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You're right. Just pointing out how so many interests are intertwined. Could have included places like Norway too. There's also an extent to which we don't necessarily want to wreck an enemy's economy, as it could make them more desperate and more hateful toward us. Our sanctions against Russia haven't weakened Putin, they've bolstered him.

Venezuela too! Also the US energy sector. How much influence do they have? I would guess a lot.

Because the entire development is single-use residential, it offers nothing to the 99.9% of potential transit-riders who fail to own a townhouse there. As such it will have minimal effect on ridership. It contributes nothing to the perceived or actual utility of the transit system as an alternative to driving. In no way is this development oriented to the transit station that happens to be nearby. General rule of thumb: if the street frontage is mostly garage doors or the first floor is mostly garage space, or the entire site is forever off-limits to pedestrians, then you're looking at a Car Oriented Development. If it's located this close to a major transit station, you might even call it a Transit Thwarting Development due to the very limited number of parcels where TOD is possible.

The current Case dental school clinic is massive, a seascape of cubicles plus separate rooms for x-rays and stuff like that. I thought they were building a new home for that rather than an offshoot.

Zanesville and Powell are strange bedfellows.

The good thing though is that the new business should have an easier time making it work since the initial investment is much lower. True. That's a lot to invest upfront in something of this scale but, win or lose, there's a lot of benefit to go around.

Our plan to address this would naturally revolve around Tri-C, wouldn't it? Seems right up their alley.

Pitt wants people to stop calling it Pitt, but they'll take that any day over "Pittsburgh State."

I like the new plan. A shotgun approach to mitigate the sheer bigness of it.

What if he was right, about all the corruption? How much better off would we be today if we'd listened to him and cleaned house? Brent Larkin is as complicit as anyone in allowing malfeasance to go unchallenged. Guess whose job it is to "call everybody a bunch of crooks" if that's what they are?

Dirt bikes have no place in this city or any other. They are designed expressly for use in rural areas.

Most of my posts in this thread discuss a better way. In summary, look at the midtown areas of similar cities and do what they did. Short North and Over the Rhine went straight from nasty to nice and Woodward Avenue is getting there. Why does Cleveland need this Mad Max looking intermediate phase? Nobody else did. Are we really supposed to seek value in the eventual demo of this proposed building? Why not fix it on paper while the opportunity exists? The real question is-- why is this coffee shop so determined to operate out of a trailer? Is there no way to get them into a real storefront, no way at all? We just have so many of those, and so much incentive to get coffee shops into them. How can it be sane to carve up a perfectly good trailer instead?

Part of my problem is that most of the lot would remain vacant, after they put their trailer right in the middle of it. Would not be surprised if current zoning actually requires all that lawn buffer, but that hardly makes it right. This breaks every recognized principle of good urban design. I guess those rules shouldn't be seen as ironclad, but why bother discussing better or worse ways to do things if it doesn't matter?

Still leaning toward Cordray but wishing he would talk more like Kucinich.

If it had wheels I might agree. But this appears to be a permanent building that's designed like a trailer-- and proposed for a major commercial street connecting our two hottest areas. Instead of fixing up one of the area's many historic storefronts, we leave those to rot and build this? Hate to get all slippery slope, but to what extent is this our plan for the city's future? As KJP notes, it's not the first time we've seen "junkyard chic" proposed for major east-side corridors. And nothing about any of these plans sounds temporary.

Hard to fathom how 226 apartments there could all have windows.

And don't forget the nightmarish "politician" lurking behind CSU's business school. I don't think Superman is weird though. That's the one I wish we had!

The stilts are a nice touch. Just kidding, this is garbage. I'm surprised the architect isn't listed as Alan Smithee.

If Cleveland's job market is as stagnant as those numbers indicate, which I can believe, property values and rents should be similarly stagnant.

Gosh I hope it's not that they don't know how...

Here and in FEB, it seems like these gigantic bars need to be packed constantly in order to pay the rent on their spaces. It might not be a workable model.

Are those midblock crosswalks a recent addition? Along Lakewood's stretch, the only crosswalks are at intersections where traffic already stops. Making a midblock stop/go determination based on whether someone is standing in the median, or along the side of the road, forces drivers to spread their attention to a point that it could cause more accidents than it prevents.

Maybe it's time, in light of recent corruption news, that other entities besides LAND could perhaps get involved? And maybe there should be more focus on programming in our public spaces, with less emphasis on ugly installations.

"District Detroit" is among the worst place-names I've ever heard.

CMSD is closing Whitney Young, a high-performing magnet school, and forcing all its gifted students into JFK high. Many of these students will be in physical danger at JFK. Whitney Young was the only thing that made CMSD workable for those kids, and they have made their school one of the district's few bright spots. But that's over. Many are scrambling to get into private schools now.