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LRT on Clifton would be awesome. The street is wide enough to sustain one without hindering car traffic too much (if it does... well, screw you, automobile drivers :-D), and as said before, it could be built into the Shoreway Boulevard and be a westward extension of the Waterfront Line. Speaking of Clifton, I've heard a few months ago that a tree median was proposed for the street (i.e., make it into a true boulevard, instead of just a very wide, well-kept road). Is this in the works?

There's the West Shore Trolley, proposed by EcoCity Cleveland... http://www.ecocitycleveland.org/transportation/rail/prendergast_westshore.html About a year back, when I first learned about the details of the Euclid Corridor project, and during that whole West End fiasco in Lakewood, I had an idea for Detroit Avenue: build a BRT line on Superior Avenue from Public Square westward to Detroit, run it through the Detroit-Shoreway and Cudell neighborhoods, though Lakewood, and terminate at the West End area. It would be cool to see the area return to its roots as a transportation center (the West End used to be a streetcar barnyard).

Not a whole lot of suburbs have downtowns. At least not the kind that are actually part of the city and share in its history. I don't count the newfangled lifestyle centers like Legacy Village or Crocker Park to be downtowns. But anyway, for the west side, Lakewood's (intersection of Detroit Avenue and Warren Road) gets my vote. Rocky River's (area surrounding Old Detroit Road) comes a close second. As for the east side, I haven't been over there quite recently to give an opinion, but I'll just say Coventry Village in Cleveland Heights, for now.

The apartments were supposed to be built above the Target?! That would have been a sight to see. Having driven by the area over the weekend, I don't think that piece of land is large enough to house more than a big-box store and maybe one or two strip malls. Are they still thinking of building condos on it? For what it's worth, Target sure has balls for building a store directly across the street from an existing Wal-Mart.

I didn't mean the entire 900-acre project, just the towers shown in the rendering. :) Though there probably isn't even enough room downtown for that.

Screw Amherst! A project like this needs to go downtown. :) But seriously, this thing sounds very pie-in-the-sky, and I'll be very surprised if it's actually built.

Great pics, MayDay! Too bad that floor ain't open to the public. If the view from Terminal Tower is amazing enough, the view from the top of Key must be even better. I have a question. In the "Lakewood and the Gold Coast" photo, does anyone know what that group of buildings, all the way out on the horizon, is? At first, I thought it was North Olmsted's "skyline" (the two highrise apartment buildings near Great Northern Mall), but it's way too far north to be that. Could it be something in Elyria or Lorain, or are those cities too far out?

"Witness the power of this fully-occupied and operational lifestyle center!"

When I went to Legacy about a year back, I remember there being a Cheesecake Factory and a California Pizza Dish (or whatever the hell it's called). I think there was a P.F. Chang's there, as well.

I don't know if suburbs are counted, but Lakewood could be considered a Main Street town with storefronts and buildings spanning all of Detroit Avenue border to border. It could also be considered an intersection town as well, with the ever busy Detroit and Warren being the "main" roads.

Are you guys sure about the project being on the Scranton Peninsula? Articles from Cleveland.com and NewsNet5.com say it's planned to go up somewhere near the Jennings Freeway. Anyway, I'm new here. :) EDIT: On closer reading of the articles, and reading some maps, it's probably going to be somewhere between Holmden and Denison Avenues, maybe across the highway from MetroHealth.