This started on another thread, but we figured it needed a new home...

 

I had a dream last night about Playhouse Square getting some new signage, really spicing things up and not just with cheesy "tickers" either.  And today, there was a post about some new signage that was being installed!

 

About 4 years ago, while living in Brooklyn, NY, I had a dream about Tyler Village in Cleveland.  It was about people living in the buildings with the bridges over the street and a commuter rail that pulled up right behind the building.  I had no idea what the buildings were called and couldn't even remember where exactly they were in the City, but when I got back in 2005, I was very happy to find out that these plans (minus the train) were well under way!

 

Your turn...

As I stated in the other thread already:

 

I've had this recurring dream about Cleveland where I'm in town for a visit, and the mass transportation is much improved. I can just hop on a train to take me almost anywhere, and it makes the city so much more enjoyable for me.

 

Sigh.

As I stated in the other thread already:

 

I've had this recurring dream about Cleveland where I'm in town for a visit, and the mass transportation is much improved. I can just hop on a train to take me almost anywhere, and it makes the city so much more enjoyable for me.

 

Sigh.

 

I think I would get really depressed if I had that dream and then woke up and realized it wasn't true.  Not that RTA isn't great and all....

As I stated in the other thread already:

 

I've had this recurring dream about Cleveland where I'm in town for a visit, and the mass transportation is much improved. I can just hop on a train to take me almost anywhere, and it makes the city so much more enjoyable for me.

 

Sigh.

 

I think I would get really depressed if I had that dream and then woke up and realized it wasn't true. Not that RTA isn't great and all....

 

You just described how I feel every time I wake up from that.

 

Siiigh.

I think I have Cleveland fantasy dreams pretty often.  Sometimes they involve great natural features (mountains, seals in lake Erie) that I had somehow never noticed before; more often they involve some awesome new transit line.  I wake up so happy...

 

On the other hand, I also have the occasional Cleveland angst dream, usually about the street in the burbs I grew up in being abandoned, burned out or cluttered with crappy commercial development.  Hate those dreams.

 

I keep having a dream where I'm in a restaurant atop a skyscraper that's taller than the neighboring Key Tower. It's murky/cloudy out and there are other skyscrapers nearby, but none of them exist in real life. There is an open balcony around the restaurant at the top of the skyscraper I'm in, and I'm running around trying to avoid someone who is trying to throw me off the balcony.

 

In another dream that repeats occasionally, I'm driving on I-90's Euclid spur between I-271 and Route 2. It's nighttime. As I come down the hill westbound, there's skyscrapers everywhere. I look to my left and the wall of skyscrapers extends all the way west along the lakeshore to downtown.

 

I'm sure there's a naked woman somewhere in these dreams, but I always wake up before I can approach her! In short, my dreams stink.  :x

Awww, poor KJP

Yeah OK. Wipe this....  :-o

Lol, I was trying to be consoling, really....

Oh my Cleveland dreams happen pretty frequently - great thread, Map Boy - next time I have one (probably will be soon) I'll come on!

 

The one that I remember recently that I've had involves a combination of SF & Cleveland (my two favorite cities).  I was walking along the Golden Gate Bridge but walking towards Cleveland - it was roughly where the Innerbelt is and when I got over it there were tons of press just walking around taking pictures of Cleveland and interviewing happy people.  Kind of strange.

I go to bed most nights thinking about Cincinnati and how ________ project is going to totally turn the city around! Couple _____ with _____ with _______ and OMG best city in the world!  Delusional, yes, but good to go to sleep to.

I wake up one morning and every designer boutique on Madison Avenue has decided to relocated to Euclid Avenue anchored by a flagship Barney's, Harvery Nick's and a 40 story residence tower and I'm in the PH!

 

Well, thats more of a wet dream, but a dream none-the-less.

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php/topic,14261.30.html  I posted the PD Crea article on Symon's new restaurant on the Symon thread. But my dream is that people like Chris Ferchill can wet dream or otherwise dream and we will have visionaries holding our purse strings who will say let's be different than we ever have, change the face of our foreclosed heavy neighborhoods, and bring in the Ferchill's et al to help get it done.

You'll want to read my reply to your post - could the leadership in Cleveland use a little more vision? Absolutely. And while he isn't beyond reproach, you don't see Frank Jackson being hauled off in handcuffs.

I actually like Frank Jackson.  I think we needed an 'accountant type' leader for a while to get us fiscally ship-shape.  I hope Detroit finds better leadership. I'm just hoping we can get some good ideas going to handle our neighborhood vacant housing issues. We have a good start with Opportunity Homes but we could use more.

 

I think we've got some good people working here like the Marin's and the Ferchills but I want more!

Why do you keep saying Ferchill in relation to cleveland?  He hasn't done anything of substance here for years.

I thought this thread was about actual dreams?

 

One I've had a couple of times is about walking around in a massive, ultramodern Tokyo-esque development around a man made lake in get this- Avon Lake.  It would be located about where Pin Oak Parkway ends into Center Road.

That's awesome, X.

 

And w28th, loosen up for crying out loud. This is about dreams, man. Goofy-ass, make-no-sense-sometimes, go-with-the-flow dreams. Just enjoy the ride they provide.

This is about dreams, man. Goofy-ass, make-no-sense-sometimes, go-with-the-flow dreams. Just enjoy the ride they provide.

 

Yeah. Like the kind that occur when you sleep. Literally, dreams.

 

Let's stay away from the "I wish my city had this.." kinda stuff. That's been in at least a couple threads already. This is more about the fact that our urban obsessions are so bad that they even affect our subconscious while we sleep.