Archive for the ‘Public Square’ Category
Powerful leaders from John D. Rockefeller to Daniel H. Burnham have left indelible marks on the streets, buildings, parks and public spaces of Cleveland. Dan Gilbert, majority owner of the Cavaliers and developer of the newCleveland casino at the Higbee Building on Public Square, is next in line… (go to article)
CLEVELAND, Ohio–The developer of Cleveland’s downtown casino has signed a five-year lease for four floors of the historic Higbee building, where a “phase I” gambling operation will open in about a year. The landmark Cleveland department store is own by Forest City Enterprises Inc., which formally announced the agreement Wednesday… (go to article)
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Traffic engineers have called the shots for decades on the planning of public space in downtown Cleveland. Mayor Frank Jackson’s Group Plan Commission wants parity for pedestrians — if not the upper hand in certain spots. A series of recommendations from the commission, set for discussion at a meeting this morning at [...]
CLEVELAND — How can the city capitalize on $2 billion of new development to make the entire downtown area more welcoming and people friendly? Some answers will be offered Thursday by a panel that’s been working since June to find ways to make the city’s public spaces more inviting and connected. Tony Coyne, chairman of [...]
CLEVELAND, Ohio — To many Clevelanders, the Higbee Building on Public Square symbolizes everything that once was glorious about downtown. Built in 1931, the 11-story Beaux Arts-style building, now partially occupied with offices, originally housed the vast and much beloved Higbee’s department store… (go to article)
Back in 2007 the City of Cleveland banned food distribution by religious and non-profit organizations in it’s downtown Public Square stating that the presence of loose food stuffs was a attraction to rats and vermin. The city pressed for the local organizations such as NEOCH (Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless) to coordinate food distribution [...]
One of my big complaints about books and other publications dealing with history is that there’s too much gray text and what few illustrations there are, are in black and white. Vibrant imagery helps draw the reader into the narrative. Imagine my surprise when I came across this painting of Public Square, in downtown Cleveland, [...]
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson is forming a commission to continue work begun more than 100 years ago by architect Daniel Burnham to remake and revitalize downtown. The original Group Plan Commission, formed in 1903, led to construction of historic structures such as City Hall and Cleveland Public Library and the creation of [...]
CLEVELAND, Ohio — The Soldiers and Sailors Monument on Public Square reopened Saturday morning, in a patriotic ceremony with songs from the Singing Angels, a flag ceremony by Civil War reenactors, and remarks from dignitaries who recalled the contribution of Ohio’s volunteers in the war that began in 1861… (go to article)
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Remember that scene in the 1939 movie “The Wizard of Oz” when Dorothy Gale’s house is swept from Kansas by a tornado, crash-lands in Oz, and she emerges from its dreary, black-and-white confines to a world of dazzling color? When it comes to the newly restored Soldiers and Sailors Monument on Public [...]
To some, it’s a given that Public Square in downtown Cleveland will remain divided by cross streets which carve it into four equal quadrants. Neil Mohney is not one of them. Mohney, an executive coordinator at Forest Center Enterprises, the big real estate company located off Public Square in the Terminal Tower, asked to float [...]
Christopher Marcinkoski, a senior associate with James Corner Field Operations in New York City, recently gave me an overview of several of the firm’s projects. I continue to marvel at their work on the High Line, the abandoned early 20th century elevated train tracks that have been turned into one of New York’s 21st century [...]
Fast Company writes about a recent proposal to revitalize downtown Cleveland through a new park. Two Cleveland non-profits, Parkworks and the Downtown Cleveland Alliance, commissioned James Corner Field Operations to create a set of downtown revitalization proposals. Both organization hope to use the proposals to build overwhelming public support for downtown revitalization and, hopefully, gain financial commitments from the city. Fast Company writes: “If you’ve ever been [...]
Recently, the Downtown Cleveland Alliance and ParkWorks teamed up to develop new concepts and ideas on what Public Square — the heart of downtown Cleveland — should look like. They hired Field Operations, a landscape design firm based in New York City, to come up with the plans. Field Operations, along with The Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative of Kent [...]
If you ever come to downtown Cleveland, you know that Public Square is a bit dodgy. One of my close friends is literally afraid to walk across Public Square at night because of the characters that line up along its four quadrants, waiting for buses (or not) while cars whiz by. Even during the day, [...]
Local planners are thinking big about a redesign for northeast Ohio, including Cleveland’s Public Square, Oberlin’s downtown and Kent along with its university. Each transformation involves hundreds of millions of dollars. Renowned architect James Corner came up with three ideas to move Public Square far beyond a rather large bus stop and into a forest, [...]
Landscape architecture and urban design firm James Corner Field Operationshas prepared three new design proposals re-imagining Cleveland’s Public Square. The downtown park is bisected by two roads and perceived, in its current state, as a dead zone between skyscrapers. The proposals aim to restore a “town commons” feel and prioritize pedestrians, creating a celebrated public amenity and increasing [...]
Transforming Public Square: Three Strategies for Enhancing Cleveland’s Civic Core January 21, 2010 5:30 – 7:30 PM Cleveland State University, Maxine Goodman Levine College of Urban Affairs Atrium (1717 Euclid Ave) The Levin College in partnership with ParkWorks and Downtown Cleveland Alliance are presenting an interactive forum on the recently released concepts for Public Square. [...]
I recently came across this historic print of Public Square in the American Memory collection at the Library of Congress. The hand-colored print, from 1873, shows a view of this piece of downtown Cleveland that few would recognize. The only building still standing today is the Old Stone Church, seen to the left… (go to article)
If your taste runs to cliffhangers, 2009 was the perfect year for you in Cleveland, especially in art and architecture and urban planning. Major institutions and big projects took serious hits from sheer fate or from a lousy economy, and finished the year in suspense. Will the Cleveland Museum of Artget a great new director? Will [...]
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