07.05.25 Header of the Day: Steelyard Outlot Pan

As a contrast to yesterday's Header of the Day [1], of Beechwood Place Mall, here's a new pan from a shoot at new Cleveland Big Box Mall Steelyard Commons, still in development, on April 20, 2007.

To find this commons, I drove deep into the Cleveland Flats, along a decrepit road that passes the Cleveland Impound Lot and LTV Steel, now Mittal, running along freight rail lines, then suddenly becoming a ribbon of brand new concrete, rising to meet civilization, leading to a vast expanse of bubbling big boxes called Steelyard Commons. As of this shoot, many megashopping favorites are here, along with acres of parking lots, one or two centrally located bus stations, and much room for expansion. The setting is quite dramatic - surrounded by a ribbon of freeway to the south and west - rail lines and steel plants to the east - Tremont and downtown Cleveland to the north... the middle of nothing. It is worth looking at the larger images of both pans here, attached below.