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I honestly understand the top sign. They probably wanted to display it easily to highway travelers.

I guess the homes they are building in Fairfax are getting bigger.

Sounds like as much of a win win as you can have.

Anyone know what's going on at the Federal building?

Speaking of Power lines.....via Michael Collier on IG

I call it the BP Tower

With the planned high rises on the Riverfront the first picture will be EXTREMELY dense in the future. @Geowizical is it possible to do a mock of what the city would look like with the planned Riverfront buildings?

Like our street grid is so odd that Sherwin Williams on West 3rd and Superior is partially blocked by The Lumen on 17th and Euclid.

Does anyone have the original directory of Tower City Mall?

I'm a proponent of building high rises where necessary, mainly on main roads and in areas similar to UC or Downtown. Secondary streets are fine with more "human scale" (4-5 story apartments are still massive now) developments.

It looks like Tower City took a few spaces from the Galleria when it opened. I wonder if it would've just been better to focus on one. Internet era aside we'll never have the opportunity like this again, so many store have closed or merged under the same corporation.

If the world had this energy it truly would be a wonderful place.

Has this been mentioned on here?: https://huntingtonbankfield.com/all-events/acdc/?utm_source=browns-homepage&utm_medium=website&utm_campaign=announce

I was just thinking about this the other day. The odd layout of Cleveland's skyline combined with the city having a fanning street grid vs. a traditional grid layout makes it difficult to see new builds unless it's a skyscraper. You can't see the Beacon or Skyline 776 from this angle, you have to take shots from specific streets to really see the change.

Looking at this rendering for Browns stadium, that street grid layout looks like a traffic nightmare, with 3-4 narrow streets that feed one main street to get people out. This reminds me of Crocker Park, there is one road that hundreds of cars are trying to get to with a few one lane, two way streets feeding it. This looks to be the same type of layout, and if it is those cars will be stuck for a while.

Windows are being removed

I will say in order to sustain this boom I feel Cleveland needs to start figuring out how to attract new companies to open offices here and figure out how to make the city attractive to families. As people start families they will move out.

Can't see it but that's always great

It's almost as if they didn't learn from their blunders during the "urban renewal" era of Cleveland.

I appreciate Mayor Bibb standing firm but with so much time until groundbreaking I feel Cleveland will fold and water down this project because everyone wants to complain.

I don't get why we don't have a tap to pay system like other systems such as San Francisco. The terminals are located on the poles right by each door and they simply hold their phone up, if the ambassadors aren't checking fares they could have them on board certain buses to ensure the bus fare is scanned upon boarding or to assist.

Personally, I feel that the Old RTA CEO never wanted the Healthline to terminate in East Cleveland which is why it is so underwhelming in that stretch. People can say it was "over budget" but when the RTA diverted some buses to terminate at University Circle station instead of Windermere that showed me his true wish was for it to simply serve between Downtown and UC. I do find it extremely odd that they don't have dedicated bus lanes at the part of the route that needs it the most. i am torn though because that is the most beautiful section of the Healthline due to the median being used for landscaping and art. To me the RTA Board doesn't really care about BRT (MetroHealth line is simply BRT lite) or the Healthline, it simply is a route that just like our rail system (which I feel they don't care for either) already exists and due to infrastructure investments would be too controversial to get rid of. The RTA is fine with the bare minimum and I hate it.

I also would like to see a bridge station from Little Italy to the old East 120th Street Station.

The Healthline when it opened had all door boarding meaning you could just hop on and have a seat, RTA police would then board at random stops to do fare verification and de-board at a different stop. This was deemed illegal and now people boar at the front door, slowing the speed of the route, defeating the purpose of BRT and essentially this became a glorified version of the standard bus route it replaced. I loved the Healthline when it opened but I haven't rode it for almost 10 years now. They have hired ambassadors but to my understanding they don't do much fare checking.

Its funny because that is the only way I travel to Browns games currently. I refuse to pay $50 just to see a team lose and I'm definitely not driving 25-30 minutes further AND paying for high parking plus gas. I just won't go.