Well, you can blame MTS. Previously I was going to Cleveland.com to get info/talk about the developments happening in and around Cleveland. He's been smattering the link around anytime someone actually wants credible info. So here I am....mostly lurking. This site has been great in providing me with a constant feed of development info from various sources (esp. the random cleveland developments thread....thanks grasscat, KJP, and others), and for getting a bead on what people's opinions are on those developments.

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Looking for more info on the Downtown Cleveland Technology Center construction :)

Hey, cool thread!  :-D

 

Anyways, I owe a shout-out to Jeffery  :yap: and his awesome Dayton threads. I googled Trotwood, Salem Mall, and other key words to try and find out what was going on with the Salem Mall redevelopment project. Since I work in Trotwood and have strong ties to Dayton, along with a passion for my hometown metro area, I started to spend some of my off time figuring out what good economic developments were happening thorughout the region.

 

Soon enough, I stumbled on some of Jeffery's threads  :clap: :clap:. I read through the ones on Trotwood and Salem Mall, and I was hooked. I started off by reading through all the threads that I found interesting page by page, old and new, and after a couple of months, I broke down and registered. Unfortunately, though, the recession came, and it has hit Dayton pretty hard, so not much economic development to speak of or post about.  :-(

 

Still, I am thrilled this exists, and that I'm not the only oddball that LOVES cities and economic development/urban revitilization!  :lol: (live in Dayton suburbia currently, btw. It's the land of conservative city haters who are paranoid about hobos, and I also find them to be quite racist sometimes, which really bugs me, those stupid suburban #$%^&$%&^$#%@##$%@!#%&*ers :whip:) (sorry about the anger outburst :oops:)

I found it via the Cincy Images site.

LincolnKennedy.

City-Data Forum.

I saw David passing out Urban Ohio flyers outside the local GLBT chapter in Cincy.

Oh yeah, I remember. You asked me for loose change and I said I didn't have any but I gave you one of the flyers so you could roll a spliff.

Oh yeah, I remember. You asked me for loose change and I said I didn't have any but I gave you one of the flyers so you could roll a spliff.

lawd

Oh yeah, I remember. You asked me for loose change and I said I didn't have any but I gave you one of the flyers so you could roll a spliff.

 

No, I asked for spare change so I could buy a black.

 

 

I was looking for pics for my desktop and found UO via clevelandskyscrapers.  It took about three years of reading the site for me to work up the nerve to make my first post.

Some nut was rambling on and on about how screwed up Cleveland was on the Blue line all the way from Shaker Square to Downtown, and had a real issue with the subway under the Detroit Superior bridge not being extended because Cleveland's leaders were so incompetant. I knew that he was a nut and most of his facts were wrong but when I got to work I tried to look up better information on the subject purely for my own curiosity, and found UO. I lurked on here for about 6 months before making my first post and quit looking at the site for a while (assuming that this site wasn't more sophisticated than Cleveland.com after all) after someone referred to my hometown as "a sh!t hole full of welfare collecting single mothers and meth addicts."

How?  I think it was doing a search on living in downtown Cleveland and found a thread in the travel and relocation section.

 

Where?  I found it, and continue to find it, on the "World Wide Web" ;)

Bing!

Bump!

Bump!

 

Laaaawd.  See you bump out of the bumpkin and you've still got a hick from Southern Ohio!  ;)  I tell you, you people!

A few years back I actually wrote a long and indepth response to an article at Cleveland.com and it started a rolling effect of positive posts on that particular article. Someone responded that my post was the best post they had seen in a long time on cleveland.com and suggested Urbanohio.com for a more positive and indepth discussion on issues and well here I am :)

LincolnKennedy was my dealer.

Cleveland City-Data.com users always mentioned this site and I just decided to check it out.

....UO....since 2004.  Nine Years! 

 

What a long strange trip it's been.  This was the site that motivated me to get a digital camera (started on here in 2004, but under a different handle), and then do really really in-depth research on Dayton, and then into blogging for a bit....

 

 

 

 

I found it in 2004 on Clevelandskyscrapers.com...which I believe was MayDay's site.

I'm late to the party. Found the site in 2009, during the first streetcar ballot battle. I guess through Google? Not really sure, but photo threads were definitely something that drew me in, in addition to insider streetcar info.

I found it in 2004 on Clevelandskyscrapers.com...which I believe was MayDay's site.

 

Also found it in 2004, also from Clevelandskyscrapers.com. I think I got there by doing a Google Image search for Cleveland

You kids know how I love to dig up old and popular topics about the forum.  I love going down memory lane! 

 

As we enter a new decade, I want to thank the HNIC @ColDayMan , the HBIC @MayDay and (just) Rich @richNcincyfor creating and nurturing the UrbanOhio community.  It takes a village and our "collective" baby is now a teenager.

 

Hats off to all the moderators - past and present - who help maintain the peace and help steer "conversation" and "discussion" in the right direction.

 

This is a wonderful community filled with many funny, intelligent, creative and passionate people. We're fortunate to have such a great resource at our fingertips.  I look forward to reading  about and discussing the great State of Ohio with you all in the future.

 

UO has been a teenager for a while now.  It's old enough to drive, but won't, because it values urban walkability and public transit!

Searching the web about The Ameritrust Tower I believe.

 

Edited January 2, 20205 yr by Mildtraumatic

Was linked a few times on the now-defunct ColumbusUnderground discussion boards.  I migrated here from there gradually as those boards were marginalized, abandoned, and ultimately shuttered, like a brick-and-mortar enclosed shopping mall ...

On 1/1/2020 at 5:39 PM, X said:

UO has been a teenager for a while now.  It's old enough to drive, but won't, because it values urban walkability and public transit!

Your entitled child!  Humph!

I actually stumbled upon this place in 2012 when I was just starting out High School after I visited Skyscraperpage.com. I was an aspiring Architect once I started High School, but my dreams were immediately put down saying I would never make it as an Architect. So I decided to take a look at Cleveland's history, what developments are planned, which have been crucially cancelled, *Ehem, Ameritrust*, and that's actually the start of how I found this place. Through some quick googling I found some awesome photos of downtown Cleveland buildings, shot by @MayDay. I will always applaud her for taking my favorite panoramic view of Cleveland which she recently did a before and after shot in that same location. So a quick search of MayDay Cleveland Ohio, and I am suddenly directed here. I have never been to a place where we as locals or as a state resident where I was able to share my aspirations and my newfound hobby and love for the place that I call home. This place is one big Pen Pal for people who live so close but yet so anonymous. I do look forward to coming to an annual outing and shaking a few hands, but for right now my family and this website are my only connections to home. The military is one emotionally tough job, and I miss every bit of Cleveland and Ohio which is the only place I've known.

Thank you for that; hard to believe I’ve had clevelandskyscrapers.com up and running for 20 years now; always good to see people enjoying it. And thank you for your service. 

 

One small point of clarification ... I may never be mistaken for a lumberjack, and I’m very much a Kinsey #6 but I am and have always identified as male. ? That’s one of the more fun/interesting parts of when we have a meet up lunch or happy hour. Some forumers are exactly how you would imagine, and others are completely different from their online persona.