The Observation Deck

Cleveland Scene commenting on the city of Lakewood request for development proposals.

Good for them!
Team Summers thinks that people around the Cleveland area are buying their "Progress" mantra.
I talk to a lot of people from around NEO.....very few are buying it.
They don't see the "progress" that City Hall touts.....they see an aging inner ring suburb that just lost its largest employer.

On a side note, Freedom of the Press is now under attack at every level.
The Downtown Business Alliance pulled 26 Scene boxes off the streets.
I'm sure Scene's criticism of the RTA/Public Square disaster had nothing to do with it.

County Dems are joining Republicans Summers and Trump in the "anti-media" crusade.

On a side note, Freedom of the Press is now under attack at every level.
The Downtown Business Alliance pulled 26 Scene boxes off the streets.
I'm sure Scene's criticism of the RTA/Public Square disaster had nothing to do with it.

County Dems are joining Republicans Summers and Trump in the "anti-media" crusade.

A free press is vitally important to democracy and a real threat to the politicians who like making back door deals or worse. Just like they tried to silence the Observer - it will backfire in the same way by bringing MORE attention to their nefarious actions.

What is also telling is that the diss came from the Scene - which is generally geared toward the young and hip crowd, and it reflects what image Lakewood has outside of Lakewood. While the city likes to tout its young, urban, cool bar scene, those outside the city may have a more objective view.

Bridget Conant wrote:Cleveland Scene commenting on the city of Lakewood request for development proposals.

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The Scene has it right. Lakewood Vision courtesy of Dollar Mike.

The Cleveland Scene has it spot on.

There is no real economic development. Bars, dollar stores, vape lounges, drug dealer cell phone stores, and bitcoin stores (money laundering?).

There is no real plan to make Lakewood healthy. Although it is interesting that He seems to want a rec center built with His name on the front. Will it really be a rec center or a giant bar with Jacuzzi?

There is no real plan to attract real jobs to Lakewood. Where are our fortune 500 companies? Where are our jobs that actually pay a living wage with benefits for families? Hint: there are none.

On a final note, very few businesses at all will want to come to Lakewood if Summers doesn't get on the ball regarding housing stock and crime.

Mike D -

correction -

aging inner ring suburb that just THREW OUT its largest employer!!!

Boy, how stupid does that get??

Marguerite Harkness wrote:aging inner ring suburb that just THREW OUT its largest employer!!!

I stand corrected.

Just because this is so perfect, I did a screen capture from the digital edition. Scene, Feb 8 2017, Euclid Media Group

Since there's already a thread about Scene here, hopefully it's okay to add this little note…

Scene recently discovered that the Downtown Cleveland Alliance "picked up" 26 of its boxes "due to safety concerns," without ever contacting the journal.

Only when someone spotted DCA in the act—"When he asked the DCA folks what they were doing, they drove away"—and Scene contacted the DCA did they say "oh, yes, we have concerns about these boxes."

Boxes which, as Scene notes, "are, of course, private property and permitted by (as in, with individual permits from) the city."

http://www.clevescene.com/scene-and-hea ... y-concerns

Maybe I'm just not thinking straight tonight, but can someone explain the "Junior Bacon" headline? I'm not getting it.

Matthew Lee wrote:Maybe I'm just not thinking straight tonight, but can someone explain the "Junior Bacon" headline? I'm not getting it.

I don't get it, either. I would have gone with "Dollar Menu".

Michael Deneen wrote:

Matthew Lee wrote:Maybe I'm just not thinking straight tonight, but can someone explain the "Junior Bacon" headline? I'm not getting it.

I don't get it, either. I would have gone with "Dollar Menu".

I think the "junior bacon" says the whole development thing is small minded and little. Sort of like a junior bacon burger or a "whimpy" burger.

https://www.wendys.com/en-us/hamburgers ... eeseburger

There is no "Big Thinking" in a 5 acre mixed use development. It is old school boring.

Since we know the PTB want shopping, can anyone imagine what retailers they think they will attract to their 5.7 acre development?

Seems rather a shame they let the Bin sink when it's probably one store that would locate and do well there.

Other than that, we are surrounded by retail and I don't see who or what isn't represented within a 5 mile radius. There is no Target or Whole Foods type store that would need another location this close to existing stores.

Bridget Conant wrote:Seems rather a shame they let the Bin sink when it's probably one store that would locate and do well there.

Bridget


You forgot some of their prime traits, chameleon like ingestion of groups and non-profits, only to be regurgitated as THEIR ideas and programs.

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