To: Readers, From: GLUE — We’ve Moved!

Some of GLUE’s friends (thanks Kevin and Jeanne!) just realized: if you’ve been visiting this site, you might not have ever realized that WE’VE MOVED!  Update your “favorite” selections in your web browser, because you can now find us at the NEW GLUEspace.org.
The new GLUEspace has a series of interactive features that allow you to [...]

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GLUEspace launch at Buffalo Museum of Science SATURDAY – Are You Coming?

When:            June 21st, 2008, 7-10 PM
Where:           The Buffalo Museum of Science
Who:              Open to the public

Where is the Buffalo Museum of Science?
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Rustbelt Revitalization Effort Founded and Driven by Young People Launches at Buffalo Museum of Science;
‘A Regional Renaissance is Within Our Grasp’
Members of the Great Lakes Urban Exchange (GLUE) and [...]

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Alas, Poor Tiger Stadium

Plans to save Old Tiger Stadium–the Tigers moved to Comerica Park in 1999–have slowly declined in scale and ambition. But the Old Tiger Stadium Conservancy, with the help of long-time Tiger broadcaster Ernie Harwell, is still fighting to preserve one wall of the Stadium, from dugout to dugout, as a nod to the history [...]

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June Sticky Expert

At our June Sticky City Swap Meets last week, we spent some time hearing from Dave Reid, who represents a group of citizens in Milwaukee (UWM Downtown) who are fighting the planned expansion of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) to the suburbs of Milwaukee, and urging UWM to do its expanding downtown. He spoke [...]

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Sticky Toledo – May – Old West End It Is!

THANKS TO KELLY MCGILVERY, SCRIBE AND ORGANIZER EXTRAORDINAIRE
There are lots of great neighborhoods in Toledo, but there is one that stands out in terms of residents’ enthusiasm and richness of character: the Old West End.
Recognizing this, we started our conversation by talking about some of the attributes of the other great neighborhoods of the [...]

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Streetcars will help us become a world-class city, by Robbie Banks

Thanks, Robbie, for winning the GLUE streetcar advocate award. Your prize?  A street car, of course! (Obligatory Not-So-Fine Print: Please note that this prize is entirely contingent on forces outside GLUE’s control)
As a life-long Columbus resident, young professional and downtown employee, I will greatly benefit from a streetcar system. More than half of my external [...]

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De-complexing the Compact

Our new friend Jim Rowen at The Political Environment has been blogging about the Great Lakes Compact in Wisconsin, and the politics surrounding its passage, since February 2007. For many of us, the Compact elicits an easy, “Sure, I think the Compact is important. Let’s pass it! I love the lakes!” [...]

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Biohabiwhats?

Our buddy Melissa in Chicago sent us a map from Biohabitats, a national ecological restoration firm. It shows a number of the projects they’ve completed in our dear watershed. As Melissa reminds us, “A crucial part of revitalizing the basin is restoring ecosystem services (aka, the things that nature does to provide us [...]

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An Infrequent Debate in Detroit

At the Detroit Sticky meeting, we had a hard time choosing which neighborhood to highlight for the “Our Favorite Neighborhood” feature. I don’t think I’ve ever before been a part of a debate about which is the BEST neighborhood in Detroit, so the experience was refreshing. We settled on Midtown, and the list [...]

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Belated Notes from Pittsburgh’s April Meeting

What’s Your Laundry List Notes from the Burgh:  Lost on an attendee’s laptop until just now!!!

Courtney = from Toledo, has passion for hometown, wants to see it break away from Rust Belt stereotypes, came to Pittsburgh 4 years ago for grad school, [...]

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Quick Notes From Cleveland May “Sticky” on Neighborhoods – Short and to the Point

I. My Favorite Neighborhood Story
a. Warehouse District: Full of life and energy throughout the seasons
b. Tremont: Sense of community, know the neighborhood
c. University Circle: Arts Center
d. Flats (West/East Connector)
e. Detroit Shoreway: Green neighborhood, neighborhood within the larger [...]

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Buffalo: Elmwood Village

From scribe and organizer Ann Mestrovich:
At first we threw around some ideas for neighborhoods in the city that “stood out” – the area around Canisius College (anchored by higher ed); the East Side (active community and church groups); and the Fruit Belt (adjacent to the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus). We then decided to go [...]

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Columbus’ Favorite Neighborhood – Short North

Short North: My Favorite Columbus Neighborhood
An Inner-City Neighborhood that “Works”
“Columbus has become the Heartbeat of Ohio” Downtown Columbus resident, Dennis Sanders
Short North/Victorian Village
• New discovery
• Mixture of ethnicity and subcultures
• People come in from out of town for Gallery Hop
• Cruising your car [...]

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The Brady Street Neighborhood of Milwaukee

Our team in Milwaukee likes their Brady Street Neighborhood. You can see a great collection of photos here, and the GLUEsters thoughts about the neighborhood, below:
What is the mix of commercial and residential housing?
Steady balance of practical stores and boutique places, low-rent, high-rent, condos, and home owners

What is the racial breakdown of residents? [...]

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Broad Ripple Village

Our friends in Indy love the Broad Ripple Village. Why? Locally owned shops… a mix of housing… an atmosphere of creativity… They were apparently inspired by that creativity, and decided to show, rather than tell us why this is their favorite neighborhood, in this 1-minute video!

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From Duluth, a Metaphor

Duluth shares discussion notes regarding the topic: What’s your favorite neighborhood?
The first discussion item considered was “choose a neighborhood that works and try to determine why.”
We had a good discussion on how we define a neighborhood that works. What does that really mean? We thought it meant something different for Duluth than other communities – [...]

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Youngstown Business Incubator News

MEMORANDUM

From: Jim Cossler, Chief Evangelist, Youngstown Business Incubator
To: You
And we’re open for business!
With former Governor Bob Taft as our honored guest, the new $6 million Taft Technology Center was officially opened yesterday in Downtown Youngstown.  Located adjacent to the Youngstown Business Incubator, the Center will house accelerated companies from the YBI program.
But, we discovered a [...]

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Doomed?!!!!!!!!

Will Milwaukee, like Youngstown, wither? Forum would study how cities thrive
From our friend Dan Knauss in Milwaukee on this recent Journal-Sentinel piece (http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=749831):
This is at least the second time I’ve seen a recent story on Longworth that picks up on a comparison he’s making between a category of cities-that-can-be-saved (Milwaukee is one) and [...]

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Senator Obama’s Urban Policy Agenda

On Valentine’s Day, we urged Presidential candidates to support the future of America’s cities and to develop a serious urban platform.
Earlier this week, our Milwaukee-dwelling friend Dan forwarded us Senator Obama’s belated Valentine. It is not clear from the Senator’s website when this platform was unveiled, or to what fanfare, but it is [...]

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St. Louis Ode to Imagination

Michael Allen has been a passionate advocate for neighborhoods on St. Louis’ North Side for years.  Sarah and I had the chance to spend an afternoon with him a few weeks ago when we were in town.  In addition to having encyclopedic knowledge of virtually every building on the North Side, he maintains an inspiring [...]

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