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Wow, that's big news. Where to put a new complex? What to do with the current site?

Maybe get yourself an apartment in Crocker Park, right above Banana Republic? I wasn't talking about us, or making a value judgment. Lorain County is where a lot of west siders have moved in recent years, so in addition to direct family connections, it offers a lot of new retail and services. Compare West Park with Collinwood, Old Brooklyn, Shaker Square or Slavic Village-- city neighborhoods which don't share West Park's proximity to a growth area, and which haven't remained as stable.

That's why people don't usually walk around there wearing a small fortune.

I would be surprised if any of that is true.

Possible insurance mandate for rideshare drivers is in the works. http://www.wkyc.com/story/news/local/ohio/2015/09/29/ohio-senate-consider-statewide-regulations-ride-sharing-companies/73020866/?csp=nbcnews

We just used a first round pick on a backup interior lineman, so it's not like we don't invest resources in the trenches. Seems like the Browns have drafted for the running game as much as anyone has. Personally I'd like to swing it the other way now and see what happens. Next year add a WR and a TE at least. And none of this H-back nonsense, I mean a real modern TE.

Poor QB play can hurt the run game by allowing defenses to focus on it. The Raiders added Carr and Cooper to a flimsy offense and suddenly they're getting 50 yard fullback runs. I don't think we can afford to build one aspect of the offense at a time. And in 2015, if you're going to favor something, it needs to be passing. Every single trend in the NFL points that way.

Haven't seen numbers recently, but it seems like there's been more exodus from the outer east side than from West Park. West Park benefits from being larger, easy to get around via road/rail/air, closer to Lorain County and further from blight.

Very much so. Nursing homes are in competition with one another, and location is a major competitive feature. Possibly the biggest. The (boomer) kids are ultimately the ones who decide on a facility and they tend to want it near them. However, another recent trend in nursing homes is to include a "main street" area where resident services are clustered in a faux-urban arrangement-- with storefronts, lamp posts, the whole nine yards. Thus, while selling exurban proximity for the relatives, they're also selling city living for the old folks.

Many neighborhoods are still in free fall. I don't see race as a major aspect of this, since blacks are leaving in droves too. I do see a glaring need to reassess the plans and policies that brought us to this moment-- serious course corrections are needed.

Not surprising, given the city's overall shrinkage.

It also provides an excuse to pull over anyone not in compliance.

We're missing a number of WRs from last year too. In my lifetime at least, OSU has always been able to bomb it downfield if need be. Yesterday it didn't look like that option was available.

But the purpose of that project is to reduce the capacity and efficacy of the west shoreway. Its backers have insisted things would work out fine. If we can't rethink that reasoning now, in light of real life evidence, one might conclude that reason is not what's driving this.

This is a senseless debacle. Those buses get trapped on the shoreway just like everyone else, and the West 117th Rapid station is often rendered inaccessible by long backups on every single street that goes east. The rapid's not even fully operable because we can't afford to maintain its tracks, but somehow we can afford brick bus stops in furtherance of this unholy mess. Hopefully, plans to install additional stop lights have been abandoned permanently.

I love how this is such an afterthought in the business model, like "oh yeah, by the way..."

If so, this seems like a good place for another. Less schlepping distance = more walkability.

There's a concentration of hi-rise residential all along East 12th, a substantial built-in market. It's just that none of those residents has any reason to walk by the Avenue building, because it hasn't leased a single space in 8 years. And yet if you stroll up St. Clair into rougher neighborhoods, you'll find street level spaces with tenants in them.

Most downtown buildings with street level retail are doing better than this one though. Seems odd that every single one of its nice new spaces is unmarketable, when plenty of lesser properties have been able to get by. Makes me wonder what rents they're trying to charge.

Typically the compensation would be FMV, and that's when a private entity is getting pushed out. This is a public entity acting in direct conflict with express public interest, behaving like some little old lady holdout... and getting to choose whatever parcel they want, to use however they want, without regard to law or market value. Seems excessive. I do not recall property owners in the old Flats wielding this kind of power, not even close. What happens the next time there's one holdout in a big redevelopment area? Do they get a parcel on Euclid between the hospitals too? Do they get to put a drive-thru on it, if that's what they want?

Library branches don't (normally) get to make decisions about land use. Did the RFP grant them special powers? And if they think they're insulated from tax base concerns, I'd like to know where they got that idea.

Sad to say, the new library would not look out of place on that stretch of Euclid, where the environment has already been thoroughly suburbanized. I still wish there were more pushback. Where did this library branch-- a public entity with no planning discretion whatsoever-- obtain such an ironclad degree of planning discretion? They aren't the Cleveland Clinic; they can't skip town if they're told no. And putting a small public building on that parcel is a terrible fiscal move. This UC3 development calls for celebration-- big time-- and it's a shame that the announcement had to include this kind of backward silliness.

Any indication why the library is so adamant about this? A new single story building in the midst of all this is just plain wasteful, particularly on Euclid. What does the library expect to gain?

I hadn't realized until now the Hilton was being built without its own underground garage. So now they want to drill a tunnel? I'm not quite clear on the engineering plan. How much extra capacity does Huntington have? It seems really late in the game to be studying feasibility on any aspect of this.

My contempt for this building is tempered somewhat by the view of the church, but only somewhat. Significant contempt remains. I mean, the church was already there, so it really shouldn't count as a feature. I almost choked when Litt heaped praise upon a "facade" of grooved concrete. No, Litt, a good facade would be the Wolfe building that was destroyed for this. Or the one across Euclid, which CSU replaced with a poorly-kept vacant lot right in the middle of campus. There have been some successes... the education building is nice, as is the mixed-use fronting Chester. But this building looks like it's ashamed to be on Euclid Avenue, ashamed to be downtown.