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Got a hunch it'll be a competitive weekend. The A's are playing far better than you'd think

Damn. That's a shame then. Fun concept and it seemed successful last year when I was there.

Most of America, the world really, was agrarian until the last 150 years. I wonder if loneliness were a problem when most people lived in farming communities.

One can argue we raised rates too quickly and its impact on inflation may be overstated. It's all so politicized and biased who can tell. But it would be a miracle if they raised rates in less than a year, and I wonder if that would make a difference. Offshoring, material costs, hybrid work and AI are plaguing good jobs regardless, and it will only get worse with AI. Outside a handful of cities, commercial real estate is so doomed in so much of the country even if lending were to get a little cheaper. Can't be bullish on any large projects outside of residential frankly

Not to take away your experience but the place does seem fairly popular.

Maybe it'll look better in person. Bigger. And actually like Superman as opposed to Tom Thumb.

This Boston series is WACKY. And hello 700 winning percentage. Best team in the majors folks. On pace for a cool 114 wins.

Heinens and Target compete with each other as much as Marble Room does with Chipotle. There's certainly room for both even if 70% of Target's offerings are food.

Which means higher residential property taxes, new taxes and fees, and all kinds cost cutting. City budgets really rely on that income, and it'll have to be squeezed out elsewhere.

Let's take a peek at Fairfax. Just off Redfin and its boundary estimates, which may differ from Zillow: There is an upcoming new construction project on East 97th where 3 bed, 2.5 baths will go in the early $400,000 range. There are also a few drecky sub $100,000 homes for sale. There are 11 contingent/pending homes in the area, half of which could easily be teardowns. In the last month, two dumpy homes were sold. In the last three months, sixteen were sold, most of which were in rough shape with a couple moderately nice ones.

It's 36,580-square-foot and has that Target openness. Small format Targets are about 40,000-45,000 square feet, so it's not impossible. I bet it would be a success. It's certainly easier to find than the Steelyard branch.

Those grifters won't be building s**t even if they move to Brookpark. You can plug and chug their names for the article below. Reinsdorf hasn't developed anything along the sea of space surrounding Sox (and Bulls) and will not should the Sox move a few miles north. Decades of parking lots for all three teams, decades of opportunities to develop, and nothing happens. Jimmy and Dee would make a fortune with the parking lots and NFL money; they have no need to develop any kind of ballpark village or entertainment district, which would likely lose money. I mean, what's their incentive? https://southsideweekly.com/stadium-shenanigans-chicago-white-sox-reinsdorf-billions-public-dollars-new-stadium/ I'll eat a pinecone if I'm wrong.

That area definitely developed a lore. When I tell people I'm from and partially reside in Cleveland, sometimes, especially from the Gen X crowd, they may mention the Flats or having heard about the area. All these decades later, and its heyday still maintains an impression.

"Jimmy and Dee Haslam say a domed stadium could transform the Cleveland area..." I swear I read that as "doomed" and did a double take.

Now that one hurts Geauga Lake style. As a kid (42 now), I would go to Shooters (and maybe Hooters?) with my sisters and brother-in-laws, and everything about the area was amazing. All those cheap bars, music performances, tens of thousands people strolling on weekends, boats, socializing, dancing, exchanging numbers or hooking up, drowning or getting mugged occasionally - intimidating as a kid, exciting as a teenager, frustrating as an adult who missed out enjoying all it could offer. Today's new Flats is very pretty and polished but c'mon... I wish there were a proper Flats documentary of that era; hell, I can't find that many photos of their 80s/90s heyday easily. People were having too much fun to film.

Pre-municipal stadium when the area was a former tire dump. There needs to be an AI program - hell, there may even be - where it can approximate what the city would look like if the camera keeps turning. I'm sure CSI Miami or some show has pretended the tech exists. Cool seeing the E9th lakefront terminal too.

Let's be honest, everything has been broken since 9/11.

Beats some guy masturbating in front of a woman just trying to get home or calling her the c-word or a racist for trying to ignore his catcalls.

Fare collection couldn't hurt, but we need a combination of visible security - cops, RTA security, "city ambassadors", guard dogs - along with proactive civilians within the trains themselves. Women being harassed, menaced and abused on trains is a microcosm of how society has long permitted this conduct to fester -- it's way bigger than RTA.

Fare collection improvements probably won't make much a difference, though I certainly wouldn't mind seeing freeloaders pay their share. Perhaps austerity even needs consideration with reallocation of green line funding and materials to blue and red. I thought there was some green line shutdown conversations 7 or 8 years ago on this site before the world went nuts. Blue has visible momentum, and green and blue are pretty duplicative as it is. Leadership - city, county, RTA - should be consulting with top business leaders and rich families, creating unique incentives for RTA use. Fully subsidized passes, tax holidays, booze allowances, vendors, performance artists, visible proactive security, quiet and leisure cars, bar/attraction hopping events, singles events, s**t, anything to get people's butt on seats. And visible security at the some of the major RTA lots. You leave your car at some of those stops, you never know what you'll find when you return. Really, we just need more bodies on the trains to save public transit. That comes before added funding.

With the right vision and skill, that area could be a destination with the stadium as an anchor tenant. Any area could given the right leadership. But I certainly wouldn't give Jimmy and Dee the benefit of the doubt as they have zero credibility. They'll make enough via the team and parking alone without having to design and develop a true ballpark village/entertainment village.

I've never seen any comparable activity on Sunday home games when the Browns play. Most Browns fan experiences tend to start and stop in the parking lots, with some nominal benefits for downtown hotels and restaurants. A new stadium wouldn't change that, but it would saddle taxpayers with a billion dollar debt for another 30 years. The city just doesn't get enough ROI to warrant that kind of debt.

I agree. But, realistically, bizarro worldly, nothing mobilizes a region like raising hundreds of millions for a billionaire. Presuming the Brookpark deal is locked - which seems doubtful, especially the Jimmy/Dee fronting costs (and maintenance/upkeep?)- it's not like Cleveland/Cuyahoga are raising hundreds of millions any time soon for those investments. An extended sin tax to fund a bridge or infrastructure is a much harder sell than gifting the grifters.

I get you're being goofy, but those condos would sell like hot cakes either as corporate housing or owner-occupied units.

I'd say this is one of the very few topics where UO posters are rightfully cynical. But there's plenty of positivity for most other Cleveland projects. This (and Burke) are somewhat outliers.