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There is a rumor of a new superteam in LAL with LBJ, Paul George, and Kawhi Leonard. The only other team i can see Lebron going to in the West would be Houston. But i think that would be too much beard on one team. I don’t see him wanting to go to Milwaukee or Minnesota or Toronto. The only place i can see him maybe going in the East for ready-made teams is Philly or Indy since they are close to AK or perhaps rebuilding the Heat again. I’ve heard he has a house in LA that is why i would lean towards that. His kids are getting to the age where they are pretty active with school activities and sports. So that will be a factor for him as well.

There is new LED lighting, parking meters in the bumpouts and angled spaces, lit up fountain with drinking fountains and bottle filler, parking garages have a running total of how many spaces are available at their entrance plus having updated LED lights, new sidewalks and benches all over, and finally the spiffy new elevator. I think that is a lot for $10-11 million plus the road and clearing out what was there before and updating infrastructure underneath.

Well this should help clear up confusion when people say go over to the PD. That certainly confused me in the movie about Danny Green when they kept saying heading over to talk to the PD.

Yes, the street closed for ceremonies or significant festivals like the upcoming Irishfest this coming weekend was not the issue. Front street dies when closed the other 5 days of the week since there is not much of a population base that is walkable to the mall. I would hazard a guess of maybe 800-1000 people live within a 10 minute walk. The portage trail bridge is fairly foreboding to walk on i imagine since it climbs up 75 or so feet over the Cuyahoga, RR tracks, and Rt8. Add some rain, snow, or just cold winds and not many people want to make that walk. Front street had some old school stores that had been there for decades and the city felt that the hot new trend was pedestrian malls and that may bring people back from the shiny new malls that were popping up. The problem was the stores on front street didn’t really have that interesting of products and that the stores were not kept up to date at all. Once the street closed, the business really dropped especially in winter months as it became a cold place to get around in with all the concrete. Pretty much all retail businesses closed. Only place that i can think that survived until 2015 was the whistle stop hobby store and only because it was possible to enter from the street behind next to a parking deck. It is still a very pedestrian-friendly dare i say mall. It is much more walkable since it was tricky sometimes negotiating the uneven bricks and there were silly landscaped pits with tables and benches to constantly walk around. It definitely is on the upswing since its been announced that opening in the next few months is a Rose Italian diner an offshoot of burntwood tavernes, Ohio Brewing, and Pavs creamery. Crave Cantina opened a year ago and seems to be doing smashing business now that the street is opened.

My feeling is the Cavs had their chance to grab a game. Being that close to losing game one scared the warriors. Now the Cavs have to win borh games at home. Hopefully perkins can play a little as they need help at center. I just think it would be cool seeing Perkins and Thompson under the basket. That will stop Durant and Green.. Also i’d like to see Calderon come in for at least 10 minutes especially if Curry isn’t playing. I don’t want to see JR or Hill guarding Durant or mcgee. But this is kind of the issue with the matchups with GS.. Hood looks like a lost cause. I’m not much of a fan of Clarkson against GS either.

I keep feeling that Smucker brands will set up in Akron. Essentially, the non-baked goods part of Smuckers will need to be handled somewhere other than Wooster. They have bought a lot of pet food companies of late. This would seem as good a time as any to start using Akron as its off-brand headquarters. You can’t go too wrong setting up that inside the former HQ of one of the most iconic brands in the world. I have 0 insight into any of this, it just seems to me that they are bringing marketing people from all over the US when they buy these companies and I can’t see half of these people if they are coming from SF or LA wanting to live in farm country even if the can buy a house for 1/8 what they cost in Cali.

I prefer the idea of shipping direct to Cleveland and putting the store north of the CBS. It would be likely the cheapest solution. A Cleveland Ikea port could supply Detroit, Chicago, Pittsburgh, and Columbus as well.

I just read a Yelp! review for a Puerto Rican restaurant that was a few days old. The lady liked it and said she had just moved here. I looked at her profile and it listed her location as the bronx.

There are massive road projects going on and I’m seeing suburban housing projects all over Hudson, Macedonia, and Brecksville. I’m sure all other the other outlying suburbs have new housing as well. I don’t recall this much inner city and suburban construction at once. Didn’t Progressive just announce another building on 271? This long sustained growth has been rare. It is up for debate whether any more skyscrapers will get off the ground before the economy tanks. My feeling is if this were people from another state like Pa or WV there would be more of a noticeable accent and there would be inquiries as to why they are here. I can only distinguish them if they are overly into hockey or wearing Bills apparel.

^Construction of all types is booming from roads and bridges to new houses, skyscrapers, and apartment complexes. So my feeling is that they are part of trades as all major trades seem to be hiring in Northeast Ohio, in particular construction and steel. I would wonder if we have the workforce locally to handle building multiple skyscrapers. Also Ohio City is getting built out along Detroit and needing more construction and trades workers. I think the pay would be better, the cost of living (vs Buffalo and obviously NYC)lower, the taxes lower, and it makes sense to go west.

