THE HOME STRETCH
This week, the first residents of the The Avenue District townhomes will start making their move into Cleveland’s newest downtown neighborhood at Rockwell Avenue and the newly created East 15th Street. This will mark a new era in downtown Cleveland living, as urban pioneers take the first step towards a revitalized Cleveland, and a return to upscale downtown living that Cleveland offered more than a century ago.
Downtown Cleveland was once a residential showplace with Euclid Avenue known as one of the finest city streets in 19th-Century America. However, by 1950, the success of Cleveland’s industries led to downtown expansion and commercial takeover, as the mansions and homes were demolished to make way for an urban metropolis. Click here for a brief history of Euclid Avenue. http://ech.case.edu/ech-cgi/article.pl?id=EA
HISTORY OF TOWNHOMESIn architecture and city planning, a terrace, row house, or townhouse/townhome, is a style of housing in use since the late 17th century, where a row of identical or mirror-image houses share sidewalls. Terrace housing in American usage generally continued to be called townhouses in the United States, with a distinctive type found in New York City, among other cities, called a brownstone. In the Midwest and Great Plains (and often in Georgia), they are referred to as "townhomes."
The small footprint of the townhouse allows it to be within walking or mass transit distance of business and industrial areas of the city, with the luxuries of upscale living, and typically in areas so densely built that detached single-family houses are uncommon or almost nonexistent.
Source Wikipedia.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrace_house
BUILDERS MAGAZINE ARTICLEBuilder's Exchange Magazine, a Northern Ohio trade magazine focused on design and construction, featured The Avenue District as a profiled project for the month of October.
Multi-family: New construction in downtown Cleveland
Quiet zone - A high-end development caters to the upscale resident who wants peaceful sophistication
"The Avenue District is already being called Cleveland's quiet, elegant downtown neighborhood, and that reputation is only going to improve. The area, which already has as many residents as the popular Warehouse District, is in the middle of a development project that could change the landscape of the city for decades to come..."
http://www.bxmagazine.com/article.asp?ID=732
DOWNTOWN CLEVELAND ATTRACTS RUPPIESNathan Zaremba comments on the Ruppies Market in a Plain Dealer article about Scott Wolstein's bold vision for Flats' east bank.
“Downtowns elsewhere in the Midwest, like Milwaukee and St. Louis, are catching the crest of baby boomers who leave the suburbs for a more urban lifestyle.
They've earned a nickname among planners - Ruppies, as in retired urban professionals.
There are 32,000 of them in the outlying suburbs here, said developer Nathan Zaremba…”
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