advice on advertising an apartment in Shaker Square. It's my home and the downstairs will be available soon. I've posted on craigslist, but I'd like to broaden my reach. Any thoughts? Are their neighborhood/local publications I should be engaging? Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. It's a 2 bedroom unit in a duplex near the square. Thanks!

Awesome pic JG...love the river traffic.

Well as Clinic buildings go I thought the Taussig building ® was one of the more interesting, and imho it's way more interesting than the posted rendering of their new Cancer Center.

^Well now we can just say alive, well and growing! ;-)

If population and visitor trends continue upwards then I think we can definitely support a retail mix including the mall and street retail. The fact that there's virtually no retail now means that there's pined up demand...demand that will only continue to grow as people move and visit downtown.

The revamp of the Colorado stadium pictured up thread a bit seems much more integrated than the creation of the blue monster. My hope is that these are very preliminary concepts, but with them planning to wrap up in a year these could also be more final. At the very least the green does look better.

I'm loving these unexpected development announcements that seem to happen every other week!

Reading the article it's also worth noting that the Cleveland Zoo was mentioned as one of 10 other zoo's that received votes but just didn't make it into the top ten, so essentially Ohio has 4 zoos in the top 20. :-)

There are plenty of diners on the edge of downtown: Superior Restaurant, Danny's Deli and Slymann's all come to mind and they all have good breakfasts and great corned beef! Just wished they stayed open past lunch.

Reading through that article it also looks like SLC is getting a new $1.8B terminal, paid for largely by Delta. I guess this is one area where it pays to be an isolated metro...with no nearby airport competition.

Maybe the brutal winter caused some construction delays. If nothing else I'm sure the new jumbo trons and sound system will work by game day! But seriously hopefully it just looks worse than it actually is and will be complete in time. Edit: Looking at dave68's pic of the interior it does look more complete than from the outside.

Why would you say that? There's a lot of work that can be accomplished before the first preseason game. It does look like there's a lot to do before the first homegame on August 23rd. A part of me thought they'd finish phase 1, make the stadium pretty for the season, then complete phase 2. That would be costly and inefficient, so my guess is fans will have to put up with some construction inconveniences this year as the project continues.

While I love the Guardians of Transportation I actually don't like the idea of placing them at the foot of the river. If it were done in the '30's I think it would be cool and historic, but to do so now to me would be cheesy and disney-ish. What I've always wanted to see was a dramatic fountain in the lake, a-la Jet d'eau in Geneva. It's a way to say Cleveland FINALLY celebrates it's lakefront and could coincide with completion of developments on the lake. While it couldn't be 450 feet high like in Europe because of Burke, it could be slightly taller than the stadium and align with the axis of the Mall. I'd also place it inside the breakwall to not interfere with shipping. Based on the pictures below it doesn't seem to interfere with pleasure boating. Can you imagine standing on the convention center overlook and seeing the War fountain to the south and this jet of water taller than anything else on the lakefront to the north? It would call you to the waterfront area for sure! Some pics of the fountain in Lake Geneva...and hopefully Lake Erie! geneva (1) geneva-lakeside-view-photo-1 geneva2

^Thanks. That's helpful to understand.

Could an exhibit hall with appropriate ceiling heights be added to the NCTC, along with all of the other entities and amenities needed to make this work? Going north over the train tracks is the only place I can see our underground center expanding, and 230,000 SF of exhibit space is smaller than other nearby competitors (Pitt, Indy and Cbus come to mind). Once the RNC is a hit here we may find we need more exhibit space. Bringing in the Convention Center (and SMG) may be a way to help pay for the cost of the NCTC, along with all the transit entities. Hopefully all of this could be accomplished with a green roof sloping down to the lakefront area. This would be my dream scenario. Edit: I see MTS already ask this. I should of hit refresh when I got back to my desk. News is just moving to quick now! :-D

Have we really reached a point that announcements for 20 story buildings come from nowhere?? This has been an unbelievable 7 days for the city. Wow.

