New Beck Center - Looking Good!

Jim O'Bryan · Post by **Jim O'Bryan** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 7:40 pm

As the meeting is now over, here is a peek at the Artist Rendering for the Beck Center!

Looking Good.

sharon kinsella · Post by **sharon kinsella** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 7:51 pm

Is it at the same place on Detroit Ave.?

It looks amazing.

Ivor Karabatkovic · Post by **Ivor Karabatkovic** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 7:55 pm

Jeff Endress · Post by **Jeff Endress** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 8:00 pm

And it even has ghosts in celebration of Halloween!!

Jeff

Jim O'Bryan · Post by **Jim O'Bryan** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 8:25 am

Jeff Endress wrote:And it even has ghosts in celebration of Halloween!!

Jeff

Has a nice New York feel to go with our metropolitan library.

Now, where is the New York pizza, if such a thing even exists.

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c. dawson · Post by **c. dawson** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 3:47 pm

Just outta curiosity, while the drawing looks lovely ... will it require any houses on Rockway be demolished to have such a lovely ediface? If it does, let me know now, because I'll stop putting money into my house if it's going to be bulldozed anyway ... not that I'm in a mood to give it up, because I've already put a ton of work into it.

Kevin Butler · Post by **Kevin Butler** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 4:23 pm

Chris, I was at the Beck's annual meeting last night (with councilmembers Antonio and FitzGerald) when the Beck's architects unveiled these initial conceptual plans.

Included in the presentation were overhead views, and to answer your question, none of them assumed the purchase or demolition of nearby houses, from what I could see.

I hope that puts you at ease. They really were beautiful drawings.

Kevin Butler
(Ward 1 Council)

Daniel Waitkus · Post by **Daniel Waitkus** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 4:28 pm

JO wrote:

Has a nice New York feel to go with our metropolitan library.

Now, where is the New York pizza, if such a thing even exists.

Jim,

It does exist, trust me. You just can't get it here. Take from a New York boy, who moved to Lakewood many years ago. I love the NY feel of this great city of ours, I just cant buy a slice of that great pie.

Ivor Karabatkovic · Post by **Ivor Karabatkovic** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 5:10 pm

there's a NY pizza somewhere around here. I'll check up on it.

I remember Coach buying it for his senior business class. they couldn't fit the pizza box through the door. The slices were 3 feet long!

Jim O'Bryan · Post by **Jim O'Bryan** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 5:42 pm

Daniel Waitkus wrote: It does exist, trust me. You just can't get it here. Take from a New York boy, who moved to Lakewood many years ago. I love the NY feel of this great city of ours, I just cant buy a slice of that great pie.

Daniel

That is what Kenneth Warren and John Crino keep telling me. Then I had the Devil Dogs and now I live in doubt.

CD

Years ago on the table was a plan for the Beck Center that did include buying the first three houses on Rockway and Wayne. This was put forward by Cecil Yates who has nothing to do witht his project.

FWIW

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Daniel Waitkus · Post by **Daniel Waitkus** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 6:15 pm

Jim,

I am not sure what a Devil Dog is, I don't recall the culinary delight on our walks along Atlantic Ave. in Queens. Is that some sort of frankfurter?

The Beck Center drawing is very exciting and just one more example of why the future is so bright for the great city of Lakewood Ohio.

Dan

c. dawson · Post by **c. dawson** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 8:17 pm

Thanks for filling me in ... I was hoping this would be the case, as I've gotten quite attached to the neighborhood and wasn't looking to have to leave! And being neighbors with a big new arts center is appealing!

I assume the LO is going to have an article about this meeting? I wished I could have been there now!

New York-style pizza? Nahhh, for true gluttony in the pure sense, nothing beats Chicago style. And oddly enough, Danny Boys has one of the best I've ever had, beating the real Chicago places like Giordano's, Lou Malnati's, and Pizzeria Uno (the real one, not the surban chains) hands down.

Ivor Karabatkovic · Post by **Ivor Karabatkovic** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 8:27 pm

cd,

my girlfriends whole family is from chicago and she swears that Giordano's is the best pizza on earth.

I love Danny Boys pizza. Their BBQ wings are amazing too. My favorite.

Until you go to Italy and get a huge fresh pizza for about $5 you will not know what pizza is. Danny Boys is a good second though!

and I gotta agree with you that Chicago style is better than NY style!

sharon kinsella · Post by **sharon kinsella** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 8:47 pm

Where is Danny Boys?

Ivor Karabatkovic · Post by **Ivor Karabatkovic** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 8:51 pm

next to the Lake Road Market on Lake in Rocky River.