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GE Current is much smaller than the now separate GE Lightning – both of which were spun off from General Electric and use “GE” through a licensing agreement – which is not affected by this move. While not great for EC, it’s not as disastrous (yet) as your post would indicate.

The hits just keep on coming. Surely @JoshMandelOhio is a parody Twitter account, right?! Way to really engage conservative South Asian or Middle Eastern voters in Ohio.

I did a search and couldn't anything, but apologies if there's already a relevant thread.... @McCleveland had a streak almost a decade ago of being an active and impactful member of the Cleveland sections of the forum, and then around 2012 seems to have stopped posting quite abruptly. I always valued their contributions, as I know did many others, to the extent that I recall they got the nickname "Mayor McCleveland". They seemed to be a pretty well informed member, constantly getting it right on downtown development items. Hopefully all is well with them (their user name baring the striking similarity to a certain councilperson lends me hope that is the case) but its stuck me numerous times over the years that the forum misses their input, and so I finally thought it'd be worth asking. While my posting record doesn't show it -- and the server meltdown in 2017 erased the evidence -- I've been a longtime semi-lurker, having been an almost daily visitor since 2005 or so, and have seen many posters come and go...and come again (a certain "loose change" comes to mind), but I think its fair to say there's a black hole and a deficit in knowledge since “the Mayor's" disappearance.

I don't disagree overall, but don't kid yourself into thinking the mentality is a uniquely Cleveland thing. Sprawl is a universality across America; the urban cores that thrive do so in spite of that. Cleveland has the resources and inclination to do the same.

That Deadspin article is, for the most part, garbage (surprise surprise). The Guardians are a $1 billion+ business, and anyone who thinks that the organization (and it’s trademark lawyers) weren’t well aware of all of the copyright and trademark implications of the chosen name change — let alone not realize that clevelandguradians.com was already in use — has an exceedingly quaint view of how a baseball team in the 21st century operates. This week’s Crains has an actually researched, sourced, and journalistic look at this issue. Deadspin is about as reputable in such arenas as…Triv. The baseball club, contrary to some online speculation after the announcement, was aware of the Cleveland men's roller derby team that goes by Guardians and has a website tied to the nickname. But the Indians, after consulting with their legal team, were "very confident" that there wouldn't be any serious roadblocks in moving ahead with the name unveiling, multiple sources told Crain's. A look inside 'massive undertaking' that was switch from Indians to Guardians

Hear, hear @KJP So let me get this straight: The City tore down the likely redevelopable warehouses (boo) for the NFL Draft (great), and also ran off a (maybe?) bonafide development plan from D*ck Pace (meh), just to leave us with a almost-useless parking lot for the next two, or maybe four, years!?! I’m usually very against the “Woe is Cleveland” refrain, but this is really…pathetic. I truly hope there is more to this.

Definitely scratched my head on that as well! 🤷‍♂️ But to be fair, Mary Vanac is one of the good ones. She would certainly know the difference between Lutheran and Huron Road Hospital, so I’ll let myself believe it was just a strange copy editing fluke!

Same restaurant group, re-branding both La Place and Lakewood as Bar Italia. Agreed in the disappointment - Lindey's was a nice alternative, now being replaced by yet more Italian casual with a "wood-burning oven" 🙄 Fortunately it appears the Flats location is still Lindey's.

That’s really not accurate, at all. And to the topic at hand, I feel like the term “Northeast Ohio” actually adds weight and gravitas to our region, not less. When one says “Southern California”, “the Bay Area”, “Northern Virginia”, “Central Florida”, etc, the connotation is of a region that has multiple economic and population centers that are too numerous to ascribe with the name of just city. There’s nothing that says you cannot both identify as both being from Northeastern Ohio and being a Clevelander, if that happens to be the case.

Henry Meyer, when he was CEO of Key, was on the board, and then later non-executive chairman, of United, when UA closed the CLE hub. So while it certainly can’t hurt and is always nice having a seat at the table, having someone form the hometown is no guarantee for anything regarding service at the airport.

Overall looking good...but YIKES I didn’t realize how dead of a street presence the addition would have until now. Looks like the back of a Holiday Inn Express. Shame.

