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That rendering looks like a terrible addition for an indoor swimming pool. :-(

Wow I would have thought that was a historic rehab. That two story building has a great design to fit in with the retail with walk up office/apartment above style architecture that lines Lorain Ave an many other main streets in Cleveland.

I actually like the Pittsburgh trolley wraps...they seem to tie in nicely with that city's history and sports scene. Random ad wraps can definitely be ugly, but those two Pitt examples are kinda cool and nostalgic looking. Especially love the clark bar one...looks like an old candy bar ready to be eaten!

I love the treatment of the ventilation stacks of the CC below. The reflective material they used reminds me of cloud gate, but the hard angles and multiple structures give them a totally different feel and experience walking around them. I love it.

Love the heated bus shelter. Great photo set!

Stumbled on this ranking of most segregated cities. Cleveland comes in #1, Cincinnati #4. http://247wallst.com/special-report/2015/08/19/americas-most-segregated-cities/4/

^and what's great is that together CSA and John Hay (my alma-mater too...'97 Holla!) form a stellar campus that features both historic and modern architecture.

^That's an awesome idea but I can't ever see that passing. Too many people would say they do not ride RTA and therefore do not want to subsidize other people's rides. Look at the contempt people with no kids show towards paying for education, an equally if not more important community benefit than public transit. However I do think there could be a structure similar to the T in Pittsburgh here. I lived there for 7 years and it was great being able to go anywhere downtown on any bus or train and not pay (I don't know if that's still true of buses, but it's good to hear it's still true for the T). It would be great if you could ride any bus or train for free from East 30th to West 25th, and that seems doable.

^I was on the Aloft WXYZ Bar terrace Friday for literally only five minutes because everywhere you turned there were really large spiders...I'm really scared of spiders and had to run back inside. I guess that's the cost of being on the lake but really was not pleasant to have spiders and webs all along the railing...EEW!!!

Forgive me if this question comes off dumb, but why were all of these mansions on Euclid torn down? I know how much urban renewal destroyed American urban neighborhoods, but usually it was stimulated by a major transportation or publics work project. Most of Cincinnati's West End was demolished through urban renewal during the construction of I-75. In addition to 75, the area was declared blighted and over-crowded, which paved the way for the clear cutting that occurred. I can't imagine similar arguments of blight and over crowding would be applied to a district of mansions, and I didn't notice a highway between downtown and University Circle. So why did Millionaire's Row get demolished? Was it torn down all at once or did buildings fall into disrepair and meet the wrecking ball one by one? I don't know how many mansions this applies to, but I've heard that when some of the owners of those homes moved east to estates in places like Hunting Valley they tore down their Euclid Avenue homes, not wanting to see anyone else live in them.

That's crazy. My whole life I've only known it as One Cleveland Center. I never knew it was originally built for Medical Mutual.

Wow...postcard quality. Any you almost got my grandad's house in that shot!

Not much coverage on Ricky Smith's leaving CLE for Maryland Aviation director post. The article above nor the one in the PD (http://www.cleveland.com/cityhall/index.ssf/2015/07/cleveland_airport_director_ric.html) do not give a date for his departure, or any info on plans for a search for his successor. Anyone have any insights? I'm surprised his departure has not spurred more discussion here or on the PD's website.

Sad. Just sad. All around sad.

Hilton Garden Inn in downtown Cleveland sells for $16.6 million to Starwood Capital JV Print Email Michelle Jarboe McFee, The Plain Dealer By Michelle Jarboe McFee, The Plain Dealer Email the author | Follow on Twitter on July 08, 2015 at 5:29 PM, updated July 08, 2015 at 5:53 PM CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Downtown Cleveland's Hilton Garden Inn, a 240-room hotel that has been in a lender's hands since 2012, has a new owner and manager. Real estate records show that the Carnegie Avenue hotel sold for nearly $16.6 million in a deal that closed June 29. The buyer appears to be a joint venture between Starwood Capital Group of Greenwich, Connecticut and Schulte Hospitality Group, Inc., of Louisville, Kentucky. Schulte is stepping in to manage the hotel. The sale comes as Cleveland prepares for the July 2016 Republican National Convention – a mega-event that will fill rooms across the region – and as property owners jostle for positions in a more crowded hotel marketplace. With an ownership shift, the Hilton Garden Inn, which opened in 2001, is likely to see additional investment and renovations. But it's unclear how much change is in the offing. http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2015/07/hilton_garden_inn_in_downtown.html#incart_river

Wow from this angle the last remaining large gap seems to be between the BP building and the Terminal Tower. If something of height got built, say that wild Ferrari tower proposed like a year ago, then the skyline wold fill out nicely. Either way looking good!

^Thanks. I think that explains in part why it may be taking so long to get this right, and why panels were seen being removed and reinstalled.

I'm not sure I'm remembering this right but isn't this process of covering the existing facade with this outer glass panel shell new and experimental? I thought I read that this has never been done and was a unique solution to both make this building more energy efficient as well as more secure in the event of some sort of blast or terror attack. If that's true I would not be surprised if there were adjustments and changes as they find out what works and what doesn't. Also, for all of the delay if this is the first and it does create significant energy savings it will be cool and significant to have the first such building here in Cleveland, especially if this process is replicated in other projects. Hopefully I'm right and that explains the delays.

Love the verticality in pic 3 with the hotel and terminal tower aligned like that.

This movie has been filming next door to my office for the past 2 weeks and is supposed to be there through the first week of July. Lots of activity but they are also tight lipped about what's filming. No one in the office has been able to find out yet.

How Millennials Are Reviving Cleveland Citylab | By Eric Jaffe Posted: 06/24/2015 1:27 pm EDT Updated: 1 hour ago This story originally appeared on Citylab. In reporting an Atlantic piece on James Corner’s fantastic redesign of Cleveland’s Public Square, I was surprised by the strength of the city’s downtown revival. After a tailspin in the 1980s, Cleveland’s downtown population soared 32 percent from 1990 to 2000—the biggest rise of any Midwest city (including Chicago) and far above the regional average (7.7 percent), according to Brookings. The climb has continued at pace; last summer downtown reportedly reached an “all-time high” of 12,500, with an astonishing residential occupancy rate of 98 percent. Call the oversight a bad case of East Coast bias. Though I don’t think I’m alone in missing downtown Cleveland’s rise. David Fields of transportation planning consultancy Nelson\Nygaard, who led the traffic analysis for Public Square, describes the area’s growth as “totally underestimated” from a national perspective. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/24/millennials-downtown-cleveland_n_7655508.html

Nice set. I've got relatives who live just south of Chicago so I'm there at least once a year, but I've never gone north to Milwaukee. I really want to get up there and check it out!

Signage or not until this massive project to resolve the stormwater overflow into lake erie is completed we will still have very real problems. It's frustrating seeing headlines twice in 2 weeks that lake erie beaches are unsafe because summer storms (which will always happen) cause overflows that make swimming and being in the water hazardous to people's health. The dugway can't be completed fast enough.

It's also just across the innerbelt from CSU's campus, so this project can also capture that crowd too. Heck they could market this to the growing number of Asian students at CSU who might want to live in an are like AsiaTown that's still only a 5-10 minute walk to campus.

^ :clap: I flew Jet Blue for the first time in May to Ft. Laurderdale and loved it. Extra leg room a plus for a bigger guy like me, and free bags. Great service overall and not more expensive than the other discount airlines.