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I went by the Watermark building and a dumpster is sitting outside its main entrance on ORR, but inside looks completely fixed up and the lights (at night) were on... I Googled "Cleveland" "and Old River Brewing" but didn't get much more than you did. I'm still pleased that something new will be going into this beautiful old Victorian space... That said, I sure wish Samsel would relocate and free up their huge hardware store/warehouse across the street. While I appreciate Samsel (and have actually been a customer of theirs in the past), I just don't think an industrial hardware store is a good fit for this radically changing upscale apt/restaurant district. Their building could be retrofitted into a really substantial and nice apartment complex, with balconies too. Just like with E. 4th, the synergy that could be generated with this tight, old street/walking district could be electric... Just like with FEB, major rents could be had...

^^This exposes yet another Opportunity Corridor lie.

^and that's only expanding the Quincy/E. 105 station's platform length to the normal length it should have been to begin with, so there's no real net-gain transit component to this highway project whatsoever.

Back in 97 I got shut out, so I watched most of game 4 at a bar near the Jake. Then I just snuck into the ballpark during the later innings. It was a simpler time. Game tics for a World Series are gonna be a bear -- especially if the Cubs make it -- but there's StubHub and a number of backdoor online sites that could get you a deal... the secondary question is: what's the best bar to watch the game, preferably downtown near Progressive. I'm always partial to the old school E 9th / Prospect bars... Clevelander, Paninis, Lizard, etc. We had a blast at Corner Alley yesterday. As the Indians grew closer to pennant, CA was drawing E. 4th peds like a magnet. TBS once again had a live camera at the Clevelander although ESPN had a camera crew at CA as well.

Back in 97 I got shut out, so I watched most of game 4 at a bar near the Jake. Then I just snuck into the ballpark during the later innings. It was a simpler time. Game tics for a World Series are gonna be a bear -- especially if the Cubs make it -- but there's StubHub and a number of backdoor online sites that could get you a deal... the secondary question is: what's the best bar to watch the game, preferably downtown near Progressive.

Molly is your sister? She's a real sweetheart; wish her and her hubby/partner nothing but the best. SOHO's a wonderful place.

^Indeed, it's a major starting point that these discussions are finally happening.

I prefer the Cubs. The storyline of 2 long-suffering teams, fan bases is too enticing.

I think it's great that County Council has taken an interest in RTA and formed the subcommittee to make it a priority. Public transit in Cleveland, and indeed the State, has long needed a champion... ...as for station maintenance, it still needs significant improvement by RTA. On a Red Line trip to Uptown/UC a few months ago, we couldn't help notice that the E.105-Quincy stairs are almost completely rusted out at this 11-year-old station. As I noted to my friend, how much would it be to go to Home Depot or Lowes to get a coulple cans of Rustolium? I realize RTA has a mighty task just to keep the trains running and scarce funds from our extremely stingy state, but maintenance needs to be improved on a number of counts.

It may seem small, but the fact that Zaremba's promotional literature for St. Luke's Legacy cites the E.116 Rapid station, is cause for some hope.

Let's hope so. Not to get too off topic, but the Cudell CDC mentioned that a TOD study is finally being performed on the area within a 1.5 mile radius of the West Blvd/Cudell rapid station, so maybe there has been a collective realization on both sides of the city (at least outside of the EcoVillage) that this is a thing we should be pushing. That's good news... it'd be nice if Cudell area officials would Kill the Kennel... In Buckeye, lets hope those E. 116 Rapid station gas stations can disappear and that no more goofy non-TOD buildings won't be built such as that horrible, tiny 1-story Social Security Admin building (with, of course, its ample surface parking--who in Cleveland rides transit, anyway!? pfft!!) diagonally across the street from the Rapid stop . This is what happens when there is zero TOD thought or coordination. It seems slowly Cleveland neighborhoods are coming around. Duck Island, for example, seems to get the value of the Red Line station development-wise.

Oh well; sad reality... I was thinking of Philadelphia's SEPTA which leased (and is still leasing some) surplus engines and rail cars to cover its Regional Rail division when its 6-year old Hyundai Rotem cars (half its fleet) had to be sidelined and repaired this past summer. Maybe its different for railroad-level cars as opposed to LRTs.

