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^Could be due to historic preservation issues? Not sure if the complex is bound by any of that but if it is I'm sure that would make signage more complicated.

Looking at the county website, they own land on the west side of Columbus from 25th to almost the river (Franklin). Runs along the tracks. It fronts Columbus south of Abbey Ave bridge, but there are houses in front of RTA's land north of that bridge. Thing is that is all land earmarked for the Greenway, I thought. But they can probably squeeze something else in there along Columbus.

I've often considered this too. If you and others want to discuss it more, let's go here: https://www.urbanohio.com/forum/index.php/topic,1977.0.html So we know that nonprofits can handle transactions with real property etc with far less red tape than can government agencies and that is the main benefit of doing this. KJP[/member], is there any precendent in the US for a citywide Transit Oriented Development Corporation?

How quickly could the old #9 or #32 get downtown from their eastern termini?

RTA needs a pro-TOD/pro-transit nonprofit the way cities set up cdcs and improvement corporations.

has RTA considered becoming a partner in development projects as a way to diversify revenue streams? Rather than selling the land outright they could share in the cash flow. They should sell air rights on top of their stations. Extend this new development to go literally on top of the W. 25 station.

Yes, but way bigger. I think the city should sell a bit of land from Michael J Zone. It's so big they could give a bit and preserve the park.

The next long-term dream is a mixed-use, mixed-income TOD at 65th & Lorain...

This project is a game-changer for Cleveland. So much residential multifamily development (The Quarter, Battery Park, Edison, Etc) on the Near West has been unfortunately far from the Red Line. This has long been the absolute best TOD site in the city and I think most of us had resigned ourselves to the fact that it wasn't going to happen anytime soon. And to boot we have a developer from a transit-oriented city with experience doing TOD. Could not be happier.

Dave Joyce in OH-14 also voted against the first Obamacare repeal (AHCA?).

Beautiful. Anyone know if they have financing or is that part generally handled after the approval process? Just thinking of what happened with the Church and State development.

Somewhere I have a picture of myself next to the street sign for this street: Calle de Toledo de Ohio 45001 Toledo, Spain https://goo.gl/maps/WTHKtwJgE5P2

Lol I don't believe that, I'm just trying to imagine something a "hospital truther" might say.

Sounds like the Clinic...

Can somebody sum up the hospital truthers for the non-lakewooders? Gonna take a shot in the dark, the Clinic was in cahoots with the city and the developer to make lots of money?

Beachwood has the View (Vue?) and that's about the only new multifamily I can think of around 271 in Cuyahoga County. There's new stuff out in, like, Aurora and places like that.

Yes but there becomes a certain point where your working relationship is so weak due to never spending any time together, that you can't get anything done. It's easier to get things done remotely in tech/engineering/STEM fields, or even general administrative work, but when you have a field like politics where the entire point is to build consensus with one another, it might be a good idea to spend some time together. Anyways, off topic for this thread. Give us the jobs!

This is true also of major coastal industries. The current setup doesn't make sense from a real estate perspective. Why should all tech be in Seattle and SF when even people on six figure incomes can barely afford to live there, and meanwhile the Midwest desperately needs the jobs? There needs to be a leveling off at some point. The only thing I'll say about Congress is that a lot of people say that it got a lot more polarized once Newt Gingrich instituted long weekends and Reps started going home every weekend. Before that the two parties got to know one another, sent their kids to schools together, etc.

Yes, you can recognize City Club and Ohio Bell in the background.

I love the transit TIF corridors idea, KJP[/member]. That could have been done ten years ago as part of the Euclid Corridor project.

Matt Dolan should get working on that parking tax. At the end of the day it'd be about getting the business community on board and mobilized, that is the only way the state GOP would ever listen.

They are now considering a property tax too but sales tax is probably still the preferred option. There was a crains article yesterday. http://www.crainscleveland.com/article/20180731/news/170231/rta-mulls-its-options-filling-budget-hole

I just really hope if something end up on the ballot it is done right and not rushed. Koch brothers will descend on our city to try to squash something that's none of their business. They are a well oiled machine. If the naive activists at Clevelanders for Public Transit end up forcing a rushed ballot issue and that happens, it would be a shame. Then again, it's probably a good year to put a transit tax on the ballot, what with the blue wave and all.

Congrats Yabo.

It's not going to be hipsterland, but I think there's going to be enough people who are going to want to live near the hospitals that will help to build up some kind of a modest resident base.