Archive for December, 2007
Via Brewed Fresh Daily: “How long will the school district let this go on? Is the building for sale? Are they waiting until it is so far gone that the only option is demolition? Does a developer in cahoots with officials already have their eye on the land, but want it at a blighted bargain [...]
Via Cuyahoga County Planning Commission Weblog: “The biggest tax credit in Cleveland - $1.4 million - went to the Scott A. Rogers Co. Building that is part of the “University Lofts” project near Cleveland State University. The property at 2020 Euclid Ave. is the home of a new Barnes & Noble bookstore and will eventually [...]
“Year in Review” is posted in its entirety on Cleveland Design City below (to go to original post at Blog on the City, click here). Feel free to comment, or suggest additional high and low points for Cleveland design this year:
Overall, 2007 has been quite a year for design endeavors in Northeast Ohio. Interesting buildings [...]
“First off, the next meeting will be:
January 10th (a Thursday)
6pm
Blind Pig
With that in mind we are going to institute a “second thursday” rule so that it is apparent when the next meeting is. We will be meeting at the Blind Pig until spring moves us back outside. The idea is to have a regular meeting [...]
Cleveland Plain Dealer’s Art and Architecture Critic Steven Litt recaps the top stories of 2007: “Viewed through the lens of art and architecture, 2007 was a year of progress in Cleveland. The ups were bigger than the downs, but the question is whether the forces that could wreck the city and tear the region apart [...]
“Construction photos from Dec. 26, 2007 show progress at 1211 St. Clair Ave. in downtown Cleveland…” (go to article)
“The street signs are up at Site 3 of The Avenue District, where townhome buyers began moving in last month.
Located at Rockwell Avenue and the newly created E. 15th Street, Building One includes 10 townhomes, complete with parking garages and rooftop patios…” (go to article)
Via PLANetizen: “Only two states lost population. Michigan’s population dipped by three-tenths of a percent and Rhode Island saw a decrease of four-tenths of a percent. Ohio’s growth was virtually flat…” (go to article)
“Planners and policymakers nationwide, reacting to changes called for to slow a warming climate, are hotly debating whether the relentless outward spread of population necessarily translates into increased air pollution.
That’s why planners have to consider, for example, whether the privately funded and fast-tracked interchange to be built in Avon will add to air pollution in [...]
“We here at BOTC, in conjunction with Cleveland Design City, will be posting our year-end awards and commentary on the year that was 2007. We will be posting awards and ridicule about buildings, proposals, urban design schemes, infrastructural projects, architects, activitsts, and patrons that moved Cleveland design forward or inflicted irreversible harm.
Look back here on [...]
“If the sale closes, Price plans to go before the city’s Planning Commission early next month with requests to rehab the Atrium complex and demolish the bank building. In addition to making room for a pedestrian plaza with green space, knocking down the Dollar Bank building will allow Price to build an entrance ramp into [...]
“The Ohio Department of Transportation originally planned to build a new Interstate 90 bridge over the Cuyahoga River, then rehab the existing 48-year-old bridge, estimated to cost more than $140 million. But the state will speed up its repair plan and delay building the new bridge…” (go to article)
“A gentleman in Seattle (I hope I don’t embarrass him by calling him a gentleman) is instituting The First International Solar Sculpture Challenge 2008. There are rules stipulated in the challenge…” (go to article)
“Someone thought that this would make a handy de-icing material for roadways and so viola, beet juice road de-icing mixture which has already been tested in Akron may find its way onto more Ohio roads…” (go to article)
“One of Cleveland’s true Modernists has passed away…” (go to article)
“Anyway, there are only a couple of days left until the big Tuesday morning gift exchange. I wonder if one could hear the simultaneous sounds of millions of packages being unwrapped from space? I took a strange route this year. I didn’t do the internet thing so much, instead I tried to wander around some [...]
“The project, originally scheduled to begin in 2008, stalled because of escalating construction costs, money troubles and neighborhood con- troversies around the planning details.
Jackson said the city is working with the Ohio Department of Transportation to decide what can be done for $50 million.
ODOT has been noncommittal about the project’s most recent cost and timing [...]
As a part of Theodore’s thesis research, originally posted at Rockitecture and reposted at CDC for your viewing pleasure:
As a part of Theodore’s thesis research, originally posted at Rockitecture and reposted at CDC for your viewing pleasure:
“By a unanimous, 9-0 vote, the port authority board designated a location north of East 55th Street as a new home for its docks because of the site’s easy access to Interstate 90 and the lakefront railroad tracks and its potential for warehouse and industrial development south of the freeway.
The new port would be on [...]