I don’t see ObJ being needed unless they are done with coleman. Coleman can be great as a 3rd option if his ego can handle it.

Great job KJP! Hopefully Ohio can elect politicians that think more about improving Ohio than in protecting their turf in random out of the way towns. I don’t have a problem with serious transportation projects like the Fort to Port. Cooperation with other states is a massive win-win, unless its a random highway over the Ohio river that is footed mainly by Ohioans.

I would concur with most of this from my travels to Buffalo. The city has an insular feel to it overall. Buffalo had its traumatic event in the 1950s with the opening of the St Lawrence Seaway. It is amazing the amount of warehouses that were taken down over the last 50+ years on their canal front as they were no longer needed. There are still the silos and those will be around a while longer. The state helps with urban projects and their mass transit programs. The city is probably 5-10 years behind in beer and food in where Cleveland is. Resurgence brewing is my favorite brewery in Buffalo for their location, the quality of beer, and re-use of an old factory. The people that I seem to notice coming to Ohio are not the Buffalonians, but the people that live in the hinterlands. That is where the wealth has evaporated the most. So people from Jamestown, Olean, and points around there that can drive 2-3 hours and are shocked when they see the express lanes of 271 and the Progressive, Cleveland Clinic, and UH buildings lining it and it dawns on them maybe there is something going on here to pick up a job not far from home. It always shocked my senses in my commute coming back from Buffalo.

The fact of the matter is that the Indians are a $130 million team playing a $250 million team. I think they did well for the situation they were in.

I think Akron's innerbelt works better than the boonies of Trumbull county, if they are wanting to be "out of the way" yet still have an urbanness. Akron has the CVSR and the towpath coming into downtown plus another bike path coming from the East to be finished soon. So Akron could meet a lot of their goals by being walkable and bike-able.

It certainly isn't that people aren't interested in moving. The difference in standard of living or more appropriate higher cost of living is more a reason to reconsider moving. One could be recruited to take a $120,000 position in NJ or LA but if you can get a $75,000 in Ohio that should likely be the equivalent since nearly everything is twice as expensive. A company tried to get me to go to Nashville with them several years ago. The incentives weren't that great. I think maybe it was an additional $5k in salary and some minor moving expenses. Had it been someplace i was actually interested in moving to like Denver i may have said yes. Homes now are pretty expensive in all the hot markets. A comparable $150k house in Ohio will cost $350k in Denver. Its not as easy getting mortgages as in the past and not everyone is ok with moving to apartments. So its easier to stay put with low unemployment all around.

Stellar tour of Santiago! I've been wanting to go visit there as part of a ski trip in August. Never realized how massive of a city it is.

Typically driving jobs like truck or bus drivers are able to attract a lot of people with lesser education. The scary thing is that many of these in the next 5-10 years could be going away to automation. As for Amazon jobs, these should be good first jobs for people coming out of school. My first IT job was as a tape jockey at a data center. That is essentially what they will be doing. To me the issue is people in Collinwood being able to get to jobs in another part of Cleveland without a car. So a better map would be a heat map of jobs of Cleveland by pay vs the locations of where the population lives that are in poverty.

Edited. This spells the end of Shump. He's totally fine coming off the bench against regular NBA teams. It should be very interesting seeing Love, Wade, and Lebron on the floor at the same time.

^Nobody talks back and the farm animals are scared.

I could see an immediate influx to Cleveland and Lorain from Puerto Rico of 10-15,000+ people that have family here. Certainly there are 50,000-100,000+ people that do not want to or can not deal with no electricity for 6 months. I know I would thinking about moving out to wait for the grid to get back up before I come back to my house. Many people don't have a house to come back to. This could be a way the region helps and quickly increases the population.

I can't fathom that many kits in cases and pallet loads going out via plane to warrant any excitement. The bulk of this is the American market. Easily can move via trucks to distribution facilities. i can't see more than 3-5 jets a week being needed. I worked for a chocolate company and this is going to be about the same size product. There was nothing going out via airplane even though product was going to 5-6 major store chain distribution centers throughout the country. I think this will be the same idea going out to autozone and the ilk.

^The difference being O'Reilly was doing a tabloid tv show although the pressure is the same for going live.

Watched the whole clip above. O'Donnell is in the last time slot of the evening and does his show live or at least near live with a 30 to minute delay. He does an interactive handoff from Rachel at the end of her show which is also live on a studio above or below him. So maybe there was still a hot mike from her studio that was getting in his ear. Anyways I'm not sure what the point of the outtakes were trying to get across. He was obviously pissed off at the lack of professionalism in his control room. He did seem out of sorts that night.

The only place in Akron they could move to would be the innerbelt site. Plenty of space there. But i don't see that being terribly optimal as transit isn't as efficient.