“Part of the old Flats begins disappearing today as wrecking crews start razing the last buildings on Old River Road north of Main Avenue in Cleveland.
Empty buildings that once housed Flats stalwarts from Old River Road’s stint from the 1980s through the late 1990s as a hot nightspot will fall to make way for the $500 million Flats East Bank Neighborhood. Among the structures coming down are the former homes of Tangerine Farley’s, which more recently was House of Brews, and Circus Circus, more recently The Hustler Club…” (go to article)
“We all live in a watershed—the land area draining into a river or lake. This weekend, be a steward of your watershed by joining the year’s biggest volunteer clean up effort: the 19th annual RiverSweep. As part of the upcoming Cleveland Bicycle Week, participants are encouraged to bike to the event...” (go to article)
“At its regular meeting Tuesday morning, the port authority’s regional economic advancement committee postponed a recommendation to make changes to the Flats development agreement until committee members have time to digest the changes requested by the Wolstein Group and Fairmount Properties, the project’s developers…” (go to article)
“Lakewood Art Walk.pdf
Saturday, May 17, 2008
Various locations along Madison (check the pdf map, fool!)
2pm - 9pm…” (go to article)
“Tremont Art Walk
Friday, May 9th, 2008
Tremont, Ohio
6-10pm
Walk around, enjoy the beautiful weather, look at stuff, etc…” (go to article)
Launch Cleveland
Launch Happy Hour
Thursday, May 8th
6pm-9pm
Johnny’s Little Bar
614 Frankfort Avenue, Warehouse District
(around the corner from Johnny’s Downtown at West 6th and Frankfort)
Open to all
“In order to actually keep this thing moving along the fine folks at LAUNCH Cleveland have joined w/ |re|decle to celebrate the community based idea of taking back the streets. With this in mind a whole new series of charrettes is being offered at LAUNCH based upon the premise of studying existing street conditions and questioning what would make them better…” (go to article)
“Ernst & Young could occupy more than 150,000 square feet of a 20- to 21-story office building planned for a block bounded by Main Avenue, Front Street and West 9th and 10th streets. The firm is the second confirmed tenant for the building, which also will house law firm Tucker Ellis & West LLP…” (go to article)
“Greater Ohio reports that it added staff to “monitor and present to the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio as it develops rules to implement” a renewable portfolio standard. The group also reports that it played a role in upcoming legislation that deals with the siting of renewable energy generation, such as wind turbines…” (go to article)
“Lets meet this Tuesday (May 6th) if we can. Bring your questions to
ask during the video interviews if you have any to put together.
Also, keep thinking of a URL name if’n you want something special for
the website.
6.00pm
Blind Pig…” (go to article)
“The premise is a series of calls for ideas for various sites around Cleveland that could be possibly better used in order to create a stronger sense of community. These “queries” are asking for some sort of documentation of the ideas that designers, planners, neighbors typically muse over as a way to collect and demonstrate the full range and potential of how we, as a city, would like to see ourselves…” (go to article)
“May is National Bike Month and even though we got off to a wet and cold start there is no better time to get your heap out of the garage or basement, check the tires, chain and brakes, wipe off the cobwebs (and pull them out of your helmet) and go see your town or run errands without requiring any of that expensive gasoline.
Here in Cleveland we actually celebrate our own special Cleveland Bike Week (May 10th to May 17th) with a series of events, workshops and gatherings…” (go to article)
“County Commissioner Peter Lawson Jones said Friday that he and Commissioners Tim Hagan and Jimmy Dimora want to look at the largely vacant land in the Warehouse District from the northwest corner of Public Square west to West Sixth Street, and from Superior Avenue on the south to St. Clair Avenue on the north.
Three other sites are under consideration, including the existing convention center beneath the downtown Mall, the Cuyahoga riverfront behind Tower City Center and the lakefront west of Browns Stadium.
Jones also confirmed that the county would hold a public hearing on the pros and cons of the four sites on Thursday, May 22, probably in the early evening, at a location yet to be determined…” (go to article)
“May is a big bicycling month in Greater Cleveland. With plenty of rides, events and a conference, many expect an outcome of a stronger bike community who’s energized to help Cleveland accomplish its goal of becoming a Bicycle Friendly Community. Here are some of the highlights…” (go to article)
“Robert C. Gaede, a statesman for Cleveland historic preservation has passed away April 16th. He was a founding member and lifelong trustee of the Cleveland Restoration Society and served as the editor of Facade, the Cleveland Restoration Society’s publication for three decades as well as volunteering for many preservation non-profit organizations and causes…” (go to article)
“Last year Youngstown 2010—a partnership between the city’s planning department and Youngstown State University—unveiled a comprehensive plan to reduce nonessential infrastructure, attract new businesses, and rehab deteriorated and abandoned spaces. In fact Youngstown is the first city in the United States to adopt this disarming approach to the problems of population decline. ‘It’s politically and professionally uncomfortable to face the shrinkage of a city or region, even though it may be staring you in the face,’ says Frank Popper, an urban-planning professor at Rutgers and Princeton universities. ‘I think it’s enormously brave and creative and innovative of Youngstown to be taking on this task.’…” (go to article)
“The ports included in the initiative are in Baltimore, Portsmouth, Va., and Wilmington, N.C. CSX’s goal is to create easier access for more heavily laden freight cars between manufacturing centers in all parts of Ohio and the rest of the United States and the world.
The rail company already has purchased land in Wood County near North Baltimore and in Dublin, west of Columbus, on which to build the intermodal terminals that will facilitate transfer of containers between rail cars and trucks…” (go to article)
“After more than a year, Ohio Canal Corridor has figured out how to avoid the heavy metal barricades in the industrial Flats for Stage 1 of the Towpath Trail. The preferred route of this 1-mile section will wend from Harvard Road over the river and (practically) through the train tracks before rising 40 feet to meet the new trail at Steelyard Commons. The group unveils this engineering marvel at a June 17 public meeting...” (go to article)
“Superhighways built for bikes, a whopping 30 percent pedal to work and the corner store instead of driving, $110 million invested annually in bike infrastructure and education—the’re not only happy in Holland because of the coffeeshops, folks…” (go to article)
“His hopes are bouyed by the soon-to-be-released Northeast Ohio Mayors and Managers Association study that will recommend pathways for the region to boost its economic prospects and deal with the costs of fragmentation. The 23-member group studied the model of regionalism in the Twin Cities, and are expected to recommend a similar strategy of regional land-use and tax sharing in 16-county Northeast Ohio.
The costs of sprawl and redundant infrastructure are too high to ignore, Warren explains, as the region consumed 50% more land in the last decade while population and wealth flattened out…” (go to article)
