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Cannon Drive Relocation (5-3-24) Biomedical and Materials Engineering Complex - Phase 2 Hamilton - Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Center Combined Heat and Power Plant The Rambler

Arlington Gateway is a great project, but access to the site is still a little difficult. This isn't really on Upper Arlington and is more about OSU's failure to build out non vehicle infrastructure on west campus. The mixed use path along Lane ends at Carmack, meaning you need to walk in the grass for ~1/3 of a mile to get to the new development. Again not the biggest deal, but these types of gaps at the human scale can heavily dissuade people for moving around the city in anything but their car. Its a very simple piece of infrastructure that should have been incorporated when OSU rebuilt the Carmack intersection ~7? years ago, or when the Andelyn Biosciences building went in recently. A path could/should also be built along Star from the existing path through the fields north towards Lane. I understand that current university plan for west campus address this, but in the meantime it is needlessly frustrating. The university has made some progress on west campus though. The (somewhat) new Kenny Road mixed use path south of Woody Hayes is a significant upgrade from the previously zero pedestrian/cyclist infrasturue on that stretch of roadway.

Community Center (5-3-24) Kingsdale Future Parking Deck

(5-3-24) From Gravity 2.0 From High and Nationwide

1st and Oregon, former St. Paul Baptist Church (5-3-24) Founders Park (5-3-24) Finishing up some of the landscaping work

100 N High (5-3-24) From Gravity 2.0 From the Scioto From Broad

Lucky's opens on the 17th (5-3-24) The frontage along Neil turned out better than I thought it would.

FWIW, 2016 was the last (and only) year that both the Monsters and Cavs advanced in the playoffs

Game 3 double OT winner! Monsters advance with a win on Friday

The Sunday Metro section of the PD mentioned that the Garfield Blvd. Reconstruction project is scheduled to begin in May or June (I couldn't find other confirmation on the project status). The new multipurpose trail will connect the Mill Creek Connector Trail (built ~7 years back) on Warner to Garfield Park Reservation. These are great projects to see move forward. It will: Fill a "gap" in the regional bicycle trail network Connect another Metropark Reservation directly to the towpath trail network Reduce overbuilt roadway infrastructure Invest in inner ring suburbs

Playoff Hockey next week in CLE! https://seatgeek.com/cleveland-monsters-tickets

First division win, and 4th playoff appearance. We won't know our playoff series game dates until there is a winner of the Bellville/Toronto series (Apr. 28 or 28th).

One of my primary concerns with this development early on was how they would handle bicycle infrastructure. The whole Riverfront site is so central to downtown (and cross river connections) that meaningful bicycle infrastructure is necessary. The inclusion of a cycle track throughout the site (and its emphasis in this first phase) is great to see. Dedicated bicycle infrastructure on the new Eagle Ave. bridge/ramp and West 3rd (and eventually the rerouted Canal and Huron) will all be extremely useful from a cyclists perspective. A west 3rd cycle track (continuing south to the Towpath at Literary in Tremont) could be pretty easily implemented. Connecting Tremont directly with downtown as the 4th cross river connection will really help connect the two. In the meeting, a representative indicated that there had been discussions with ODOT/city officials about the connections beyond the Bedrock site. As with a lot of urban bicycle infrastructure, there is a lot of room for error in final execution though. Cleveland doesn't really have a two way separated cycle track in the city yet, so the final product will be interesting to see.

Lakewood Eyes Expansion of Waterfront Access at Lakewood Park, Looks For Funding Mike Oprea - Scene - Mar. 18, 2024 "After eight years of embracing that water—and drawing, one estimate from Placer suggests, 200,000 visitors a year—Lakewood Park is once again on the city's mind. Late last month, after a year's worth of drafting up a trio of potential designs, Lakewood's development team came a notch closer to Solstice's second stage. ... Lakewood will be seeking funds through its own Capital Improvement Plan, along with state and federal grants. Stangland said that SmithGroup will fine-tune the drawings teased in late February after the project goes through its permitting phase. A design report will be finalized by late this week. An engineer could be hired for the buildout, he suggested, later this year or in early 2025."

I do think the Water Front Line will be discussed more in the coming years. There are two major factors that could help bring a lot more interest into the WFL and its future: 1. RTA Fleet Unification 2. Shore to Core TIF

RTA Waterfront Line's Browns Sunday Resurgence Kicks Up Questions About Next Phase Mark Oprea - Scene - Feb. 19, 2024 "As the RTA waits to offer the public a date for the Waterfront Line's true reopening—that is, specifics beyond "spring/summer"—questions abound regarding the service's potential in the next five, ten years. Especially as a fleet of development projects and rising downtown population beckon new thoughts on what the Waterfront Line could be. 'The RTA board really needs to think long-term out into the future,' Stu Nicholson, the previous director of All Aboard Ohio, told Scene. 'We need some assurance that something is coming. The next logical step is to revive earlier plans, if you will. Make the line more than it already is.'"

