Cleveland Real Estate News

One of the new home owners in Park Square (on Public Square) talked about loving the windows. Amen to that.  I love this building and the views.  You look out over Euclid Avenue and see the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial from your living room.  And the Old Stone Church.  It’s truly spectacular, day time or [...]

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Yes, it’s with our money but so what? I think it took me a full 24 hours to actually believe this happened. Here is the transcript from the White House website, outlining the Obama/Biden declaration that high speed rail is the way of the future for the United States. Some quotes from Obama: “ What we’re [...]

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Okay first, an update on the American Reinvestment and Recovery portion of the Stimulus Package the President signed in Denver today. The home buying tax credit?  It’s still only for first time home buyers. But, it’s now officially $8000 instead of $7500. Yes I know it’s been bantered around for a few days now but my [...]

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If Ohio were to build a high speed rail system would you use it? Yes  63.3% No  19.8% Not sure  16.9% The above are results of a WKYC on line poll being conducted – and you can vote too. Would you support passenger rail improvements in Ohio? The poll information was at the end of [...]

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This morning we have learned that Senator Kit Bond (R-MO) plans to introduce an amendment on the Senate floor today that would strip the $2 billion for High Speed Rail projects from the American Economic Recovery and Reinvestment Act, over concerns that these are not short term, but long term investments. Senator Bond is wrong [...]

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That is a question running through my mind after reading the somewhat in depth and very interesting article in today’s Washington Post  on Ohio’s lobbying efforts to get stimulus package two monies. 1) if monies are given directly to Governors, will monies within the states go where they can create jobs and fix infrastructure or [...]

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Most Clevelanders will be reading the Plain Dealer’s list of 2009 goals for Cleveland. I applaud them for having ideas, especially the one that talks about how we need to move forward not kvetch over what has not happened in the past.  I would love to read your thoughts on their list, and also your [...]

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Cool article, complete with photos, in today’s PD. James Ewinger writes about the luxurious private cars people around the country, including about 40 Ohioans, spiffed up, brought up to standards and used like Air Force One quality transportation. To show you how popular the idea of passenger rail is in this day and age, the [...]

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Probably not for NE Ohio, can’t imagine a paper house lasting through even one snow storm but, it rains in Africa and San Diego so I could be proven wrong. John Herman of Gizmodo (a self proclaimed gadget blog) writes about a Swiss company called The Wall AG and their 390 sf homes made out of [...]

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Gergen is right. Here is a good recap of the train trip, found on Now Public’s website. Dare I hope that train travel will become more of a possibility for us now that we have an administration already so familiar with the benefits of train travel.  Since there is talk about cutting funding for passenger [...]

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