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Plenty of space in the Galleria.. I think that would be a good environment. Only other thing to consider would be close to a coffee or book shop. I would think both of those businesses would be complementary.

There will be nice restaurant in the Goodyear Hall. Doubt the hotel will have much of or any restaurant.

Not many details yet. I heard that bids were being selected last Friday for the Marriott hotel at Northside to start construction. Probably should be seeing a story in the Beacon Journal in the next couple weeks with hopefully updated pics.

Its definitely cliche. However, for visitors to Cleveland it should definitely draw them in to explore which is the whole point. It'll be fine.

Well its definitely nicer than the casino in erie. Dropped a twenty in the vlts. I'll come back when there's a good show i guess or if i have a $20 bill to get rid of. I noticed it didn't seem to negatively affect the rest of the economy in Northfield.

It doesn't seem like this would be a difficult thing to pass as far as voters are concerned in East Cleveland. A focused campaign if it is seen as a generally positive for the community should be able to deliver the votes. The tricky part could be Cleveland voters wanting to pass it. It would make Cuyahoga County more efficient with one less "city" to worry about with their duplicative government offices and titles. It would erase the name E. Cleveland perhaps? I do not doubt that it is nearly impossible to develop anything in E. Cleveland since the name doesn't inspire trust especially with the bankruptcy of Detroit on people's minds. Any push into E. Cleveland from UC would be an obvious huge win for the region. I don't think that will happen until it is considered Cleveland proper.

I personally don't see the edgewater aspect of this project as very crucial. However, i'm looking at it like most people from the viewpoint of that being the starting point. For people that live downtown it could be a cherished getaway in the ease of being transported to the beach. People on here are forever and a day saying there is not a good way to access to the lake. Well to me this helps give people who live and work downtown access in spades. Overall, i'm definitely supportive of this. This is good for not just crossing the river but climbing the hillsides of Cleveland up and down the sides of the flats. Connect it to where the people are partying at any particular time and you have a great transportation system.

Its also in Whistler as far as connecting whistler village to blackcomb village before continuing on up the mountain. Northstar in Tahoe has a gondola from their parking lot to their lodge as well before heading up the mountain. I think Canyons in Utah does the same and i can think of several others in Canada that do as well.

When I was working in Buffalo a couple years ago I could feel and see that there were so many groups with a variety of missions popping up to make change to their city. I was impressed with some of the renovations in the Elmwood village area but also many others. It definitely felt like millenials were very much in control of the city's future. The other point in the article someone mentioned about the need for gentrification and it has never really taken hold there. My feeling is Buffalo has been slowly in decline over 50 years. There was no severe shock to the city like other rust belt cities had. The people in the southtowns feel they had a shock when the steel plants closed. Maybe they did but they still have a massive Ford plant in the south and a fairly big Chevy plant i think it is in the north. They get a lot of Canadians coming in to increase tax coffers due to no VAT tax. So a fairly diverse economy that did not place all its eggs in one industrial basket. Their biggest drop would've been in the '50s when the st Lawrence Seaway opened. At that point the erie canal ceased to relevant and all the warehouses in their harbor area were pretty much torn down.

They had a diagram at the ingenuityfest of how that would work. Early renderings of the convention center hotel he had was it would be two towers. The gondola station would be at the 5th or 6th floor between the 2 towers it looked.

My feeling is that this is from an outsider's perspective of a team name. They probably feel that there is a team that has done well with the "mighty ducks" name, so how is this much different? To me it also says something about the demographics they are going after for marketing purposes. It would seem like they really want to target the under 12 set since they aren't beholden to the aeros name either. What is an aero after all? Fairly difficult to really "market" an aero. I feel sorry for the players that have to say they are rubber ducks. I feel sorry for the fans that would have to call themselves out as rubber duck fans. I wish they would've done this on April 1 as it would've been a fun practical joke. Edit: The other point i wanted to make is that this would seem to be a net negative for the city as far as branding of the city. I feel that would be what most sensible adults that grew up in the Akron area would understand. Aeros is innocous whereas rubberducks takes some explanation that requires one to have to regurgitate the city's history. No one is wanting to retell the city history to explain why their baseball team has a silly name.

Great discussion! I had never thought of a rail link to the Cleveland Zoo. That would be huge! This goes back to what i was saying that Metro RTA should buy the part of the track that is not in CVNP land. This will give CVSR money to negotiate with CSX on track in the north to further extend even if it ends up being to Steelyard Commons.

OU should have a train connection since its such a long, rugged at times, drive.

