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Great pictures! Can't wait until summer

Emmie-I'd purchase an all-day pass and take the Red Line to W. 25th, then to public square and hop on Euclid Corridor to UC and Little Italy.

Go Cleveland!

Thanks for the input. Byers field is an hour away from Ignatius students that live in Mentor, Vermillion, etc. Ignatius has always been interested in its own station, with alumni offering donations for one, but the question was always where to put it. Maybe somewhere closer to CSU would be better for such a stadium, I just felt that space (if mixed-use) were incorporated into it it could bring some life into those hideous parking lots on downtown's west side. Glenville became a part of the idea because it's really CMSD's football team, and they play games generally on Friday nights, whereas college football plays Saturday during the day and Ignatius tends to play on Saturday at night.

I'm going off on a limb here, but how about building a mixed-use stadium connecting the parcels between W. 6th, W. St. Clair, W. 3rd, and W. Superior for CSU, St. Ignatius, Glenville, and maybe St. Ed's to play their soccer, football, lacrosse, etc. games in? Underneath the bleacher space have 2-3 stories of commercial&restaurants on the street level with residential on the 2nd/3rd floors, in the unique brick-faced architecture of the warehouse district. The field could be covered or left open. In the corners, residential units, or towers, could have windows facing both the streets and the field, creating remarkable opportunities for developers. I worry the space is too small for more than 10,000 seats. But I believe Cleveland's zoning and such would be willing to accommodate such an investment in traffic & capital investment downtown. Particularly, combining the resources of Ignatius's, CSU's, Glenville's and Ed's(?) alumni with the resources of developers for the space beneath/around seems truly dynamic. thoughts?

^ Sounds like one floor for starters with a possible expansion to a lower level

I was shocked to come back home and find it gone! I used to grab a donut before i took the 79 to school. There's gotta be another reason they closed

^^ Incredible shots! Are those from Fenn Tower?

Thank you! It's just astounding to me how many large companies are leaving their current locations to (most likely) east side suburbs, (Eaton Corp., American Greetings, Parker Hannifin(?), etc.) in the path of Progressive Insurance and Cleveland seems to be doing NOTHING to promise a better business environment. I like near Brooklyn and understand that it's best for the region for AG to remain there, but because there's a consensus that they're moving, I don't get why Cleveland doesn't throw a bid in that can become permanent draw to companies. In the grand picture, it should be about regional attraction of business. But as Cleveland keeps losing these companies, it loses revenue AND name power. The plan I developed is based on the city getting $__(blank)____ in payroll revenue every year at the 2% rate. As the city (after Hannifin and Eaton leave) is posed to pick up jobs in the medical field and due to the casino in the next five years, the added $150 million in payroll would allow Cleveland to lower the tax to 1.95%, maintaining the same revenue as previous yet saving larger companies (Cleveland Clinic) as much as $900,000. This decreasing tax is an incentive for companies to locate and relocate employees here, as taxes would be poised to lower over the coming years. Cleveland has many liabilities it needs revenue for, yes, but it also has assets that could give it an advantage in this "bidding war." As the tax revenue from this would remain the same, the city would recoup profits from property taxes, sales taxes, and the booming downtown residential market. As far as the relocating tax thing I mentioned (part 2) I agree that could cause problems. Perhaps the scales would be down .2% if from Ohio, PA, KT, MI, IL, IND, outside of NEO, .4% from outside the "Midwest" (those mentioned states), and .6% internationally, bottoming out at the 1% payroll tax. Lowering our taxes and making a commitment with guarantees to improving the business environment could do wonders for our area (if coincided with "fixing" the CMSD, or providing "choices" to students who live in the city of Cleveland.) There are a lot of great things happening in Cleveland, but until we address our economy's multi-variance and competitiveness with cities across the country, education, and regionalism, we're going to keep spiraling downhill.

Hello, I'm a student and I'm looking for honest opinions/criticisms/potential problems with this issue so that I can fix them with the structure of my economic model proposal: What would slashing the payroll tax from 2% to 1% do the economy of the city of Cleveland? What would gradually decreasing the payroll tax from 2% to 1% cause differently? What would happen if Cleveland agrees to freeze its revenue from the payroll tax and for every, say $10 million in added taxable payroll would lower payroll tax .05% (Saving, say, the Cleveland Clinic, about $900,000 per year per .05% decrease in the tax) Also, would the city benefit from adopting a policy in addition to the one I hint at above, where businesses that relocate headquarters from Inner ring suburbs get .1% off the payroll tax rate, businesses from elsewhere in the county get .2% off payroll tax rate, companies from elsewhere in the state get .3% off payroll tax rate, companies from elsewhere in the country get .4% off the rate, and international firms get .5% off the rate, with a bottom of 1% payroll tax? Thank you

Won't our convention center be under construction at this point? (2012. . .?)

