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I have low standards for the NEOMG, but this is really a whole new level

"Just like in Chicago, Cleveland employers have made it clear access to public transit is a priority for attracting new employees." They have?

Are you looking only for full comprehensive transit systems, or just any kind of transit operations? For example, DDOT in DC runs the DC Circulator and the soon to open streetcar (maybe sometime this decade?). And Baltimore City runs the Charm City Circulator

In this day and age, who would think that this is a good idea? (Image from mjarboe[/member])

Michelle Jarboe ‏mjarboe[/member] 13 minutes ago Geis Cos. plans repositioning at The Vault at @The9CLE. Diversifying into food w/ gastropub-type options, departure from pure nightclub. Michelle Jarboe ‏mjarboe[/member] 11 minutes ago Geis Cos. rep uses the term "gastro-lounge" to describe planned shift in branding, vibe for The Vault at @The9CLE.

I was recently wondering where the situation stood with Waterloo Brew. Now we know Malley's chocolatier set to open bar-club in Cleveland Collinwood area By John Petkovic, The Plain Dealer Email the author | Follow on Twitter on November 05, 2015 at 6:01 AM, updated November 05, 2015 at 6:11 AM CLEVELAND, Ohio -- When thinking about what to call his bar, he remembered a drinking buddy telling him: "It's always good if your name ends with the letter Y – it flows and sounds cool." Which means that Packy Malley is very optimistic about his new bar, even if he's never owned or run one before. "Look, I got TWO names that end in Y," he laughs as he sits in the bar that will be known as Packy Malley's starting Friday. "How cool is that?" The happy-go-lucky partyer, reggae promoter and Cleveland chocolatier is taking over the old Waterloo Brew bar, located in the circa-1926 Slovenian Workmen's Home, 15335 Waterloo Road, in Cleveland's Collinwood neighborhood. http://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2015/11/malleys_chocolatier_set_to_ope.html

Great! Could you add that on here: http://doodle.com/poll/6kxmpmacdb7kdn4d?

Bump. 5 responses so far. We can do better than that. And sorry for the excessively long Doodle calendar. But considering everyone's schedules, I feel like it's better to have more options than fewer. I'll take a look at it early next week to see where we are and can hopefully nail down a time.

Completely agree about content on a podcast. I think though if you have a host who has some authority, like is an urban planner by trade or something, then it gives it more credibility. And the guest host is exactly what I was thinking of. It would be interesting to regularly hear from people in the city such as government leaders, developers, historians, etc. And your questions are valid. I do think there would be an audience for it as long as the content was interesting and kept up to date. I know we have enough people in this town that would be willing contributors. I do indeed read Belt. In fact I am a member and own two of their books. I like Belt and they definitely do have interesting and sometimes challenging content, but it's in a different style that what I'm thinking. Their stories are more narrative driven and talk about the people and experiences of Rust Belt cities, but not so much about developments within the urban core of Cleveland.

I was wondering what everyone's thoughts are about the media resources available to people in Cleveland regarding urban specific issues in the city. I've been following sites like UrbanCincy, Urban Milwaukee, NextSTL, Greater Greater Washington, etc and thought that there might be a void of similar type content for Cleveland. We have some sites like Freshwater Cleveland or the blog at Green City Blue Lake that kind of do that, but they don't seem to be as comprehensive and Freshwater seems to me to only be positive stories about Cleveland (not that I want to be overly negative, but critiques can be important). I obviously get all the information that I could ever need from UrbanOhio, but the forum format is not always the best for everyone. I especially enjoy the podcast component of UrbanCincy and hearing them talk about issues in the city that I am interested in. Thoughts? Am I off base here or would something like that be beneficial to the Cleveland urban community?

Wow. I stayed outside Binghamton, near the SUNY campus, once while on a work trip, and now I really regret not going into downtown. Great pics

^ Thus the need for a Red Line extension and LRT reroute to UC to alleviate car congestion there!

Well, perhaps that's the issue here-- the sense of urgency. Does Joe C. actually think that the Breda cars can last until 2025? Or is that just what he is saying publicly? He pretty strongly rebuked KJP's assertion that the light rail system faces an imminent shut down. But the AAO piece wasn't just pulled out of thin air. People very familiar with the Breda cars also agree that their time is quickly running out.

