Pathetic: Businessmen accused of cheating sick kids out of money - 19 Action News|Cleveland, OH|Breaking News, Weather, Exclusives

This character, Kevin Beaver, meddled with the property next door to us at 4024/26/28 Denison as realtor, owner’s agent for the Zayed family, and finally owner himself, prior to default on the mortgage debt. Beaver is not a good neighbor, to say the least.

Pathetic: Businessmen accused of cheating sick kids out of money

Posted: Oct 23, 2010 5:46 PM EDT Updated: Oct 24, 2010 9:05 AM EDT

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BROADVIEW HEIGHTS, OH (WOIO) - 19 Action News has discovered charges against two suburban businessmen accused of pocketing big bucks meant for charity.

The men are accused of cheating workers and sick kids out of $52,000 bucks!

Last winter, 19 Action News got wind of the investigation but couldn't get answers. Now we can!

Records show Kevin Beaver and William Snyder ran ReMax Classic Realty in Broadview Heights. The two are suspected of collecting donations for years from real estate agents for every property sold.

The businessmen said the money would go to the Children's Miracle Network, a group helping sick kids nationwide including here in Northeast Ohio.

Cuyahoga County prosecutors raided the real estate offices and slapped both men with charges.

Kevin Beaver pleaded guilty to theft by deception and charges against William Snyder are pending.

Prosecutors say the men have paid back the $52,000 and claim they've "done nothing wrong."

Yeah right, try telling that to the kids!

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DID SOMEONE PLEAD QUILTY TO THEFT AND THAN SAY THEY DONE NOTHING WRONG. HOW LOW CAN YOU GO. USERS AND TAKERS, THAT'S WHAT THIS WORLD IS MADE OF. SEEMS AS IF THOSE WHO DO GIVE ARE THOSE WHO CAN'T AFFORD TO. IT'S SO SAD. THERE WAS JUST A 20/20 TV STORIES SIMILAR TO THIS. WHERE PEOPLE WERE PRETENDING TO BE "MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION". TAKING PEOPLE HARD EARNED MONEY. EVEN THOUGHT THIS IS A KNOWN CHARITY, THE SCAMMERS WERE USING THEIR NAME PRETENDING TO BE AN EMPLOYEE AND WASN'T. SOME OF THEM WERE CAUGHT TOO. THEY ALL OUGHT TO BE SHAME. MAKE PEOPLE NOT WANT TO TRUST CHARITIES.

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Foster Pointe Affordable Senior Apartment Homes Coming Summer 2010 To Cleveland, Ohio

Here is the buzz on the Foster Pointe (where did that “e” come from?) slab construction built over the dump. The next question is, how affordable is affordable, and what was the cost per unit of this cheaply built senior warehousing facility?

Remember, these days, with enough foam filler and other insulation, even trailers or a box or a van down by the river can technically qualify for the green awards.

Foster Pointe Senior Homes, a 61-unit three story affordable senior development located in the Brooklyn Centre neighborhood on Cleveland’s west side, announced that it will be ready for occupancy mid-summer 2010.  Brooklyn Centre is a walkable neighborhood with a number of parks including the renowned Cleveland Metroparks Zoo and the Ohio and Erie Canal Towpath Trail. The community’s units boast one and two-bedroom efficient floor plans that connect kitchen and living room areas to create a large, open living space, with all floor plans providing a breakfast bar.  Foster Pointe includes numerous environmentally friendly development features, including upgraded insulation, energy efficient windows, Energy Star appliances and an advanced light package.  Foster Pointe exceeds the Enterprise Green Community Program Standards, a national standard for green and environmentally healthy affordable housing.

“We’ve been incorporating green components for several years and that includes Energy Star certification for many of NRP properties. We are attempting to improve the quality of people’s lives and not charge them extra for it,” says Aaron Pechota, Vice President Development, The NRP Group.

