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^I suppose it is similar. The thing that hurt the valley development was the Portage Path bridge being rebuilt over the Cuyahoga 10-15yrs ago. It seemed to take 3-4 years for that to complete. Any momentum the valley had was halted for 6-8 years. In the next month or so there is a plan to be revealed to get a CVSR train station stop by Liberty Commons. It is the Merriman Valley small business plan to push the city and other organizations metro rta/metro parks/ Summit county/city of Akron to try to make it come to fruition.

This will put more pressure on Woodridge schools. That is probably the fastest growing system in NEO, which is a combination of Peninsula and North Hampton township which the Falls merged with back in the early 1980s. There are so many developments in the past 3-5 years alone with new apartment complexes, townhomes, and single home developments going up all along State Road. It could rival Falls high pretty soon with its falling enrollment.

^Well the project was 10 years for state rd shopping center but he didn’t get there until the last 5-6 years. It was also a much more complicated issue with working with some straggler land owners and redefining how that area should look. This project has already been defined and the city will sell him air rights. I would expect he has already created conceptual designs and may already be working on architectural drawings, certainly massings by now. He’s got the opportunity zone from the state and is just needing tax abatement from the schools and it can be ready to go with getting approvals from the city. I can see movement on the first parking deck happen as soon as by the end of the year. I just don’t see any impediments at this point.

Ohio Brewing will be opening in May, a couple buildings away from the parking deck. HiHo brewing is 3-4 blocks away. Another selling point is the Cuyahoga Falls section of the Cuyahoga River, once the gorge dam is taken out will have the best kayaking east of Mississippi per some boastful people. Certainly the best kayaking in an urban setting.

I suspect they will allow the first tower to proceed and hold off on phase 2 depending on how well phase 1 goes. I wouldn’t expect many families to go into these towers so it shouldn’t affect the schools directly by putting much more burden on them while not giving them any money.

I’m shocked that no one is discussing what i posted on here yesterday in regards to the potential Starks project on front st with more apartments on top of parking decks. Seems a fairly big project to me.

^^I think there is some serious confusion here. I’m wondering how accurate the story is. It sounds more like they really meant to say Riverwoods aka Pine Valley sports which is a half block or so away from Sycamore Valley and across the street. That course is on the river. I think its been closed for a couple years. It was a nice wide open course to play. But its not a memorable or distinctive course. I’d be totally ok with that course going to townhomes. Or maybe half of that property going to the park and the other for homes.

^Well that’s kind of a bummer. That is a great compact par 3 course. Surprising how many courses are going away in the area. There won’t be many left in the valley if this and Brandywine which might get taken over by CVNP are taken out. Valley View was taken over by Summit metroparks which i was ok with. Boston Hills CC is now a Costco. Astorhurst is now owned by Cleveland Metroparks and i think no longer a course.

Well it is starting to happen in the Falls. I think this is a Starks project since he was really wanting to do something downtown on Front street. Since he now has experience with building over a parking deck I’m pretty sure this is his baby. https://www.ohio.com/news/20190402/developer-wants-to-build-apartments-on-parking-decks-in-cuyahoga-falls CUYAHOGA FALLS — A development firm is hoping to convince officials to let it build two apartment buildings totaling about 370 units on two parking decks between Front and Second streets downtown. Both the city and the city school district would have to support the $45 million plan for construction to proceed.

Ohio Edison building?

I wasn’t saying merging mayors’ courts. I was just adding that there are a glut of courts all over Cuyahoga county. That lessens the need for so many metropolitan courts. I realize the only way to “merge” a mayor’s court will be for towns to merge which likely won’t happen.

Per wikipedia, there are 18 mayors courts in Cuyahoga county and 8 in Sunmit county. So yes, Cuyahoga county could stand for a bit of merging in their metro courts.

I don’t see this being a big deal at all for electric and hybrid owners. I’m pretty good with this iteration of the bill. I think they should ramp up a little sooner than October. Maybe a .03-.05 bump August 1 would be better but maybe they have to consider when this might become law or other considerations. Its not like the hybrid owner is going to revolt and go back to gas guzzlers because of a $100 hit when they get their tags. Obviously they did not spend as much on gas taxes because of their ability to drive electric especially the plug in hybrids which i assume they are mainly targeting. So with $70 million will we have moved past WV? I think the most damning visual was that map of states around Ohio per capita spending on transit. That had to ruffle many feathers in the state house to be behind even KY. Pathetic.

