Thank you, Sam, and some of these mean-spirited, tone-deaf & clueless comments emphasis the truth of what you wrote. The windows will be repaired; Tamir will still be dead.
I guessed. I wrote about it for the Free Times and Scene and predicted all of this before it went up. I dissected all their claims and rosy predictions and showed how they were impossible. Maude Campbell also did some great reporting on the Med Mart for Scene where she scooped the Plain Dealer which of course was looking the other way and had been a cheerleader for the project.
It's probably too late for Cleveland. Chicago started planning its waterfront over a century ago. It too has made some mistakes (McCormick Place, the thing on top of Soldier Field), but by and large, it has reserved the waterfront for recreation. Cleveland has not. This discussion should have happened before the Rock Hall and Science Center were built, definitely before the ugliest building in Cleveland, the stadium, was built to be used only a handful of times a year. When talk starts about tearing down the stadium, then maybe we'll have a "Lakefront Plan." Otherwise that ship
has sailed.
And yet today he said he learned about something by reading an article in the Columbus Dispatch. So maybe he thinks the Dispatch is published in Columbus, Georgia. Or something.
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Someone tell Dan Gilbert. Only it doesn't seem to have been such a big mistake fo him, does it?
has sailed.