No offense, but what makes Grace residents so special? I have $250,000 condos at the end of my street and had to endure all similar issues. My children GO to Garfield so I know about the accidental outtage.
I respect that they are annoyed, but they also forget we live in Ohio and some projects cannot be completed in 20-30 degrees. The Get Go project picked up when they had a few warm days. It is now done and doing great. I had to endure lots of construction vehicles I did not want either for 9-11 months. It will be done soon. Drug Mart is scheduled to OPEN in May, not June. I know because I had worked in the Pharmacy.

Family dollar started the tear down the sane time as getgo new site did and getgo has been up and running for atleast a month so what really is taking drug mart and family dollar so long

Some of you people need to take a chill-pill. Progress takes time, noware did I see a statement that this project would be done overnite. It will be done soon enough and help the East end of Lakewood. Anything is better than nothing, keep reminding your selves of that fact.

Good grief people. Are any of the complainers in the construction industry? With all due respect how do you know how long it takes to complete a 9000 sq ft building? It's not an easy task to pour concrete or lay block in frigid temperatures......its almost impossible. Calling the contractor to complain will get you nowhere. I'm sure they have schedules to meet and are trying their best....harrassing them doesn't help. I'm an inspector in the construction industry and I hear this crap all the time. Suck it up......it will be done when its done

Having been through the Get Go construction, I feel your pain and I understand the aggravation especially if the project is something you do not support. The least the contractor could do is exercise some customer service or appoint someone to address it! The contractor who did Get Go visited each of our homes personally to let us know he was starting and gave us his card and said if there were any complaints to call him directly about it. I hate Get Go, and do not shop there, but I appreciated that. Even if they can't do anything about the problems the least they can do is listen to the complaints, respond appropriately, professionally and without all the attitude. They will be leaving when it is over, the rest of us have to live here...Jimmy Williams, I would like to see you "suck it up" when you are inconvenienced and when something affects your home. My guess is that you don't do much "sucking it up" either being that you are in the construction industry and someone who has control over the construction itself.

BTW Jimmy. Even Family Dollar Corporate is dissatisfied with the progress of this store. Their own sub-contractors substantiate this. Construction projects clearly follow a timeline -- when they fall off their schedules, they usually try to make it up somewhere (weather improves, they work longer hours, etc.) -- it doesn't get done when it gets done. This isn't a home renovation! Grand opening dates never change without penalties to the GC.

Well, it doesn't surprise me that when the "hood activists" couldn't derail the new DrugMart and new Family Dollar store they now complain about the building of these tax revenue/job creating businesses for ALL the folks who live in Lakewood. I can hear it now - after they open - the noise in the early Am for inventory delivery, and then the high school kids hanging out in the parking lot at midnight. It will never end. To all who folks who bought less than a couple blocks from the main drag of Lakewood - DETROIT AVE. - what did you expect? Boutique hotels, small coffee houses, medical clinics/dentist offices? This is the business district of Lakewood, and anyone should realize that you take a risk buying your home less than a few blocks away. That is just urban living. And if you want noise, try living in one of the Gold Coast Condos - there is almost nonstop rehab always going on - drilling through concrete wall and floors, pounding and putting in wood floors, knocking down walls... I wish we would have the few months of noise that the hood neighbors are now experiencing..... Instead, we get almost daily, 50 weeks/5 days a week some kind of noise. But if you want to live in an inner-ring suburb, you just get used to it. Or move!

WELL..look whos reduced to name-calling..Ian please tell all of the Lakewoodites who have inhaled too much RUST what a "hood activist" is..you continue to educate us! I imagine its different from a hood ornament.

I must think the approval process for these projects was ill-considered and the city's oversight of them lax at best. City Hall couldn't care less sbout the citizens as long as the money keeps rollong in.

Ian, I think you and I have gone at it before over the Get go issue and your solution to everything is always "you bought that close to Detroit" and "if you don't like it, move." I am getting pretty sick of hearing that. I disagree that it is impossible to enjoy a porch swing when many houses in Lakewood actually do enjoy a porch and a porch swing. It seems to me that if you chose to live in an apartment without one, you are the one who should consider moving. Some of us may have lived our entire lives in our homes and were raised there so it is more than just "if you don't like it, move." I care about Lakewood and I have the good fortune to be able to live in the house I was raised in 30 plus years now and I don't want to move!!!! I did not choose to buy here, my parents did, and I am not complaining about that but you should consider that not everyone's circumstances are the same and just moving is not always an option. I want the City to consider its long time residents who want to stay and continue to make Lakewood their home. My kids are third generation and I don't think the solution is to tell people to move if they don't like it. People wonder why everyone is moving out of Lakewood well, it is because the City does not care about its citizens and what they want specifically those who are personally impacted by their development decisions. I am talking about close proximity neighbors to these places. Lake/Nicholson area is hardly close proximity in my view.

I would have to agree with Mr. King. I live on Detroit Avenue next to where Drug Mart is moving from and where Value World is moving to. I'm not thrilled about the new property owner but it's not my property to decide. I know too well the noise of Detroit Avenue living. My business contributes to it. Still, for me the plusses outweigh the minuses and I choose to live here. Lakewood is not a bedroom community with the exception of a few small areas. If you think things will be quiet once construction ends think again. Think frequent car alarms going off in the parking lots. Also, you live across from a Middle school. How quiet can it be?

