Enhance Clifton upcoming public meetings!

In what could be one of the largest west side infrastructure projects (at least in connecting major residential areas to Lake Erie and dealing with the 7 lane mega misnomer road, Clifton Boulevard) and a project I personally really hope to succeed, there are two upcoming public meetings scheduled.  Take note below.
ps, lifted directly from the Enhance Clifton webbernet site.

Over the past year and a half, since 2010, the Enhance Clifton program has been changed in several areas. A revised project schedule can be viewed here. The RTA has now secured a significant amount of construction funding to move the project forward. The architectural and engineering firm of Richard L. Bowen + Associates Inc., that was selected by a joint panel in 2009, is continuing its efforts and has been working to prepare the 60% Design Development Submittal.

Two public meetings have been scheduled to inform residents in Cleveland and Lakewood of the updated project scope and to receive feedback before final construction documents are created.

Final Cleveland Public Meeting

Thursday, November 8, 2012

Louisa May Alcott School

W. 104th and Baltic

Cleveland, OH 44102

Final Lakewood Public Meeting

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Lakewood Women's Club Pavilion

Lakewood, OH 44107 

A summary of the current scope of the project is as follows:

Cleveland:  

• The roadway will be widened by one-foot in both directions.
• The driveway aprons along the Boulevard will be re-built, due to the widening.
• The new permanent bus stations will be constructed at the previously determined locations.
• The entire roadway will be repaved.
• The medians will be constructed with trees and landscaping.
• The area around W. 115th and W. 117th will have some additional streetscape enhancements, including masonry planters and sidewalk pavers.
• The span-wire traffic signals from W. 115th to Baltic will be replaced with mast arms including transit priority.

 

Lakewood: 

• The new permanent stations will still be constructed at the previously determined locations.
• Each new station will also have a new concrete bus pad within the curb lane.
• The curb lane will recieve new signage and pavement markings to designate when the lanes are bus-only.
• No other construction work within the City of Lakewood will occur.

For any questions regarding the upcoming meetings or the project in general, please see theContact page. Thank you for your continued interest in the project and we look forward to seeing you at the final public meetings. 

Ali Momeni Opening Friday 11.09.2012

YOU ARE INVITED TO THE OPENING OF  ALI MOMENI'S MOST RECENT SOUND AND LIGHT INSTALLATION ANIMAL WARMTH (60S EDITION) ON FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9  5:30 - 8:00 pm Free Public Opening 7:00 pm            The Artist Talks: Ali Momeni in the Main Gallery  also on view  Procession: Song for the Underground Railroad  an installation by Johnny Coleman in the Euclid Avenue and The Platform Galleries       Ali Momeni, self described "builder, composer, and performer," has been creating Animal Warmth, a serial artwork with arrangements of carbon filament light bulbs and computer generated sound, for several years. With only timed movements of light and sound emanating from the bulbs the artist transforms manufactured, non-living objects into lively, space animating, and audience pleasing beings. Videos of Animal Warmth (#28) (2008) at the Almost Cinema Festival of 2008 at Vooruit in Gent, Belgium can be seen by right clicking on the image below. about the artist  Ali Momeni is a builder, composer, and performer interested in the poetics of gesture, effect, and timing. His work makes use of all manners of technology to explore the social lives of objects and their embedded performative qualities. His creative output ranges from kinetic sculptures and sound installations, to urban interventions and music theater performance. Momeni was born in Isfahan, Iran, and emigrated to the United States at the age of twelve. He studied physics and music at Swarthmore College, completing his doctoral degree in music composition, improvisation, and performance with computers from the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies at UC Berkeley. He spent three years in Paris where he collaborated with performers and researchers from La Kitchen, IRCAM, Sony CSL and CIRM.  Between 2007 and 2011, Momeni was an assistant professorship in the Department of Art at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, where he directed theSpark Festival of Electronic Music and Art, and founded the urban projection collective called the MAW. Momeni currently teaches in the School of Art at Carnegie Mellon University and oversees CMU ArtFab. In spring 2013, The Sculpture Center will be showing Ali Momeni and collaborator Robin Meier's The Tragedy of the Commons, an exhibition with Atta ants.

CANCELLED: Sculpture Panel at Westlake Library, Tuesday Oct. 30th

Due to the storm funtimes the region is currently undergoing the Panel at Westlake Library is being cancelled tonight (Tuesday, October 30th, 2012).

Hopefully it will be rescheduled for early December.

The Sculpture Center