^ True, but to be fair, there's never really been an outcry about this stuff for the local leaders to hear. Until recently, most people never even knew about the problem with the rail cars. Hell, people that work at RTA didn't even fully know the problems. Joe C has himself admitted that he could be a better advocate when it comes to transit funding. That's why we as citizens and supporters of transit need to organize to get the message out there so that it becomes a priority in the minds of our political and business leaders.

^ From the video: "This is something that should have happened decades ago." Now let's spruce it up and keep it that way. I don't want to see those art installations rotting away in 5-10 years

^ Yeah, Shaker Towne Center is not really at all "oriented" toward transit. I used to take the Rapid out there to go to Heinen's before the one downtown opened, and it was quite an unpleasant trek getting form the station to the shopping plaza, especially in the winter (I hope Heinen's appreciated my irrational loyalty). Hopefully with the new station coming online that connection can be improved.

I wish, but no. They are just creating a new entrance to Vault and thus erecting a new sign for it. Happily wrong: Michelle Jarboe ‏mjarboe[/member] 16m Geis Cos. plans repositioning at The Vault at @The9CLE. Diversifying into food w/ gastropub-type options, departure from pure nightclub.

Male shot dead on West Side Cleveland street By Brandon Blackwell, cleveland.com Email the author | Follow on Twitter on November 04, 2015 at 3:22 PM, updated November 04, 2015 at 3:23 PM CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A male is dead after a daylight shooting on Cleveland's West Side. The victim was struck in the head about 1:30 p.m. where West 82nd Street meets Neville Avenue in the city's West Boulevard neighborhood, police spokeswoman Detective Jennifer Ciaccia said. The victim was dead when police arrived, Ciaccia said. The Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner's Office is expected to release the victim's identity after his family is notified. Neighbors said they heard two men arguing before gunfire erupted. Investigators at the scene marked more than a dozen pieces of evidence scattered across the intersection. It is unclear if a suspect has been identified or if an arrest has been made. http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2015/11/male_shot_dead_on_west_side_cl.html

Here's another piece from Tim Kovach: That ‘Cleveland rail shutdown’ looks more likely by the day By Tim Kovach | November 3, 2015 - 9:26 AM | Cleveland, Transportation WCPN has a story today from Nick Castele on the untenable fiscal position in which the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (GCRTA) finds itself. All Aboard Ohio, the rail advocacy organization, recently ran a post arguing that GCRTA’s rail cars are rapidly approaching the end of their useful life, and the system faces an “unavoidable” rail shutdown sometime after 2020 without a substantial infusion of capital. Castele interviewed GCRTA’s General Manager Joe Calabrese, who confirmed much of All Abroad Ohio’s account, though the agency has sought to downplay the hysteria around the issue. According to Calabrese, GCRTA needs to raise $280 million in capital funds by 2025 to replace 65-70 of its aging rail cars. He emphasized that GCRTA “can’t get there alone. It’s going to take a more major investment.” What Calabrese failed to discuss is what happens if that influx of funding doesn’t materialize. As I have discussed on a number of occasions, I’m not sure it would be possible for the State of Ohio to care less about public transit if it tried. The state provided just $7.3 million in general funds for transit in its latest budget, down 83.5% from 2000. So, at that rate, Ohio won’t scrape together $280 million for all transit funding throughout the entire state for another 38.4 years. http://timkovach.com/wp/2015/11/03/that-cleveland-rail-shutdown-looks-more-likely-by-the-day/

