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The touchback

There are various boy scout and girl scout camps all along the ridge line above Peninsula. There is the happy days lodge as well that is not used for lodging any more. There are some hidden primitive campsites on a ridge at the Big bend trailhead of sand run in the summit county metroparks which also has a stop on the cvsr. There is a lot of golf course redevelopment happening in the cuyahoga valley. Summit County metroparks is trasitioning Valley View golf course in the cascade valley. Final plans should be coming out soon. Cleveland metroparks is repurposing Astorhurst. No idea what the plans are there.

The Cavs are very thin at the forward positions. Without Love, Windler, and Okoro its typical that Nance and Osman struggle against strong forwards. Its clear neither should be starters. They can get away with one or the other starting, but not both.

The Cavs have a fairly weak schedule over the next month. Only game I can see them needing Love to win would be the Milwaukee game. There is plenty of offense on the team. I’m impressed with Drummond’s passing and assists. I can see him getting a few triple doubles over the next few weeks. This team is crazy young and deep with talent. There are so many players they are taking long looks at. Others that are injured like Delly, Okoro, and Windler again that will be back soon. Exum and Javale McGee are healthy and matchup problems for other teams. KPJ should start to get involved again. It should be very fun being a Cavalier as they seem to be blowing out most average or worse teams so should be able to match up to the top teams when they start playing them.

I’m not sold on the unofficial rendering. i feel that the smaller building is too squat if we’re talking 2 towers. It looks like a mid-rise if that. with the sizable block that it is on there is room for some creativity. Then again we first started hearing that a favored feel for the HQ was what Goodyear developed. So it could be that the taller building is too tall as well.

I was in Kent this past weekend and they also have new large signs in various places with the DORA zones in a map and explanations. I should’ve taken a picture. Its been in effect since i think May-june timeframe. They’ve had issues with the covid declarations whether Dora is in effect or not depending on county covid status.

The original intent was to build both towers at the same time. They have chopped it into phases. With the focus now on one tower with probably not as much infrastructure as apartments, I think this should go up very fast. I’ll go with it being done by mid-summer.

Also, nowadays companies parcel out various functions and services instead of keeping them in-house. So 120-130 jobs at the pig iron plant should still be a spinoff of double the jobs immediately in the area. Business will be booming in formerly sleepy Ashtabula.

It sounds like there are going to be a lot of new projects and expansions in Ashtabula because of this pipeline coming to town. This article says 10-15 new projects and expansions. https://www.starbeacon.com/news/local_news/risberg-pipeline-brings-natural-gas-to-region/article_d4da71f1-1a15-5845-9106-fcdff62f6dfb.html

So they are building a mini blossom music center onto the Rock hall?

Glad he’s keeping the restaurant going. Very cool. Hopefully it can be transitioned back in the near future to a venue.

I guess it depends who one is speaking with. Generally I say I’m from Akron area if someone lives within a state away, otherwise I say Cleveland area. ‘NEO’ sounds like people listening to too many car commercials on tv.

The valley is always changing. The CVSR should be adding a stop within next two years. That will add more foot and bike traffic to go with the fairly busy towpath traffic. Yesterday the detour up crazy steep Hickory st was removed and it is now an easy ride on the towpath to downtown Akron after 3-4 years of the detour. I seriously can envision a timber tower or 2 built in the valley as it is a very walkable/bikeable area and the views of the Cuyahoga valley national park would be beautiful.

I would think zoning might be a way to help with this fairly arbitrary number. If one were building an apartment complex in Brooklyn I can see having a certain amount of parking. Zoning in a high transit zone should be allowed to drop parking space requirements to one half or 3/4 depending on location.

