This empty plaza, stretching to the horizon, is downtown Cleveland.
Cleveland, Chicago and Pittsburg are all "rust-belt" cities- places that rose and fell with the steel industry. After the dust settled, these cities tried to reinvent themeselves, with different degrees of success.
Chicago rebuild itself into the cosmopolitan food capital of the United States.
Pittsburgh scrubbed itself (mostly) clean.
But Cleveland has not been so successful. Here, nothing new seems to have been built downtown since 1975. And what is left seems a little... sad.
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