PIB Guy

I've made myself believe that Mayfield will go at 1, and if Chubbs around at 4, we'll take him. If not, we trade the pick. There's no way the Browns take Barkley.

No, downtown it's around 175 feet. I believe the Lumen site is approximately 189'. Once you get to about E93rd and Carnegie, it starts rising quickly. Some of the CCF buildings in the E 80s are on matts that are no where near the rock depth, while UH buildings near 105th are bearing on rock at about 15 feet deep.

That's what I was saying. And to compliment the massive suburban growth then, downtown saw the RRHOF, GLSC, Browns Stadium, Federal Courthouse Tower and several Buildings at CCF (which included two new hotels with intercontinental and Omni). This was on the heels of Gund Arena, Jacobs field and the entire Gateway development which was occurring in conjunction with Key Tower and the Marriott and Bank One Center. It was a very busy time from a construction standpoint. I think this current period stands out because of the private dollars being pumped into residential development in the inner-city.

They are using a pad/matt foudnation for this, but they also opted to have 9 caissons drilled to bedrock beneath the pad. That was an option as a pad probably could have been sufficient. That said, I'm sure they could have thickened the pad some to take out the caissons too. As far as a crane, the schedule shows assembly of that to start in September.

I would doubt it trades, but maybe to some degree. I know there's lot of high profile projects going on in the city right now, but really, the construction occurring today is still not up there with the 90's boom of housing and retail. The trades were definitely feeling the squeeze back then.

I think they should try to partner with St. Ignatius to give them a home field close to the school. 10k would be perfect for them.

I understand your point Dougal, but in this case being that it's Great Lakes, I'm OK with the location. Great Lakes is a huge part of the brewing scene in NE Ohio, and alot of people come here specifically to go there. They have a rich history in the business, and I think a high profile location is good for them. Anyone else, I agree, OC would be a great fit.

Still looks very similar to what has been posted on here.

KJP, I love that picture! The placement of downtown looks off though. Seems like it should be on the left hand side of the shot. Based on the image the red line would almost have to do a full u-turn.

I would expect the site to be fenced off and trailers brought in by March 1, with excavation commencing of the matt foundation by mid-march. A lot of foundation work and garage work throughout the summer. The crane would probably come in around August.

I'm not comparing the two markets, just pointing out why parking and retail is such an important component to the financing plan for this project.

Makes sense, but the retail price point on apartments in Cleveland is somewhat "hohum". The parking and retail component is what makes this project a winner for the developer, and the banks.

I think the steel comes over a bit further, over to the top parking deck. You can see where that is in mrclifton's shot above.

I'm not sure if it's just me, but the first shot makes Public Square look terrible. I know it only shows a very small corner of it, but it almost looks like it caught on fire.

Jacksonville and Charlotte are still finishing up some highways. Atlanta may not have any new ones going on right now, but within the past 5 years, they did.

I really don't think it's how Ikea would perform in Cleveland, rather how would a Cleveland store effect Columbus and Pittsburgh. With a Columbus store on the North end of that metro, and Pittsburgh store on the north end of that metro, that would put three stores in potentially too close proximity for their liking. And who knows what those stores balance sheets look like. Maybe they're not strong enough to take the blow of Clevelander's gaining their own location.

I'm not sure how this handles the drug epidemic. If they're made legal, then current abusers/addicts will remain addicted. Maybe I'm reading the second sentence of your comment wrong.

I'm really not trying to argue with anyone with my post, I'm just sick of the double standards. It's almost gives the impression that we don't know what to do. We have the debates about legalizing recreational use of marijuana (which by the way I don't know where I stand on that). For the past 30 years, we have made it borderline impossible, and taboo, to smoke cigarettes, while at the same time, we're trying to make it easier to smoke pot. And the argument about cigarettes was that its bad for peoples health, and others health due to second hand smoke. However, legalizing marijuana, and other drugs, would also cause health implications on Americans making our problems that we have now, even worse. I really don't think the answer in solving crime is just to legalize, there has to be a better way.

The crazy thing is the same people that want to ban soft drinks and saturated fat products from restaurants because of the declining health amongst Americans, want to legalize drug use. I'm pretty sure that legalizing heroin, cocaine and other hard drugs would coincide with an increase in health care costs...a problem this country has been facing for the past several years.

And if you remove the speed limit, you don't have to give speeding tickets. If you let woman sell themselves as prostitutes, you don't have to arrest them or the Johns. And if you let people kill people, you don't have to arrest people for murder. End of the day, laws are laws to keep people in this country sane and have us all live in a civilized nation. We can't just let people do what they wish as a solution to a problem. We need to fight crime, enforce laws, and kill the epidemics. There will always be crime, but its the job of government funded safety departments and the criminal justice system to reduce levels.

Maybe there's a little wait and see going on. With a residential conversion of the tower as is planned, a different tenant mix may be in the back of Gilberts mind for the mall. An influx of residents may change the demand.

It's like they looked at EA and figured out that nobody likes microtransactions, ridiculously small maps, or that stupid character mode. Paradox interactive also has some of the most liberal modding out there. Everything the put out is fantastic. Sounds about right. Honestly for me, SC 3000 was my favorite of the series. The map size was so much nicer to work with.

So does this game pretty much function very similar to SimCity? Start with a clean slate, build tax revenue with population and continue to develop? I just didn't enjoy the last simcity very much, and was looking into getting this.

I really think Stark should at least start the garage at Nucleus considering he's going to lose a decent amount of spaces in the 515 Garage to Beacon residents.

It's not about the height as much as it is the site size, and the constraints of staging a crane, and being able to boom out. If you rememebr, Stonebridge in Cleveland was 12 stories, but was still able to go without a tower crane. There was plenty of room to move a crane around and boom. You could have a super tight site however with building on either side that require a crane to be above the site versus on it. Snavely project on 25th and Detroit had to be darn close to needing a tower crane as the utilized that whole site.