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Friday, October 19, 2007

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Newsmaker: Bob Stark, CEO, Stark Enterprises. The developer known for Crocker Park and Eton Chagrin Boulevard wants to build a mixed-use lifestyle center in Solon. Bob Stark outlined his proposal Monday at a meeting of Solon city council. City officials will have to choose between Stark’s plan and a competing proposal offered by the Coral Company’s Peter Rubin (a guest on Feagler & Friends October 5). Stark’s plan would cover 75 acres at a cost of $750-million and include residential, retail and office space.

Roundtable: Stan Bullard, senior reporter, Crain’s Cleveland Business; Greg Saber, WTAM 1100; Bob Dyer, columnist, Akron Beacon Journal.

Solon Development: The roundtable will continue discussion of the lifestyle centers proposed for Solon and another that’s on the drawing board for downtown Akron.

School Reopens: Cleveland school students returned to class this week with fresh memories of the shooting incident October 10th at SuccessTech high school. Classes resumed with promises of increased vigilance against future outbreaks of violence and further questions about why security wasn’t tighter before the shootings.

Sobriety Checkpoints: Drunk drivers are a proven highway menace and a decades-long crusade against impaired driving has reduced the number of deaths and injuries. But critics are questioning the effectiveness and the constitutionality of the sobriety checkpoint as a tool to discourage drunk drivers. True, sobriety checkpoints produce DUI arrests. But critics say far more arrests could result from heavier patrols of tavern-rich environments around closing time.

Tower City: Cleveland’s Tower City Center adopts new rules next month saying kids aren’t allowed in the facility during school hours on weekdays and after 2:30 p.m. weekends unless they’re accompanied by an adult, or passing through on their way to the RTA rapid station. Tower City hopes the policy will discourage unruly behavior and make the downtown mall more family-friendly.

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