Cvsr and metro are working a deal to let cvsr keep the train cars that they were leasing from metro. Cvsr was hoping to get a section of rail and more rights to interconnect on their tracks to other lines. Metro refused that and also running the northside station. If anything metro should seek more track from cvsr as it goes through the city of Akron. Read about it in the various letters between the heads of cvsr and metro: www.akronmetro.org/Data/Sites/2/pdf/september2013boardpacket.pdf

Spoke with the people of Skylift yesterday at the Ingenuityfest. They have updated their plan with 2 significant changes. I believe the changes make this now engaging enough to be a fairly successful project. They seem to understand the need to be able to get something off the ground to get this whole thing started. The first phase will start construction in the Spring it is hoped by the new convention hotel. It will pop over shoreway and tracks. I don't recall where on the other side it will go since it was crudely marked with a magic marker this new path on their map. Somewhere around the rock hall as best i could determine. So that is significant due to the immediacy/how soon we are talking to see results in getting skylift off the ground. The next significant update (that I had been calling for) is for this to make it over to Ohio City now. They had a lot of magic marker on their maps updating this new route. There will be a stop on the Scranton peninsula and then it will hit the phase 2 of the casino. They have approval from all land holders including Forest City. They said their goal is to be near rta train stations. Their hub of the operation will be at the turn of the waterline near the stadium where we thought the DFAS building was going to go. I still think this plan will be further refined but its a really good start for now.

I'd say the factor is that it is a super competitive market in Akron. West point market is fairly comparable to dorothy lane. I suspect the lower end markets are in both with dollar stores, gfs, and Aldis and i'll add Walmart and Target. The middle market would be where the Krogers are in Dayton. The equivalent in Akron is Giant Eagle. Krogers were pushed out of Akron area by Giant Eagle 20 years ago. I don't think that there is an equivalent chain to Acme in Dayton. There are also other chains like Dave's, Marc's, and Discount Drug Mart in the Akron market that will undercut Acme. Other higher end grovcery chains are on the periphery of the Akron market but haven't totally entered like Heinen's and Buehler's. With Mustardseed market that is filling the niche a Whole Foods might go after, the pie is cut in so many slivers in Akron, its hardly worth coming in.

I'm thinking the leitner-poma engineers never saw Ohio City. The zig zagging looks stupid on the map. I'm sure the guy that is pushing this has a vision of hopping on a gondola from the muni lot straight to hornblower. I would think it would be good enough to start from the rock hall plaza, over to roof of future amtrak parking deck (which connects to cc)then in some flats spot if the wolsteins are interested. Finally heading across the river towards Ohio city. This would be packed with people all the time.

That closes when this opens.

Big win for market district giant eagle in the Falls. The South section of shopping center is coming along nicely with this win. http://www.ohio.com/news/break-news/giant-eagle-s-market-district-coming-to-new-portage-crossing-development-in-cuyahoga-falls-1.421087

I don't see all the guideways getting built. I would expect a good portion of the most profitable/highest volume sections to be built. It would make sense to have a central hub with gondola garage to store and maintain gondolas. I'm sure with Leitner-Poma coming into town, they should provide some guidance as to the best routes and most efficient, centrally-located stations.

Not possible to mix. Generally a tram is two large cars on the same fixed wire, both dock at the same time just on opposite ends. A Gondola system, which I am pretty sure this is as well, runs on a loop, usually with the cars detaching from the main wire when in a station. This allows the cars to slow down for loading/unloading, but travel at higher speeds between the stations. I think this could be doable, especially from the Flats to the west. I would only want it to go as far east as Voinavich park and def not anywhere near Terminal Tower or the Convention Center. I didn't mean mix as in connect to each other. I just meant trams are point to point. They might feel a tram serves a purpose somewhere like coming across the river at a higher point due to the freighters. That might work better for a tram. Trams in general are more expensive than gondolas and would need a longer route than a short hop across the river to make them worth it. Benefit of gondolas is you can bring bikes on them or hung on the outside somehow. I would see this as enhancing Cleveland's ability to get around by taking away the physical obstacles of the river, train tracks, hills, and highways.

Don't forget about Belmont area. It's next to Oakwood but out of the way of the main traffic. Still very easy to get to a dorothy lanes market or marions pizza or Kettering. The best beer store in sw ohio, if not all of ohio is in belmont. I guess it would be considered a first ring suburb. A few dingy/divey bars at its core including a rustic pool hall. I personally wouldn't stand living in the oregon district unless it was off the main drag. The place seems to be a rollicking drunkfest on fridays and saturday nights ala the old flats. Otherwise, its fairly low key most other nights.

That takes it to the edge of the "special entertainment district". It doesn't surprise me that they would take that out to continue the angled parking that has been fairly successful i'd say. With the new lofts right there and really no significant parking added for them, i can see these spaces being well used.

Not to be a nitpicker, but isn't this going to be gondolas? An aerial tram is mainly a larger cabin. There are just 2 cabins on the cables going to and fro. I was under the impression with their gondola purchase they were going with that. Maybe they'll go with a mix of trams and gondolas?

That is probably the best start. Let it grow after that. I doubt they can build it all at once.