In design, Steelyard Commons is a depressing cliche. It consists of a long row of boxy stores facing a vast parking lot. Schneider has talked about gluing a veneer of faintly industrial architecture to the facades of the "commons" to evoke the muscular steel-making sheds of the past. But it's obvious the project will suburbanize a once robust industrial zone for which better uses could be found.(Via the always excellent Cuyahoga County Planning Commission Weblog, which also has this.)
An exciting vision.
A