tedolph

I remember sometime in the early 80's I was at Sammy's (what a great place, don't understand why it closed) eating oysters and drinking beer and a really big ship came into view. It was awesum it seemed so close! Don't really know if there is (was) anyplace else in the country you could have that kind of experience.

I will now be moving to Akron.

Could 'commercial' refer to retail? They meant office towers. When Wa Mu collapsed, it emptied out a brand new 40 story office tower. Chase only took a few floors. The building I am in, Columbia tower, 76 floors is 20% empty.

Tangential fact: I recently received an "insider" report on the Seattle CBD. 20% commercial vacancy rate. I think this is referring to Class A space.

Eaton is not a shrinking company. It is a massive multinational corporation. They are doing very well (financially). Rossetta has nowhere near as many employees.

Incredible. Homes like these would go for $500K to $850K here in Seattle. I just don't know what to say. Some of this just can't be reproduced at almost any price. If only the Cleveland economy was strong and the political culture was business oriented insted of poverty oriented everything would turn around (in time).

Barf...they can't be serious.

This is why I urge that light industry NOT be the plan for University Circle or Euclid Avenue... even if it's bio-related. In its modern form light industry is inimical to street life. Better to concentrate it in areas (cough Opportunity Corridor cough) where desirable urban development seems comparatively remote. For the sake of the schools and everything else, I strongly agree we need to stimulate this sort of thing in the city. I just think we need to be careful about how we locate it. It needs to be concentrated, tucked away, and transit-accessible. Bingo!

I couldn't disagree more. I put myself through college on those kinds of jobs in Cleveland (and later Solon) and worked side by side with people that lived in those hoods. I can say catagorically that a responsible job makes responsible citizens, husbands and parents.

This is the huge myth. There are still lots of manufacturing jobs in this country. Everything you see with "made in the USA". We simple aren't competing for those jobs at all on a national level. Someone in the Mayor's office needs to be targeting small manufacturing companies (20-50 employees) poised for growth and offer them a turn key (site, building, financing) package on city owned industrial land. As I understand it, we do this somewhat on a local level (e.g. Pierre's Ice cream) but there are few local companies that fit this profile. Do so nationally and it could make a real difference. Of course, this would be a lot of work with no dramatic moves, just lots of small ones (you are correct, hundreds of these deals would be necessary) but the pay off in unskilled/low skilled jobs would be immediate not to mention the improvement in the tax base. You would really need someone in the economic development department with lots of business experience and some national exposure and I don't think the current mayor is tied into those kinds of people. In fact, he is proud of his poverty heritage (no, don't go there) and as far as I can tell has never worked in the private sector. I don't think he has a clue as to what it takes to make a machine shop work.

The issue is jobs, jobs, jobs. Get poor people into jobs and they will on average become better partents, better citizens, better husbands. This did happen in the 90's. Male unemployment in some of these hoods now exceeds 50 percent. Of course people are going to turn to crime (the underground economy), drugs, alcohol, violence and there kids are going to model this. To do this you are going to hav to bring in simi-skilled light manufacturing to the inner city. No one, particularly our Mayor is focused on this and thus nothing will change. Focus on high tech all you want, it is not going to bring any jobs to these people. In fact, things are going to get worse if all our job growth is over the heads of these people.

I was not aware of that. If the Mayor's office is behind that then I retract my accusations against the Good Mayor. Mark my words!

Look, all I am trying to say is that for there to be connectivity between MMPI and the potential North Coast Transportation Center someone is going to have to knock some heads with the people from Chicago, break some coconuts, do some arm twisting, threatenting and bluffing. Can I say that much? Is that off topic? Also, I note that on this thread, the vehement criticisms of the county commissioners was allowed. But similar criticism of the His Honor is not. Why the double standard?

Did I recently see a picture of some Ukrainian lady who won an election in the Ukraine (president?) with that Sound of Musicesk fancy braid wraped around the head hair do? She must be in her 50's at least but wow, what a babe!

This is not going to happen for one reason. Step back with me. One of the main reasons for wanting to locate the new mmpi and convention center on the mall was connectivity with the lake. Is was presumed that with the 3C going in at the lake front that these projects would be coordinated and integrated. A good mayor would make this a priority as it is a once in a century opportunity. With Mayor prosperity at the helm we can't even integrate the Public Auditorium into MMPI. The existing connectivity is going to be separated! He is weak, weak, weak and entirely lacking in vision. If Mike White were mayor this would happen. Hell, even Jane Campbell (sp?) would make this happen. With our current mayor it definitely will not. Mark my words.

All this talk about under use. Does anybody remember back to the Hana Fountain days? Whenever the weather was reasonably OK starting in April and going though October the mall was packed with people at lunch. The fountains were beautiful and somewhat unique too. public auditorium was great for the circus, ice capades, etc. Music Hall was great for big operas like Hansel and Gretel that you would take kids to. I don't think there are really comparable venues today (playhouse square too small, the Jake too big). Would it really be so hard to bring these things back?

This is a bad idea. We are going backwards. There must be some other solution. Couldn't the county just pay MMPI something for the PA share of the utilities? Saving the $ from deconstructing the connection and rebuilding the facade would pay for a lot of electricity.

I don't know. Local municipalities (Hunting valley, Mayfield Villiage) have been aquiring property along the route that could be transfered to Metroparks at a later date. I wish someone with inside information, or inside contacts would comment.

I wish they would complete the Emerald Necklace through Hunting Valley. Road, path, etc. all up to Metroparks standard. This would becomeone of the finest bicycle tours in the nation and would attract out of town cyclists. Bed and breakfast places, bakeries ect. would all benefit.

Depressing. Does anyone know why WS failed and Cincinnati Millicron succeeded?

I can't say why but these things creep me out. Anybody else have that reaction?

You would think for $40 million we could put it underground. Can't be more than 1200 ft. I thought subways were $100 million per mile so $25 million would be enough?

Has there ever been any progress on getting the powerlines/telephone poles on Mayfield behind the buildings or is this an abandoned concept?

The graphic seems to show a tunnel for the Rapid, is that correct?

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