Jackson will lead a 13-person delegation of port, civic and union leaders to the Port of Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Adam Wasserman, president of the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority, has said docks and warehouses on the downtown lakefront could realize more business by linking with Halifax.
Big, ocean-going freighters carrying containers could avoid the congestion of East Coast ports by docking at Halifax and transferring cargo to smaller ships, as Wasserman and other business-development specialists on the Great Lakes see it… (go to article)
Advisers with experience in urban waterfront design have reported to the Cleveland area’s port authority that potential exists to make changes that would enhance the city’s attractiveness and business climate.
Whether that can happen remains a long-term hope.
Cleveland needs to look at what other cities have accomplished, from Baltimore to Bilboa, Spain, according to a study New York-based Ehrenkrantz, Eckstut&Kuhn Architects has begun for the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority, which oversees docks and cargo storage along Cleveland’s shoreline… (go to article)
This video was made to promote the upcoming summit about creating a sustainable Cleveland by the year 2019. For more info on the summit from August 12-14, visit here… (go to article)
Cleveland’s bid for ‘My Games Rock 2014′ includes opening and closing ceremonies at Cleveland Browns Stadium and 34 sports — 24 required events, including swimming, basketball, figure skating and softball, as well as nontraditional events, such as beach volleyball and, in a first for the games, rodeo — that would take place downtown and in Akron… (go to article)
As the dream of passenger rail between Cleveland and Cincinnati moves closer to reality — with officials seeking up to $400 million in federal stimulus money and Amtrak undertaking a study — communities along the line are lobbying for a stop. It even has spawned competition in parts of the state.
The towns know the initial odds are slim because the startup would focus on stations in the large cities of Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton and Cincinnati, with only a few stops in between, said Stu Nicholson, spokesman for the Ohio Rail Development Commission, an independent agency within the Ohio Department of Transportation… (go to article)
Why is it that so many cities have turned to large real estate projects to attempt to restart growth, turning away from strategies that previously made them successful?
The answer possibly lies in structural economic changes resulting from the nationalization and globalization of industry. Up until the 1990’s, many businesses, such as retailing, utilities, some manufacturing, and especially banking operated on a regional or local basis. The meant that the civic leadership of a community was heavily dominated by businessmen, again, especially bankers, whose success was dependent on the overall macroeconomic health of the particular city or region they were located in… (go to article)
GARDEN OF COSMIC SPECULATION Portrack, Scotland (2002)
Charles Jencks with Maggie Keswick
How does design commemorate the history of place and respond intellectually to the reuse of post industrial waste? In this project, Charles Jencks leverages land ownership to have Network Rail fund a new bridge and linear garden, which utilizes the waste from the old bridge and rail bed to create an intriguing gesture in the Scottish landscape… (go to article)
When Dr. Marcus Eriksen describedsailing in a raft made from 15,000 plastic pop bottles and dipping his sample jar into what he calls “the plastic soup” of the Pacific Ocean, it was a serious wake up call. Eriksen has inspired the Lake Erie Boat Float—build your own junk raft and sail it from Edgewater with Erikson this October to raise awareness of the thousands of pounds of plastic washing into our water… (go to article)
Cuyahoga County is office shopping again.
County commissioners Tim Hagan and Peter Lawson Jones today gave county administrators approval to seek offers for the lease of space for the county’s long-term office needs as soon as 2011.
The county is taking the action in case it needs the land under the county administration building at Ontario Street and Lakeside Avenue in downtown Cleveland for the planned medical merchandise mart.
Medical mart developer Merchandise Mart Properties Inc. of Chicago has made plans to put the medical mart at St. Clair Avenue and Ontario, where private owners control the land and are negotiating with MMPI to sell it… (go to article)
As the First & Main shopping district approaches its five-year anniversary Oct. 9, some merchants worry that tenants may not renew when their leases expire. Northeast Ohio’s first mixed-use, open-air shopping center has already lost three retailers this year, and other business owners admit they’re weighing their options.
Huggy’s Fine Chocolate and Nuts and Fundamentals Creative Toys left after the Christmas holidays, The Shoe Gallery closed its doors in June, and two of the three empty spaces on the second floor have never been occupied… (go to article)
This past Sunday we went on an exploration of League Park, one of Cleveland’s forgotten (especially with the Cleveland’s Indians current record) jewels. Currently sitting vacant League Park is under scrutiny of a the Leage Park Society, a 501(c)(3), who exists to “Restore, Preserve and Revitzlize both the ballpark and it’s surrounding (Hough) neighborhood”.
