Interestingly enough; all the frames you listed were on my considerations list before I purchased a Cross Check.
However; the Cross Check is not my most serious car-free-commuter.
For that I have the Surly Troll

Cross Check:
commute to work, hit singletrack trails on way home/weekend, buy a sandwich and maybe a dvd

Troll:
commute to work, bring full load of groceries home, carried the Cross Check(dissasembled but complete) home from LBS on its back

heh, clear enough?
Both great frames, depending on what you want to do with them.

btw, the Soma Double Cross is a Cross Check clone, similar notes probably apply

IF you Insist on 700c wheels, the Surly Ogre is the 700c Troll analogue; but I can't endore it as definitively having not owned one (too much overlap with already awesome Troll, no need to try one for me; same reasons why I'm not going to get a LongHaulTrucker)