via Cuyahoga County Planning Commission: “Merchandise Mart Properties plans to develop and operate Medical Mart, a collection of permanent showrooms, as well as an accompanying trade show and meeting center in downtown Cleveland.
With this project, Cleveland would be entering ‘the most highly competitive sub-market throughout the convention center market,’ said Heywood Sanders, a professor of public administration at the University of Texas at San Antonio…” (go to article)
“Three construction and engineering companies will help whittle the choices for a new downtown convention center site.
The Greater Cleveland Partnership hired the companies recently for an independent cost comparison and site specific research.
A committee appointed by the partnership, the region’s largest chamber of commerce, plans to recommend a location to Cuyahoga County Commissioners by early June…” (go to article)
via Cuyahoga County Planning Commission: “Six years ago, Ned Hill, 56, VP for economic development at Cleveland State University, was researching ways to stimulate the city’s economy when he noticed that northeast Ohio was flush with consumer products companies. Hill and Daniel Cuffaro, 40, head of the industrial design department at the Cleveland Institute of Art, teamed up to create a full-service design district that they hope will transform downtown Cleveland into the new hub of American product development…” (go to article)
“Recognizing the city’s efforts to improve conditions for cyclists, Cleveland has been selected as a recipient of a Bicycle Friendly Community Honorable Mention from the League of American Bicyclists. Andy Clarke, the head of the League, will be in Cleveland next week to participate in Cleveland’s first Bicycle Week. Clarke will present Mayor Jackson with the Honorable Mention Award at the dedication of the Treadway Creek Trail on May 16th.
Treadway and the ongoing Towpath Trail extension to the Flats, a Bike Cleveland Plan, the $13 million commitment to bike infrastructure as part of the city’s capital budget, the soon-to-open bike lane on Euclid Avenue—all contribute to a hoped-for new culture of cycling in the area…” (go to article)
“Cleveland has more in common with Eastern Europe than we assumed. Tremont residents Phil Pavarinni, Jr. and Ohio Citizen Action Cleveland Area Program Director Liz Ilg will meet with representatives from five different countries that all have a Mittal Steel plants as neighbors in Luxembourg on May 12, to plan for an international effort to get Mittal to clean up. They’re networking with CEE Bankwatch (Croatia), Environment Hamilton (Canada), GroundWork (South Africa), GARDE programme of Environmental Law Service (Czech Republic), Friends of the Earth Luxembourg, Karaganda EcoMuseum (Kazakhstan), National Ecological Center of Ukraine, Solidarity ArcelorMittal Poland, Steel Valley Crisis Committee (South Africa), and Vaal Environmental Justice Alliance (South Africa)…” (go to article)
“There’s just one, itty-bitty little problem. ODOT’s latest drawing of the cap proposal shows a highway off-ramp at Carnegie Avenue slicing right across the southern edge of the area where the future cap would touch ground on the south side of the highway.
According to Craig Hebebrand, ODOT’s project manager for the Inner Belt, the gap created by the ramp would be 26 feet wide and 25 feet at the deepest, although it would gradually rise as it runs west to east until it reaches grade at the Carnegie intersection.
In other words, if you can picture it, the ramp, advocated tenaciously by Midtown Cleveland Inc. and the Greater Cleveland Partnership, would render the cap totally pointless. The drawing, released by ODOT earlier this week, is positively surreal…” (go to article)
“In a news release, the senator said the money will help develop downtown’s first ‘full-service’ grocery store and create 52 full-time jobs. Half the money is in the form of an economic development grant to reuse a brownfield, and half in the form of a HUD Section 108 loan that developers repay. The funds will be used to clean up a site near Old River Road to make it suitable to build a 27,3000-square-foot grocery store…” (go to article)
“A $50 million upgrade of Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, announced with great anticipation in the fall, has been sharply curtailed because of uncertainty in the airline industry, city officials say.
Continental also has postponed seven of 20 new flights planned in connection with the expansion. The original flights had been expected to generate about 700 jobs in the first 18 months. About 200 jobs have been created so far.
A separate $30 million project to build a new customs facility at Hopkins - to fix the bottleneck when two international flights overlap - also has been scaled back, city officials said…” (go to article)
“Wolstein also released fresh drawings of the remade east bank, showing a busy streetscape with a boardwalk along the river. The renderings did not include the new Ernst & Young building.
Besides moving to the Flats, Ernst & Young will move its education center from Middleburg Heights to downtown Cleveland. Wolstein, who has partnered in the Flats project with his mother, Iris, and Fairmount Properties, could buy the 23-acre suburban property from Ernst & Young…” (go to article)
“Mayor Frank Jackson, national and regional Ernst & Young executives and the Flats East Bank development team led by Scott Wolstein announced this morning that Ernst & Young will occupy the top six floors of the proposed building east of West 10th Street between Main and Front avenues. Ernst & Young estimates 1,200 employees will move to the Flats building in 2011…” (go to article)
“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)