I wonder about electrified trolleys as opposed to street cars. I think only Dayton does this in Ohio. I wonder if there is a best practice or maybe best case scenario for using electrified trolleys.

To add to KJP’s NY suspicions, I also still keep seeing NY plates moving into my development in Macedonia. At least 2 houses with NY plates have moved in the last 6 months. Another neighbor had WV plates.

Perhaps some angled parking underneath units. So some units might have covered parking others might have angled garages. Have a lane going down to access from the Wiley intersection. It would be interesting to see if it could go vertical ala the river south condos in Rocky River and not really even use the frontage on Columbus in order to keep as much in a more natural state.

There are quite a few Amazon locations in Northeast Ohio and growing. As this area is a large trucking hub with yellow formerly roadway and fedex formerly roadway express, plus many other truckjng firms, it might dawn on Amazon that it would be wise to place some serious logistical offices in Northeast Ohio. There has historically been a large workforce with a focus on logistics in the Akron area. I could see an office building in Cleveland someplace maybe in the chagrin Highlands and one in Akron.

In Denver they have “the Source”. That is where Crooked stave has their taproom. There are 13 vendors that also occupy the space. There is a bank branch and many offices for people to rent. Going to their website they have now added a hotel onto the side of it.

I think its the excessiveness of parking that is the red flag being raised. Perhaps 2 underground levels a tiny bit on first floor in middle and then 4 floors above that should suffice with a major venue across the street.

What is great about the craft brew industry is that these jobs are low skill but also great for mentoring and building of skills. They are hyper local jobs whereas the big macrobreweries are in automated plants with pretty specialized skills. The microbreweries often need raw labor on bottling and canning lines or other chores in a brewhouse. So its a great thing to have all these breweries popping up in mainly urban areas to help out local economies. This has also become a thing with food, coffee, and microdistilleries and other consumables which are labor intensive because they are small scale.

That is an impressive study, KJP. Hopefully city leaders are fully aware of it and the need for improving the rail infrastructure in its most basic of ways. This is a solveable problem that is mainly out of view probably because it all happens in the wee hours of the morning. It is hard to remember thet we have passenger trains coming to Cleveland since they are rarely seen in the daylight. This is a perfect starting point for the agencies that are looking at updating the amtrak train station.

^^I’m not sure how a new focus like that happens, to essentially pick winners and losers. Also what type of funding would these locations get? We are living still in a Governor Rhodes set up where the money for colleges hits all throughout Ohio so that no Ohioan is further than 30 miles from a college. It looks like you are using the ODOT map so maybe you are referring to infrastructure being too spread throughout. That would be a political dynamite in a House that is dominated by rural members. The only way i see this being viable is what Kasich hinted at but never pursued: Allowing counties to merge. I believe Ashland and Richland would be interested in merging but i don’t know if there is any apparatus available to allow that. I know they were looking at Darke merging at one point with a neighboring county. That would be a better way of organically getting the state more efficient in how dollars get doled out.

^Absolutely. Rural means many things to different people. The question also might be “Are you looking for a place further out from the city center because rent has become so much more expensive?”

That map is clearly incorrect. It is not showing the new route over the Cuyahoga at Harvard. It shows the route they wanted to take through the chemical plants with radiation. Look forward to using it this coming season.

A good strategic plan for RTA would do wonders for Cuyahoga county. I would like to see $3 billion or higher plan brought forward for the voters to decide on. A clear vision with serious improvements would keep the economy going in Cleveland. The amount of transportation data available to todays strategic planner would’ve been unthinkable 10-15 years ago. Via the cell phone network data, it can clearly be seen what the daily commuting and short trip traffic patterns are en masse. I wouldn’t be surprised if the gondola system comes back on the radar with fresh eyes looking at it. That could help make Cleveland a very bike friendly city especially with the new connectors about to implemented. I would expect public square to be adressed yet again since that seems like the lynchpin of the RTA network. This is a perfect time to evaluate since we know the direction Cleveland is going especially with all the county and city government office building changes and new construction under design.