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Can you elaborate? Where do you feel unsafe? Inside the establishments or on the street? I live just up the hill in the warehouse district and I find my high school friends who live in the suburbs always want to go to the Flats when they come downtown. I would rather go elsewhere but I go because they're my friends. I've never really felt unsafe though, even when I walk back up the hill underneath the shoreway.

Thanks richNcincy[/member] !!!

Do you get a lot of fake ads for Walmart gift cards? And worst of all, they talk? On my phone I get a loud "CONGRATULATIONS" after the redirect which of course is annoying if I'm in public. It's happened to me before but it's gotten really bad the past couple of weeks.

On the subject of contiguous land, how come the Dayton Airport is allowed to be a part of the City of Dayton even though there is no connection via land? I can't think of any other part of Ohio where this kind of exclave exists.

Does that happen to you on mobile specifically? It's been happening to me too, but I don't think it's UO, I think I have some kind of virus/malware/adware. I've been planning to do a factory reset on my (android) phone. It never happens to me on the computer.

It might not be so bad to try different proposals if I can get good estimates of rents and construction costs which might not be so hard. The part I'm worried about most is the market study and projecting potential vacancy/occupancy, simply because I don't have experience with that. If I find it's going smoothly I can take a look at making it more of a mixed used project. I will definitely report back with my findings.

And then when we face an inevitable recession, there will be minimum equity downtown, thereby eliminating the motivation for retail to have any sizable presence and causing massive vacancy and loss to landlords. WE. NEED. CONDOS. DOWNTOWN. But offices would do just fine. You cannot force something that the market will not bare. Everybody wants condos but until developers are able to get the funding to do it it will not happen. I want a building with actual stuff in it instead of vacancy. If that’s more apartments, so be it. There could be other, non-market reasons that we don't have condos though. Specifically, legal headaches, liability related to condos vs apartments drive up the cost artificially, developers don't want to mess with it, and hence, condo shortage.

I'm taking a real estate finance class at CSU (I know some of you have taken it) and using this site for my final project. It's basically a development proposal where we study the market, acquisition and building costs, and potential rents, and figure out if a project is financially feasible. I'm thinking I'm not going to reinvent the wheel here and just try to build some class A office space with ground floor retail. I know the paradigm right now is hotel/office/retail/apartment like NuCLEus but that might make it too complicated for the purposes of this assignment. I will probably try to do about what Jacobs proposed back in 2008 (21 stories, half a million sqft) and see if the fundamentals have shifted to make it more feasible. Do you guys have any input? From the research put out from some of the brokerages that I've read it seems that there is definitely demand for Class A downtown but that rents are not high enough yet to justify construction costs. Luckily this is fictional so I will have access to public subsidies.

^^Yeah, and sorry for taking it off topic, but thinking about it again, having counties merge is a long shot. I do think townships will start to merge as I have heard township trustees, clerks, etc, for small townships discuss it before and say things like "in twenty years there won't be all these townships anymore." The really rural ones don't do much, it's basically roads. A lot of them just pay the county engineer to do the work anyways so they basically exist to get their share of the taxes and road dollars distributed by the state and the county and then just turn around and pay it back to the county. There is local control in terms of what roads get done, which is probably the justification, but some of these counties are so small there's no reason that couldn't happen directly at the county level. A lot of times the township staff don't know what they're doing. Not always because they're stupid but just because it's a side gig, they only see certain issues arise once in a decade, etc. ^West Chester specifically pays the Butler County Sheriff's Office to do all their policing, they probably have Greater Cincinnati Water Works for utilities, so they have no need for incorporation. It's a pretty anti-tax area so they've basically just done things the way they have so they don't have to pay income taxes.

^Similar to how Ohio can definitely start merging some rural townships and counties together (and this probably will start to happen in the next few decades).

You are correct - but personally I would take the set of problems you describe over the extremists gerrymandering has given us (such as Jim Jordan) any day of the week and twice on Sunday. Instant runoff or any other innovative voting methods could hopefully be implemented in the future.

This is what a lot of people miss. Gerrymandering doesn't only affect the number of Ds and Rs, it affects the views of those Ds and Rs, and how centrist or fringe they are. Gerrymandering gets you wackjobs who don't reflect the actual mainstream views of the population.

Density has bought me to you.

I like Lumen. They actually did something different/unique/creative/symbolic. As opposed to "The Residences at Playhouse Square" or something like that.

Sign me up for "the Villas at Abbey Market"

^ On the subject of Gordon Park, there was a good article from Scene about it last fall. I never knew much about the park at all until reading this: https://www.clevescene.com/cleveland/a-highway-runs-through-it/Content?oid=11243699

My God. I wonder how big their gap is.

The place definitely gives a bit of a bad impression but you all just inspired me to do some research on it... it has 39 reviews and 4.3/5 stars on google, people apparently really like the owners. Maybe they just need a bit of a remodel, haha.

Awww HELL NO! The city can't even maintain the parks it has, even with staffing levels set at previous higher population levels. If anyone wants to experiment with a park, I continue to maintain that there has to be some way to work with the FAA and city to install a greenway around the perimeter of Burke. Just a strip to facilitate bikes, walks and benches, and provide an east west access point between North Coast Harbor and Gordon Park. But I'd still want to be sure the Metroparks maintains it! Correct. After seeing the local pols struggle with Voinovich Park and the Malls, there’s no way they have the insight or means to address something the size and complexity as Burke. After the success of Edgewater, I would hope they've learned that they should let Cleveland Metroparks do it if any future opportunities arise.

Definitely true, not only based on size... I've heard Detroiters remarking the Cleveland is "ten years ahead" of their city in recovering from the rust belt collapse. And of course as a Clevelander it's hard not to think that Pittsburgh is still "ten years ahead" of us. Buffalo, however, has some pretty dense, east coast style neighborhoods that we don't have in Cleveland and I'm jealous of them for that. They probably can't match us for economic activity though which is obviously more important to most people.

McCormack responded to my email, he said thanks and that he supports the project. (41st and Lorain)

Yes, exactly.

OK - you might mean variance then and not easement, easement is a little different. Do you know if the City has already approved a variance and people are protesting after the fact, or if it is going before the board soon? Anyways, I will email the councilman!

Where is the easement and how does that relate to a parking minimum? (I'm still learning all this stuff but I'm getting there.) Happy to email McCormack and I live in his ward.

Like when Richard M. Daley bulldozed giant X's on the runways at Meigs field, just to be sure to kill it.