This is great news to help revitalize this area. I guess Legacy at St. Luke's has replaced the old St. Luke's Pointe name for which a number of houses in this tract were built about a decade ago... A couple nit-picky minor details: I wonder why the 11327 Shaker Blvd address is being used when these houses will actually be a block over on MLK... context perhaps? Also Zaremba (and the Freshwater article) state that Harvey Rice ES has been recently developed... actually, Rice was relocated to Shaker/E. 116 from its old location at Buckeye/E. 116 where an at-risk apartment complex/center has been built. Has there been any movement on the E. 116 properties KJP reported on last year? That sounded promising also (I sure would like to say good bye to one of those gas stations adjacent to the E. 116th Rapid station... Maybe, just maybe, planners are finally starting to realize the value of this neighborhood and TOD... It is economically depressed, but there is daylight, esp with the new Rapid station (I'm still not crazy about) and the St. Luke's projects. Many of the residential streets to the north and east of the Shaker/E. 116 intersection are solid with a lot of WWI area frame (some brick) housing; esp Cleveland Doubles. It would be nice of some of those bland, low-rise offices along Shaker east of 116 could be fixed up and re-occupied (several are currently vacant)... Now if more development could head south along E. 116 to the Buckeye corner and corridor, we'd really have a victory on our hands... This is a very walkable district with great mass transit. It deserves much better than its current condition; happily this appears to be a-changing.

^Heartbreaking. Seeing this is bad/tough enough; I'll pass on the video.

Can't RTA lease or buy surplus LRT's from another transit system as a stopgap until new ones are bought? I maintain that RTA's allowing this car disrepair situation to get to the point where its LRT division can barely function, and may have to ultimately shutdown, is the height of poor planning and, no, Ohio's minuscule funding is not an excuse. More people are riding/want to ride the rails and RTA is faltering... In any normal situation, RTA should be called on the carpet just as D.C.'s WMATA (Metro) officials are for the poor physical condition of their rail system. Yet, here in Cleveland, all people say is Joe Calabrese is doing 'the best he can.' ... ridiculous!

^non stainless steel car bodies rolling along in the Cleveland climate to boot!

This is inexcusable. It should have never reached this point. RTA didn't suddenly wake up and realize: 'These are 35-year-old, non-stainless steel cars... OMG, what should we do!?' ... then again, maybe they did.

Observations and questions: The Waterfront Line train from Flats East Bank at rush hour the other day was 1/2 to 3/4 full; there was a significant group (apparntly from E&Y waiting): astounding from my vantage point. A few going the other way got off and headed to FEB restaurants... Has this been normal or anomaly? Are more people using WFL trains, at least during rush hour? Overall it seemed riding is up: way up on the Red Line West. Is this true? Also my friends who attended the Browns game a couple weeks ago complained of 1-car Blue/Green trains. Based on this and what I saw during the Cavs parade (RTA) debacle, have multi-car LRTs gone the way of the dodo?

These guys are just unbelievable. Credit Tomlin for an excellent outing, but Miller is my playoffs MVP to this point. He has ice water in his veins. Our trade for him at the deadline is the greatest I've ever seen the Indians make.

If we win the WS with our makeshift rotation, it'll be historic... That we've gotten this far, in sweeping Boston and shutting down their powerful bats with the Tribe pitching staff is miraculous.

Re W.44: Can't say for sure, but from the rendering it appears it will either be a demo + new construction or a facade makeover of the ugly Ohio City furniture store and its neighbor, the motorcycle place (which is more attractive with its exposed brick) plus a 1-storefront expansion to the attractive Victorian structure (currently an art gallery?) to immediately to the east. I would guess the latter since the building at the W. 44 corner appears large and solid... but that's just my take.

I agree... painting is lousy though. Not flattering. Renderings usually make projects look better than real life, not worse.

I think it's just a bad rendering; poor artwork. It will probably look a lot better in reality.

The Giants' bullpen collapse last night should help locals realize that horrible, heartbreaking collapses happen in other cities as well...We can be thankful that the Indians are the anti-Giants on this score: we have a fantastic bullpen and a manager who knows how to use it. Bruce Bochy would have been smarter to have left Matt Moore in for the 9th given his having effectively held the Cubs in check and given SF's extremely shaky pen that was poised to have an epic meltdown.

Is it really just a Cleveland thing? ... even after the Cavs exorcised our championship demons last June 19th? Or was it more objective considering our losing Salazar and Carrasco in September? Maybe... but it's just puzzled me that everyone, including Boston Globe writer (and Cleveland's best friend) Dan Shaughnessy referred to the Indians in the Red Sox series (in Shaughnessy's words) as 'huge underdogs.' Of course PD's Paul Hoynes is now mea culpa-ing today following his now infamous Sept. 17th column stating that the Indians postseason is 'over before it started.' Clearly Hoynes, though, was looking at the rotations' sudden injury bug... ... but my moral of the story, which you think'd everybody would have learned by now: pick against Terry Francona-led teams at your own peril.