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My City My Town Cartoons meeting Saturday, Sept. 2, 8:30 AM Stone Oven, Lee Rd.

Sept. 7 Midtown Brews, Webtego, This month's speaker is Brad Kleinman, Corporate Colle

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Innovation Café - Dave Perkowski will develop an Internet café , Tower Press Building, 20 -30,000 square feet with office space, cubicles, and access. This may also h ave a bike station with locker and shower facilities. Steve Manka is connecting design elements with the RTA. One Cleveland has the buying power for the One Cleveland connectivity. Need more inviting space and inclusive.

President’s Office

Stephen Dean Architecture

IP development

Boston tight design community

In the middle of an innovation zone in hibernation

Walker and Weeks office just down the street

Need to understand the nature of place

H Morrison Cleveland Planning Dir. 20 years

Rose Strauss understands the need to just let things happen

Reminiscnect of the Tremont district,

1980

worked in Nigeria

urban settlement design in development in third world countries

Wharehouse district –

There are models of development happens from the ground

Communities in Youngstwona dn Cleveland thought they needed someone to tell them what to do

Study Harwick

The value of

Cleveland is an OEM town with no end users

Strawbridge figured out that in order to attract young people you need interesting things happening

1970’s business community did not care about attracting young people…

clear strategy in Boston…but not in Cleveland

How did things begin to change in Cleveland?

It began with the actions of a few individuals determined to move toward something new….that tearing buildings down for parking lots was not the thing to do….

McClagh’s landmark was looked at…

A couple of things happened…people started moving into buildings like the Bradley Building

A group of artists

Change in perception – from this area is useless to

Another characteristic of an OEM place is by doing things tangible, we need to fantasize more; believe in things that you can touch and feel

Very literal – talk about performance curves

Cleveland designs the air bags that go in the high level cars

The key is to get under the radar screen and begin to fill the buildings

Figure out how to do what you need to do

Revolutions started in coffee houses

\Places of congregation

support the people who have a vision and knit together the visiopn in the old way

create the psychology of the future