Story from the PD about a new neighborhood in Cleveland.

The first three phases, totaling up to 426 housing units and estimated to cost about $200 million, represents the largest condominium project in Ohio. Ground will be broken for the first phase, or block, this autumn with the first units available for occupancy in late-spring 2007, said Don Picciano, director of sales and marketing for Zaremba.

That first block will be at the northeast corner of Superior Avenue and East 13th Street. It will have 99 loft condos and 30 townhomes, including smaller studio lofts with more affordable prices. The average price of homes in the Avenue District will be about $300,000.

Check out EIGHT proposals for the Cleveland Innerbelt Bridge.

Some redevelopment going on in the West Bank of the Flats.

As early as this September, a plan to build up to 2,000 housing units, plus retail spaces, offices, parks and a casino on the Flats West Bank may be announced by a trio of real estate developers.

The still-emerging development plan, if realized, would be three times larger than a publicly subsidized redevelopment of the Flats East Bank. Little or no public subsidies are contemplated by the West Bank developers _ Jacobs Investments, K&D Group and Robert Corna Architects. No cost estimates are yet available for the West Bank plan.

(I caught this over at Conservative Culture and put my own post about it up here.)

According to The Blade, Ted Strickland's campaign is being funded by the same people who funded Bob Taft's. By the time the article finishes, however, it stumbles upon something even more scandalous than Strickland's contributors...

In addition to taking money from the people who propelled Mr. Taft to the governor's office, Mr. Strickland also has met with the controversial architect of the governor's career.

In April, Mr. Strickland attended an event hosted by Brian Hicks, Mr. Taft's former chief of staff who was convicted last year of failing to disclose vacation stays at Noe's Florida home on his annual ethics statement.

Mr. Strickland said the purpose of the one-hour meeting at the Capital Club in downtown Columbus was to talk with Mr. Hicks' lobbying clients.

...Tim Hagan, a Democrat who ran for governor against Mr. Taft in 2002, said any effort by Democrats to meet with Mr. Hicks and his lobbying clients is "repugnant and disgusting."

So, is it the fact Ted shares Taft's donors, his proximity to the governor's convicted staff members, or his interest in lobbyists that makes him the outsider in this race?