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Somewhere, Dan Gilbert is breathing a sigh of relief that there’s finally another contender for most childish letter in Cleveland sports history.

Especially impressive considering one could easily drop a couple hundred K to update it (it doesn’t look touched since it was built in 2004…and I hate that means it looks this dated now).

Right?!? I had to go check the original article myself to make sure @downtownjoe wasn’t winding us all up! Seems like Bobby George has spent a little too much time fantasizing he’s the young DJT from “The Apprentice” (movie, not reality show).

To be fair, the line itself is credited to Angie Schmitt, not the city itself. I’m not saying it’s inaccurate, but Angie is not without her own editorial slant.

Honestly, I thought that was the play when the Haslams first started their pursuit of the Brook Park land. A USPS relocation there would fit perfectly with the light industrial remake of that district and offers great road and air connections for the Post Office (I guess there’s no mail trains anymore). No reason it can’t still be.

Ummm if you’re referring to Terry Coyne’s comments in @KJP’s article above re: Downtown’s office resurgence, that doesn’t seem to be his message at all (no matter if you agree with him or not).

G-damnit. After that car crash, I knew it was only a matter of time. Intro chose to relocate to Atlanta. John Boyd gets it right again. 🫡

Atlanta.

I don't dispute that BKK is the best qualified/equipped reliever airport in NE Ohio. But if the 3801' x 75' runway, uncontrolled Lake in the Hills (3CK) can be the designated reliever for the combined 95 million passengers and 956,000 operations of O'Hare and Midway (2023 numbers), I think Cuyahoga County Airport would fit the bill as Hopkins's reliever just fine.

Actually, Burke doesn’t have the runway for a C5 to take off at MTOW, but plenty of enough runway to land at max landing weight. Whether it has the runway and taxiway strength for those operations is another matter.

I get the sentiment, but I don’t think utilizing an airport for air freight requires either innovation or imagination. People much more knowledgeable in this industry than I’m assuming most of us have determined that Burke isn’t suitable for this use when you have LCK or ILN within the region. Frankly, the long-shot of an incubator for the electric short range air taxi industry seems at least a NEW niche that might have some potential at BKL, but there’s still countless other underutilized airports across the country that would fit the bill. And I think this sector will go the way of the STOLport craze of the 60s/70s in any event.

Precisely. The exact number of daily flights or destination is a moving target, and my instinct was that CLE was generally in the same league as CMH, IND, and CVG. In fact, if it was about flights and destinations, CVG would be much stronger convention city than it is. Obviously, the once per week flights on low-cost carriers are not making or breaking the convention industry in any of these cities, so I don’t believe it’s fair to point at CLE as THE crutch for holding conventions in Cleveland back.

I’m sorry, but no. If you have a point to make, then make it, but I’m not gonna do your work for you. if you disagree with my comment, that’s fine, but I’m not gonna do your homework for you.

It’s only as much as a problem as it is for Columbus and Indianapolis, both of which are assessed to ahead of CLE on the convention front. If anything, Cleveland is batting slightly ahead both of those cities on the direct flight front, so let’s not pretend that only an airport issue is holding Cleveland back.

And holy s*it it doesn’t stop there…one yacht with Murdock, Ghislaine Maxwell/Jeffrey Epstein, AND Jamal Khashoggi connections?! It’s almost like it’s in town as a villain prop for the “Superman” filming.