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Korver was never a D guy, and at 35, he's much slower. But really these are no worries because of the Big 3, TT, Shumpert, etc have his D back... Kyle can still obviously drain the long ball reliably, and that's important ... However, we will likely use Korver in a limited role. He's strictly catch-n'-shoot, which is something Dunleavy just can't do anymore due to his age and back surgery last year. I don't think Korver will revolutionize our bench offense the way Frye did last year, but he definitely can be spot weapon in our championship drive ...

I totally disagree. Through buses destroy the goal of a unified public park that was the project's genisis and is why the PS rebuild has been so universally. If this is the case, why was there ever a roadway and bus shelters put in the park? It's PUBLIC Square, and it's been a transit hub since the dawn of our city. Key Bank trying to make it into Crocker Park is not what we need. Poor planning... The goal of the Square redesign was to create a unified public park unbroken by the horrible, ugly and even dangerous crisscross traffic through the middle. Even the designer who performed so brilliantly said he preferred it that way and that this was his charge even though he was ordered to keep Superior and the bus shelters in should the City decide, foolishly imho, to put buses back through.... The closed park idea has been the goal of the Square redesign for as long as I can remember, so people shouldn't suddenly have amnesia now. But knowing this, it was foolish for city officials to enter into the Superior bus-lane agreement with FTA; long before scheduling the rebuild, they should have negotiated a amelioration of the agreement. (or like, maybe developing the Detroit-Superior bridge subway to eliminate a lot of buses into the center of town a-la Boston or engaging in a comprehensive plan to re-route buses around the square, they could have come up with a workable plan that works for all parties concerned). But no, mass transit is never important enough to think that way in Cleveland -- although, ironically, we have a high-quality transit system that could be tinkered with to achieve these kind of objectives... if officials really ever gave a damn enough to even try... I am not unsympathetic to the needs and costs of transit. RTA shouldn't just have to shell out millions in extra fuel costs by being blindsided by the City. Again this should have been worked out long before the PS redesign plan was ever finalized... Just like with the whole North Coast Transportation Center and/or bridge along the lakefront, the Public Square mess is just another example of how non-existent mass transit issues are to local officials. Build our projects now and if transit fits in, fine, if not, oh well... The universal adoration of the new people/family friendly Public Square was one of the real city highlights of this past year... It's just sad that, like the death of the old Flats everyone loved so much and other public controversies, Cleveland still seems to have this nagging habit of turning lemonade back into lemons.

I totally disagree. Through buses destroy the goal of a unified public park that was the project's genisis and is why the PS rebuild has been so universally.

"In 2015, the city announced it was working with Amtrak, Greyhound and the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority on plans for a new intermodal transit hub on or near the central lakefront, but it hasn't updated the community recently." -- from today's Steve Litt article regarding the ped bridge. http://www.cleveland.com/architecture/index.ssf/2017/01/decision_on_pedestrian_bridge.html#incart_m-rpt-2

^^I looking for 2nd Ave ride-update from mrnyc... is it more MTA or DC Metro? ... er Metro in it's better days, that is.

Nicely done. I wasn't clear on the breach, either.

^The rising TOD around the Little Italy-University Circle station, at least, is a beacon of hope.

I don't have a problem with focusing on this area at all -- in fact, it's one of the most ripe areas for TOD in the system; it's one of the only 4 urbanized Red Line stations on the West Side (W. 25, W. Blvd and W. 117 being the others). There are a number of intact buildings that could be upgraded for mixed uses along Lorain. This, along with building on top of/getting rid of those hideous, ubiquitous used-car lots that pock-mark for its length, could sew together the coherent Lorain antiques district that's so long been touted. It's unfortunate the Zone Rec center and fields take up so much valuable TOD space: Cleveland (and Shaker at Lee Rd/Van Aken) have historically, for some reason, seem to locate schools, school-like rec centers and their wide open fields, near rail stations... as worthy as those facilities are for the community, they are horrible for TOD. There were big plans for W.65 TOD when the station was rebuilt in 2004, but none of it was built aside from the short stretch of Eco Village townhomes along W. 58th. This district has much potential because the area of upgrading around Gordon Square has been steadily moving south toward the Red Line, fueled by such projects as the Waverly Station townhomes that opened a few years ago.

Has Jackson, too, become a rail hater/roadblock? We know he certainly no rail enthusiast or supporter, and his Public Square moves lately have been disastrous (though I too would rather no buses through PS; it just should have been handled much better)

Philly's pick is #12, not #10. Garrett is very highly regarded. But be careful about the "can't miss" label. If there ever was a "can't miss" prospect IMO, it was Courtney Brown. Sorry #12... There never is a can't miss, but Garrett is pretty close to it... ... for those sighting Clowney as a 'miss', injuries, not lack of talent, have hampered him.

^... and if we don't franchise Pryor, I'm going to have a conniption.

While I understand the philosophy, trading down always makes me uncomfortable, esp when you have the No. 1 pick (and lets face it, Myles Garrett is as close to a draft defensive can't miss as we've seen in a while). And since we already have Philly's No. 10 pick, I would stand pat and make the picks. That quantity over quality approach rarely seems to work out.

^Looks like tiny Oxford may get an Amtrak station-stop before the State's largest city... Oh yeah I forgot, Columbus doesn't want Amtrak, at least according to our illustrious Gov. Kasich and his friends. ... truth is, though, the Oxfordians are the smart ones. They recognize clearly the formula: Large University + passenger trains = smooth functioning and Smart Growth.