Welp, this is disappointing. I don't like the type of infrastructure that CycleHop uses for their bike share. It seems like this is the "cheap" option for doing a bike share system, which is what I was afraid of. I hope I'm wrong CycleHop-SoBi Selected as Preferred Bike Share Vendor Cuyahoga County to Open Contract Negotiations for a Spring 2016 Rollout Cleveland, OH – The Cuyahoga County Department of Sustainability, in partnership with Bike Cleveland, announces CycleHop-SoBi as the preferred vendor for a formal bike share system in Cleveland. Cuyahoga County will now enter contract negotiations with the goal of bringing a downtown based system ahead of the Republican National Convention in July of next year. The goal will be to expand into University Circle and other neighborhoods as additional funding is secured. Working with Bike Cleveland, Cuyahoga County was awarded $357,000 in federal funds from the Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency (NOACA) to bring a formal bike share system to Cleveland. The federal funds have been matched by local contributions from the Saint Luke’s Foundation, the George Gund Foundation, Destination Cleveland, Cleveland Neighborhood Progress, and Donna & Stewart Kohl. Bike Cleveland released a request for proposal, and a group of stakeholders formed a selection committee to review the responses. Members of that committee include, Cuyahoga County, Bike Cleveland, the City of Cleveland, Cuyahoga County Planning, University Circle Inc., Greater Cleveland RTA, Cleveland Metroparks, Cuyahoga County Board of Health, Cleveland Neighborhood Progress, Cleveland Public Library, and members of the local business community. The selection process was observed by representatives from the Ohio Department of Transportation. “Bringing large scale bike share to the City of Cleveland is incredibly exciting,” said Jacob VanSickle, Executive Director of Bike Cleveland. “CycleHop put forth a very strong proposal and we definitely selected the best bike share vendor for Cleveland.” “This is a great project to work on, and we think it will have a positive impact on the city that people will notice immediately,” said Mike Foley, Director, Cuyahoga County Department of Sustainability. The bike share program is a private-public partnership, and the business model relies on corporate sponsorship. Business and property owners may participate and support the program through sponsorship, adopt-a-station, and the purchase of memberships. For more information please contact [email protected]. About CycleHop-SoBi CycleHop is the largest ‘smart bike’ bike share operations company in North America. CycleHop plans, funds, deploys, and operates municipal and campus bike share programs. CycleHop’s technology partner, Social Bicycles (SoBi), is a leader and innovator of bike share equipment and related software. At the core of SoBi’s success is its ‘smart bike’ technology with a proprietary GPS-equipped locking mechanism embedded on a classic Dutch-frame bike (rather than on a docking station). With the flexibility of an on board lock and GPS, this smart bike approach dramatically reduces costs, creates a modern and flexible user experience, allows for more scalable bike share operations, generates valuable and usable trip data, and unlocks new revenue channels via interaction with mobile and bicycle screens. SoBi equipment is currently serving or being deployed in the following cities: Orlando, Tampa, Buffalo, Hamilton ON, Ottawa ON, Long Beach NY, Atlanta, Phoenix, Mesa, Topeka, Boise, Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, West Hollywood, Long Beach CA, and Portland. - See more at: http://executive.cuyahogacounty.us/en-US/CycleHop-SoBi.aspx#sthash.y1CDZv9Y.dpuf http://executive.cuyahogacounty.us/en-US/CycleHop-SoBi.aspx#sthash.y1CDZv9Y.dpuf

Built over. But the site only covers a small section of the rapid tracks

Also happened a couple years ago last year when a trip to Cleveland was one of the final prizes during the showcase showdown.

Okay, let's give this a go. If you are interested in attending a Cleveland UO meetup in the next few weeks, please fill out the Doodle linked below with your UO username and your available dates and times. We can then figure out which time works the best for the most people and then pick a place to go (preferably downtown or near east/west sides). http://doodle.com/poll/6kxmpmacdb7kdn4d

yeah otto mosers and the rathskeller moved off e4th and mosers upped their game, but what about the rathskeller? it moved to prospect, but i dk if it is still around? Chicago's Home of Chicken & Waffles, a popular Soul Food restaurant with three locations in Chicago, will open its next location in Downtown Cleveland. The owners say they have been following our city’s progress and couldn’t wait to dip their toes in our bubbling market. The restaurant will be claiming the 4,000-square-foot space at 1144-46 Prospect Avenue, which is the current home of the Rathskeller. That longstanding bar, if you recall, previously was displaced from its previous home on East Fourth Street by redevelopment. http://www.clevescene.com/scene-and-heard/archives/2015/04/01/chicago-based-soul-food-joint-to-plant-flag-in-downtown-cleveland I was actually just meaning to ask about this place. That article is from April and I haven't seen or heard anything since. I'm particularly interested because I now live across the street from there

^ Detroit is one that I can think of off the top of my head