Riverfront Development

[Jim O'Bryan]

I think it's great. One more housing option for people wishing to either sell their Lakewood home and stay in Lakewood or relocate here. I also think the price will not deter some people after all, houses in Clifton Park still sell. I think everyone likes diversity here, now we have one more option.

Amen

A piece of land doing nothing, adding nothing, turned into some really nice places. Not even obtrusive on the above ground areas.

I lived on the lake for years, prefer my view now, and The Cliffs are the best of both. If I had the money.

Jeff

You are right, but think of the front row seat for the dynamiting!


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[Stephen Eisel]

I think it's great. One more housing option for people wishing to either sell their Lakewood home and stay in Lakewood or relocate here. I also think the price will not deter some people after all, houses in Clifton Park still sell. I think everyone likes diversity here, now we have one more option.

Amen

A piece of land doing nothing, adding nothing, turned into some really nice places. Not even obtrusive on the above ground areas.

I lived on the lake for years, prefer my view now, and The Cliffs are the best of both. If I had the money.

Jeff

You are right, but think of the front row seat for the dynamiting!


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Wow, I totally agree with Jim..

[Jim O'Bryan]

Stephen

Go back and look at another part I have said for years. You want to stabilize Lakewood.

Build two more gold coast size condos.

On the Gold Coast, even at the front of Lakewood Park, by the Cliffs, at the end of Detroit, hell take my house, I'll buy elsewhere in Lakewood.

A pants store gets us pants.

Condos get us residents!

Residents get us participation.

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[Stephen Eisel]

Wow! 2 for 2... I agree.. Owner equity = s participation.

[Stephen Eisel]

Wow! 2 for 2... I agree.. Owner equity = s participation.

[jennifer scott]

WOW! Jim, we actually agree. A D and an R. Hmmm........

[Shawn Juris]

Residents who will demand pants...

[Jim O'Bryan]

WOW! Jim, we actually agree. A D and an R. Hmmm........

Jennifer

Come on we agree all the time.

This is common sense, 5,000 - 10,000 residents are a boom to whatever is here, and will help attract others.

Now how does one attract residents and developers to an area? The residents and developers we need for responsible, smart development? Easiest way is to underline, clean, safe and fun. We have issues, but nothing out of control that we cannot address as a community.

Worst way. City is unsafe, out of control. Then they just wait until the city bottom out, or worse, try to help it along. "Slaughter of Cities" must reading for anyone interested. Why by property for $300,000 when you can wait until after the whatever and get it for $275,000, $250,000, $225,000, or even $175,000! When a city panics and goes into gambler sales mode everybody wins but the residents.

Now here is the leap of faith...

What if some engage citizens working with city hall could create some fun, help keep the city safe, and actually LIVE in the city they call home? What if the city, had a group promoting community gardening? biking? healthy foods? co-ops, motoring, the fine arts, and had businesses helping new business to move in grow, get noticed, and even were willing to help pay the rent for new businesses? What if even as the region crumbled, this strange little area built new schools and libraries and stood above many of the cities in the region with new housing, old housing, funky little shops and minutes from malls.

Would not this area attract residents?

Now what if it on Lakewood's new 200 acre peninsula, off Lakewood Park. An area dedicated to high end shopping and living?

Shawn

It would be interesting to see what percentage of a group of 10,000 needs most? Pants, food? Health care, lava lights? Fun, furniture? on a day to day basis.

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[Gary Rice]

Also, don't forget three of our existing assets.

Three "W's", that is.

We already have the wealthy, the wise, and the water.

Some people may not always appreciate the wealthy, but the fact is that they contribute so much to ther pulse of the city, financially or otherwise, and under no circumstances do they want to see the city where they live deteriorate.

Nor will they allow that to happen, pure and simple.

The wise? Well, just LOOK at us here on the 'Deck!

Now I'll keep myself out of this discussion for modesty's sake, but just look at yourselves! Look at your remarks. whether left, right, or center.

Active, engaged, and caring.

And so many of you too...

The water? One of the best clarion calls of real estate, and WE HAVE IT!

Lakewood, you're lookin' good.

[Bill Call]

Any chance that the name of the project could be changed from the Cliffs on Rocky River to the Cliffs of Lakewood, or Lakewood Cliffs, or Lakewood River View, or Lakewood... you get the idea.

[Shawn Juris]

I don't know about you but I wear pants daily. Occassionally on a hot Sunday I may just wear boxers but this is a family show and I digress. I expect that you and I both understand that "pants" have become a metaphor for increasing retail. There is a reasonable solution that can be a win/win but only if the discussion can avoid going down the strawman road of exaggerating this need to becoming a 3 mile strip mall.