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Crocker Style?
Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 11:32 am
by Jim O'Bryan
Last night while driving around we ran into almost 2.5 square miles of development that looked like Crocker Park East.
Miles of new units
Massive playgrounds
Equally massive recreation center.
Busy streets with old style street lights.
popped up almost over night.
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Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 12:11 pm
by stephen davis
Jim,
That place was a LOT nicer than Crocker Park, and LOTS bigger.
Steve
Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 12:57 pm
by sharon kinsella
It's beautiful.
Where is it?
Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 1:10 pm
by stephen davis
sharon kinsella wrote:Where is it?
East side, around the corner from my favorite caterer.
Steve
Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 1:20 pm
by sharon kinsella
You two are the Deliberately Obscure twins, separated at birth, I swear.
Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 1:25 pm
by Jim O'Bryan
stephen davis wrote:sharon kinsella wrote:Where is it?
East side, around the corner from my favorite caterer.
Steve
Steve
Actually it was just west of one of Sharon's favorite caters.
A whole perfect little city nearly the size of Lakewood!
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Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 1:38 pm
by sharon kinsella
Over by Hot Sauce Williams.
That is very cool!
Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 3:07 pm
by Ruthie Koenigsmark
where is it exactly???
R
Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 4:50 pm
by Ryan Patrick Demro
Its on Woodland next to Tri-C metro. It has been there for quite some time. I pass it on my way home from work, so it has been there for at least two years. It seems nice, but it is located next to Outhwaite Projects. It is nowhere near the size of Lakewood.
Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 4:52 pm
by Bryan Schwegler
Ryan Patrick Demro wrote:Its on Woodland next to Tri-C metro. It has been there for quite some time. I pass it on my way home from work, so it has been there for at least two years. It seems nice, but it is located next to Outhwaite Projects. It is nowhere near the size of Lakewood.
That is correct. It's an example of one of the low-income housing communities that have been developed over the last several years in the central neighborhood in Cleveland. It is part of the hope of improving the community through redevelopment.
Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 5:00 pm
by sharon kinsella
Hope it works - that area has had a rough time.
Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 7:38 pm
by dl meckes
I can't tell whether that's the new Central low income housing project, but if it is, it's an interesting take on city life.
Garage-free town homes with limited access to public transportation and basic services. Dave's opened a store in the neighborhood. There hadn't been a grocery store in some time...
Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 7:53 pm
by Bryan Schwegler
I'm on the Cathedral Council at Trinity Cathedral and we do alot of work with the poor and homeless in that area since it's the closest neighborhood to the Cathedral.
Last fall we went on a bus tour led by the head of one of the development groups building these new projects. There are many positive things about them and honestly, when we stopped and toured a couple of the homes, they were very nice.
However, he did admit that alot of the other chronic problems of the area aren't being solved by the new construction. There are still deep-rooted, structural problems in those neighborhoods.
Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 7:57 pm
by Jim O'Bryan
sharon kinsella wrote:Over by Hot Sauce Williams.
That is very cool!
While I love eating chicken with Maurice and the sons. At night, walking around E77th and Carnegie at 11:30pm and looking for a good steak dinner, there is only one place, Sharon you know that.
Lancer's Steak House
Where all us players go for red meat.
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Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 8:06 pm
by Jim O'Bryan
Over the last couple years it would have looked like this section of the CMHA Projects.
now, it is like driving up to a development in Westlake or Avon Lake, surround by massive empty fields.
Coming in from East 30th.
Large safe playgrounds.
Crocker Park style living.
Row after row of single homes too. New and rebuilds.
Meanwhile over in Hough...
and...
but no too many of these...
FWIW
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