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From the article: Something like this would be great on the site. Hopefully though some part can have some real height. A 3 story building only would be a little anticlimactic.

Nice. Best news I heard all day. Surprised there hasn't been an article in Crains or PD yet (or maybe I missed it).

The former First Methodist Church at 3000 Euclid Ave. was put up for sale. A beautiful building, hopefully gets a full adaptive re-use. http://realestate.cleveland.com/realestate-news/2018/02/historic_euclid_avenue_church.html

Did RAIT ever sell Erieview tower? The last story I remember reading was them pausing the residential conversion, and putting the complex up for sale. I wonder if Dimit is working with new owners or if this is part of RAIT's diligence a couple years ago.

Panama? Lots of all inclusive resorts but most of the best areas are small towns far from the city, like San Blas and Bocas Del Toro.

That's encouraging news. Can you disclose the dates on the contract? Btw, I wasn't trying to call you out. There's been some odd overreaction on here recently (i.e. the Beacon building footprint). I didn't want people to read into your post that construction is starting tomorrow.

Don't read too much into subcontracted work. I wonder if any of it is binding. In a moment of deja-vu, nuCLEus HVAC contractor talk and eventbrite invites for potential renters about 2 years ago: https://www.urbanohio.com/forum/index.php/topic,29504.msg798246.html#msg798246

The book store next to Panini's closed abruptly. If Panini's moves like we're expecting, the entire first floor would become vacant at the same time. Something bigger might be afoot. Anybody know anything else about the building? Like who the owners are or if the other floors are vacant. https://www.clevescene.com/scene-and-heard/archives/2018/02/14/movers-actively-clearing-out-old-erie-street-bookstore-downtown

Close to completing financing is what we've heard before. For all we know the last piece is still the TIF agreement with the county and Cleveland schools. Though I doubt that's the only gap. Stark should have re-worked his plans for this site 2 years ago. Something cheaper to build with less parking and retail.

Cool so that means the Key penthouse is available for UO and Associates, LLC. Who's chipping in?

I doubt highway or rail right-of-way is straight enough for even half the claimed top speeds of the Hyperloop. So where would the route go? Hey NOACA, how about a feasibility study on improving the Amtrak line that already exists. Maybe having a route that comes in at a decent time of day or isn't as slow as the Oregan Trail.

The Cavs pay a penalty for every dollar over the salary cap. That penalty increases every year you "repeat" being over the cap, hence the name repeater tax. The Cavs would be stuck paying Papagiannis his salary of $2.4 million and a repeater tax of $4.8 million that I think is distributed to the league. That's a ton of money for a draft bust they don't intend to keep.

That was clear last year when Brad Stevens led a bunch of jags to the top seed in the East before getting bounced by the only legit team (the Cavs). I think people's expectations should have been much lower for Thomas and Crowder. The trade was for Brooklyn's pick full stop.

Thats a mixed bag of news for sure. I bet those assembly jobs pay pretty well. Its hard to get excited either way until we hear about head count.

A blurb about Centric: https://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/features/real_estate/centric-apartments-target-younger-renters/article_5b1b3c16-076e-11e8-a91b-5304de36b9ac.html#tncms-source=article-nav-next

^ Your question regarding the building on Stokes Blvd between Cedar and Carnegie was answered above. See Murray Hill's post. As for a parking lot off Bellflower, no idea.

^ Is the County looking to move? They still have active operations there don't they.

The city is slowly rezoning areas along the Towpath/Lake Link trails away from industry/semi-industry to encourage mixed use development. They already rezoned a bunch of industrial land along Walworth Run area -- the flats area intersected by Fairfield, Train, and Scranton avenues. And there were posts a week ago in the Tremont thread about potential rezoning along West 4th. Rezoning the West Bank could coincide with the Lake Link Trail or Jacobs master plan for the Nautica complex (or both). Here is a map of the proposed zoning: http://planning.city.cleveland.oh.us/mc/pdf/MC2578-Public-Notification.pdf

^ Even beyond the usual incentives? The RFP explicitly mentions the common ones - historic preservation credits, TIF, NMTC, etc.

And lastly, the Warner & Swasey complex is going up for sale again, this time without $13 million in federal funds that were earmarked for redevelopment. What are the odds this actually gets rehabbed without that money? Seems like it's fate was sealed when the city redirected the money to the Geis development a couple blocks away.

https://www.urbanohio.com/forum/index.php/topic,3435.msg848607.html#msg848607 ^ A small update to the sale of the Masonic Temple last spring. Dancing Wheels is moving out to another building up the road on Euclid. Not much new information about the redevelopment of the complex, however. http://www.cleveland.com/musicdance/index.ssf/2018/01/dancing_wheels_sets_in_motion.html

Some movement on the design competition for the library portion along Euclid: http://www.cleveland.com/architecture/index.ssf/2018/01/post_4.html

We're watching House of Cards finally, currently a bit into season 5. Great show overall, but wow Spacey's character is unlikable. I can tell in season 5 it's losing steam. In my own time I've been binge watching Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee hosted by Jerry Seinfeld. I watched a handful of episodes when it was only on Youtube years ago . I finally got a chance to watch the new episodes since Netflix picked it up. I am completely addicted to it. Some of the episodes are completely unwatchable when the guest is boring. Others, like with Trevor Noah, Jon Stewart, Gary Shandling, etc are just a joy to watch. The episodes are about 15-18 minutes long and just fly by.

If the restaurant property changed hands, nothing has been recorded in the county yet. Its still in the family that's owned it since the 70's.

An underused building adjacent to Shaker Square finally changed hands. It's the complex on the southeast corner stretching from Shaker to Drexmore at 2720 Van Aken Blvd. http://www.crainscleveland.com/article/20180128/news/149996/paran-management-buys-former-franklin-simon-department-store-building If the address sounds familiar, there was a rough proposal last July made by the previous owners and Shaker CDC to help find a buyer. The above comments from Paran are encouraging since it actually keeps the northernmost part of the complex, instead of yet another corner plaza from the seller's proposal: http://planning.city.cleveland.oh.us/landmark/agenda/2017/07132017/index.php