Best of luck to the flack catchers at City Hall that field the complaints. Most things in the process of development have some discomfort and adjustment. It's a lot like pregnancy. I'll guess we'll be hearing about noise & mud in the street down on Edgewater when the demolition/ build is going on. Again, best of luck to the people at city hall & the police department. May they have patience & compassion. I'm happy to see our city building & improving rather than deteriorating due to the ravages of time.

To Renee and MF I am a structural steel inspector and work for a 3rd party lab. Unfortunately we are not involved in these projects. My street was torn up the entire summer last year for water main and sanitary replacement. I had to "endure" noise, traffic, no parking in my driveway......dust.....you name it. I did suck it up. No complaining. No whining. I even came home to the contractors vehicle parked in my driveway. Not a big deal......they were polite and grateful that I let them stay there. I have been in the construction industry myself for going on 30 years. So yeah I do know. I don't know any of you personally and frankly don't care to. There are so many other more important issues in Lakewood other than your discomfort. Now if you'll excuse me I am going to enjoy my nice quiet construction free area of lakewood........what is it they say? Location Location Location........lol have a nice day

MF ...It's people like you who are the problem, DEAL with IT!!, it's the way of the world and technology ie AT&T changes and we have to adapt, I'm 100% sure that the home that you love so much and want to enjoy, was a nusaince to someone else when it was built and im sure you've had improvement done over the years that may have conflicted with someone elses opinions, they delt with it and so can you, if you can't deal with the way a growing and aging city works, then leave and join a gated community with a set of bi-laws and you can vote on them and crow all you want about what you dont like..If you dont agree with the way things work, stay in your gated community and leave the rest of us who can cope with change, alone!!! People with a sense of entitlement are the problem, You wanna make a valuable change in the way things opperate??? Try and make the city line move back W117th street where it once was, incase you havent noticed, Crime, Drugs, Theft, Violence have long since moved West and are quickly creeping into your neighborhood, leave legit bussiness' and the hard working people who are trying to do their job alone and get ready for the feeling that Eastern Lakewood is about to lay upon you and your neighborhood , Now stand up to that!!!

^^^ Sorry this still drives me nuts, Uppity people, At least they closed your street from the direct traffic of the work, most of us dont get that courtesy, but if you spend all your efforts on this, soon that building will be done, and you can swing on your porch and enjoy it when the house next to you becomes section 8 and 12 people move in with ZERO ethics, and they park in YOUR driveway, and make noise constantlyand their family and friends start vandalizing your property and stealing your things, and bring down your neighborhood, you'd pray for a building to go up next to you to get rid of that non sense, Trust me its coming, ive been in Lakewood forever and it's not anything close what it has been, open your eyes to it and try and change that.....

You are right, Mark. I should have thought twice 5 years ago before moving to Lakewood from Chicago. It reminded me of Oak Park, Illinois where third generation contractors made an impact on a once crumbling city, with its century old homes, its dense population and its proximity to a downtown that is walkable. I agree with you, I should just pack up my bags and get out of dodge...to paraphrase Ian...why would I want to pay so many taxes, including my self-employment taxes to the City of Lakewood, and live in this "rust bucket" when clearly I have no understanding of living in a densely, crime ridden, violent, thiefing city. I was impressed with your schools and your orchestra program for my kids. In 5 years, I've lived in two rental properties, Waterbury and Cohassett, have enjoyed my kids attend Harrison ES (Birdtown-not safe I was told), Garfield MS, and Lakewood HS, to finally settle in a home I coveted since I toured it in 2007.

Uppity people, I am not. I live next to the boarding house and Garfield MS, I think I know what you're referring to. CRIME...I think after living and working in Chicago, I've experienced it all. Lakewood is a great community with a lot of potential. My BEEF here isn't the actual construction going up on Detroit two doors down from me, but making the contractor acccountable for his site and completing the project, which I believe, based on the facts, should have been concluded by now. Why don't you contact Family Dollar and find out how satisfied they are with the target date. Every day this site is not open costs them money. Commercial construction moves at a faster pace then residential for that very reason. Get it built, so it can turn a profit. But, I will take your advice, and walk away from my investment because I had no clue what I was buying into. It's people like you who foster the exodus of people from Lakewood and/or Cleveland. I don't DEAL with it. I STAND up to whatever I deem is a problem. And finally, I get INVOLVED. I'm sorry I drive you nuts. It's a free country, with free speech. We're all entitled to our opinions.

"we know all too well that you severed AT&T's fiber optic cable leaving residents without TV, phone and internet service — we know you work 7 days a week and wake us up with your noisy equipment at 7 am, even on a Sunday morning (wait! Is that allowed near a residential neighborhood?).

Why is it that people that don't have these problems always manage to have a smarmy word (attack the victim) instead of directing their criticism for those who are making so many people's lives miserable?

How many of the people who are calling M-F Schreiber a 'whiner' would be willing to put up with THIS.

There are city ordinances stating when contractors can start work. If they were waking me up at 7 a.m., I'd be livid and have more than a few 'choice' words for those who abuse work laws.

I haven't seen anyone mention this. I guess its ok when it happens to OTHER people.