Downtown Cleveland Restaurant Week

February 24 through March 1 is the first annual Downtown Cleveland Restaurant Week. Over 40 downtown restaurants will have special $20 and $40 three course meals! And if you don’t live downtown, you can park for just $2. More information is available at the Downtown Cleveland Alliance’s website. Make reservations now!

Would an IMAX theater work in Cleveland?

AMC recently announced that they would be installing 100 IMAX screens at AMC theatre locations in 33 major US markets over the next three years. Cleveland is not on the current list and the closest IMAX to here is Columbus. There used to be an IMAX screen at Cedar Point, but that’s no […]

Stark wants Warehouse District project to start in 2009, finish in 2011

Bob Stark spoke with The Plain Dealer last week about his plans for redeveloping the Warehouse District.
The plan calls for 1 million square feet of street-level retail, mostly from national chains. (for reference, Crocker Park also has 1 million square feet of retail, Legacy Village has just under 600,000 and Steelyard Commons has about […]

Window breaks at the Grand Arcade

A window broke at the Grand Arcade on West Saint Clair in the Warehouse District at about 2:20pm on November 27, sending glass and wood down onto the sidewalk, street and cars below.
It’s unclear why the window broke. Work is currently being done on the roof of the Grand Arcade, but witnesses did not […]

Where to put the Medical Mart?

Recent articles have discussed the proposed Medical Mart and convention center being built in University Circle — closer to our world-class hospital systems — instead of downtown.
I support the old Higbees building for the Medical Mart itself and building the convention center on the land south of Tower City, between Huron Road and […]

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