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Cheap office space is necessary in a weak economy like ours. You find a lot of small professional practices in Class C space, like accountants and lawyers. Some lawyers even prefer a historical setting.

Fair enough, but that article is almost a year old now. Still seems a little slow. Personally I love the look of that dome so the delay doesn't bother me.

None of this is mixed use. The Clifton frontage is commercial, the Lake frontage is residential, and I thought the projects were unrelated. So I don't get why the grocery lot is still just sitting there. Maybe there's some agreement for the church demo crew to use part of that lot.

Missed this story. Cool! Not many film programs in Ohio and CSU is the perfect spot for one. Could be a big step in building up the local production industry.

That looks fine to me. It's muted for a hotel sign, classy even.

Nothing wrong with it, but "meat and potatoes" is an odd way to describe a greenway loop.

I hereby submit that no one should be allowed to discuss politics or religion on the train. Unless you do it as a musical number.

The hitting is better than last year already, except for Kluber.

Positive news, except for the fact that it's news. How does this org not already exist? We should pursue aerospace development at least as much as we pursue biotech. We're big in aerospace now, but we used to be bigger and we could be again.

People go wherever they have reasons to go. I expect there will be less people on the square than before, by design, since those bus routes had previously given so many a reason for being there. Programming could draw new people in but we still haven't heard much about that. Thanks to the Mall, we already have a sense of how much pedestrian traffic is generated by grass.

Downtown Lakewood is good living. You have everything right there. It's a long haul to Public Square on the 26, so you're still car dependent in that regard. There are a couple of Rapid stations a short drive away though not walking distance. Great freeway access too, if you're into that sort of thing, and 15 minutes from the airport. We need as much of this as we can get. The upper floors should demand big numbers. I'd love to knock out that concrete and make it all glass.

If Toledo is going to do a museum district it should be further up Monroe. Toledo would be better off master planning its urban core as a whole, from the art museum to the waterfront, including adjacent neighborhoods.

I wonder what color the Colored Waiting Room is. Seems like an odd thing to... oh, I see. Perhaps they might consider a facade renovation.

Mixed news: large office tenant leaves Lakewood for Cleveland. Good news: downtown Lakewood gets a "new" residential high-rise. http://www.cleveland.com/lakewood/index.ssf/2016/04/lakewoods_tallest_office_build.html#incart_river_home

"Tough sell" could mean no demand, or it could mean wrong price point, the latter being less absolute and more likely.

Suspicious? That was the original proposal. Not a secret. But also not the current plan, so why talk like that? Because you're Frank Jackson, that's why.

In rural areas, that's generally the law. In cities, the effects of one property on another are amplified considerably. For example you can't have manure lying about. That would cause plagues, so it's not allowed. Lower stakes here, admittedly, but the principle is the same.

Guess it depends who's defining that. You seem to assume your definition is the correct one. Well, yes. I might be wrong but I'm not insane. Enough about me. What's your opinion on the thread topic?

I'm not sure Cleveland can succeed by emulating Charlotte or any other sunbelt city. I believe we've done too much of that already, and our focus needs to shift toward being the best Cleveland we can be. We will never be able to compete with Charlotte on Charlotte's terms. Meanwhile, Charlotte can't offer authentic traditional urbanism the way we can. But our ability to offer that diminishes with every inappropriate development.

The majority of transit users (bus riders) depend on roads and bridges, and suffer from traffic congestion, as much as anyone else does. Road spending is not an either/or proposition. The appropriate cliche here is not robbing Peter to pay Paul, it's cutting off the nose to spite the face. I'd love to see money shifted toward passenger rail but there's no chance of that here with our current local leadership. Until RTA is willing to push for it, it simply will not happen. Not with local money, or state, or federal. The decision to pursue it must happen here first.

No. Putting a low-density single-use gated community along a major downtown street would permanently end any hope of making this a functional section of downtown. The loss impacts not only this lot but everything within walking distance, and since this is downtown, the entire city. At least right now it is possible, and relatively inexpensive, to pursue an appropriate (high-density, mixed-use, transit-oriented) development for this nice graded lot. Once we put a little piece of Strongsville there, we're stuck with it. Any other possibility is deferred for a generation.

Would it be unfair, in either direction, if northern teams backload their home dates? Probably not but who am I to say. I think a lot of fans would be pissed if they didn't get an opening day home game every other year, even with the complications. Hasn't it always kinda been like this?

Agreed. It's just that .25% would have been a 25% increase in local funding, which is under far more local control than any other funding source. I'm just asking what if the same type of funding decision had favored RTA instead of MM/CC. Redirecting the savings on the new MM/CC management contract was just a joke, meant to illustrate how casually money gets tossed around when local leadership feels like it. I doubt the MM/CC plan enjoyed any more popular support than RTA does right now. And yet, there it is. Built.

Imagine if all that medical mart money had gone to transit instead. Local leadership wanted money to exist for the medical mart and PRESTO there it was. What if we just redirected the money we saved by firing the original medical mart consultants? Might save a bus route or two.

Edge of downtown? Not even close. I would imagine a lot of the market for this is Beachwood-area workers, whose opportunities to use transit will be rare. On the other hand, there aren't many modern rental options in that area to compete with it. But 595 does seem small, and IIRC this project features a giant parking lot along the street. Certainly an improvement but not the world's best example of TOD.