*EDIT* I added 16 pics from the top floor of my office building
So my boyfriend found out his workplace was open today - wanting to provide moral support, I decided to go with him. In a foot of snow. I'd say I've earned some brownie points. I have to say that RTA did a good job of getting us from Tremont to downtown - getting stuck only once (how often have you seen an RTA bus get stuck??). So being the geek that I am, I decided to snap a few pics of our commute:
I don't think too many pedestrians will be on the Lorain-Carnegie bridge today:
A few hardy souls were out on Public Square:
Well I finally made it:
Since there aren't too many people at work today, I take a break and head up to the twentieth floor of my building:
I doubt the tennis courts on the roof of the One Cleveland Center garage will be getting much use today:
East 9th isn't looking too pretty as it heads north to the Lake:
The Rock Hall:
The big white dome isn't snow, it's an enclosed soccer field for Cleveland State University:
Even on a day like today, some City Hall workers take a smoke break:
I always liked this view of the Cuyahoga County Courthouse, Browns Stadium and City Hall:
Sorry about the blurry shots - the snow was coming down harder on this side of the building:
Pretty empty over in the Warehouse District:
Cleveland Browns Stadium again:
The Terminal Tower looks bundled up for the weather:
Even the folks in the Pinnacle Condos have to shovel - their balconies:
One last pic of the Courthouse and I have to grab lunch - stay warm out there! :-)
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fabulous! please bring us more Cleveland snow pics... I'm of the opinion Cleveland looks best blanketed in heavy snow... your city receives an enviable amount...
Goody, he works for the City as an attorney - they said that "essential" employees were to be at work at the usual time, whereas "non-essentials" were under a delay.
I'm probably going to go up to the 20th floor of my building and snap some shots and add them to the thread.
This is actually something of a fluke - my neighborhood on the west side and downtown haven't had snow like this in a long time. The eastern suburbs tend to get this kind of snow from lake-effect but this wasn't lake effect snowfall.
We just got the same thing here. Oh well we did pretty good for a bit here. I would have loved this for christmas. Minus the ridiculous amount of ice of course and just think you just missed all this.
A couple weeks earlier and you could have snapped a picture of me! I was just in that area (at the AT&T building across the street from where you were taking those pics) a few weeks ago, doing a Property Condition Assessment...in MUCH nicer weather, I might add. Cleveland is SO underrated..I love that town...
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There's the hilarious Cleveland-in-winter movie Stranger Than Paradise that really caught the surreality of this experience. As always, when I see pictures of an old city I'm struck at the yawning gap between the magnificent old buildings and today's stuff. Even as a ghost of its former self, Cleveland deserves a lot more respect than "new" cities.
Name that movie: "This is pure SNOW!!! Do you have any idea of the street value of this mountain!?!?"
SteveD, I'm aware that the AT&T Building is on the market - do you know of any plans for it? I think it would make for an incredible condo conversion given the huge wall of curved windows and the proximity to the Lake.
No change in building usage...I can't disclose who my client was, but the proposed transaction, if it goes through, would be a sale-leaseback, so it would remain office with very limited retail at street level.
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No change in building usage...I can't disclose who my client was, but the proposed transaction, if it goes through, would be a sale-leaseback, so it would remain office with very limited retail at street level.
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