I would love to get a tour of both Public Hall, and the Trust Rotunda. Both buildings that I have never entered.

Neat photos!  Hopefully the brighter shade of the new facade members ends up blending with the older parts over time.

I would love to get a tour of both Public Hall, and the Trust Rotunda. Both buildings that I have never entered.

 

In the past there have been tours of the Cleveland Trust Rotunda on Labor Day. Not sure about this year. That's when I got a tour of the building.

That looks phenomenal, it's nice to see them do those repairs in such a caring way.  I'm really liking this whole project.

Today: looks like they were cleaning the PA facade. Also spraying the inside of the CC with foam. What a messy job! The guy was completely covered. Finally, new street lights have been installed along lakeside. How many different kinds of streetlights do we have downtown?! Lol

That's awesome to see the guys so thoroughly covered with the foam. I sure hope he doesn't suffer from skin asphyxiation. After all, it happened to that hot blond in Goldfinger! (OK, it's a myth, but a very popular one)

 

"mess up" probably isn't the right phrase but they apparently feel it unnecessary to better disguise the bunghole of the building. It's really just something you'd expect to see on the back side of a building. The silver square on the roof would hint that there maybe is something there like a service elevator or mechanical/utility shaft. 

 

Walking by it today, anyone think that they maybe left that gap in the windows on the north facing side for future skybridge connections to a hotel on the county admin plot?  You know, why pay for windows there if you're just going to be pulling them out later.  Pure speculation on my part.

Not as good as Clifton's updates but it looks like the webcam is back up. Here are a couple from today.

Today: looks like they were cleaning the PA facade. Also spraying the inside of the CC with foam. What a messy job! The guy was completely covered. Finally, new street lights have been installed along lakeside. How many different kinds of streetlights do we have downtown?! Lol

Those lights look like the ones on Euclid Avenue

I cross posted in the Cleveland: Conventions & Meetings Thread but am posting here because it talks about LEED certification, which is of course construction related  :-D

 

Cleveland's new convention center bags another health-related conference

 

The Cleveland convention center and medical mart has bagged another event.

 

The 2014 CleanMed Conference & Exposition will be held at the under-construction trade show complex in downtown Cleveland May 12-16, 2014. The conference on environmental sustainability in the health care field is expected to attract 1,000 hospital administrators, physicians and other hospital staff and 100 exhibitors.

 

 

Read More: http://www.crainscleveland.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120815/FREE/120819904

 

 

these are from friday.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I see you! ;)

 

no doubt - your expertise is in spotting!  :wink:

 

As in "trainspotting"?

Not just one event, but the next three conferences.....

 

Ohio Optometric Association to move conference to Cleveland's new convention center

By JAY MILLER

2:04 pm, August 27, 2012

 

The Ohio Optometric Association's annual EastWest Eye Conference will move to the under-construction Cleveland Convention Center in 2013, 2014 and 2015.

 

The optometrists' meeting will attract 1,500 attendees and 100 exhibitors, who are expected to book 1,125 room nights in downtown hotels, according to MMPI Inc., the developer and manager of the new trade show complex.

 

The conference dates are Oct. 3-5, 2013; Oct. 9-11, 2014; and Oct. 1-4, 2015.

 

READ MORE AT:

http://www.crainscleveland.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120827/FREE/120829843

^Not to be  downer, but sounds like this isn't really a net gain for the city...

 

Cleveland is the traditional home to this event. This year's conference will be at Cleveland Public Auditorium on Oct. 4-7.

As in "trainspotting"?

 

of course!

Cuyahoga County wants to hide Amtrak station from convention center view

 

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Cleveland's downtown Amtrak station is so ugly that Cuyahoga County wants to hide it from visitors to its grand new convention center.

 

"The Amtrak station is an unsightly obstruction," said Jeff Appelbaum, the county's point man for the $465 million medical mart and convention center under construction on the downtown bluff overlooking the tracks.

