Photo from Matt Hardigree / jalopnik.com  Brought to my attention by Max Eternity.

Norm Roulet caught young life in his fire plug images.

How long since you've been there?  Realneo!

Joe Calabrese, the head of the Greater Cleveland Rapid Transit Authority, is also a board member of the Downtown Cleveland Improvement Corporation – the legal entity behind the DownTown Cleveland Alliance. Another DCIC board member is John Coyne, from Ampco Systems Parking.

Although this Crain's article from last October reports that Mr. Wolstein's East Bank Flats project is on hold, site preparation (image mash up 6.22.09) has moved past demolition to excavation, including a significant soil anchored solder beam and lagging retaining wall - the top of which is at the rh side of the image. Independence Excavating is doing the site work. 

The decline of NEO over the last 40 years has much more to do with the lack of adequate checks and balances and lack of sunlight - all leading to corruption and theft in our government - than the region's decline has to do with "rust belt" issues.

 Jon Kaplan is the first wind energy enthusiast in Cleveland to make sense in the 122 years since Charles Brush installed the world’s first wind driven electrical generator of Euclid Blvd.    Here is the PearlWind.com site which shows the foundation construction for the coming Pearl turbine.

Larry's sign announces that mufflers, shocks, and struts are installed round in back.   It looks like Larry in his spare time - between car repairs -  uses his acetylene cutting torch and his welder to build these custom rib smokin' machines. 

Noticing a bit of traffic today to the Chris Kennedy facilitates total collapse of NEO report from March 21, 2008 on REalneo, I Googled "Chris Kennedy news" and sure enough,  Mr.

"It’s a matter of values. Our values have been out of whack. We keep enriching new development. We keep expediting the death of existing development."

NB: don't click on this - there's nothing more to read here - read Roldo

 Over the last few weeks there has been a bit of friction between different users and different viewers at Realneo.   You can observe this friction in some of the comments at Realneo, and if you look closely you can see it in who hasn’t recently been commenting or seen at Realneo.