Hey northeast Ohioans, check out this cool feature from Cleveland Magazine.
It shows where all the Lenten fish fries are in the area:
http://www.clevelandmagazine.com/ME2/dirmod.asp?sid=E73ABD6180B44874871A91F6BA5C249C&type=gen&mod=Core+Pages&gid=C9302107C42A440083D2FC3FBC1D3937
Be sure you read the companion article about the ladies of St. Mary Romanian Orthodox Cathedral on Warren Road. I was salivating just reading about it!
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The Urbanophile blog has aggregated and analyzed the results of the 2008 census, showing modest gains for regional winners Indianapolis and Columbus while reflecting continuing decline in Detroit and Cleveland.
The national story is that migration has slowed, the Urbanophile reports, but that is likely due to the strained economy offering fewer attractive distant positions and bringing home sales to a standstill.
Sun Belt cities, of course, lead the pack, with Austin and Charlotte topping the list. Meanwhile, Detroit and Cleveland he refers to as “basket-cases.” He notes however, that while Detroit’s …

Quite a bit has been written by the national media about how the foreclosure crisis has impacted Cleveland. Many of the stories focus on the Slavic Village neighborhood, as does this one.
This article from Sunday’s New York Times Magazine is one of the best, as far as I’m concerned.
It explains the second wave that is now hitting the city – investors who buy foreclosed properties for next to nothing and try to flip them
“Now outside investors have descended on Cleveland; they pick up properties for the price of a large …

Quite a bit has been written by the national media about how the foreclosure crisis has impacted Cleveland. Many of the stories focus on the Slavic Village neighborhood, as does this one.
This article from Sunday’s New York Times Magazine is one of the best, as far as I’m concerned.
It explains the second wave that is now hitting the city – investors who buy foreclosed properties for next to nothing and try to flip them
“Now outside investors have descended on Cleveland; they pick up properties for the price of a large …

 
A friend of mine took me on a tour of the St. Clair-Superior Neighborhood on the near east side of Cleveland yesterday. This neighborhood is one of the hardest-hit by the housing crisis. Only about 10 percent of the housing is occupied. A local real estate investor has taken an interest in the neighborhood because of its low real estate prices and proximity to downtown and Lake Erie.
We began our tour at an east side park with a nice view of Lake Erie. A lot of people dock their boats …

 
A friend of mine took me on a tour of the St. Clair-Superior Neighborhood on the near east side of Cleveland yesterday. This neighborhood is one of the hardest-hit by the housing crisis. Only about 10 percent of the housing is occupied. A local real estate investor has taken an interest in the neighborhood because of its low real estate prices and proximity to downtown and Lake Erie.
We began our tour at an east side park with a nice view of Lake Erie. A lot of people dock their boats …

Hard figures beginning to shake out of the President’s stimulus bill. What does this mean for Rust Belt cities? Money. Lots of money.
More than $417 million is being sent to Ohio by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
$475 million has been earmarked for Great Lakes clean-up, 10-times larger than any previous award.
$23 million will be delivered to the Gary, Ind. area.
Milwaukee is getting $22.6 million.
The Cleveland Metropolitan Housing Authority will receive $35 million.
The Erie Housing Authority: $4.6 million.
Minneapolis is getting $20 million for light rail, plus a great …

This site is intended to consolidate and develop news and information about post-industrial Great Lakes cities. It was developed by two former newspaper reporters with ties to Cleveland, Toledo and Youngstown, Ohio and Erie and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. We’ve noted that there is a lot of good information about Rust Belt issues coming from blogs and the mainstream media. We hope to sort out the good stuff and summarize it for problem solvers and concerned citizens from Buffalo to St. Louis.
We also intend to develop some original stories and photography. Any …

Famed urban scholar Richard Florida writes in The Atlantic that the economic crisis will drastically reshape America, dividing cities into winners and losers. Not surprisingly Florida writes, Rust Belt cities, those with economies traditionally based on manufacturing, will be among the hardest hit.
Detroit, he postulates, could reach a tipping point and become a “ghost town.” Although, he says, the exodus could attract some of the “creative class,” (which he extols the virtues of in his book “Who’s Your City?”) seeking to take advantage of low real estate prices. Sun Belt …