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the Med Mutual project is not dead, its still alive. They are active in the market and if the PD selects another option besides 1801 Superior to relocate (new construction or rehab existing station on Payne) it will be an incredibly bad move.

I think it has everything to do with people staring at their phones. I drive an SUV and sit up high and at least half the cars I pass (most going slow in the left lane) are looking at their phones or texting. I even see truck drivers looking at their phones. My back yard sits up high and in the evening, every car that comes by, the driver is looking down at their phone in their hands... that's why pedestrians are getting run over.

It's not that damn hard to get into Edgewater. In a distance of 1 mile, from W. 65th to West Blvd, you can walk in to the park at 4 different locations.

Mayfield won't be the off-field disaster that Manziel was but I don't see him working out. No way he should have been #1 overall pick. He may struggle to win the starting job from Tyrod Taylor who happens to be a little bigger & taller... His accuracy may be great but small mobile QB's don't work out in the NFL. Drew Brees is the only "small" QB to have success and he never runs - he gets rid of the ball. Browns could've taken a number of other positions at #1 (Barkley, Chubb, Fitzpatrick) and still had a top 2 or 3 QB option available at #4 spot.

Obviously it was another non-profit park designer making sure he got the message... ;-)

It's a good to see the ethics rules enforced vigorously, and he did screw up, but I agree this is a big pile of nothing in terms of actual corruption. Whether he'd had abstained or not would have made zero difference. Even without Cimperman in office, LAND is pretty much the only outside party the city trusts to shepherd big projects of this nature through. Not at all the same thing as public officials steering contract to shadowy consultants or contractors with murky ownership. it's not the same thing as steering contracts to shadowy consultants or contrators - LAND Studio & Park Works are non-profit, right? Salaries at legitimate businesses are the way this is often done. It doesn't have to involve a company that sounds like Grifter & Sons Garbage Cartage. well that didn't take long - you just compared a non-profit parks designer to a mob outfit. Congrats

It's a good to see the ethics rules enforced vigorously, and he did screw up, but I agree this is a big pile of nothing in terms of actual corruption. Whether he'd had abstained or not would have made zero difference. Even without Cimperman in office, LAND is pretty much the only outside party the city trusts to shepherd big projects of this nature through. Not at all the same thing as public officials steering contract to shadowy consultants or contractors with murky ownership. it's not the same thing as steering contracts to shadowy consultants or contrators - LAND Studio & Park Works are non-profit, right?

seems very petty to me. Aren't most council decisions voted on nearly unanimously? So was Cimperman the only vote for his wife's employer? I guess he should have abtained from any vote that involved this firm?

The first floor is 80,000 sq ft (1 million sq ft ÷ 8 floors) and they believe that can rent it all as retail. A big portion of the lower floors, and maybe upper floors, is probably going to be hollowed out for parking on the interior. The building is so massive there are large interior areas with no exterior window views at all. Imagine standing in the middle of Euclid & Prospect and trying to get a glimpse of natural light from either direction... so the 80,000 sf number may be relevant but it's not just an entire first floor...

Riverview tower is definitely not going anywhere. They've had some great proposals from developers in the past and it never went anywhere. The people in those buildings are elderly, many require special care and that is provided on site (2nd floor has medical services). When Snavely bought up the corners of 25th & Detroit for their project, they donated a portion of land also to the park, I think that was the impetus for the rest of the dealings... By the way, does anyone have any conceptual renderings of what might be done with that land, when it becomes a park? What exactly will be done, some mowing? new plants? retaining walls? Walking paths?

Possibly the trend you described is more for single folks while couples/married folks like the option I described...

Because it's cold & snowy in Cleveland and it sucks buying $150 worth of groceries and lugging it 10 blocks back to your apartment... go on a Saturday afternoon, take the dog to the dog park, visit your parents, and make other stops to run errands that don't exist downtown like getting your car serviced or Home Depot, etc. That's what most of my friends do that live downtown

I am at that Heinen's 3-4x a week. Unless Geis is ripping their eyes out in rent... There is no way they are losing money at that location. You might be surprised. It's not as easy as you think to make money at grocery business. Very thin margins. When you take into account the inefficiencies of that downtown location, lower produce turnover/higher waste, more labor to unload/unpack deliveries... it's not as simple as just "charging more money..." You quickly reach a point where many downtown residents just go to Rocky River Heinens or whatever once a week...

anyone have real stats on how the Heinens downtown is doing? I had heard they expected to lose money at this location the first few years but were willing to do so simply as a marketing move. If the downtown Heinens is in fact operating in the black, it makes me think a May Co retail center that offers some groceries as well as hard goods could be feasible. Rents/construction of course to be determined....

what's the potential Weston development on 25th? Never mind I just read further up the thread...

There's no problem with whomever is owning the lower floors. The problem is the high cost of construction/renovation and the relatively low rents in Cleveland. To make a feasible retail space on the 2nd floor (let's say a TJ Max or Target) you would need elevators, escalators, floor leveling, fire sprinkler system, major HVAC upgrades and a serious demising wall to separate what is likely to become parking on the interior of the second floor. So you've probably spent upwards of $40/sf and haven't even started true tenant improvement items like flooring, lighting, data, etc. By comparison, how much could this space really generate in rents?? Not enough for a deal to work....

so not much news in almost 3 months on this deal? Funny how fast this relocation was moving and now seems to have slowed to a crawl

I think it makes a lot of sense to extend the boardwalk along the water as far south as reasonable but many of those old buildings are built right up to the water's edge... I don't see that changing anytime soon. Most sense probably to move the headwall out into the river by about 10-12'. Which won't be cheap.

what would be great is if our local news media would actually do some research on this very topic and present some facts & analysis. Is there ANYTHING worth reading on Cleveland.com? Not the weather, not the sports, certainly not the local news unless you are roughly tracking the # of shootings in Cleveland every weekend....

I'll go ahead & eat crow now. I never felt like this project would happen. Still can't believe it will be built. Big picture it seems like it came together pretty quickly

what a novel idea. Too bad the police & fire rejected it

Seems like there's an opportunity for some of these inner ring suburbs, especially on the east side, to reinvent themselves. I haven't heard much of the County Land Bank recently but it would be good to see what parcels they have available and start having some real discussions on redevelopment at this point.

Jeez didn't I make that same comment about 6 months ago in this thread??? With the Playhouse Square project going forward, it will be a direct competitor. New construction (not renovation like the Standard Building or any of K&D projects), the rents will be at the top of the market. The total apartment demand may keep growing, but not that top tier which is going to be north of $2.20/sf For the previous comment that says this project is a go, set to break ground later this year, who is the GC doing the work? Not Turner or Walsh....

The Whole Foods is still totally empty inside... Driving by, you see a finished exterior and can see throigh entire interior, wall to wall... Likely months and months and months off til completion. It will take about 4-5 months to complete the interior buildout with coolers, flooring, shelving, checkouts etc. Once they start, that is

The Whole Foods is going to be a big driver. For everything honestly - other retail, apartments, etc