What if the loop is shortened to go down Euclid back towards the dual hub tunnels and dropping in? I’m guessing that was only to be tied into the red line not blue/green lines. Rethinking this. It would have to drop into tunnels right there at E13 on the turn down Euclid as there is no room to add entry/exit tunnels on Euclid

As an open event space, yes they are great. The problem is repurposing them in their location into some kind of apartment or housing. I’m fairly certain there is nothing that is salvageable from those 100+yr old warehouse buildings converting into housing. The standards then are nowhere near the standards now. I’m personally not sold that there are going to be many people that want to live by the stadium and on the lake and pay through the nose for almost 6 months of winter. Certainly not also live in a repurposed warehouse.

I would think they would want to keep a warehouse handy in case they need to protect themselves from a lake effect snowstorm.

Wouldn’t “groundbreaking” mean besides the formalities, putting up fencing and perhaps a little exploratory excavation going on as the heart of winter is being entered? I guess it would be cool if they have a big hole in the ground by Xmas.

^I don’t see how that site gets any single repurposing as it is so narrow of a footprint. The Wendys next door which looks like an original 1970s Wendys is temporarily closed according to their website. The play would seem to be to knock down the Wendys building and rebuild expanding onto the Robin Hood lot for a better drive thru flow and modernizing in general. I don’t understand why Robin Hood was knocked down. I guess Lincoln sold it to some goofs that literally ran it into the ground?

I’d take the stubby tower as nuCLEus at this point

I was so stoked for Obi coming to Ctown. I would actually go to games to watch that (once the pandemic is under control and I’ve been vaccinated). They got a guy that likes to play defense. Certainly needed. Maybe they can interchange Windler on offense and Okoro on defense.

Great analysis KJP. It seems only really in the last 3-5 months are we seeing that there is a nice lasting growth trajectory for downtown Cleveland. There are so many major projects afoot downtown that you could’ve tripled or quadrupled the length of your article and still not be exhaustive. Its a brilliant strategy to crush the handwringing of RTA about heavy vs light rail and whether to keep them separated or unify the fleet by transforming another headache of RTA and turning it into the crown jewel with a functional loop for a quickly growing downtown. It’s definitely time for a transformation of downtown. Add in the Amtrak station the greyhound station the bridge over rt 2 from the convention center. It goes on and on the institutions this touches.

^That seems like a no brainer. Start and stop vehicles are pretty ideal for at the least hybrids if not fully electric. There is also flywheel technology that could be used. The amount of engine maintenance and of course constant fuel over the life of a bus is a fairly sizable amount of money being constantly thrown at non-electric buses.

^The plan was part of Smithers up the street to consolidate their HQ at the Austen Biotech facility. They wanted to knock down the 2 buildings by the parking deck and expand. It was never fully fleshed out except for the demos. I’m guessing Covid helped alter the plans. I think they just wanted surface parking. Maybe that got Troppe more involved in using more of the block as people are apparently trying to destroy the other half of it.

That is the location. I spoke with Tony Troppe. I am a bit confused at what he was trying to tell me. One conversation with him a week earlier he told me that he was finishing up adding an elevator to the back side of the Everett building and he was going to finish 20-30 new apartments. I have met 2 people that already have apartments there. This past week he very nonchalantly said that he was going to add either 20-30 or 30-40 apartments over the parking deck. I said ‘wait, you’re going to build new apartments on top of the parking deck?”. He said yes. He also said the other project to knock down the neighboring buildings/complexes fell through. So the trolley barn is saved. I’m still not completely sure that he is doing this project as he is known for restoring/repurposing buildings not building anew. I’m curious where the new elevator is positioned and if this new construction will be more of an extension of the Everett building or it will be a separate apartment complex. Or does he consider the elevator as being the completion of new construction over the parking deck for accessing the upper floors of the Everett. I would think that it would be a multi million dollar project to build new on top of a smallish parking deck. I didn’t think he owned the parking deck. He may have bought air rights. There may have been plans originally for the parking deck to have offices above it. So engineering and design could be done. It would make sense that he wants more people living amongst his playground of businesses that he owns or leases out space to. So there is still some doubt in my mind that he really is doing new construction. I’ll ask him next time if it is fully new construction over the parking deck for apartments as a separate building from the Everett.