 

The squat brown, 36-year-old building sits center stage in the vista from the convention center's floor-to-ceiling ballroom windows. So the county has hired a landscape architect to make suggestions -- possibly blocking the station -- before the convention center opens next July.

 

Appelbaum also wants to replace the tall trees north of the station with something smaller, to open up the view to Browns Stadium, the Great Lakes Science Center and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame beyond.

 

http://www.cleveland.com/cuyahoga-county/index.ssf/2012/08/cuyahoga_county_wants_to_hide_amtrak_station_from_convention_center_view.html

While this article made me laugh... that building is pretty dang ugly!  lol Ive been curious what they are going to do with that space between the windows and the chain link fence along the tracks. 

They could just replace the Amtrak station. :-D

I take it that Tower City is out of the question since the tracks were built over/removed for the Courthouse Tower?  Is there any other approach that amtrack could take so that Tower City could indeed be an option?

Amtrak has funding for improving the station, but is awaiting the city which has a plan that could incorporate the Amtrak station in its planned transportation center, but is awaiting $20 million in funding:

http://planning.city.cleveland.oh.us/grants/index.php

______________

 

Contact Jeff Appelbaum:

216-566-5548

[email protected]

JHC, with all the problems we have getting trees to grow and reach maturity here in Downtown Cleveland, this dumb_ss wants to cut down trees for being too tall!  What a waste!

Amtrak has funding for improving the station, but is awaiting the city which has a plan that could incorporate the Amtrak station in its planned transportation center, but is awaiting $20 million in funding:

http://planning.city.cleveland.oh.us/grants/index.php

______________

 

Contact Jeff Appelbaum:

216-566-5548

[email protected]

 

Assuming the Port Authority Levy would cover the full $20M, the funding is now up to the voters this fall, no?

Amtrak has funding for improving the station, but is awaiting the city which has a plan that could incorporate the Amtrak station in its planned transportation center, but is awaiting $20 million in funding:

http://planning.city.cleveland.oh.us/grants/index.php

______________

 

Contact Jeff Appelbaum:

216-566-5548

[email protected]

 

Assuming the Port Authority Levy would cover the full $20M, the funding is now up to the voters this fall, no?

 

I think you and X are the only ones that read the article.  So yes the article mentions replacing the station east of the current one, but apparently that wouldnt happen soon enough..  It also mentions that they would likely use funds from the Port Levy if it passes for the construction.  The article also further verifies that Tower City is not an option for the station.     

 

Agree about the trees.  They never seem to have a chance to mature anywhere downtown, before being unnecessarily ripped out.   

Discuss restoring railroad service to Tower City here:

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php/topic,11674.0.html

 

Discuss Amtrak station issues here:

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php/topic,2068.0.html

 

Back to the convention center/med mart.......

http://apps1.mmart.com/cmmc/

 

The CCMM website has an interactive floor plan now to view room sizes and get a 3D perspective of a some of the rooms.

The glass for the main wall is going up! A little hard to see but you can see it in the middle area.

I'm thinking a building's happiest day is the day it stops raining inside of it.

Visit to new Cleveland convention center, medical mart reveals big, raw structures

 

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- One of the perks of a press pass is that you get to go inside construction fences and see massive building projects up close.

 

http://blog.cleveland.com/architecture/2012/09/a_visit_to_the_construction_si.html#incart_river_default

How can you get LEED certification with the use of so much styrofoam?  (kidding..... sort of)

How can you get LEED certification with the use of so much styrofoam?  (kidding..... sort of)

 

It's all recycled styrofoam  :-D  :-D  :-D

How can you get LEED certification with the use of so much styrofoam?  (kidding..... sort of)

Styrofoam has great insulating qualities. They even build the walls of some Habitat for Humanity homes with Styrofoam in the walls.

Styrofoam™ and "styrofoam" aren't the same thing. Additionally, even if they were the same the way you utilize something particularly in respect to time and the realities of it's disposal are easily justifiable differences to sway the value of the substance to a certification like LEED.