^It's interesting that the UWM students' report (per the article) focused on 2 proposal aspects: speed of the BRT -- 15 minutes time saving -- in a very crowded corridor, and the loss of a lane of traffic (but preservation of curbside parking plus a new bike lane) to cars... It probably didn't take too much brain power to guess which aspect the Milwaukee Sentinel would highlight/harp on... It's also interesting they posted an Healthline photo but didn't discuss the Cleveland system at all.

Report: Bus rapid transit would reduce car lanes Don Behm , Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 6:45 p.m. CST January 3, 2017 Establishing bus rapid transit service in the busy east-west corridor between downtown Milwaukee and the Milwaukee Regional Medical Center in Wauwatosa will require pushing cars and trucks out of two lanes of traffic along Wisconsin Ave. and Blue Mound Road, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee urban planning graduate students say in a new report. http://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/milwaukee/2017/01/03/report-bus-rapid-transit-would-reduce-car-lanes/95999300/

"I think the free fall of transit in Cleveland right now, from my perspective down 71, is the most shameful thing going on in Ohio right now. I just can't believe how RTA has been abandoned and left for dead, after it had so much momentum 5 years ago." -- eurokie (from the OC thread) I can't say 'Amen' enough to these comments.

Paul Ryan and his regressive minions could spoil the day. To what end does killing the historic tax credits serve these Republicans anyway?

A little bit of NYC in NEO ... Sweet, McLovin...

^In stating: "The city is going to cause RTA to lose this fight and we the transit riders will be hurt most by it," do you mainly mean in the excess time it takes for riders' buses to rotate around the Square, or, in the potential loss to RTA in upcoming needed capital project FTA assists, mostly to rail?

Command trailer, earth-moving equipment and porta potties on-site. Yes!

^Awful.

If Cleveland did that in five seconds, most cities (including in the Rust Belt) have done it in half the time. Don't get me wrong, what has happened in Cleveland in the past few years has been very impressive, but what is happening elsewhere will blow Cleveland away. 2005 was quite a while ago when talking about urban development, and you can point to any number of downtowns/city neighborhoods across the country and say the same thing. This is one of the many reasons why it is so frustrating to get excited about Cleveland any more in development. Just got back from another trip to Milwaukee, and to see the amount of cranes across the skyline is amazing. They have already worked on making the pedestrian activity zones thrive, now they're working on their skyline and the massive residential highrises that go with a growing downtown. Milwaukee has been building residential highrises for several years now. Beacon still hasn't started, and that's the smallest of the major projects including Weston and NuCLEus. I know all about the residential conversions right now in Cleveland, but most cities have already been past that, and are now seeing extremely impressive (new construction) projects. I just think banks are leery of Cleveland (and the rest of Ohio) when it comes to massive projects because they don't see demand for it, or they have performed well below expectations when it comes to demand. Honestly, I would love to see them happen, but I highly doubt NuCLEus or Weston ever get built. The Beacon has the best chance, IMO. All this talk of big Cleveland companies building new highrises just doesn't seem plausible in today's Cleveland; there needs to be a complete change in mindset in the city. It's not about being negative, but Cleveland is seriously failing at doing most anything development-wise compared to just about every major city out there. I see why people try to be big boosters for Cleveland (the city needs it) and I use to be one of them, but if you do any sort of traveling to major cities, you begin to wonder why Cleveland can't seem to get any type of progressive leadership to make the city competitive. Not to stray away from NuCLEus, but the original plan is not going to happen. It would just be nice to see one of the many surface parking lots that scar Cleveland go away. But my point is that Cleveland has had to come from much further back than most cities -- including those in the so-called "Rust Belt," so to see what we've done in such short a time is amazing... at least it is, to me. Milwaukee, which was never the heavy industrial city Cleveland is/was, was never in as bad a shape as Cleveland with our extreme loss of industry and corporate HQ/offices since the 1960s through at least the early 2000s (and still, to some degree, is continuing). Milwaukee is also in Chicago's massive wake, just 75 miles to the north, and thus it enjoy's many of Chicago's regional privileges... Minneapolis-St. Paul, again much more white collar/less heavy industry, also has had a far superior launching pad than Cleveland... But places like KC, Indy, and even St. Louis don't impress me as exceeding, or even matching Cleveland, building-wise/development-wise in the last decade or so and, again, none of these had experienced the collapse Cleveland had -- not to mention also being ground-zero for the 2008 foreclosure crisis. Give me downtown Cleveland over any of those places in terms of excitement, culture, architecture, food, activity, sports, transit, etc... Only Detroit has been/is clearly worse off than Cleveland but, of course, Detroit's a larger city in a much larger metro area than Cleveland, and still has much of the powerful auto industry there ... and Dan Gilbert. I'm not saying Cleveland's the be-all, end-all in terms of downtown, close-in neighborhood development, but I am extremely impressed with where we've come, especially given the negativity, skepticism, noncooperation and, flat out, incompetency regarding development that, until recently, was Cleveland's mantra.

That's the second small women's apparel shop that's failed in that location. 'Ann Von H' (or something like that) was the first.

... which is why, at the very least, I want Beacon to get going. At least this would get Stark off the downtown schnide.

^I don't like it, but in part, can understand it. Cleveland has gone from zero-to-60 mph in 5 seconds... Less than a decade ago, when Euclid was torn up for ECP/BRT, downtown was a dead-as-a-doornail ghost town where there was only minimal activity along E. 4th Street where Corner Alley had just gone in... Obviously in the short time since then downtown has done extremely well with office building adaptive reuse conversions -- to the extent there really isn't much left. We still haven't proven to the banks that we can build/sustain large scale new construction... downtown or elsewhere within city borders. But we're getting there, esp in University Circle. Downtown we have FEB, Avenue District (condos that have struggled), and, soon, Beacon. Obviously Weston and NuCLEus would go a long way, but I understand the caution ... even though I don't necessarily like it.