The Route 28 (Sully Rd) and Willard Rd interchange in Chantilly, VA (just south of Dulles Airport in suburban Washington) has this same configuration, I believe. I’ve driven through it a number of times and it seems to work. As long as it is striped and signed adequately, it should be good, despite how honestly weird it feels the first few times you encounter the configuration.

While I have no basis to speak on the technical or regulatory aspects of this ruling, I’ve been following this project for a long time and wholeheartedly believe in its potential benefit for the region and our environment. That being said, it seems that LEEDCo’s disappointment in this outcome is only exceeded by the disappointment of the various groups that are organized AGAINST it. While it would have preferable for the board to produce a full-throated endorsement, a result that gave neither side completely what it wanted doesn’t, to me, seem like it is necessarily a death sentence. Even more, it seems to leave LEEDCo with room to appeal and/or further refine the engineering to the parameters the board outlined. Something tells me that LEEDCo’s protests in response to this could be part strategic.

For the sake of accuracy, I’d just point out that Bobby George owns TownHall, not his father Tony. It is my understanding from those with firsthand experience with both that Bobby is very different (in a good way) from his father–this episode, perhaps, notwithstanding.

I love Bona! Good product and the name provides endless giggles. So random they would use this background. I’m guessing maybe they have a Cleveland-based agency?

Tyson’s Corner Center in Northern Virginia (which, to me, is a lot like Washington’s Beachwood Place) has transformed exactly like this over the last 5+ years, in a scale that is truly impressive.

Well, look at it this way: As a result of schools closing nationwide, there will be more students returning to their “home” metro areas in Ohio than there will be leaving, at least for the 3-Cs. By the seat of my pants (and I’ll admit I don’t have the statistics to back this up, although they’re probably out there) I would bet dollars-to-donuts that this will result in a net gain for MSA populations, and in the case of Columbus, perhaps even the central city as well, than if student remained at their universities. At any rate, college student counting on the census may be so polluted anyway (some properly counting themselves in their dorms or off campus housing, some being counted at home, and probably a fair amount never properly counted) that this’ll end up being a wash. And really, the fact that we’re so dependent on having every last college student counted is illustrative of what we all know is a bigger problem in Ohio, outside of Columbus. **At least that’s my somewhat-uneducated view.

Where was there anything mentioned about suite upgrades? And the suites are already taxed. In fact, Cleveland has the highest admissions tax in Ohio (Columbus has none, for example), and is higher than NYC, Washington, DC, and Chicago, to name a few. (Source: https://www.cleveland.com/datacentral/2017/02/how_much_ohio_cities_collect_i.html)

Attendance certainly hasn’t been great the past decade or so, especially in contrast to the 455 straight sell outs (which I was part of more than a few of). However, it’s decidedly middle of the pack in comparison to the rest of the MLB, and has been trending better the past few seasons. Again, not an only in Cleveland situation, and there are a number of large market teams that have done worse: 2019: 21st out of 30 2018: 21st out of 30 2017: 22nd out of 30 (source: http://www.espn.com/mlb/attendance/_/year/2019) Certainly nothing so disastrous that would cause the Dolans to sell; if that were the standard then there are 8 or 9 other teams that are in peril as well. The low payroll that you mention (not to mention concessions, licensing, TV rights, etc) probably ensures the Dolans make a profit despite the gate count.

Ummm....??? ”Gateway Economic Development Corporation of Greater Cleveland is a 501 ( c ) ( 3 ) non-profit Ohio corporation legally separate from any other entity. The Board is appointed by elected officials of The City of Cleveland and Cuyahoga County, Ohio. Gateway owns both Progressive Field and Quicken Loans Arena and leases these facilities to the Cleveland Indians and Cleveland Cavaliers, respectively.” (https://www.gwcomplex.org/who.html) I’m not going to argue the merits of the request, at least not quite yet. But let’s at least operate from the same set of facts. And while Cleveland may not/no longer be shrinking, there are plenty of regions that are growing much faster, and some of them may Iove to have a Major League Baseball team. On the other hand, the MLB isn’t exactly setting the world on fire with its own popularity growth, so ?‍♂️ But again, if there’s going to be a productive discussion on this, it’s best if it’s based on well known and established facts.

