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Around that time (1995ish) there was a rendering floating around of a much larger expansion plan for the hotel: I remember thinking this was a phase 1 / phase 2 thing, and for a while fully expected the second phase to kick off any day. Obviously never happened. If I had to guess, the...

And now for the really wacky stuff. I have no idea if any of these were ever serious proposals.

I used to save anything and everything I saw related to Boston development proposals. Here's the full skyline view of the original design. And a couple other different versions of the rendering... And some other random artifacts, mostly of the 2nd major proposed iteration And this one...

That first pic is spectacular. A one shot master class in photography. Wow.

I think the building at distant right in this photo is the Fiske Building, not the the old post office. If we zoom in on this I think we can distinctly make out seven existing buildings in this photo, including the Bell & Hand building, Union Oyster House, and Faneuil Hall.

Core going up. Manual construction, cinder blocks and mortar.

There's a pretty active Ohio-based forum: https://urbanohio.com/ Nowhere near the volume of amazing construction photos we're so lucky to have here, but really good coverage of ongoing projects, especially for Cleveland.

Still not much to see here yet, but if you squint through the green fabric that screens the site, you can see that the foundation is substantially complete. I would expect this to go vertical soon. Unfortunately there are no gaps in the perimeter to get halfway decent picture.