More great news in St. Clair Superior...very cool project with KSU to redesign abandoned houses. KSU students get credit and construction experience in the design/build renovation of a vacant house in St. Clair Superior (slideshow) Print Steven Litt, The Plain Dealer By Steven Litt, The Plain Dealer Follow on Twitter on June 30, 2014 at 10:30 AM, updated June 30, 2014 at 3:46 PM Using hammers and muscle, a half dozen hard-hatted architecture students from Kent State University College of Architecture and Environmental Design tore rotting plaster and lathe from the studs of a vacant, 82-year-old Cleveland house as part of a gut-and-remodel job. It was the second Friday in June and members of a new KSU summer class in construction were digging into the dirty work of making architecture happen. They're also exploring ways in which at least some houses abandoned in Cleveland after the mortgage foreclosure crisis and recession in the last decade could be re-used instead of demolished. Over a two-month period, two groups of a half-dozen students each will get credit for remodeling a vacant but structurally sound two-story brick house in the St. Clair Superior neighborhood on the east side of East 67th Street, just south of St. Clair Avenue. http://www.cleveland.com/architecture/index.ssf/2014/06/ksu_students_get_credit_and_co.html

Here's some cell phone shots from Edgewater yesterday. It was definitely great to see crowds and a great atmosphere! Looking forward to going back all summer!

Public Square has not always been four separate quadrants. Here's some PS history and also information about the Fence "War" True. That's why I kept mentioning 100 years. It has been that way for the past century.

I'd be curious to ask older folks how the square functioned in the past. From this picture it's clear that it had 4 quadrants, and that it was a transit hub. Sounds like it's been the same 100 years. Maybe that's the problem...it hasn't changed. BUT people point to these pics and say it was wonderful back then. Was it?? Maybe people had these same conversations 100 years ago, concerned about excessive trolley traffic and horse crap in the square, and we should close it. We won't know unless we can talk to someone who remembers the square of decades past and can talk about it's day to day use and appearance. The only difference I can think of are the people. 100 years ago only the super rich had cars, so public transit was for everyone. Today most Americans (except in the largest of cities) view public transit, and buses in particular, as transportation for only the poor and as a result all types of social-economic and racial stigma's play into that viewpoint. Worse, unfortunately, some people choose to play into those stereotypes. I believe it's only a few bad actors on the square, but they make it bad for everyone...as with all stereotypes the behavior of those few gets generalized to everyone who waits for the bus on the square. The square has been as it is for 100 years...4 quadrants and full of transit. We need to really examine 1. did that work well back then and why or why not so we can be real about our past and not sugar coat it if it was a problem then and 2. take a fresh look at the square and determine if this set up works today and make necessary changes, just cause it worked back then doesn't mean it works today. I think the Group Plan Commission has answered these questions with their work. With that said I like the proposed changes and view it as the moment the square will enter a new era. Hopefully this design will be executed so well that it too will hold up for 100+ years as the previous layout has.

Really!? Thistledown IS staying put? I missed that one. The last I read (PD) was that, though the Thistledown racino was financially doing well, Gilbert/Rock was mum on a possible relocation to Akron/Canton. I'm thrilled if the racetrack/casino is staying, the Warrensville Hts/N. Randall area really needs it. Do you have a link? Here's the link to an article in the PD confirming that Thistledown will remain where it is: http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2014/06/thistledown_racino_will_stay_i.html

Downtown's need a mix of both low rise human scale districts and high rise areas that send an image of power and growth. Even cities that traditionally have low rise centers (DC, Paris) have high rise districts in the suburbs that fill this need. In my view we could use more towers on our skyline. The low rise need is filling out nicely with the warehouse district, east 4th, prospect, Euclid and new flats developments. A new tower or two would also be nice. With that said though I'd give almost anything to have those old buildings back on the warehouse district lots, anything except the terminal tower. That's our city's icon and could never be replaced.

Very cool idea.

I was on 18th and Prospect tonight and could clearly see that sign lighting up the side of the Medical Mutual Building like Christmas from that far away. Definitely rivals the Horseshoe sign in brightness. Residents and hotel guests will need some serious blackout curtains!

^Good points. More than just transit riders use TC, from hotel guests to office workers. And as someone said if you put the stores and restaurants of TC onto the streets of Cleveland we'd be having a very different conversation about downtown retail.