1. The “Sacks” in downtown Cincinnati closed years ago. 2. Yes, every city has this problem, even in much more bustling retail districts than Euclid Ave. Same with the car break-ins. Yes, it’s inexcusable and frustrating. But no, it is NOT an only in Cleveland thing. As far as this is concerned, the woe-is Cleveland attitude has no place ?. The Outrage On 14th Street Was Just Burglarized For The Third Time In Three Months VIDEO SHOWS DARING SMASH-AND-GRAB ROBBERY IN SOHO Nearly 50 cars vandalized in the Loop; Man arrested

Great pic, @KJP. And what’s interesting is that it looks like they might have used the white terra-cotta to clad the atrium, matching the street facing facades. If so, that’s fantastic attention to detail on a feature that certainly could have been value engineered!

That’s a really interesting set of statistics. HOWEVER, Orlando showing more downtown jobs that Cleveland? And Indy with a third more and Denver with TWICE as many?! I have to seriously question who is determining the boundaries used for “downtown” and whether it’s apples to apples across the board. While this is only anecdotal to my untrained “job counting” eye, but I say this having spent some-to-significant time in all of those cities.

As far as the end result (corporate attraction/retention, perceived prestige, etc) I don’t disagree with you, @KJP, et al on this, as far as perception is concerned. But I really think you are overestimating the ability of impact the city or county or even the local corporate community can have on the type of air service you’re talking about. This is much more an industry question than a local governance question. And in today’s airline industry, the Legacy carriers have largely eschewed point-to-point flying, preferring to route all of their traffic through their fortress hubs. And that’s not Frank Jackson’s fault, that’s the result of the hangover of expensive jet fuel, industry consolidation in the 2000s, perhaps not building a giant greenfield airport in Richfield, and ultimately, deregulation in the 1970s. CLE never was a fortress hub (no one pulling paycheck at CLE or 601 Lakeside can be blamed for that) and very very likely never will be, and so CLE will never see the type of service all of us wish it had. The fact remains, outside of Boston and I think Orlando, United still does more point-to-point flying out of Cleveland than anywhere else in its network. So while it’s frustrating they pulled the “hub” (which it really was in name only), UA still gives CLE routes and frequencies that most other airports it’s size would be very enviable of. Delta is generally more willing to do more P2P flying than the other legacies (and does so out of Cleveland with BDL, LGA, and RDU), but even then has its limits. Few on here would dispute that Columbus has had the type of business attraction success that apparently CLE prevents NE Ohio from having, but that’s certainly not due to the service levels at CMH. And CVG’s superior route network as a Delta focus city/former fortress hub has not prevented it from losing a number of F500/F1000 HQs in recently history. And as far as rental car facilities go, please, I don’t see very many high growth companies avoiding Northern Virginia or the Bay Area just because of the interminable slog to the rental companies at IAD or SFO, for example. And it would probably blow the minds of those that complain about the convoluted ride share/“transportation center” at Hopkins to find that darling of high-tech growth and enviable corporate development, Austin, is some how able to still thrive with at least twice as convoluted an arrangement at Bergstrom. Tilting at windmills here, IMHO. So where does that leave an airport like a Cleveland? Going after the non-legacies that are not so beholden to the hub-and-spoke model. And in that respect, as many others have commented, CLE has done quite well. Frontier and Sprit both have among their more sizeable operations in CLE, with Allegiant not far behind. This is what the CLE’s of the world can build their traffic on these days, and in that respect CLE has arguably been more successful than all of its peers. Lastly, the 737 Max grounding is undoubtedly having an effect on route development out of places like Cleveland. Southwest would likely be operating MCI and daily to DAL and/or HOU if it wasn’t for that, filling some of the holes out of CLE. Time will tell. But wishing that CLE had the type of service that you’ll only see at hubs these days is, unfortunately, a wasted expenditure of effort. Let’s focus on service improvements to key holes in the network, and providing a terminal facility that has some aesthetic charm to match its user friendly compactness, expedient security lines, and convenience to the center city.

That's actually not true. AA is gutting their hub at JFK, and placing emphasis on CLT and (especially) PHL as their European gateway. AA also cut flights to JFK from MSP, DTW, SAN, IAH, MCO, DCA, the list of large cites goes on. This is NOT a issue with CLE. American Airlines Appears to Be Entering a Death Spiral at New York JFK MIA is AA's key hub to central/South America, which AA just upgauged from CLE with a significant addition in seats and premium seats.