Comments on: Cleveland: Confronting Decline in an American City or, Can Cleveland Come Back From Urban Sprawl? http://www.clevelandrealestatenews.com/cleveland-confronting-decline-in-an-american-city-or-can-cleveland-come-back-from-urban-sprawl/2007/11/18 The Buzz on 21st Century Cleveland Fri, 05 Feb 2010 05:59:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Gabriel Silverstein http://www.clevelandrealestatenews.com/cleveland-confronting-decline-in-an-american-city-or-can-cleveland-come-back-from-urban-sprawl/2007/11/18/comment-page-1#comment-383 Gabriel Silverstein Tue, 20 Nov 2007 05:20:04 +0000 http://www.clevelandrealestatenews.com/cleveland-confronting-decline-in-an-american-city-or-can-cleveland-come-back-from-urban-sprawl/2007/11/18#comment-383 Carole, feel free to use that line royalty free for the greater of two years or selling 20 homes in downtown as a result! For anyone that doesn't yet see why to live downtown, you're missing it. If your city isn't quite what you remember Manhattan being in any of the many classic films that might give you a romantic view of city life, it's coming back fast. There is too much great stuff going on when that many people get put close together: restaurants, theatre, festivals and other cultural events, and, go figure, other people! Yes folks, especially in the Midwest you don't have to hide from the world on your own 1/8 acre lot with a picket fence anymore, becuase people can be very fun and friendly to be around. Then you also get better high end shopping, amenties like hospitals and hotels...the list is neverending. If you want to live in the country, move to the country, not the suburbs. Carole, feel free to use that line royalty free for the greater of two years or selling 20 homes in downtown as a result! For anyone that doesn’t yet see why to live downtown, you’re missing it. If your city isn’t quite what you remember Manhattan being in any of the many classic films that might give you a romantic view of city life, it’s coming back fast. There is too much great stuff going on when that many people get put close together: restaurants, theatre, festivals and other cultural events, and, go figure, other people! Yes folks, especially in the Midwest you don’t have to hide from the world on your own 1/8 acre lot with a picket fence anymore, becuase people can be very fun and friendly to be around. Then you also get better high end shopping, amenties like hospitals and hotels…the list is neverending. If you want to live in the country, move to the country, not the suburbs.

]]> By: Carole Cohen http://www.clevelandrealestatenews.com/cleveland-confronting-decline-in-an-american-city-or-can-cleveland-come-back-from-urban-sprawl/2007/11/18/comment-page-1#comment-382 Carole Cohen Mon, 19 Nov 2007 07:17:38 +0000 http://www.clevelandrealestatenews.com/cleveland-confronting-decline-in-an-american-city-or-can-cleveland-come-back-from-urban-sprawl/2007/11/18#comment-382 Gabriel while I envy some of the cities you mention, we do have our own Downtown revival going on....and of course every time I get an out of town client, they want to live either Downtown or right on the outskirts of Downtown - especially if they are from Chicago! I like that tag line 'coming to a city near you...you! Thanks for informing - Gabriel while I envy some of the cities you mention, we do have our own Downtown revival going on….and of course every time I get an out of town client, they want to live either Downtown or right on the outskirts of Downtown – especially if they are from Chicago!

I like that tag line ‘coming to a city near you…you! Thanks for informing -

]]> By: Gabriel Silverstein http://www.clevelandrealestatenews.com/cleveland-confronting-decline-in-an-american-city-or-can-cleveland-come-back-from-urban-sprawl/2007/11/18/comment-page-1#comment-381 Gabriel Silverstein Mon, 19 Nov 2007 05:44:50 +0000 http://www.clevelandrealestatenews.com/cleveland-confronting-decline-in-an-american-city-or-can-cleveland-come-back-from-urban-sprawl/2007/11/18#comment-381 Carole, to borrow badly overused cliche format, downtown is the new suburbs (am I the first to put that one out there?!). The larger the city, the stronger the movement. Manhattan of course never lost it, Chicago has it really going on, Miami is booming, Seattle is, too, and Portland, Denver, Houston, even Los Angeles (the very definition of urban sprawl) has seen a downtown LIVING revival. Smaller cities, particularly in the Midwest, are starting to see the same: places like Kansas City, St. Louis, even Indianapolis. The new headline should be: Coming to a City Near You...YOU. Carole, to borrow badly overused cliche format, downtown is the new suburbs (am I the first to put that one out there?!). The larger the city, the stronger the movement. Manhattan of course never lost it, Chicago has it really going on, Miami is booming, Seattle is, too, and Portland, Denver, Houston, even Los Angeles (the very definition of urban sprawl) has seen a downtown LIVING revival. Smaller cities, particularly in the Midwest, are starting to see the same: places like Kansas City, St. Louis, even Indianapolis.

The new headline should be: Coming to a City Near You…YOU.

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