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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.

^^I’d also add the county government change. It might not seem like a big deal but taking away a layer of constant governmental graft and shenanigans is pretty big.

It might be that they are not comfortable with Cleveland’s level of management or level of service for bars and restaurants. Do they want to work with the Georges? What other organizations are even interested? Most of Ohio City scene was self built by breweries. Tremont is a bunch of small independents. A winking lizard or paninis would not be the feel they might want. I can see bringing a more downtown Chicago flair in whatever that might entail They can save money by buying all the restaurant management software for use at all the restaurants as well as staffing and cross training. Disney, Cedar point, cruise ships all handle their own restaurants and bars. Why not a fancy new apartment building in Cleveland.

Getting back to more the topic at hand, Bernie and Nina want to give government handouts of everything for all. The Biden plan is to add 4 more years of education paid for by the government. That is 2 years before kindergarten and 2 years after high school graduation. I think this is very sensible for our time as we know how important preschool is. It is also important to allow people to have community college and/or trade school options.

Wait! I thought the globalist cartels, Soros-led deep pocket money interests wanted the radical left to win these races. I’m so confused.

Correct. I am not sure that nina is actually a democrat. Bernie is not a democrat. If you can’t inspire your base to vote for you in a primary you do not deserve to win. She raised $4 million to Shontel’s $2 million. Someone blasted the area with negative tv ads of Shontel. I barely watch tv and saw it multiple times over the last month. Negative ads are supposed to be used to persuade people not to vote for a person. Perhaps Shontel would’ve won in a landslide except for all the negative ads.

A tweet from Connie. @ConnieSchultz: Hello, you can stop lecturing me about outside money in the congressional race here. I know a progressive in Ohio who is targeted by outside money every time he runs for the Senate. Every time, he has won. Enjoy your day.

^Are they getting him to open a townhall in Akron?

Such a nice person nina is. The Democratic establishment came out for Shontel but mainly against nina. nina brought way more money into the race and brought bernie in. Obviously people did not care enough to vote for her not because of dark money or crap like that. They just didn’t like her and she clearly deserved to lose. @kirk_bado: #OH11 Nina Turner in concession speech: “I am going to work hard to ensure that something like this doesn’t happen to another progressive candidate again. We didn't lose this race, evil money manipulated and maligned this election.”

^Not really understanding the basis of what they are talking about. This is mainly crap as far as I’m concerned. Nina is trying to make this look like typical County government corruption. There are no all powerful commissioners to move contracts to buddies to get kickbacks anymore. Cuyahoga is a charter county and so an executive must approve contracts. At least 5 other county councilmen must also vote to approve the same contracts for a total of 6 in order to pass. That is a lot of accountability. Its convoluted even understanding the connection to her “romantic interest”. The company was in the guy’s uncle ownership but it was sold to someone else unrelated. How many people know what their absolute best friend’s uncles own? Even if it wasn’t sold how in the world would a contract for $7 million that goes to a relative of someone she’s friends with be an ethical challenge? If she knew about it the she could’ve abstained. She likely had no idea which is much more understandable. That is the worst thing Nina can say then that is a reason not to vote for Nina.

Jacobs lot is theoretically one of the most expensive and developable pieces of real estate in Cleveland. Why wouldn’t it make sense to build much more on it than just a 2 story building on half the block?