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Hofbrauhaus in Buffalo does not carry sauerkraut balls as I’m certain the population is unaware of them. The one in Pittsburgh does probably since they are so close to Ohio. Spent a half hour or so rummaging the internet on its origins. Found a weird tv segment last year on WGN during covid lockdown of “weirdest state foods” from a facebook site. Somehow Indiana was listed with Sauerkraut balls and the WGN newscasters were aghast at that concept. Another site listed a recipe being asked for by Duncan Hines from 1951 from a restaurant in Shaker Heights called Grubers. Didn’t realize that was a real person. There are various articles claiming that they originated from Akron. Akron also claims hamburgers. If this originated in Akron in the 1930s at near its peak population then I can see why it would spread throughout Ohio as Akronites get around. I’ll be interested in hearing the Cinci take on the origins.

I think you are missing what they are knocking down. I had to size up the pictures to understand. They are knocking down the short buildings. One at the front and then the 2 very narrow buildings with garage doors. This looks like a great re-use. It doesn’t seem to mention how many apartments would be going into this complex. Hopefully its at least 100-150 apartments. 50,000 sq ft of retail seems a bit delusional at this point but with phase 2 of Intro across the street in 2-3 years, that might make perfect sense.

Nobody has mentioned sauerkraut balls. I saw them on menu at hofbrauhaus in newport this weekend. That seems like quite an Ohio thing since its common in Akron and Cinci.

^For clarity, I know they are referring to the North Bowl double chair at BM and I suspect they are referring to the Champagne chair at BW. I hope they do a bit of rearranging of lifts at BM with moving the triple lift from BW to get rid of the last double at BM in beginner area. There were rumors last year that Vail was going to update all lifts with restraining bars on lifts. Not sure that will happen. They are knocking down the main bridge this year to get over to slopes at BW. To access slopes the only way will be to walk over to the maintenance bridge close to shredder slope until they build a new bridge for the 2023 season.

^My mom said they needed more parking and decided to build a new dairy queen. They knocked down the house next door as well. I’m assuming they want much more patio space to handle the team sports that come through. Farmers Rail has been open about 2 months now on front st and they fixed and updated the old broken vertical neon blade sign that says “Levinsons” with a smaller “Farmers Rail” underneath. Their patio seems to be busy most weekends.

^That seems outlandishly expensive. Russians have a bunch of them. Buy a used one from Russians for $5-10 million and gut and revamp it for $50 million.

The rendering looks very haphazard. Its just a slapping in of massings of a bunch of boxy buildings along the river. I’m leaning towards TMUD and federal infrastructure with the city’s desire to see higher downtown population as the reason for the announcement. This throws another long development site possibility for justice center, Cleveland cliffs, and numerous other companies or organizations.

So does this mean the constitutionally allowed casino on the riverfront is off the table?

It sounds to me like they want developers to help make tower city more important as a hub by developing the 130 riverfront acres into housing for ~20-30,000 people and have government get the land ready to build on.

Piecing together some UO research. From the west hill thread just saw the item in connection with Lebron James family foundation adding an institute by Lock 3. Obviously the worst massing ever as it was depicted. I recall earlier in this thread about three years ago there was a mysterious small blurb that said Testa was looking to build an office building behind Lock 3 for “a significant out of state office tenant”. LBJ does not leap to mind. So perhaps it would be a separate building or perhaps the previous deal fell through and LBFF felt it was a good location to complete their project.

A new rail trail outside of the old Goodyear HQ is now funded for a portion of it. It is called the heritage trail and will be 8 miles in length if/when completed. They plan to get 3/4 of a mile mostly elevated trail completed in next couple years. It runs from near the new Goodyear HQ to East Exchange st. If it is completed will eventually stretch from Kenmore and to Ellet at Massillon rd in east. Going east seems very doable since it would only be another mile perhaps. Going west past Exchange looks very challenging as very little remains of the tracks or right of way. Most likely it will end in University Park someplace as there is political will to connect Middlebury to University Park. Not sure there is interest, political will, or money to connect to Kenmore when towpath connects downtown Akron to Kenmore already.

^Ah the idea started in Kent. I remembered there was a Kent state angle to their beginnings.

^I thought it started in Kent?!

It sounds like the Falls has more plans for single family homes and Akron has more plans for apartment complexes and things like Sycamore development at the base of the valley. That part of the Falls also a ward 8 is formerly Northampton township that merged with the Falls. Part of the merger agreement is that the plots stayed a minimum plot size of something like 1.5 acres to “keep it rural”. So that is creeping suburbia/exurbia and is mostly up on the valley ridge. I can’t think of any development of the Falls going on in the valley floor. So really this plan is 90% Akron as even what the Falls has in the valley is mostly National Park land. The idea to me is adding more path connections/transportation options in the valley, keeping the new development low and green, and redeveloping what already is there into more dense/vertical housing.

^That’s phase 2.