Posted June 21, 200717 yr Wednesday, July 18, 2007 12:00 PM The Changing Face of Cleveland: Getting a Lift in Arts Districts Dan Cuffaro, Dr. Ned Hill, and Matt Zone http://www.cityclub.org/content/speakers/SpeakerDetail.aspx?spkID=5497 Change may be inevitable, but all changes are not created equal. Three examples of our town’s changing face are presented in this two-part series. They demonstrate the commitment of leaders to the revitalization of the mother city, which, despite the abandonment of recent decades, is considered ripe for renewal. The initiatives featured are at the forefront of that renewal, not just for their economic impact but also for the imprint left on the social and cultural lives of its people. The geographic band, running from the Detroit-Shoreway neighborhood to the West, through Midtown Cleveland, and terminating at our great cultural University Circle area, offers three clusters of community development that mark the fresh face of our urban landscape. Plain Dealer art & architecture critic Steve Litt will moderate. A restored Capitol Theatre, a transplanted Near West Theatre, and a fresh new streetscape are just a few features of the renewal of the Detroit & W. 65th Street crossroads. Ward 17 councilman Matt Zone is the driving force behind the Gordon Square Cultural Arts District development. He will report on how the Arts District effort will bring excitement and a new prosperity to this historic neighborhood. The Cleveland District of Design is an innovative development concept created by Dan Cuffaro, chair of the Department of Industrial Design at the Cleveland Institute of Art (CIA), and Dr. Ned Hill, vice-president of economic development for Cleveland State University, to define Cleveland as the product design capital of the U.S.—The Milan of the Midwest. The concept is a natural for Cleveland, which has been a leader in industrial design dating back to the days when Viktor Shreckengost established the first such program in the country at CIA. With the Euclid Corridor as its core, the District will gather together the best consumer design talent of the region and beyond to provide a marketplace of showrooms displaying original consumer product design.
June 21, 200717 yr yes, it's a slogan they've been using since the beginning... I think the founders are already tired of it, but they keep using it anyway!
June 22, 200717 yr The Midwest already has a Milan. Milan (My-lan), Ohio, 30 miles west of Cleveland. So the job is taken.
June 22, 200717 yr ooops! looks like they'll have to think of something new! I have a suggestion, lets call it the "Cleveland District of Design"
June 22, 200717 yr yes, but then what will their catchy catch phrase be? BTW, if this is the "other" thread you're talking about, this was supposed to be an events post on the UO calendar. It's not my fault the discussion has taken off from there!
June 23, 200717 yr yes, but then what will their catchy catch phrase be? BTW, if this is the "other" thread you're talking about, this was supposed to be an events post on the UO calendar. It's not my fault the discussion has taken off from there! ahh...so thats what happened.
June 23, 200717 yr Or "Milan, the Cleveland of Italy"! As for other names, how 'bout: Logo A-Gogo Compass Quarter Templatetown T-Square Shreckengost Center Portfolio Place Product Piccadilly Lorem Ipsum "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
June 23, 200717 yr ^How about "Cleveland: The Cleveland of the Midwest...deal with it!" That's thinking small. I'm thinking "Cleveland: The Cleveland of the WORLD*...deal with it!" * WORLD is a registered trademark of Cleveland, OH. Offer not valid in TN or TX. Cleveland is not affilitiated with Cleveland, UK.
June 23, 200717 yr ^How about "Cleveland: The Cleveland of the Midwest...deal with it!" That's thinking small. I'm thinking "Cleveland: The Cleveland of the WORLD*...deal with it!" * WORLD is a registered trademark of Cleveland, OH. Offer not valid in TN or TX. Cleveland is not affilitiated with Cleveland, UK. love(s)it! Not to be confused with LovesIt!
July 18, 200717 yr This could have gone in a number of threads. I choose here. Crain's: Large arts and cultural district in works By SHANNON MORTLAND 3:02 pm, July 18, 2007 Numerous local organizations are working together to create an arts, commercial and cultural district that spans from about West 74th Street to University Circle. The district actually would be a collection of smaller redevelopment areas along Detroit and Euclid avenues, including the Gordon Square Arts District, the commercial design district and other redevelopment under way along Euclid Avenue. The projects were discussed at the City Club today by a panel comprising Dan Cuffaro, chairman of the Department of Industrial Design at the Cleveland Institute of Art; Ned Hill, vice president of economic development at Cleveland State University; and Cleveland councilman Matt Zone. Mr. Zone said he expects the $24 million revitalization planned for the Detroit Avenue and West 65th Street area to be a national tourist attraction. With the renovation of Cleveland Public Theatre, the restoration of the Capitol Theatre and the construction of the Near West Theatre, he likened the neighborhood to SoHo or Greenwich Village in New York — both of which don’t need a state attached to their name when talked about. The Euclid Corridor project is the foundation for the District of Design planned for the area near Playhouse Square and Cleveland State. Dr. Hill said the project, spearheaded by Cleveland State and the art institute, intends to bring commercial design studios and showrooms to the area. At present, those studios and showrooms are scattered throughout Greater Cleveland, including the suburbs. Mr. Cuffaro said he hopes to add more value to the district by providing consumer design workshops and speakers. Dr. Hill said for the first time in the 22 years he has lived in Cleveland, the region is working together on multiple civic projects at once. “It was like walking and chewing gum at the same time; they just couldn’t do it,” he said. http://www.crainscleveland.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070718/FREE/70718014/1094/newsletter01
July 18, 200717 yr ^? Ugh, enough with the "districts" already. I like each of these projects and am happy they are being pursued at the same time, but don't understand why/how this would constitute a single "arts district." Don't really understand Zone's need to allude to SoHo or Greenwich Village either. Silly, IMHO.
