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Yes -- my understanding is that they are doing the prep work before installing a new fiberglass (lighter weight I assume) replica of the cornice "by this summer" -- whatever timeline that means.

I think longer. The owners seem to be building it themselves. Very very slowly....

There has been a lot of discussion on other forums about the Cuyahoga Valley RR providing that service, but the "last mile" connection is problematic on the Cleveland end. Solutions have been suggested, but we would need CVSR and RTA and Cleveland and Cuyahoga County to all get on board to find the funding and make it happen. Would love to see that, even if it's not "fast" service. Hourly would be great. I would love to have a connection between Cleveland-Hopkins and the Canton-Akron airport as well -- I think that service would be attractive for people in Akron-Canton area and would increase flight options for everyone in the region. I imagine that there may be airlines/airports/officials who don't want that competition, however.

I think this is actually a very significant problem. We are losing neighborhood community. Someone from overseas once said to me that the rest of the world uses their homes for sleeping and cooking and little else -- they leave their home to see friends, to walk in the park, to live their lives out of their home and in the neighborhood. In America we try to have everything in our home so that we never have to leave -- huge refrigerators so that we have food for a week, our own laundry, our own bar, our own grill, our own lawn and play equipment (park play space), our own exercise equipment, our own entertainment. We don't hang out on the front porch, we hunker down in our air conditioning and watch Netflix. We don't walk to work or take public transit to do our shopping any more, we hop in our own personal car, roll up the windows (more and more frequently tinted to shut out the outside world) and drive to work, to a place to exercise, to shop. It's no wonder the American "rugged individual" barely knows their immediate neighbors. We don't know the people living in our neighborhood when our "community" is coworkers, other adults on our kids' sports teams or school -- who have homes scattered across the county -- or online, scattered around the country or world.

And now we a few more clues as to why Seren lost three city administrators and another nine department heads in the past three years -- https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/human-resources/former-akron-mayor-dan-horrigan-says-cleveland-heights-is-wonderful-but-role-was-not/ar-AA1BBU9f The mayor's reelection chances may be vanishing.

I think the author's point is not that Bibb should eventually cave, but that Bibb stands to gain more by taking the high road and moving on than by continuing to throw shade at every opportunity. If Bibb has made his best case for the Browns to stay and Haslam makes the decision to leave anyway, Bibb should look for other ways that he can work with Haslam to Cleveland's benefit. To the extent Bibb wants something from Haslam, whether that's a collaboration with RTA to add a station in BP or getting Haslam to invest in the lakefront plan, then at some point he needs to move past any disappointment in Haslam's decision to conduct his business elsewhere and find where they still have common ground and can work together to Cleveland's benefit.

Time to lower the roadway! 🤣

I'll second that Sherrod Brown would be a good alternative to Husted or Acton, but I wish there was someone younger who could energize the next generation of leaders.

There's no doubt that Bedrock is starting from a rough place and has done a lot in the past decade, with more (hopefully) to come. But you're missing what I thought was @KJP's main point -- the IDEA of making Tower City a rail hub again needs a Sponsor, a Leader, to champion that cause. Bedrock is uniquely positioned to benefit from making that happen, they should be rallying the city and county and RTA to advocate (to Ohio government, Congress, Amtrak, Brightline) for that to happen. Who better to lead than the party with the most to gain (outside of the Cleveland region generally), and why aren't they pushing for it?

I would urge the City to drop the Modell-Law lawsuit and let the Browns build in Brook Park. Let them prove that the Brook Park proposal will actually exceed Ronayne's expectations. Then they can say "told you so!"

I think there are a lot of Ohio Democrats who would like to see a new face step up to run, but I haven't seen any credible names -- sorry Dr. Acton. But I'm not sure that a total unknown could win, nor would a member of the "old guard" in the party -- sorry Tim Ryan, Sherrod Brown. What about a younger Dem legislator, frustrated with the inability to get anything done in the legislature? Or a mid-to-big city mayor? Justin Bibb? I just don't know.

Who?

And despite those coded "civic issues," Baltimore's Inner Harbor continues to thrive. It's the Peninsula Redevelopment Project, the subject of that video, that seems like a failure.

I hope you're right. I've heard that the foundation will have to be removed and replaced. If that doesn't need to be done construction will move much more quickly.

Apparently there were five insurance companies covering the project and it took a while to get them all to agree that demolition could proceed.

Sarcasm aside -- new senior housing coming to Coventry neighborhood. https://www.cleveland.com/community/2025/03/cleveland-heights-inks-sale-of-former-church-future-affordable-senior-housing-complex.html

According to Tony Cuda's news email: Personally, I'd like to see that CVS building demolished and rebuilt at the corner, with offices and/or apartments above the health care facilities.

Question for the Republicans running state government -- given that Trump and Musk plan to severely curtail or eliminate FEMA, what steps is the state taking to prepare to handle a major disaster in the state without federal assistance? https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-will-sign-executive-order-fundamentally-change-or-get-rid-fema-2025-01-24/

While it may be difficult to quantify, better early assistance to poor children (food, safety, education, healthcare) has been shown to be positively correlated with better outcomes for adulthood. That is an investment work making, even if it doesn't lead to more families having double-digit numbers of kids.

Also, once you have a kid and have to start bearing the costs, a lot of families will stop at one or two kids because they just can't afford (both time and money) more kids. If you need two incomes to produce a living wage, and that wage is devoured by diapers and daycare, you don't have the bandwidth to take on more. If society wants more children, we should make having kids less of a burden -- subsidize the hell out of early childcare. Children are our future, and we should be investing in a healthy, happy, well-educated future. (Unfortunately, a lot of people who think we should be having more children are cutting those "investments" because they see any government/societal spending as an "expense" rather than an investment.)

I don't know. But it's only half the cornice that is white -- I suspect that this a plastic/fiberglass "replacement" cornice and that it will be painted to match the rest.

It doesn't need to be fast to be useful. For visiting the park. For a relaxing day trip to Akron or Cleveland. For catching up on email or reading or getting some moments in the greenery of the park. It doesn't have to be something that EVERYONE wants to use every day to be a worthwhile investment.

Not to mention that construction costs are going to skyrocket between now and the start of any construction -- the Haslams must be really excited about their support for Trump now that he's pushing the on-again/off-again steel tariffs. Nothing like massive uncertainty when you're trying to make a big investment, eh?

Great to see that the scaffolding is coming down. Finally.

I can think of a few parking lots that the City should buy first....