Archive for February, 2008
“LEAP NIGHT
February 29, 2008
East Bank of the Flats (where Dick’s Last Resort was recently torn the heck down)
Old River Road
Cleveland, OH
6pm - 11pm
googlemap
A pop up experience with food, fun, and spectacle in the Flats East Bank…” (go to article)
Read more from the newest addition to the Cleveland Design City community! Cleveland architecture and design blog Improvising Schema has been added to the Cleveland Design City feeds at right: “Likewise, the CUDC (Cleveland Urban Design Center) did a great job of kick-starting this year’s Pop-Up temporary installation with a workshop earlier today. Berlin-based landscape architect and [...]
“But the Willoughby-based developer has not given up, and chief executive Doug Price might know as soon as Tuesday whether he’ll take a second shot at remaking a major corner of downtown. A second round of bidding on the property could start early next week, with the county offering new financing terms for developers willing [...]
“While the loan request was unacceptable, Commissioner Peter Lawson Jones was optimistic, saying, ‘We now have two wonderful alternatives.’
Those alternatives, he said, are rebidding the project with a change in terms that would be more attractive to K&D or another buyer, or going ahead with earlier plans to use the site for a new county [...]
“The Cleveland Clinic and University Hospitals will pay $6.25 million over 25 years to name the nine-mile Euclid Corridor route the HealthLine.
The deal could jump to $18 million if RTA sells sponsorships for 10 stations along the route over the life of the agreement. Hospital and RTA representatives will unveil the logo today at the [...]
“Unlike his soon-to-be Democratic opponent, the traditionally urban, Chicago-based Barack Obama, John McCain hails from the American Southwest, a surging, spawling, and very dynamic region of the country. Although Phoenix is usually panned, like sister city Houston, for its uncontrollable growth, these cities possess the DNA of true American urbanism–an essential suburban horizontalism. These new [...]
“So we offer our endorsement of Barack Obama for the Democratic Presidential Nomination. Although both talked about the investment in infrastructure, we feel that a President Obama would make more robust investment in urban infrastructures. Obama possesses an idealism that will most likely produce urban renewal-like programs on the scale of LBJ’s Great Society, which [...]
“The 32 Annual Cleveland International Film Festival has a ’section committed to green awareness’ entitled ‘It’s Easy Being Green’ and features five films -
The Green Chain
Mountain Top Removal
The Planet
The Return of the Cuyahoga
Flow, for the Love of Water…” (go to article)
“I knew the KD deal was weak but I didn’t realize that the County was angling to use its failure as an excuse to move forward with poor planning decisions (the implementation of the original Ameritrust plan). I wish the FBI would step in and start investigating the County government’s current deals regarding the Airport [...]
“We here at BOTC are disappointed in the lack of response by all the candidates. Issues of infrastructure and its effects upon our urban, suburban, exurban, and rural landscapes + collective urbanims will be at the forefront of the next Congress and many congresses in the future. Since no candidates, including assumed poll leaders Joe [...]
“County commissioners will re-open bidding for the property, but their $35-million asking price for the buildings at East Ninth Street and Euclid Avenue will not be reduced.
Thrown out was a proposal to buy the site from the K&D Group, of Willoughby. The developer originally planned to pay $20 million up front, with the balance paid [...]
“Chris Warren, chief of regional development for Mayor Frank Jackson, said the administration believes the port’s plan can achieve goals of building the local economy, strengthening neighborhoods and affording public access.
The Greater Cleveland Partnership, the area’s leading business-advocacy group, “fully supports” the project, said Deb Janik, the group’s senior vice president for real estate and [...]
“1/3 Movie Night
2008 02.21
Bela Dubby Coffee House
7pm +/-…” (go to article)
“Hey, Improvising Schema (formerly Improvised Schema…) is back!
Welcome back to Cleveland archi-blogging…” (go to article)
“A vacant lot will become a bustling winter wonderland on Leap Night, February 29, 2008 from 6-11 p.m. The free event open to the public will be held at 1100 Old River Road (between Main Avenue and Front Street).
Leap Night will feature a snow and ice installation, a winter forest complete with costume bears, music, [...]
“Baraka, filmed in 24 different countries means “blessing” in multiple languages.
A film about the inter-connectedness of human life through powerful
imagery, transcending spoken word.
for more info: http://www.spiritofbaraka.com/
What: 1:3 Movie Night. A LAUNCH Cleveland Event
When: February 21, 7pm (ish)
Where: Bela Dubby, 13321 Madison Avenue Lakewood, Ohio…” (go to article)
“Dettmer is an artist who with incredible rigor and craft is able to manipulate objects to reveal hidden meanings and messages in quite powerful ways.
What: AIAS KSU CAED Spring Lecture Series 2008
When: February 20 2008, 7:30pm
Where: Michael Schwartz Center Kent, OH…” (go to article)
“Blog on the City, a local Cleveland architecture, urban design, and landscape blog, is looking to make endorsements for the March 4 primaries. We are part of the greater Cleveland Design City Network (http://www.clevelanddesigncity.com/), an aggregator of all known Cleveland architecture + urban design blog sites which frequently comment on our region’s design endeavors.
We are [...]
“The port board considered eight sites under an $850,000 relocation study. In December, the board voted unanimously for a 200-acre peninsula, north of East 55th, as its preferred site.
Preliminary drawings show a massive rectangle jutting into the lake, inside the west breakwall. The layout yields more dock space for the increased shipping port leaders hope [...]
“The Cleveland developer has sold a dozen townhomes along Superior Avenue, where the first handful of residents moved in late last year. Of the 58 or so lofts rising at St. Clair Avenue and East 12th Street, about 29 are spoken for - including penthouses priced between $835,000 and $1.2 million.
Construction workers plan to top [...]