The historic context of League Park, as the Cleveland Indian’s home ballpark, host to the 1920 World Series and home to the Cleveland Buckeye’s is preserved in the heart of any true baseball fan.
One of Cleveland’s many forgotten community gems… (go to article)
My concern pivots on the impending closing. This amazing community that happened to have congregated at St. Cecilia’s for the past 90 years will soon be dispersed and that truly fills my heart with sorrow. While I can understand the pragmatism of such a decision I admit that a great part of me wonders just what sort of fate the community and these parishioners are being handed. At a time when we all need to lean on our neighbor a little bit more, when we all need to watch out for each other with a little more tenacity, when we need to be willing to open our eyes and our hearts a little wider I find the systematic weakening of our core communities a littleunforgivable and honestly am fearful of the greater implications to our fair city…(go to article)
“If you start kinda looking over your shoulder too much and start being conservative and start being institutionalized, then I, then we’ve died and I shut the doors, I want to go out with a bang”. – Andrew Freear
A documentary film about Samuel Mockbee and Rural Studio. Someone get this in Cleveland please. Cleveland AIA you KNOW I am looking at you guys.
People and place matter. What a novel idea, seriously…(go to article)
Development on downtown Cleveland’s lakefront must cater to all residents, not just the wealthy. And efforts to boost the urban lakefront’s appeal must start now.
Those sentiments emerged Thursday night from a sparse crowd hearing the latest plans to energize and develop land from North Coast Harbor to the Cuyahoga River.
That 100-acre swath features the gray, windswept docks and warehouses operated by the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority.
But port leaders, with the city’s support, are in serious pursuit of a 25- to 30-year plan to move operations to East 55th Street and open up land north and west of Cleveland Browns Stadium to what they envision as a world-class development that could help revive downtown…(go to article)
Developer Lou Frangos says he can bring new tenants to empty office buildings in the former Ameritrust complex — if he can resolve a legal snarl with Cuyahoga County.
Frangos, who owns land beneath one of the buildings, made a presentation to county commissioners during their regular meeting Thursday. His pitch: Settling a lawsuit about a county lease on Frangos’ land will enable renovations of the P and H office buildings on East Ninth Street. Those renovations, Frangos says, could bring two tenants and hundreds of jobs to East Ninth and Euclid Avenue…(go to article)
Ingenuity Cleveland
Friday, July 10 4pm – 1am
Saturday, July 11 noon – 1am
Sunday, July 12 noon – 8pm
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Last years ingenuity fest was an amazing collection of art/technology and most importantly LOCAL TALENT. The weather was amazing, Hot Sauce Williams had a stand (!), my MarJ met the Mayor and Pecha Kucha was rather invigorating (and impressive).
I hope some of you will join me this weekend to participate in the wonder. There will be art stuff and culture (don’t worry, it washes off), music, food, and lots of Clevelanders.
ps. Pecha Kucha night is Friday at 8.20…(go to article)
via brewedfreshdaily Cleveland was initially promised $200 million of Ohio’s stimulus money to help build a five-lane bridge to replace the 50-year-old Innerbelt Bridge, which is so deteriorated that officials banned heavy truck traffic on it last fall. But state officials, worried about meeting federal deadlines, took back $115 million in stimulus money and decided to use it on shovel-ready projects elsewhere… (go to article)
Redevelopment plans in the works for downtown Kent will be the focus of two upcoming public meetings to give residents and business owners a chance to discuss several projects.
Three key components will be at the center of the discussions.
The first project involves plans by the Portage Area Regional Transportation Authority to build a multi-modal transit facility. The estimated $12 million complex would include a bus transit center, vehicle parking and retail establishments. The multi-modal facility is currently in the design phase and a final location has not been set, but the project would be located in the area of Haymaker Parkway, East Main, South DePeyster and Erie streets… (go to article)
Thanks to the advocacy of the GreenCityBlueLake Institute in recent months, regional plans in Northeast Ohio will be changed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from transportation. This is very important because the transportation sector is responsible for 28% of the region’s carbon dioxide emissions that are heating up the planet… (go to article)
VADER HOUSE Melbourne, Australia (2008)
Andrew Maynard Architects
This house fits well into its context while adding a contemporary modern attitude with well detailed interior elements… (go to article)
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