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Yet another indication of Steelyard's destructive effects, though I would disagree that it's "minutes away" for people living car-free. That is correct. A journey to Steelyard can be anywhere from 45 minutes to 1 1/2 hours one-way from downtown via RTA.

I assume it was only for the car event. They have done this every time that they've closed Public Square for an event (e.g. Ninja Warrior & Common Ground CLE)

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Scott Wolstein eyes Flats East Bank phase three, other ventures after 5 years at Starwood Retail By Michelle Jarboe, The Plain Dealer Email the author | Follow on Twitter on September 29, 2017 at 1:22 PM CLEVELAND, Ohio - Sitting on a patio in the Flats on a surprisingly sweaty late-summer afternoon, Scott Wolstein seemed relaxed despite the nearby bustle of valets, trains and boats. ...He hopes to break ground in the spring for a third wave of development, which will include a high-end movie theater, restaurants and an apartment tower. If that timeline holds, new buildings could open by late 2019, joining the existing Ernst & Young Tower, the Aloft hotel, waterfront apartments, dining and entertainment venues. http://realestate.cleveland.com/realestate-news/2017/09/scott_wolstein_eyes_flats_east.html

Middletown has one. Adams Street in Toledo does as well.

I suspect Zone is like Polensek, he'd rather do what he's doing. I definitely disagree. Watch his speech at the City Club from a few weeks ago. Plus, his being President of the National League of Cities also speaks to higher ambition I think

No timeline yet. Michelle's article: http://realestate.cleveland.com/realestate-news/2017/08/cleveland_school_board_delays.html

From mjarboe[/member] : "Just in: Resolution re: tax-increment financing deal for downtown #CLE NuCLEus project won't be on tonight's @CLEMetroSchools board agenda." ".@CLEMetroSchools says it pulled NuCLEus TIF vote from agenda due to pending meeting between city, county, developer re: full funding plan."

^ On the positive side, at least they're not moving out to the subrurbs

No, the people challenging this are sick and tired of living in neighborhoods that have been facing decades and decades of neglect and disinvestment, while we have been subsidizing millionaires/billionaires with sweet stadium deals. If you go outside of downtown, University Circle, Ohio City, and a few other neighborhoods, you'll see that Cleveland is very much not in a "comeback" but we are still continuing to bleed population and are faced with huge issues of infant mortality, lead poisoning, poverty, etc. I think people can have disagreements over this issue, but I don't think you should be disparaging people's motives when you don't really know what's going on.

We've already been dealing with that for the last 12 years...

^ Just saw your post after editing mine. Got it, thanks.

This seems weird, OCI tweeted they were out on a neighborhood walk with the councilman and mayor tonight. Seems innocent enough, the mayor of the city and the ward's councilman talking to the residents. But the mayor's tweets very much made it seem like a campaign event: https://twitter.com/CLEMayorJackson/status/892921656942972928 If that were the case, why is OCI participating in campaign events? Apparently it was initiated by members of a local block club to talk about development. But it's curious why the mayor was tweeting about campaigning.

^ There's a third option I think: seeing a political opportunity to make this a wedge issue between him and the mayor. It fits the downtown vs neighborhoods narrative well. That being said, I would be curious to see Stark's financials, to see whether or not this truly would not be able to be financed without the school portion of the TIF.

There's nothing really to talk about regarding the building right now is there? This project is currently in the stage of having to navigate through a political process.

Jeff Johnson just tweeted a bit ago that he will be opposing the nuCLEus TIF when it comes before Council:

The district would have been funded by an additional sales tax at all the restaurants at FEB, and apparently the mayor didn't want to raise taxes, so he vetoed it. The developers never got a clear answer from City Hall about it and were kind of dumbfounded

Yes, and city council approved it in February 2015, but Mayor Jackson vetoed it.

^ I can't speak for everyone, but I personally don't know of anyone that would make a choice of which restaurant to eat at based on what the mayor of that particular city has done.

Here is a link to the City Council legislation authorizing the TIF. It's Ordinance No. 171-17 starting on page 11: http://www.clevelandcitycouncil.org/ClevelandCityCouncil/media/CCCMedia/Documents/forintro2-13-17.pdf

Yes, it's the same family. And technically the one at PHS is the "Connor Palace," not the Connor Theater.

It's easy if you live in a house. But if you're in an apartment, especially downtown, it's quite difficult to recycle. If the building doesn't offer it, and no where I've lived ever has, then you have to take it to a dumpster yourself. But the city has removed most of the recycling dumpsters.

And my experience since moving back to Cleveland has been quite different. There were only a handful of days over the past two winters that I didn't ride my bike. And my comment about snow plows was more theoretical. The status of quo of the city's snow removal process isn't great. Nonetheless, weather shouldn't be an excuse for inaction. The greater point about this article though is making downtown streets more friendly for people in general. Pedestrians walk on the sidewalks 12 months of the year, whether there is snow or not. Living downtown has a lot of great advantages, but our streets downtown often make for an unpleasant experience. The mayor has often said that in his ideal world, he would entirely ban cars from the downtown area. But I haven't seen much from his administration to better the pedestrian experience for people downtown.

Bike paths are great but it will never catch on fully in Cleveland the way it has in other cities. We average 61" of snow per year. When you get an above average year, it makes biking impossible for months at a time. Pittsburgh averages 27" of snow per year, less than half. We have these great things called snow plows. Also, people over estimate how much weather negatively impacts bike riding. "For months at a time" is a gross exaggeration.

Yep, Sat and Sunday. Weekdays generally after 6pm. And also "major holidays," though we could never get any info from the city on what that really includes. Is MLK Day a "major" holiday? How about Veterans Day? I wouldn't risk either! FYI, they city-wide parking holidays are New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, and MLK Day, and downtown-only on Black Friday and December 26th