In Search of a City: Cleveland Rocks!
Downtown Cleveland looks great. My son and I stayed there on Saturday night during our annual trip to see the Indians play the Reds. We stayed at the Residence Inn, which is located in the historic Colonial Arcade. The Colonial is across Euclid Avenue from the grand Cleveland Arcade, which houses the Hyatt Regency.
Euclid Avenue has been rebuilt as a shared busway and public street and has sleek, accordion buses that run frequently enough they can be used without consulting a schedule. Property owners along Euclid continue to renovate buildings for housing and retail, and virtually every building between Public Square and East Ninth Street is now renovated or under construction.
My favorite building is an upscale restaurant and bowling alley at Euclid and Fourth. A comparable location for a bowling alley in Columbus would be North High and Gay Streets. The bowling alley’s restaurant spills onto East Fourth, which is a sea of tables and chairs serving 11 restaurants. Flowers and lighting make the street incredibly inviting.
Cleveland is definitely a city worth visiting.
Tags: Downtown, Entertainment, Gay Street, Public Transportation, Retail