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  1. That's what I figured; they did reconfigure the exits to that parking lot next to it.
  2. They ought put the building behing Jillians and those other buildings- the drunken students wouldn't even have to cross the street to stumble home
  3. So is the dorm replacing the Greek Village idea? Doesn't seem like there would be an extra 12 acres next to the proposed greek place.The Exchange deck expansion is probably good for the new stadium- people going to the games that parked there would be walking right up Carroll Commons and past the Union.
  4. Oky think I can get these...1. Jackson field2. Polymer Annex at Forge and Hill3. The old Student Admin Services building where the payroll is, College St side4. Phi Delta Theta house (BTW what happened to it?!)5. This is a guess, Martin Center6. Lincoln St building7. Hower8. Honors Complex9. Larger part of the old SAS building, on College toward Market St10. SRWC11. Buchtel, the man and the hall12. Ballet Center13. A&S
  5. Right across the street from the bars? Is that the best location?
  6. When I read this, I thought "buildings, buildings, buildings." I think the administration's plan is for continuing the expansion of campus. UA is starting to remind me of Epcot, except Spaceship Earth is rectangular and made of glass...
  7. Yeah that's what I think; they're just chattering
  8. Yeah I suspect they plan to make CSU a regional UA campus like Wayne (although much, much larger), but every time I hear about it, I just think "why?"Some people have talked about putting all of the public universities under one entity, I suspect they're trying to get the ball rolling.
  9. I don't... eek... I don't even like the thought of that. I don't know about the area around Polsky, but The area of E Market, MLK Blvd, Main, etc. is about an hour or more traffic jam to get back out. It's a total zoo. Of course, for a couple of years they've had Main closed down by the Civic for the festival, so that would help a little. What would be better about the Polsky deck for this purpose would be if they'd put the entrance on Broadway, and the exit on High, so people could pull straight in off of the expressway, and leave going in its direction.That's one nice thing about JAR- parking gets messy when there's something big there, but at least it's right off of Rte 8.Hey, maybe a parking deck off of the innerbelt... people might actually use it...
  10. Are you still mad about the plasma center thread? Geez........I know where the deck is at, but why walk the extra distance? (And I'm talking about Canal Park here, the arena would be across the street from Polsky) But also, think of the Polsky deck design- the lower level has its own entrance on High, and all of the other levels use another, which is back on Broadway- they'd have to try and usher traffic to two different enterances.It seems to me, though, that they could avoid a lot of headaches by putting it closer to 76/77. Here's my idea- put it at the corner of Broadway and Bartges. There's a huge piece of empty land there, that's larger than the proposed site. It doesn't have roads on all four sides, and it's right across the street from Opportunity parking deck. I'll give you that it's further from the bars, but that would at least keep the people trying to get to the bars (and not the arena) and the arena people that aren't heading to the bars, from being packed into the same space.
  11. Yeah you could, although it isn't real close either... and that's assuming the U would allow it for that use at non university events. There's some surface level parking that's between Polsky and where the arena would be (although a little too close to Mangos) but it's still a little far compared to what's across the street right now.If they have any sense at all, they'd put a deck in that, although it wouldn't be terribly big. That's one of the handy things about downtown, a lot of the buildings that got dilapidated were knocked down for parking, so it's usually plentiful.
  12. Correction- oldest commercial building; there are houses that predate it. And age is really its only significance.There's one other bad thing here though- the rest of this area is currently gravel parking that takes the Aeros game traffic, now we'll have two stadiums with less parking nearby. People could park at the Opportunity deck, but I think some people would be put off by having to walk that far.
  13. That's not going to happen... they'd have to tear down the oldest building in the city for that (Kaiser Building) and it's got historical building protection.
  14. I wish the Mayflower would go back to being a hotel like it was originally. That place used to be a staple for Akron visitors.
  15. Wow never heard that one before, did you think of that all by yourself?And yes, the neighborhood was there on the south side of Exchange, albeit smaller. That was before Wolf Ledge was filled in so there was a ravine about halfway between Exchange and where the expressway is now.The off-campus housing need was taken up by the neighborhood, but first, that wasn't all new construction- there was plenty of existing housing that was converted. Second, that was between Carroll and Exchange. Middlebury was a village predating Akron. When Akron became a city in the 1820s Middlebury and the land in between were all included. Also, by the time the U actually reached the current neighborhood we're talking about (1960s), most of current Akron was already built.I used the Summit County online tax map to look up the ages of some of the buildings in the neighborhood. I found a house from 1869 at the corner of Sherman and Wheeler. The plasma center was built in two halves- the part right at the corner was 1929 and the one-story part was 1951 (of course, it wasn't a plasma center that far back). The house behind the center on Brown is from 1919, the one next to it is from 1884. House at Brown and Wheeler, 1884. Odd Corner, 1920. Big white storefront at Allyn and Exchange, 1900. Storefronts between Allyn and Kling, 1920s-30s. Most of the rest of the neighborhood is 1890s to 19-teens. This stuff was on Exchange long before the U was.You can get to the maps by going here: ClickClick "Tax Maps" on the right side. This won't work in Firefox, you'll need IE.There was a building project in the 1960s near Grant and Wheeler; that's when Washington St. became Wolf Ledges Parkway. You can see it on the aerial photos in Arts & Sciences. Therefore, there's a decent bit of newer construction there that replaced a lot of older buildings. BTW, you can also see how the U expanded, notice the houses between Exchange and Carroll before the 60s.
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