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Looking good.

Another article about GBX's headquarters in the Keetch Knitting Mills building (former Daffy Dan's space) at 2101 Superior Ave. Love the work they did with the interior. Renovations like this are why I roll my eyes when people say old buildings are "obsolete" for modern office space. http://www.freshwatercleveland.com/features/GBX051718.aspx

damn, 76 in Shaker Redirected from the visiting Cleveland thread. The importance of wind direction when the lake is really cold.:) Winds are coming out of the Northeast, so areas West of Cleveland are way colder than usual. Prevailing winds are typically NNW or NW, so this is kind of backwards to typical. Bay Village - 56 F Lakewood - 60 F Cleveland (downtown) - 70 F

Putting this here since there is no thread for Woodland Hills neighborhood. This is a pretty big project across the street from St Luke's Manor along MLK Drive between E.111th and E115th. 76 single family homes, about half market rate and half subsidized. The site plan is good. The houses themselves won't be anything to look at, if they look anything like the ones built next door, but they will probably be affordable. http://planning.city.cleveland.oh.us/designreview/drcagenda/2018/05182018/index.php SE2018-014 – Britt Oval Park New Construction: Seeking Final Approval Project Location: Britt Oval Project Representative: Wayne Mortenson, Cleveland Neighborhood Progress

Has that garage been built yet? I thought it was part of a later phase.

And the article mention the 3 straight drummings of the Gilbert Arenas led Wizards a life time ago. If you are a fan of an Eastern Conference team, you've had virtually no chance for a long time. But who knows. The Celtics are still a good team so I wouldn't count them out.

Exactly. I believe that was our speculation earlier this year. Terminal Tower and Post Office Plaza would be eclipsed by millions of sqft of new construction over the coming years. Scranton has poor connectivity with downtown and needs considerable new infrastructure. Burke isn't even remotely shovel ready -- and I would argue tearing down an airport for a massive office headquarters is shortsighted.

Where else could they have offered that was truly shovel ready? We speculated earlier this year that Terminal Tower and Post Office Plaza would be the perfect first phase. And there is plenty of available surface parking for future expansion. I can't believe this was the extent of the site proposal.

111 miles is such a specific number. Surely that came from somewhere, a pie-in-the-sky master plan? Anybody have a clue what that would encompass?

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Sure would have. In Cleveland lore of buildings that should never have been demolished, the Hickox is near the top. Along with the original Hollenden Hotel.

When was the new headquarters announced? The only articles I can find are about the name, and suggest the HQ location hasn't been decided. edit: I got my answer. A follow up article was posted on Crains this afternoon. http://www.crainscleveland.com/article/20180509/news/160796/soon-merge-mining-company-headed-cuyahoga-county

That crossed my mind when I was typing. I wasn't sure if there were ever any others. :)

Production for "The Last Summer" is shutting down Prospect Ave. between E. 36th and 40th for filming. Not that I, or anybody really, care about this movie, but I like the choice of location. The movie is filming in Cleveland as a stand-in for Chicago, so probably with the Brownstone Inn as a backdrop. https://www.clevescene.com/scene-and-heard/archives/2018/05/08/teen-movie-the-last-summer-filming-downtown-cleveland-today I'm always surprised this is the only cluster of walkup brownstones left anywhere in the city. https://www.google.com/maps/@41.5018056,-81.6615243,3a,75y,2.92h,98.8t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s6fvk52jsbml52IKOkBr96w!2e0!5s20170801T000000!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en

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It shouldn't surprise anybody if they built in the flats. They own a large amount of land along the water around their R&D building. Probably be more challenging to build in the flats, but its a much larger space than the Jacobs lot.

^ I sure hope so.

There is already a master plan in place for 18 acres of land north of FES. And much of the land south is highway and railroads. I doubt the lakefront project's success will hinge on the demolition of Browns stadium. If anything it's existence should help Cumberland's project.... right? Stadiums drawing spin-off development is what we're going to hear for the next 10 years.

What's preventing you from doing anything with that space now? FES takes up less than half of the area you've whited out.

Let's be clear here. Emotion is the only justification for keeping an NFL team in your town in the first place, not economics. A couple additional thoughts: 1. Any new or majorly remodeled stadium should require SIGNIFICANT dollar contributions from the collar counties. They pay virtually nothing for the privilege of having an NFL franchise in NEO. And since the first stadium was built I believe only Medina, Lake, and Geauga counties have seen a population increase putting stress on Cuyahoga to pay a larger share for a more expensive stadium. 2. Who knows what the popularity of the NFL will be like in 10 years. A new stadium in 10-15 years might be throwing good money after bad. 3. Let's not let the team's lack of success influence whether or not we should build a new stadium. Build it, or not, based on whether you think it's a solid investment. Because, a perennial Super Bowl team will have at most 2 extra home games -- insignificant in the grand scheme of things.

There is nothing we need less than a new Browns stadium, a billion dollar albatross that is used 10 times a year. By their very nature, a football stadium is an awful anchor for additional development. Their size limit the number of non-football uses, so they are always empty. And their typical use requires massive amounts of parking. Even with a lid it's usage will be limited compared to the Q.

Link for posterity: http://planning.city.cleveland.oh.us/bza/agenda/2018/crr05-14-2018.pdf Calendar No. 18-89: 1001-1101 Euclid Ave. Alto JHB Acquisition, LLC., owner, proposes to convert existing office building to 226 apartments and approximately 18,540 square feet of ground floor retail space with 180 enclosed parking spaces and residential amenity areas in an E 5 General Retail Business District. The owner appeals for relief from the strict application of the following sections of the Cleveland Codified Ordinances: 1. Section 355.04 which states that in an “E” area district, the maximum gross floor area of a residential building cannot exceed one and one half times the lot area (1 ½); therefore the permitted maximum gross floor area is 79,044 square feet and 409,720 square feet are proposed. 2. Section 357.08(b)(2) which states that a rear yard equal to one half the height of the building is required and no rear yard is provided. 3. Section 357.09(b)(2)© interior side yards equal to one fourth the height of the building are required and no interior side yards are provided. (Filed April 18, 2018)

I like the design and hope it gets built as shown. It's clearly a take on large warehouse-turned-residential buildings throughout the city. I'd take that over the multi-facade modernism that seemingly every apartment building looks like. (random photo from internet)

If that were true why are taxes typically much higher in urban areas? This isn't a loaded question. I'm genuinely curious because all we here is about old infrastructure that needs to be replaced, higher cost per pupil for education, more police/fire to combat higher crime rates. I didn't read the article (if there was one), but it doesn't make sense. Maybe I'm just looking at it through the lens of an aging city with middling economy.

Yeah, it's a cool stretch. But for now it's only about 2 blocks of continuous commercial buildings, then mostly detached single family homes. Thankfully, the city never vacated most of the right of way for the alley behind the commercial buildings, and it stretches far East and West of the current storefronts. If anybody decided to build mixed use, there is ready-built entrance behind much of it.