July 18, 200717 yr Yeah, that's reeeeallly stretching it - I mean, I'm glad to see Detroit-Shoreway's progress but ain't no way that it will resemble this anytime soon: clevelandskyscrapers.com Cleveland Skyscrapers on Instagram
July 18, 200717 yr I think he means in name recognition. There is one thing to point out to peeps, just because NYC has street level occupancy, that doesn't mean the upper floors are occupied. NYC is a strange beast in that manner.
July 18, 200717 yr No more "Italian city of the Midwest" crap! God I hate that! Let's see, we have Milwaukee, the Venice of the Midwest; Chicago, Paris or Milan of the Midwest; and I'm sure all of our other fellow MW cities have coined themselves one city or another. God, please don't let Detroit call itself the Monaco of the Midwest because they have gambling and like cars! :-o As corny as it sounds, we need to push to be CLEVELAND! As long as we keep coming up with stupid wannabe knicknames for the city, most people will never take it seriously. Oh, and if we're going to be Milan, let's enforce a dresscode for downtown night venues b/c frankly, there are too many people that look like they came from Parma! No offense but does anyone on UO live in Parma? :wink:
July 19, 200717 yr An area within a city neighborhood that already has a name? Yes, another unnecessary "district." ^^Cleveland's "official" nickname is and will always be the "The Forest City." The inspiration for the nickname is still evedident in these pics from KCgridlock's post on UO more than 175 years later. No need to change it.
July 20, 200717 yr God, please don't let Detroit call itself the Monaco of the Midwest because they have gambling and like cars! :-o I think I heard that Detroit was actually called something like the Paris of the Midwest in the 19th century because of the supposed magnificence of its architecture. On topic, I agree that it's ridiculous to market such a giant swath of the city as any single district. Cleveland's "official" nickname is and will always be the "The Forest City." The inspiration for the nickname is still evedident in these pics from KCgridlock's post on UO more than 175 years later. No need to change it. I showed a friend from a Boston exurb the google satellite image of Cleveland, and the first thing she said was "Wow, there are so many trees!"
July 20, 200717 yr No more "Italian city of the Midwest" crap! God I hate that! Let's see, we have Milwaukee, the Venice of the Midwest; Chicago, Paris or Milan of the Midwest; and I'm sure all of our other fellow MW cities have coined themselves one city or another. God, please don't let Detroit call itself the Monaco of the Midwest because they have gambling and like cars! :-o As corny as it sounds, we need to push to be CLEVELAND! As long as we keep coming up with stupid wannabe knicknames for the city, most people will never take it seriously. Oh, and if we're going to be Milan, let's enforce a dresscode for downtown night venues b/c frankly, there are too many people that look like they came from Parma! No offense but does anyone on UO live in Parma? :wink: Cleveland. Just plain Cleveland. Not Cleveland, Tenn. or Cleveland, Miss. Just Cleveland. Even Time Magazine lets Cleveland stand alone without attaching "Ohio" to it. I was born in Cleveland: I never say "Cleveland, Ohio", and I never say just "Ohio". Cleveland. Oh yeah ...
July 20, 200717 yr Even Time Magazine lets Cleveland stand alone without attaching "Ohio" to it. That's because they follow AP Wire Style. We at the print factories are issued the AP Wire Style guidebook (or simply called "The Style Book") where all our questions to how cities, official titles, products, agencies or anything else are to be presented in a consistent manner. Some things in them don't make sense, but most do. Either way, that's how we must write or it will be changed by editors to conform to style. "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
July 20, 200717 yr Even Time Magazine lets Cleveland stand alone without attaching "Ohio" to it. That's because they follow AP Wire Style. We at the print factories are issued the AP Wire Style guidebook (or simply called "The Style Book") where all our questions to how cities, official titles, products, agencies or anything else are to be presented in a consistent manner. Some things in them don't make sense, but most do. Either way, that's how we must write or it will be changed by editors to conform to style. Partially true KJP. Besides, TIME has a watch dog the closely watches any article about Cleveland!
July 20, 200717 yr ^^Why do most major news outlets use Tenn. instead of TN? Because it's in the AP stylebook that way. California is Calif., Florida is Fla., Minnesota is Minn. etc. But, I don't think the stylebook allows us to shorten Maine, Iowa and possibly Ohio. Yet we rarely use Ohio after city names because, under AP style, if you are already in that state and writing about it, you don't include the state ID after the town name. How's that for TMI?!?! "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
July 20, 200717 yr 42 states are abbreviated ... Alaska, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Maine, Ohio, Texas and Utah are not (the two states that are not part of the continental U.S. and the six continental states that are five letters or less). And even nationally, Cleveland and Cincy stand alone in stories ... but it doesn't look like Columbus does ... probably because of the number of Columbuses nationwide. Now that's too much information!
July 20, 200717 yr Surprise!! "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
July 21, 200717 yr ^^Why do most major news outlets use Tenn. instead of TN? From what I understand, TN is a postal abbreviation only, and is stylistically incorrect in other formats. Even Time Magazine lets Cleveland stand alone without attaching "Ohio" to it. That's because they follow AP Wire Style. We at the print factories are issued the AP Wire Style guidebook (or simply called "The Style Book") where all our questions to how cities, official titles, products, agencies or anything else are to be presented in a consistent manner. Some things in them don't make sense, but most do. Either way, that's how we must write or it will be changed by editors to conform to style. The fact that Cleveland stands alone in the AP style book is my point exactly.
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