Flee2theCleve

some do. If you knew how much say a credit card merchant charges for transactions (flat fee + sometimes %), you'd know how bernie keeps costs down. When a mom & pop says "credit minimum charge, $5" its literally that they won't make money on the transaction, i.e. the credit fees eat away all or more of the profit they have built into the price. that is illegal. you cannot set price floors on credit card transactions. if a merchant tries to do this, you need to report them to the BBB.

tremendous!

does anyone know what is going on across the street from the US Bank building? I think DAS construction is doing something...there is scaffolding on the sidewalk

a place to house all the transient drunk bums and drug dealers/criminals that are prevalent in this area. rather than fight crime our mayor has decided to embrace it. it is the crowning jewel and last phase of the euclid corridor project.

How do you spell ugly in Cleveland? B-R-E-U-E-R dude should have stuck to designing chairs... tear it down and replace it with a parking lot...

won't the homeless be upset that we are disturbing their residence?

good god that is awful...who would pay that?

M2S...this chain was originally created to answer my questions...I AM looking! so your discussion had a purpose

where is the grand arcade in the warehouse district? i'd like to learn more...

^true^ what is ervyone's opinion on foreclosed property?

reserve square's supermarket is not anything to write home about...it is still seriously lacking even basic food amenities and their deli/produce departments are gawd awful...i agree that another option is def. needed.

yes, i would need a place to park my car...i'm assuming that is included with rent, no?

can you tell me more? it sounds cool if for no other reason than the location!

well do you have some preliminary info first? in other words if it is only worth $100,00 i don't want to pay $150,000? not sayign this si the case, but what si the square footage/exat location?etc

thanks everyone ...valuable insight like this is hard to come by....

thx mayday...i noticed the stonebridge condos have an interesting rent to own deal? what's the catch on this arrnagment? sounds too good to be true...

1 bedroom, i don't have an issue with a lawn/maintenance...frankly i'd prefer buying something that i can put a little sweat equity into...

yes, i did not mean to imply that i do not care about the nature of my home purchase, merely that I am open to several options. i am new to the whole process. i would welcome hearing from someone...

I've recently relocated t the Cleve and I am renting right now. My lease is up soon and I'd like to switch to owning property. I'd like to live in an urban setting, whether that means a downtown condo, townhouse, whatever, I am not picky...but what is my best option here? Will downtown property appreciate in the near term? Should i look at one of the inner ring suburbs? Which areas are safe? Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated...it is hard to find unbiased opinions outside of a place like this.. :drunk: :drunk: :drunk: :drunk: :drunk: :drunk:

thats b/c you are a girly man

i dont know who Marcel Bruer is, nor do I care...frankly, that building is a tremendous eyesore and I'd rather have nothing there than anything at all...historical posterity be damned...keep the rotunda, tear down the concrete cheese grater...

as someone else alluded to earlier, this project demonstrates evrything wrong with local governement

Sorry MayDay, but I need to answer this question. Actually, I'll let CSU Urban Affairs folks answer it.... http://urban.csuohio.edu/economicdevelopment/knight/tools/land/marketrate.htm Maintaining an economically diverse residential base is critical to the health of a municipality. The addition of new housing units in a growing area is a necessity and an automatic outcome of population shifts. In declining areas, developing new housing is often a challenge, but it is viewed as an important economic development strategy. By retaining residents or attracting new ones to the city, local leaders hope to capture additional tax revenue. New housing not only adds to the residential property tax base, but can also contribute to the commercial property tax base by attracting new businesses. The availability of downtown residential units is particularly important. Labor markets and housing markets are directly related - housing attracts labor. More importantly, people tend to start businesses close to where they live if the market makes it possible. The availability of downtown housing may reinvigorate downtown business activity. Finally, housing is part of the amenity package that attracts business and amenities justify higher rent levels for downtown commercial space. that's some department head's opiniion at CSU, not necessarily fact. i am quite sure we have healthy pockets of population densities in and around Cleveland, but I don't see businesses flocking to relocate from other areas... an area is ripe for strong business development if you have a mix of several things: low cost of living, which translates to a low cost of doing business, friendly municipal tax structure, young educated work force to tap into, etc

What I heard was that once they found that they couldn't fill it, they emptied it of the smaller tenants to keep other properties in town full(er). I don't think that means that they stopped trying to fill it, but maybe they weren't interested in having two buildings below 50%, and instead wanted one building near 100% and closed the empty one (Breuer tower) pending sufficient demand. Seems like a reasonable business practice. At any rate, it doesn't matter whether the Breuer tower was intentionally emptied or not. Let's assume I was misinformed or wrong. My point is still valid, if not clear. If we build a new tower on the square, that's a lot of new space to fill in a metropolitan area that isn't growing. See the numbers Florida Guy posted. If half of those firms move to new construction, that's close to 500,000 sq. ft. of space in older buildings that would be harder to fill. Most likely the vacated spaces would be broken up into smaller square footage spaces and not all of it would be leased. We could see Eaton Center or another building, for example, remain empty. That was what I was trying to say. If we're going to build new construction, I'd prefer to fill Wolstein's East Bank and Stark's Pesht developments before adding to the skyline. Cleveland already has a nice skyline, and Wolstein's and Stark's projects will bring more activity to the street level. That in turn could help to attract more residents and workers into the downtown in a way that I don't think a new tower would. The Avenue District is leading the way. We can watch and see whether the streets in that area are improved by the project or not. Perhaps I'll be wrong again. ok, i'm going to plead ignorance on this one, but how would having more people living downtown increase the liklihood of businesses moving there?

i don't know why everyone is so excited. Nothing will ever happen. Too much bureaucracy.