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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.

You beat me to it @LibertyBlvd . The drop in passengers between 2000 and 2023 is 100% the loss of connecting passengers from the then-Continental hub. In fact, in absolute terms CLE undoubtedly would have even lower total passenger numbers in 2023 if O&D passengers (aka flyers that start and end their trip in Cleveland) remained the same, but they have in fact gone way up since 2000 and made up that gap, as evidenced by the craziness in security lines never seen before, traffics jams in arrivals, parking shortages, etc. So that means, no, traffic has not dipped 25%. Maybe not up 25%, but it’s definitely increased. Hence Bryant’s legitimate concerns.

Are you kidding?! The Flats needs South Bank’s Streets Beach and it needs it now.

The byline on that article is literally “Realty.com”. So the epitome of an advertorial. I was going to call that out further up thread, but the article itself did actually seem to be written by a human and not a glorified press release. Still, though, all of the points stand.

If anything is the opposite of “Only in Cleveland”, this is it. The many Real Deal articles, as well as @KJP‘s work, make that abundantly clear Has Kenny Wolfe pivoted into a pitfall? “The fallout happened so fast, you might think you’re reading the dates wrong. In April 2023, Kenny Wolfe bought a blue-hued office building in downtown Dallas to redevelop it into high-end apartments. Wolfe announced the plans for 211 North Ervay in a now-unavailable YouTube video, a move Dallas Culture Mapstamped as “so very 2023.” A more appropriate characterization might have been “so very syndicator.”” More: https://therealdeal.com/magazine/april-2024/has-kenny-wolfe-pivoted-into-a-pitfall/ Hopefully with this project being basically move-in ready, it’ll be a small footnote for the trajectory of the redevelopment.

“In March 2018, Scranton-Averell sold the former site of the Ferry Cap & Set Screw factory for $900,000 to WXZ Development, Inc., based in Fairview Park. 6 7 There were plans to transform the complex into residential units, but this redevelopment was paused due to the construction of a new stormwater sewer overflow tunnel in the vicinity. In April 2022, WXZ received a $4.2 million grant from the Ohio Department of Development. 8 This funding, part of Ohio’s new brownfield remediation program, was allocated for addressing asbestos, contaminated soils, and waste removal at their site.” Source: https://abandonedonline.net/location/ferry-cap-screw-company/ Side note: That website, abandonedonline.net, is pretty impressively well researched and up-to-date. They already had an entry on the demolition of Ferry Cap. Got to believe there must be some cross pollination around here 😉.

While I’ve been to the Twin Cities a number of times, only once in the summertime with a fair chance to see its waterfront. But, I’d say that map is a little deceptive – there isn’t one long park as it appears, as I think the green shows both formal parks and more informal green space (which in this case means small flood plain). Welcome to be corrected if I’m wrong. Google “Riverfirst Minneapolis” and you’ll see that their riverfront park development is an ongoing (but impressive) process.

Making me hungry already (life’s too short for bad wings) but holy hell, was that article painful to read. Is the establishment called Old 86, Bar 86, or even Old 96? Or maybe I need to try Bad 86? Joe Crea was taken from us much too soon.

I hear there’s already Oscar buzz for the set decorating.

Yep! Exactly what I’m envisioning as well. Seems like a no brainer.

Oh man, this seems like such a potential defeat-from-the-jaws-of-victory design to me. I really like it overall and believe they executed the specific elements well. But, you can’t convince me that the orientation of the plaza shouldn’t be rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise (to the south), so Superman’s literally leaping towards Public Square and the the almost Daily Planet-esqe Terminal Tower (I know, no Ohio Bell Building), not the dreary Justice Center. One would see Superman taking flight towards you as you come north Ontario or in profile on either direction on St. Clair, which would be really impressive as well. And all the photos from behind the statue looking along his cape, or from the perspective of the phone booth and Lois Lane, you can’t beat this background (especially compared to what you’ll get with CPD Hqs framing him instead): Was there any discussion of view-lines by the Planning Commission? I sure hope there’s some insurmountable obstacle that resulted in what is currently planned instead.