How can you get LEED certification with the use of so much styrofoam?  (kidding..... sort of)

They're going for LEED Silver not Platinum.

I took another tour of the CCMM today.

31 conferences have been book so far with about half being medical related.

MM has 20 signed leases covering about 40% of the space.  Some heavy weight names were mentioned as ones we are likely to see there...Siemens, Phillips etc.  They also plan to have '"room of the future" type areas.  I don't recall this thought before or maybe I'm recalling that mentioned with that project in Tennessee.

 

They are ahead of schedule (which we all know) and actually under budget right now. :clap:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

One of two connecting stair/hallways to the PA

 

 

 

 

Views from on top of the raised mall area at the main entry.

 

 

I'll post more in the Photos threads.

I like it.

Does anyone know if the bleachers on mall C are going to have windows underneath so you can see down into yhe Convention Center? In the renderings they look like the are backed by glass panels

Cuyahoga County wants to hide Amtrak station from convention center view

 

CLEVELAND, Ohio Cleveland's downtown Amtrak station is so ugly that Cuyahoga County wants to hide it from visitors to its grand new convention center.

 

"The Amtrak station is an unsightly obstruction," said Jeff Appelbaum, the county's point man for the $465 million medical mart and convention center under construction on the downtown bluff overlooking the tracks.

 

The squat brown, 36-year-old building sits center stage in the vista from the convention center's floor-to-ceiling ballroom windows. So the county has hired a landscape architect to make suggestions -- possibly blocking the station -- before the convention center opens next July.

 

Appelbaum also wants to replace the tall trees north of the station with something smaller, to open up the view to Browns Stadium, the Great Lakes Science Center and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame beyond.

 

http://www.cleveland.com/cuyahoga-county/index.ssf/2012/08/cuyahoga_county_wants_to_hide_amtrak_station_from_convention_center_view.html

 

We need better rail connection to the MMPI conv. center (Amtrak/RTA) and yet, we get from from officials how ugly the train station is and how best to hide it.  Can you say bassackwards?

 

Aside from this stupidity, I'm very impressed with the scale and seeming quality of the new CC and excited for its opening.

It is a disappointment that here was no talk in how to integrate the CC into RTA's Rapid lines. That said I can't say that I disagree that the Amtrak station is ugly and unsightly. The article did however, mention a deal with the Port Authority, which I assume would move the station further west and out of sight of the convention center.

It is a disappointment that here was no talk in how to integrate the CC into RTA's Rapid lines.

 

Not true. The Multimodal Lakefront Transportation Center provides for that. It's not as direct or as clearly defined as I would like, but there is a way to get between the two mostly in a climate-protected way. I'm hopeful that this pedestrian linkage will be enhanced in the final design.

I know about the multi modal center, but i was talking about this article specifically. It was disappointing it wasn't really mentioned in this article and instead it was only mentioned how ugly the station is. Something everyone knew already.

Unfortunately, as often is the case, if you want to find out what's going on in Cleveland, you can often learn more by searching the Web for information rather than by relying on the local fishwrap. Often times, the local media gives you a hint that something's happening but they don't grasp or convey the scope, scale or context of the project. That, sadly, is up to the reader to seek out the rest of the story......

While wandering on my lunch playing with my new camera I found a lot of progress at the CC/MM...!  Here are some shots

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You have a good eye with that new camera.

Nice pics Clinton!

interesting. i had the same views a month ago. its very noticably much further along since then. remarkable progress for such a big project.

I dont understand why the windows in the front of he Medical Mart building are flesh with the building while the windows on the sides of Medical Mart are not and have an ugly black border around them. They look mismatched.

Does anyone know where the bleachers on Mall C lead to? I noticed they have stairs leading down to somewhere....

^I don't know if those are bleachers but they are emergency egress stairs out of the ball room & support areas below Mall C.

I have seen the MM rendering hundreds of times, but I never realized how cool that the sight lines to the lake would be until I saw your pic mrclifton, thanks!