ClevelandDesignCity

“Incompletion is visible everywhere. Cleveland has three skyscrapers flanking the four-sided Public Square. In the Warehouse District, ruggedly handsome 19th-century commercial buildings are separated from one another by vast parking zones that await fresh development.

Tower City Center has a rough, nearly windowless wall facing Ontario Street on its southeastern flank, where a final office tower would complete the complex.

East Ninth Street, the city’s business spine, features a nearly continuous canyon of office buildings, many built since the early 1980s.

But a key ingredient was missing on Saturday: people. Aside from the hunger walkers and a few homeless men, East Ninth felt strangely like one of those empty city squares in the ‘Metaphysical” paintings of Italian artist Giorgio de Chirico…” (go to article)