Thanks Jerleen, and welcome to REALNEO!

I had to look up some background on this... for anyone else:

Dante Boccuzzi's signature restaurant will move to the beautiful old Third Federal Savings building.

See Tremont will soon have another Restaurant/Bar on Professor on Tremonter for more.

Looks like the space is owned by Giancarlo Calicchia according to the auditor's website - purchased in 2007 for $185,000. Will Dante lease the space? Maybe Giancarlo, also a Tremont resident, just wants to have Dante's cooking nearby. It's a bit too high dollar and fancy for my simple taste, but I guess that's what keeps the traffic coming to your fair and gentrifying neighborhood. The good news? He's not tearing down an historic building. With the advent of Michael Symon who got his chops in your locale, maybe Tremont is seen as the sweet spot for chefs in town... I don't know, just guessing. It could be much much worse - could be an Applebees or an IHop. Gawd forbid! Who knows, maybe Chrissie Hynde will find a place for Vegeterrannean II in your sweet spot, too. Or in NY or Las Vegas.

All good folks Jerleen and private property owners are not beholden to block groups much as we would like to think that long-term residents should have a say in everything that affects us. Unfortunately, you sometimes just have to hope for the best and stay focused on the misuse of public funds for private gain. In this case, you needn't worry. The transfer is reported in today's Plain Dealer and at the Tremonter site while it still exists.

Now, now, you have Grumpy's (appropriately named for Tremont) and you are always welcome to visit the many fine Greek diners in my neighborhood...while they last... also Tremont Bistro recently opened with moderate pricing and most of the independently owned restaurants in CLEVELAND (not suburbs) feature five for $5.00 happy hour specials. I recently had an amazing solo dinner at Prosperity Social Club for $9.00...beer, salad and an entree...

Speaking of cheap eats, here's some sad stuff here from a guy I personally have seen chowing down at the Westside Market Cafe...next time, I will introduce myself.

Well, I just want to let you all in on a little bit of info - if you look into the TWDC SII program - their own demographics state that more than half of the Tremont population has an income under the poverty level - some of us would like an "affordable" place to take our families out to eat - maybe I will take care of that and open up a little country kitchen - or an "affordable" ice cream parlor where the poor kids can afford to go have an ice cream scoop. 

And as far as the block clubs are concerned - every one should be treated fairly - if one must go through the "system" then they all should.  And like I said, I do believe that the parking in question has already been spoken for and if so where is Mr. Dante going to put his patrons?  We already have too many establishments claiming street space via valet parking.  And Grumpy's moved to W. 14th Street - Their place does have better food than most.  The  owner's brother (who owned the Grumpy's on Literary) catered my son's wedding  in September as well as my brother's last July,  the food was fabulous and the price was great.   Plus we have a large family and will be using his services again.  We sure wish he was still in the neighborhood.  He did have the best ham and cheese sandwiches. 

happy holidays