I'm not aware that it's been tried anywhere else. IF I run for mayor in 2013 it'll definitely be on the platform, in addition to original models for economic growth, safety improvements, and regionalism. There would be a potential uproar from the CMSD and Teacher's Union, but in the day we need to look at what's best for our kids, the city, and the region. That type of competition should benefit everyone but those involved in the aforementioned uproar.

Yes. And it's very ill-timed to say the least. I hope the district comes up with a good long-term leader... ALSO with Kasich in office, the the state's approbated per-student expenditures and 80% of Cleveland's per-student expenditures can follow the student to any private school, charter school, or suburban district in the county as long as the student lives in Cleveland. . . THAT's a way to get people to move back to the city. AND it could put an end to the Teacher's Union. . .

We build up a supporting base for this kind of project. Elect officials who support rail, amongst many other things. Elect uncorrupt citizens and await the doubling of oil prices by 2015. And when we want to gloat over the naysayers, we have to continue to push for change.

I'm absolutely livid. And I'm one of those young minds Ohio needed to try to keep with this project.

It's already open! I popped in during it's opening party last Friday night

I've made a GIGANTIC slideshow (50 slides) that would probably go best with a presentation. :/ Should I attach it here?

How do you exactly "Annex" a suburb? Wouldn't annexing these neighborhoods put all of the school systems into one, reduce certain "amenities" these suburbs cherish (police force, better fire coverage, better schools, etc. [in some cases]) and perpetuate the moving to the suburbs that already exists? Just curious... Although Cuyahoga County being Cleveland eventually is what is needed, it seems unrealistic at the moment

1. If it's inevitable (as it looks) that AG is moving out of Brooklyn, why isn't Cleveland marketing land ANYWHERE for it and offering lower taxes or something for 20 years? There is PLENTY of land on Euclid Ave. 2. If AG moves out of Brooklyn, Brooklyn is in HUGE trouble. They're already in trouble. AG increases local business traffic as well as contributing a significant portion of Brooklyn's tax revenue.

When I search, it sends me only to this thread. Thanks though. I'll just go through

Thanks! Tower City inside seems somewhat viable, although a storefront (such as where Positively Cleveland currently resides) could be nice; both accessible inside and from the street level. Was the Ameritrust Complex deal from 2008 ever finalized? Does the County still own the building? The plan is to create a resource center for businesses, immigrants, and groups visiting whom we target in the marketing campaign. Every city in the country is targeting "young professionals" and "high-tech" firms. But what if we clear some of the red tape, make downtown friendlier to the suburbs, and have a joint marketing campaign for NEO representing every municipality in finding a newcomer's best fit. Target groups include, but not just: -Immigrants looking to start small businesses, start new communities, have affordable housing, be able to farm. -LGBT community, particularly from this region of the country and the south, where intolerance (I'm assuming) is mostly worse than here. -Businesses-out-of-home that aren't reliant on their current locations and face high taxes. -Smaller AND larger firms, struggling in other regions of the country with taxes. (Offer payroll taxes for like 15 years less no less than 1% to relocate to Cleveland, not to mention providing them possibly with land from our landbank to develop on. etc. The American Greetings situation troubles me; our region should be coming together to bring in companies from ELSEWHERE instead of all the infighting, with places like Beachwood and Independence prying companies from the inner city and suburbs. The Immigration Center I'm looking at maintains a website based off the marketing campaign I'm creating, provides access to banks for loans, provides grants from an NEO trust to open businesses, provides real estate information & tours, profiles every community contributing to maintaining the welcome center, takes calls in response to the advertisements, an lgbt resource center, etc. There are many other factors to this, I'm just previewing a bit. What would help our cause with lgbt is if we compiled a compact between most of our current businesses refusing to discriminate in hirings (I believe Ohio's one of the states where this discrimination is okay). We have a lot of good projects on the horizon before 2015, but our main problems still exist as a region. People and businesses aren't just going to come, we have to change perceptions and actively recruit to a region with a "new" business model, "new" tolerance, etc. ramble ramble ramble

Hello, I'm a student at Cornell from Old Brooklyn and I'm working on a comprehensive proposal for a regional NEO International Welcome Center and a marketing push to groups marginalized in other cities (i.e. "not welcome," or not the target group of EVERY CITY in the country - the "High-Tech, Young Professional" Class). It's for fun. (?) I have a five page outline I'm off of, and I need advice/suggestions. 1. What ever happened to the Ameritrust Complex? Does the County Still own it? 2. Would a welcome center work better in Terminal Tower, our city's icon? or a new building on Public Square where that one of twenty parking lots are? 3. Any advice suggestions? When I'm finished with it I would love to share it with you NEO supporters and fellow planners.

Unless Gilbert plans on paying for this, NO WAY. Complete waste of money. Why can't they just build a garage at the corner of W. Eagle Ave. and W. 3rd and connect it via gerbil tube to the casino ACROSS THE STREET? If anyone in our government approves of this waste of MILLIONS of DOLLARS for PARKING SPACES I might start crying for crucifixion.