Ya in terms of transit access on the existing system, downtown or the trunk line between TC and 55th would be the most ideal location. Highland and Brook Park stadium sites would both be at the end of the line, so only one direction of rail capacity. If/when the Rapid fleet in unified there are more interesting routing options opened up though. For special events the Red, Green and Blue lines could funnel into the Brook Park site, or the Highland site could be served by the existing Blue and the west side of the Red Line.

Rapid Transit can certainly help move people out of a small area efficiently, but in a short window of time (like at the end of a football game) capacity isn't that high. NJ Transit can only move 10,000 people per hour out of the Meadowlands. For a light rail example, the Siemens S200 (RTA's future rolling stock) has a capacity of ~250 per car (60 seats) in its Calgary configuration. A double car S200 leaving every 5 minutes is only about 6000 people per hour (~10 acres of surface parking). An ideal light rail system won't be able to run much more then ~10,000 people per hour in one direction.

Sorry for reiterating this a bunch, but it needs to be emphasized when considering a new stadium. For a very broad calculation, lets assume the Haslams want a 70,000 seat stadium that isn't in/adjacent to downtown. If the average car that drives to the stadium has 4 passengers in it, you'll need parking for ~17500 cars. Because football stadiums only host 8-9 homes games a season (plus a handful of stadium concert tours), structured parking is too costly for being used only ~60 hours a year. With surface parking you can roughly fit 150 cars per acre. That is ~117 acres of parking for 70,000 seat stadium. If only ~3 people arrive per car that's over 150 acres of surface parking. Even with the most generous assumptions (smallest stadium in the NFL, rapid transit connection, ~4 people per car), you'll still need over ~80 acres of surface parking (about the size of South Park Mall and its parking). The potential Brook Park and Highland sites have enough space for the surface parking. The Rockside site would be a little tight on space, but you could possibly get the surrounding office parks to open up there parking for events (the 49ers have a similar arrangement at their Silcom Valley office park stadium). These are some rough numbers, but to get an idea of other suburban NFL stadium parking areas in acres: BUF ~120, KC ~137, NE ~125, DC ~160, AZ ~170. TL;DR - Either build ~120 acres of surface parking that gets used < 1% of the year OR just keep the stadium downtown.

You could possibly fit a stadium onto the parcel west of E 90th, but you'll still likely need over 100 acres of surface parking. This goes for all locations not within or next to downtown that benefit from the 1000s of existing parking spaces within walking distance not being used around game time. You would also likely have difficulty attracting interest into the type of mixed use development the Haslams want adjacent to the stadium if it was in the middle of the forgotten triangle.

You can reroute Broadway further south onto the old railyard without much extra fill (maybe a partial retaining wall closer to the rapid tracks). It'll give you between ~750-850ft of space between Orange and the new Broadway just east of E 22nd, enough space for an NFL stadium.

Each of these sites has there own benefits, but I do not believe any are nearly as impactful to our region as a renovated Lakefront Stadium, with an adjacent mixed use development and ample public space connected to downtown through a Land Bridge and new transit center. We shouldn't need to build a stadium every 30 years. Build on what we already have, and use the Browns/Haslams as leverage to create a meaningful connection between our downtown and lakefront.

This post is to help visualize potential stadium locations in Northeast Ohio. The requirements for a pro football stadium are so unique that there are only a handful of locations in the region that could work. To get a (very) general idea on land requirements, a stadium needs ~12-20 acres. An adjacent mixed use development "stadium village" could require a similar amount of land. Any location outside of downtown would require a significant amount of land for parking. A suburban stadium would need over 100 acres of land just for surface parking. Multiple suburban NFL stadiums have over 130 acres of surface parking. The only suburban locations within Cuyahoga County (with nearby highway access) that could potentially meet those land requirements are the Brook Park Ford Engine Plant, undeveloped land off of Rockside Road, or the Highland Park Gold Course. The next closest available land in the region may likely be in Lorain County, some 20 miles west of downtown Cleveland. Here is a theoretical layout of the three potential suburban stadium locations: Outside of these three suburban locations there could also be a few options near downtown. The central Post Office location on Broadway may be the most suitable location within the urban core. The lot constraints would likely require the stadium to sit east of E 22nd, a roughly 15 minute walk from the southern edge of downtown. Although the site is relatively isolated (particular by the central interchange with will eventually undergo a substantial rebuild), is has the potential to spur considerable development south of Bedrocks riverfront project. The site also has some of the best transit access in the region with a train every 7.5 minutes, and two high frequency bus routes. Infill Rapid stations could be added at Carnegie/Ontario and E22nd.

Cyclists want Columbus to allow bikes on certain sidewalks and inclusion in road upgrades Bill Bush - Feb. 6, 2024 - The Dispatch "Because Columbus prohibits bicycles on sidewalks, bicyclists there are forced to do the "safe but illegal thing" and ride on the sidewalk, risking a ticket, or ride the two-lane roadway, which has vehicle speed limits up to 45 mph. ... He and other bicyclists who came to the council meeting with their bicycle helmets want the city to rescind its ban on riding bikes on sidewalks or revise it to allow bikes on sidewalks adjacent to unsafe roads."

FWIW: "...Cleveland has had clear skies on that date the last two years" from Zack Meisel's article on the Opener