tedolph

Honestly, I never liked the idea of further cannibalizing our CBD with 20 storey office building in that location. I would rather those firms renovate the old East Oho Gas building (nothing wrong with that building) or be a prime tenant for the Bruer tower. The flats should be residential/ entertainment, although I did like the plans for the Eaton building.

Depressing. I always liked that building, and I generally don't like modern architecture.

That court house is stunning. I like the civic building and the rest of the place too. Ohio really need to fight for and attract new industry.

But it's not really being "chopped up." -- more like reused. See w28th: Thanks MurryHill, somehow I missed that. Originally it seemed that the interior demo was more involved.

For sure the $400 million will go elsewhere, and not within Ohio. Something here stinks. I would say more but I fear the Moderator(s).

True all countries can't be net exporters, but the ones that are are the ones that will be rich. That is what we shoudl aim for.

Jeff was one of my classmates. Although I can't say he was my "cumpanio", he was reasonably sharp and I thought showed good judgement under stress. I was disapointed that he allowed himself to fall into the corruption culture at city council. He really wasn't that type of person and I think that is why he got caught, he just didn't know the ropes of criminal culture. I hope he doesn't pick this issue to ride back to respectability on.

Maybe Strickland never intended to fight ODOT. Also, another local politician who's name I am not permited to mention. Where is he in all this?

History will show that chopping up this theater is a mistake

One third of all of Germany's elected representatives voted Hitler for Cancellor. Only about one third opposed him, mainly the Communists.

I believe most Muslims around the world would like to live within the framework of a society that is culturally and religiously moderate, but the most extremist elements of Islam (who are in far greater numbers than anyone of us would like to believe) have taken power by force and have everyone in those countries living in total fear. Combine this with the absolutely dictatorial forms of government that have been in place for decades in the Middle East, and you have a toxic stew of repression, subjugation and total lack of freedom of expression. What makes you believe that?

My hat seems to be missing again. Which one of you took my hat?

OK, here's the deal. Biotic oil (e.g. fossil fuels) is a finite resource. It is cheap to recover but limited in supply. Abiotic oil is a renewable resource. It is constantly being created by catalytic reformation of methane gas (created when anything biotic decomposes) probably at subduction zones in the Earth's crust. However, recovering it will be extremely expensive and dangerous, at least initially. What is really more important is the apparent empirical discovery that there is far more natural gas, again a renewable resource in such deep wells than we ever imagined. Very deep wells (there are only a handfull of them in the world right now), which tap into abiotic "reactors" are producing 40% methane at high pressures whereas conventional oil wells only produce about 5% methane. I think this is what happened in the Gulf, BP inadvertently tapped into such a "reactor". All of this will factor into the cost of hydrocarbon fuels, the type of hydrocarbons we burn, as well as the future markets for them which can have a significant impact on current prices. Rather than go on and on, I sugest you do some reading, especially form the Russian journals.

Agreed... To me, this is no great loss. No matter what anyone says or how they rationalize it, we have built too many of these big box retailers in N.E. Ohio. Cannibalization, etc. was imminent. Besides, we have a host of real and locally owned/independent stores where the experience is totally different and unique---not a clone zone experience with the big boxes trying to piggy back off of the atmosphere, feel, and themes the small stores created in the first place. Want to see the neighborhoods stay vibrant with such stores? That may be the reason it pays to spend a few extra cents if you have to. They're not museums, they're real businesses. Now, if they open in Uptown, there is no loss. The monstrosities surrounding Severance never needed to be built in the first place. Amen, Amen!

Good, now they can open one up downtown.

2005 was a long time ago. No one is suggesting that we "bet our future" on abiotic oil. It is relevant to "peak oil" though. Also, the Russians beleive in abiotic oil and are drilling the deepest wells by far. "The modern Russian-Ukrainian theory of deep, abiotic petroleum origins is not controversial nor presently a matter of academic debate. The period of debate about this extensive body of knowledge has been over for approximately two decades (Simakov 1986). The modern theory is presently applied extensively throughout the former U.S.S.R. as the guiding perspective for petroleum exploration and development projects. There are presently more than 80 oil and gas fields in the Caspian district alone which were explored and developed by applying the perspective of the modern theory and which produce from the crystalline basement rock. (Krayushkin, Chebanenko et al. 1994) Similarly, such exploration in the western Siberia cratonic-rift sedimentary basin has developed 90 petroleum fields of which 80 produce either partly or entirely from the crystalline basement. The exploration and discoveries of the 11 major and 1 giant fields on the northern flank of the Dneiper-Donets basin have already been noted. There are presently deep drilling exploration projects under way in Azerbaijan, Tatarstan, and Asian Siberia directed to testing potential oil and gas reservoirs in the crystalline basement. " http://www.gasresources.net/index.htm

Maybe this is starting to make sense? People that live within 100 mi. of an airport get there by rail? Otherwise truboprop?

You need to do some more research. Abiotic Oil. Not Biotic Oil.

Abiotic oil.

Peak oil won't happen anytime soon if we can figure out how to safely drill 5 miles below the Earth's crust.

My grandfather was John Calfee's gardener. My father couldn't get a job with the firm and had to start his own!

I thnk most Clevelanders have a quiet admiration for Arkon-the little city than can and does!

In two years they will be business owners.

Glad you brought up Mayor Jackson JKP. Indeed this is another example of Mayor Jackson's failed leadership. I am not sure how but am sure that it must be!

Ain't going to happen. Cleveland/Cuyahoga County is the poster step brother of Detriot when it comes to crooked Democratic rule and the economic chaos that results. No way the DNC wants the rest of the country to associtate Obama's administration with Cleveland /Cuyahoga county. Can you imaging what the Repubicans would do with that?