Technorati Tags: Senior Apartments,Affordable Housing

Foster Pointe Affordable Senior Apartment Homes Coming Summer 2010 To Cleveland, Ohio

Foster Pointe Senior Apartment Homes

 

The architectural sketcher forgot to put in the air-conditioning units, the meters, and the pipes obtrusively displayed all around the outside of these cheap and nasty units hastily thrown up on lower Denison, on top of where the dump used to be. There was a design review committee convened hastily to wipe this monstrosity off on Denison Avenue and Brooklyn Centre, and I wonder whether they actually approved the thoughtless, tacky design that has all the internal systems externalized. Speaking of externalizations that are truly unfortunate, the exterior lighting is incredibly out of step with the surroundings as well. It would be appropriate for a prison yard, and not much else.

Here is the hastily assembled design review committee for this NRP project. Make sure you call or write them to thank them for their efforts over here, but ask them if they really think this is as much of an affront to the community as we do. It cheapens our efforts here; some of us have been working at it for 30 years or more. To our knowledge, not one of these people lives in Brooklyn Centre or has real property holdings in that area. Reggie Clark has conflicts of interest in that he worked to get paid by bringing the NRP deal to fruition, by hook or by crook, and yet is shameless enough to sit on the committee doing final design approval.

George Cantor   216 664-3807 gcantor@city.cleveland.oh.us

Committee Members

Carol Schiro, Resident-Graphic Designer (Chair)
Damian Henri, Architect

Abe Bruckman, Planner
Eric Lutzo, Local Business Representative

Reggie Clark, Realtor
John Rakauskas, Architect

Mark Duluk, Architect
Wendy Harbaugh, Architect (Alt)

John Gallagher, Local Business Representative

Foster Pointe Senior Apartment Homes

Sound Walls and Fury / WCPN.org, initially aired Thursday, July 29, 2010

Here’s an easy link to the podcast replay of the Ideastream initial session on the ODOT sound barriers and the flawed process that puts them in place.

Sound Walls and Fury / WCPN.org

Cleveland: Angry residents fight highway noise wall

Here’s the coverage from WKYC of the ODOT debacle on I-71.

CLEVELAND- Interstate 71 between Fulton and West 25th Street is on Ohio's top 25 list of noisy stretches of highways.

But the Department of Transportation's wish to put in noise walls is sparking a very noisy debate.

The Brooklyn Centre neighborhood that surrounds the highway is battling to keep its identity and avoid being confused with Old Brooklyn.

"We are the gateway to the city of Cleveland. (Those walls) look like a welcome to East Berlin, " neighborhood activist Tim Ferris said.

ODOT wants to put in faux brick concrete walls already installed further south on the highway.

"We're not a typical suburb. We don't want a typical suburban noise wall," said Councilman Brian Cummings.

Trees abutting the access roads were cut down this week sparking more outrage.

Opponents say ODOT needs to have some green-friendly alternatives for noise abatement.

They are proposing a vegetation noise wall concept being used in Europe and Canada.  It's about a dollar-cheaper per square foot than concrete. But ODOT's concerned about possible maintenance costs.

ODOT says it will study green alternatives for the future. But it wants to act fast to build walls to make sure more than $2 million of Federal money is not lost.

"What they are proposing is something that has not been tested or proven in Ohio," said ODOT spokeswoman Jocelynn Clemings.

"I'd like to get a say. I'm a taxpayer. It's going to make us more forgotten than we are now," said resident Laura McShane.

Some residents who live close to the highway want the walls.

Awilda Soto's backyard is a showplace of statues and landscaping. She's lived next to the highway for 25 years.

"I like it because we're not going to have as much wind or noise and will have privacy.  I wish it here tomorrow," she said.

This situation is the latest of many where residents or businesses feel ODOT is pushing its own agenda without regard for their concerns.

ODOT rejected proposals to put a bike line on the Innerbelt Bridge.

Midtown businesses are upset ODOT plans to eliminate Innerbelt interchanges they regard as essential routes for their customers.

A task force recently recommended ODOT update its transportation planning process to allow more consideration of human, economic and environmental impacts of what it builds.

http://www.wkyc.com/video/default.aspx?bctid=97278808001

Cleveland: Angry residents fight highway noise wall