Rather than reinvent the wheel, go to this post on Brewed Fresh Daily to get the details. Peace Out – 3C
Medical Mart/Convention Center Meeting Tomorrow at City Hall
February 11th, 2009 · No Comments
Tags: Cleveland Events · economic development · politics
City Council Community Block Grants Discussed This Tuesday and Wednesday
February 2nd, 2009 · 6 Comments
Cleveland City Council will be dealing with CDBG’s (Community Development Block Grants) this Wednesday at City Hall… interested in what’s going to happen with vacant land taken over by the City? What part will your neighborhood CDC’s play in 1) home upkeep assistance and 2) vacant lands 3) community gardens, etc.? This is your chance [...]
Tags: Cleveland Events · Cleveland Real Estate · economic development · neighborhood news
3C Corridor All Aboard Ohio Stakeholders Meeting January 7th – Please Join Us
December 20th, 2008 · No Comments
The new year will be here soon. How will you focus your time? There will be a lot of talk around the Country, and certainly here in NE Ohio, about stimulus and proactive grass roots efforts to stimulate the economy. One suggestion guaranteed to help our economy is better public transportation and passenger rail service. [...]
Tags: Cleveland Events · Ideas · Ohio Rail and Transit · economic development
A Transit Oriented Development Concept As We Wait For Our Own Development In Cleveland
October 19th, 2008 · No Comments
This is being proposed in Rockville Maryland, developing ‘villages’ along their transit stops. Having lived in Rockville for quite some time, I watched the traffic get worse and worse. I watched a mayor say his claim to fame was the building of this huge furniture store on The Pike. Yes I know that art and [...]
Tags: Cleveland Real Estate · Ohio Rail and Transit · economic development · transit oriented development
Convention Center/Med Mart Public Meetings Begin
September 2nd, 2008 · No Comments
The first public meeting, er, dog and pony show, regarding the Convention Center/Med Mart issue was held tonight. I read both the WKYC report (which basically said nothing except it was held and between 40-50 people attended), and the Joe Guillen post about it on the PD site. At least the PD site quoted some [...]
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How Do You Feel About the Tower City Site for The Convention Center & Medical Mart?
August 25th, 2008 · 1 Comment
I was browsing on UrbanOhio Forum today and found this article posted for everyone to see. (Thank you, Ken Pendergast) There have been a lot of negative editorials and we all have opinions. But it’s pretty impressive that Crain’s Cleveland is coming down so hard on the Tower City site pick for the new Convention [...]
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Last Night’s West Park Dialogue With Mayor Jackson
August 13th, 2008 · No Comments
Mayor Jackson likes to hold what he calls dialogues around the City. Last night it was time for the West Park Dialogue. It was held at Our Lady of Angels school gym. Hundreds of chairs were set up in advance. I arrived about twenty minutes to six (the dialogue was supposed to run from six [...]
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Cleveland’s Opportunity Corridor Take Two: A St. Paul Perspective
July 15th, 2008 · 9 Comments
First post on The Opportunity Corridor being discussed for Cleveland’s east side can be seen here - I did a link and then a lament about why there is not a rail component. I still lament that point but now I have a better understanding of why these kinds of corridors exist near or parallel to [...]
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Chinese Company Possibly Opening North American Branch In NE Ohio
June 28th, 2008 · No Comments
Peter Krouse’s PD post discusses plans for China’s Gamma Star Medical Systems, Inc. to open a North American location in Beachwood. Reference is made to about 35 jobs being created over the first three years. This has been in the works for a while and it sounds like more of a done deal than not….we’ll see. Gamma [...]
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Could Metro Hospital Do For It’s Neighborhood What The Clinic Is Doing for Cleveland’s Fairfax Community?
April 25th, 2008 · No Comments
Today was so beautiful wasn’t it? I love the heat and humidity nature gave us – and it helped me as I drove to a few listings and took updated photos, met a renter at a home I had listed that now won’t have to be lonely anymore…she’s going to rent! I also have two [...]