Rustbelter

Well to be fair this building and the other ugly 1970s apartments and gas stations on W 14th hurt the streetscape more than this proposed development would. I wish the developer was proposing to tear down a couple of those other apartments, which are worse than the CMHA building IMO.

Well to be fair the part of downtown around Erieview is a ghost town. Everything between there and I-90 needs some serious redevelopment.

So per the Ohio City thread the site plan in KJP's article is getting revised to be an apartment instead of a parking lot? Because that would be a big improvement.

I like this development, and would welcome it all over town, but it seems odd to tear down perfectly good housing stock. Especially given the amount of empty lots and unremarkable housing elsewhere nearby. where have you seen this? These things are pretty common in Chicago and I don't really see them getting torn down, even in the most in-demand neighborhoods. https://achicagosojourn.wordpress.com/2010/11/08/4-plus-1-again/

That Red Line extension should stop at the Michigan Ave stop. The last leg out to 130th does not really serve much and is mostly industrial. The cost of this project is crazy, especially considering the track ROW is mostly already in place. Overall this seems like a "low hanging fruit" project. Hard to see meaningful CTA heavy rail expansion happening at these costs, but projects I would like to see happen, which I'm not holding my breath on, are a Brown Line extension to the Blue Line and a new circle line. Cross town transit in Chicago is a real slog and these would help immensely with that.

YouTube video about Cleveland....with the wrong sky (fake?) skyline.

Looks a bit like an office building but I do like the use of brick. Some tweaks to the front face could make things better. I also like the scale which reminds me of neighborhood infill in Chicago.

Pretty uninspiring site plan but I suppose it's something. Would like it more if they just copied the Foundry Lofts.

Is this per capita? I'd believe that OTR has higher crime rates but Short North feels safer than Ohio City to me. My anecdotal experience living in these types of areas is these groups did not interact at all, specifically in the Uptown and West Town areas of Chicago. These are also areas where real estate pressures put higher-income residences near subsidized low-income housing.

Great looking project. Pretty much ideal for that site. With the other large project planned for the north side of the park this area is really going to see a big transformation,

A video of the inside to show what we're dealing with. The 925 Euclid Building: Drone Presentation by Aerial Agents

^ Pre Chester Ave as well. Seeing this is pretty depressing.

Agreed. She comes across like a virtue signaler and out of touch with the realities of Cleveland. The last of Cleveland's concerns is gentrification.

This is true for sure, but is often limited or capped by economic realities. In my hometown of Ashtabula the harbor district has become a nice place to hang out in a unique setting. I believe in this case it has been driven by local organic growth once people became interested in taking advantage of the town's unique assets (in this instance a mostly intact Victorian era port district) and opened up some nice businesses there. However, the rest of the town remains in rough condition and is a shell of its former self. I have noticed this too, at least on average for the rural towns which are outside of the larger metro areas. My speculation is these towns have not been subject to the economic booms & busts that happen elsewhere in the state. That and the heavy German-American sensibilities of the region. Unfortunately they're also often surrounded by some of the State's most boring landscapes.

Lots of hotel talk here. Makes me wonder how many of these, particularly those of the skyline changing variety, have other uses involved. I know that's the case with the Rose building and Erieview Tower plans which also have apartment and office elements.

Nice to see some projects moving forward in Lakewood.

Based on location this area should be exploding with development.

^ The context of the article was basically "creative class" messaging of the 2010's being applied to places where that doesn't really work (or now in hindsight hasn't). I didn't comment on political parties or their policies, but I'll say that natininja's 12 year old comment above about the modern left being beholden to monied interests is indeed still deserving of some introspection based on the current political climate. I'm not here to debate politics though, but you're free to grid your ax in the echo chamber Current Events forum.

One thing I noticed is they removed the partial cloverleaf highway ramps at the bottom center of the map and this space is now occupied by development. Something I'd like to see done in Cleveland

Yup: It is time to acknowledge the truth: that our leaders have nothing to say, really, about any of this. They have nothing to suggest, really, to Cairo, Illinois, or St. Joseph, Missouri. They have no comment to make, really, about the depopulation of the countryside or the deindustrialization of the Midwest. They have nothing to offer, really, but the same suggestions as before, gussied up with a new set of clichés. They have no idea what to do for places or people that aren’t already successful or that have no prospects of ever becoming cool.

That van parked on the sidewalk in the photos is a precursor of things to come since there does not appear to be a parking lane on the street in front of these buildings. Maybe there will be one in front of the building on the right but I'm guessing that's not the case.

I don't see that Lake Shore Drive project happening anytime soon, as in it could be decades. I've read that project would cost $3.5B and Chicago doesn't exactly have its financial house in order. See the full set of renderings below for what IDOT and CDOT have planned

Nothing wrong with that, but just wanted to be clear I wasn't trying to take a side. CATO is more of Koch Brothers open border thing (I find it ironic when some liberals cite this to make an argument). The Federation for American Immigration Reform would be the more obvious conservative bias publication arguing the opposite. And there are also various publications out there put forth by several states which make various conclusions. So I guess my point is that I don't really trust any such reports because there is an apparent political or corporate agenda behind just about any of them I've seen.

^ ITEP has a left-leaning bias and there are other (possibly right-leaning) studies that would state the opposite, including those outside of the US. I take any such articles/studies with skepticism and it's tough to find one without bias or an agenda. Anyway, didn't come here to get into a pissing match and post articles. I will say this election cycle ballot didn't do any favors to democratic party supported candidates or issues. They were victims of a national swing away from the democrats. I'm thinking Brown likely wins if this was a different election cycle. And probably more importantly the OH supreme court justices would have remained more balanced.

Would love to see a European style neighborhood built there with narrow alleyways. This would also dissipate some of the cold wind impacts off the lake in the winter. Parking could be put underground in the hole left over by the stadium. Look at some of the former industrial waterfronts that have been redeveloped into neighborhoods in northern European cities like Oslo, Stockholm, Copenhagen, and Hamburg for examples.