3 Dog Pat

I still guessing MOCA-They will soon begin a public financing push for the new museum. As soon as the money is raised for the museum, the uptown project, which Maron is a part of, will have better chances of getting financing.

My vote would be for a structure to be built across from the arena at the corner of Huron and Ontario, extending the city grid.

Stop by Stone Mad pub and the Parkview in DS on your scouting trip.

I used that ATM late night when I was home for Thanksgiving. Group, could that conversation be taken to PM please? Thank you. Back on topic

I agree with Tremont <=> Wicker Park. If you can follow me on this one, Detroit Shoreway is kind of like a Roscoe Village from the year 2000. Close to the hip neighborhoods, but at a time when the people from LP, Wrigleyville, Southport etc got married and had kids, they wanted a single family home, and they found Roscoe Village. Back in 2000, it was still kind of a sketchy area, but in 5 short years, the real estate BOOMED there. I loved living in RV. Between the new restaurants, arts scene, people investing in their homes, and the potential shoreway redesign to a 35mph boulevard, I think DS is going to be the place to be in 3 years. My brother bought a house there in the early 90s, and I have seen the neighborhood change and grow. It has just gotten better. Just my opinion

Chicagoist, what neighborhood in CHI do you like the best? I live in Chicago for years and know the neighborhoods well, maybe I can suggest a place based on your answer. If I were moving back home, I would move to DS without a doubt.

^ FYI j/k stands for just kidding

^I hope some developers are capturing some of these ideas. They may ultimately be "wrong" but they are all good ideas that may not have been thought of.

Temporary display site for MOCA?

FHA loans for first time buyers with credit scores of 580 and above only require 3.5% (very strict) for the downpayment. The going rate now is 5.25%. If you wanted to buy a $150,000 home right now, you could get it for a down payment of $5,250. That is what I did. The seller paid almost all of the closing costs, and I got my mortgage broker to throw in some money in exchange for a 5.5% interest rate. With New Orleans taxes and flood and housing isurance my place costs me $1300/mnth. Cleveland, with tax abatements and relative lack of hurricanes should be less. If you get a place under contract now (just an agreement on purchase price, not all the mortage BS) you can still qualify for the $8,000 first time home buyer. As for the downpayment, it can also be gifted to you buy a family member, but then FHA requires them produce financial records to prove it wasn't the seller giving you the money for the 3.5% down through someone else. The only stipulations for FHA is that the house is move in ready, no repairs are needed (In that instance there is a FHA renovation loan) and that the house appraises for at least the price you bought it at. That way, you are not financially pinched for repairs, and then if you wind up being forclosed on Fanny and Freddy don't lose too much money. Sorry to go off topic, but if someone was considering it, and can put together a few grand in the next 6 weeks, this would be a great time to buy.

Hey group I have a 4 hour layover in LaGuardia on Sunday, do I have time to head into the city? If so, what is the best way? Thanks!

It does say something about the history of the Clinic towards the buildings in its path, that we all assume the Clinic is either happy, or could care less about the destruction of the church. Adaptive reuse? Not really in their "green" vocabulary. For all the good the Clinic does, it seriously gets this wrong.

^There is that view, and then the view of the employees who will lose their job and be forced to look for work in the worst job market in generations. This dump/landfill closing does not have an effect on the amount of trash being produced, or the amount that winds up in landfills. The only difference is local people are losing their job and a struggling community is losing tax revenue.

Congratulations! Where was John Deere before? Hey WW, your work has been phenominal, so let me get greedy Has your group look at expanding into some sort of housing contingent? Maybe identify a few blocks kind of near T.V. in which employees of the various companies may want to live?

WOW, I never knew how much putting together two words I liked into a phrase would get me SO EXITED Beer Cave! BEER CAVE! :clap:[glow=red,2,300]BEER CAVE[/glow] :clap: If I ever put another plan together to open a bar, we have a new name front runner (This next plan will have a contingency for global economic collapse...I failed to plan for that last time)

^Perhaps you would feel more comfortable at cleveland.bomb This goes for everyone. If your posts are nothing more than nonconstructive complaints and/or insults keep it to yourself or find another venue other than this forum.

If Nehst's reputation is anywhere near as bad as some of the articles linked on this thread make it seem, could the city's involvement with them actually hurt our ability to develop a segment of the movie industry?

has big egg gone 24hr yet?

It may have been one of the area's most prosperous suburbs in 1890 or 1900 when it was mostly Euclid Ave mansions and Rockefeller's summer home, but not when fully built out. According to Dennis Keating's "The Suburban Racial Dilemma," as of 1960, the city was a solid middle class suburb but it was composed mostly of rental housing (60%) and the housing was significantly cheaper than in Cleveland Heights, Shaker Hts or even Euclid- for example, median value of owner occupied housing in EC was only 8% higher than in the City of Cleveland. Low cost of entry coupled with adjacency to city neighborhoods undergoing rapid demographic turnover from middle class white to lower middle class black, then from middle class black to working class and impoverished black... I wish I could be optimistic about EC, but there's no shortage of affordable housing in suburbs that are much more intact, so I don't see how it's going to attract the middle class families it needs for a turn-around. Terrible for the residents stuck owning homes there and an architectural tragedy too. My parents lived in East Cleveland after emmigrating from Ireland, my Dad in the '40s, my Mom in the late 50's. When they got married they bought their first house there. Bach then the east side Irish community was as strong as the west side. From anecdotal stories I heard over the years, once the Hough riots happened, people took off for points either east or west.

he is still wishy washy on it, but I guess that is better than silence

^Larkin was toxic, but take heart, he is nearly retired. The last of the worst generation of Cleveland. ^I didn't see the bash Jackson angle, maybe the entire local democratic party, but not Jackson.

Hmmm....

I sure hope you never have to work in a job where your mistakes are visible for thousands to see and criticize. Maybe your reactions to them would be a little more humane. You want us to be less critical of RTA simply because they are more visible than other organizations? CLE'79, I am not sure if you know this, but JMasek is a member of this forum and has spent many hours talking directly to us and answering countless questions on all things regarding RTA. We really appreciate his involvement. KJP was simply defending a fellow UOer from unfair criticism, even if the original comment was not intended to be directed at JMasek.

I have noticed the PD trying to be less negative. So I started a poll to see what y'all think.

Her family moved to Alabama for a career change in her junior year, at that time she went to VA, Villa Angela. The relocation did not work out, and they moved back. When she came back, for financial reasons she finished out high school at Euclid High. The cool thing about her was that she was part of a group of friends who are still close, and she was always just one of the girls. When she was exclusively doing movies, she lived and raised her kids in Collinwood.