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Only thing I know that increased before the last 2 years was the housing occupancy but the population still dropped due to what KJP wrote an article about "population trading".

Increasing capacity to support 43,000 more people is something that is MUCH easier said than done. Also the difference with supporting 22,000 cars from ford and 65,000 Browns fans is one is spread out throughout the day and the other is testing the limits of the traffic grid all at once. That is a BIG difference. Also you can only add so many lanes, and adding traffic infrastructure to support a venue that Is used 10 times per year seems so financially reckless.

I'm surprised this isn't a hot topic of discussion tbh. An estimated two years of growth after 75 years of decline and this past year growing by 1,100+ people seems big.

If they said that we have prospective tenants lined up and are working on closing financing I would be a lot more optimistic but they are just releasing this in hopes of getting tenants to bite. I hope I'm wrong but this is less reassuring than NuCLEus, at least they had an anchor tenant.

Doesn't seem likely but it is a nice rendering.

The much more narrow cars makes me even more confused why they didn't change the orientation of the seats to go along the wall to make the aisle way wider.

Since the streetscape forum is closed. Ideastream Public MediaCleveland will turn two Downtown streets into a one-way p...In mid-June, the city will turn Prospect Avenue and Huron Road between Ontario Street and East Ninth Street from two-way streets into a one-way pair. Huron will be eastbound, and Prospect westbound...

What are the implications that can come from that though? Not with just the Browns stadium but in general.

I have a question and it may be a silly question. Looking at the majority of buildings standing in Midtown, they look like they were built between the 1940s and 1960s, but they look like they were built without a master plan for the area. They have a mix of office buildings, industrial buildings and everything in between. Was master planning popular in that time period? Did developers pitch large ideas to the city to redevelop a neighborhood, or did the city take what they could get because the decline was starting to accelerate?

When I saw you said you were horrified I mistook it as a negative.

I'm actually a fan of how this building (finally) turned out. The color pops on this building makes this feel so vibrant, too bad the management is terrible.

Doesn't seem like dysfunction or a negative on Cleveland's part. Everyone see's the issue except the parties that has had some Haslam influence, seems like a county that is in unison with each other.

The reaction of Rock Entertainment to the GCP endorsement proves to me why Ronayne hasn't lost any support, his sensible yet strong approach is shared to an extent with a lot of big players.

You can recuse yourself from a vote while still influencing people enough to pass what you want to pass. That doesn't mean much.

Dee Haslem and her involvement with the GCP, it is a major conflict of interest and shows how harmful that powerful influence can be. Essentially backing a $2.4 billion reckless investment that doesn't benefit the region is reckless and irresponsible. A very valid point was made when it was stated that this isn't like a new team is coming to the region and ADDING to it, you are shifting it to a suburb, that tbh I feel is in over its head with a project of this scale, from the regions main heartbeat. Who does this benefit outside of a billionaire owner and his influential wife? There was a story published by Crains that interviewed a retail expert that stated unless they have a major draw like an IKEA to the development to draw people out there he doesn't see retail here being successful. He doesn't see people traveling from Pinecrest, Westlake and even Legacy Village to travel to this isolated area if the development contains stores that are already present or aren't a major draw. He mentioned that die hard Browns fans, and the occasional business traveler could frequent this development but that is about it. With Brookpark being the 104th wealthiest suburb in the region I agree with his skepticism because with the type of stores they'd need here it doesn't cater to this blue collar demographic. In the story they also mentioned he doesn't see how they will get people to pay high end rents for apartments here compare to hipper neighborhoods like Downtown, UC etc. There is nothing surrounding the area that is a major attraction outside of a domed stadium and the airport. This level of skepticism aligns with other reports we've seen and with so many professional opinions aligning with each other that is exactly why you see so much anger and volatile language coming from our leaders. It is obvious that backing a development that is a financial risk for the entire county is ridiculous and only happened because of a billionaires wife's influence.

"There should be a change of leadership at this increasingly irrelevant organization" or an acknowledgment that they are here to represent the interests of only the ultra-wealthy. YIIIIIIIIIKES. Nothing is being held back...............I love it.

Question. The Sin Tax includes cigarettes and beer but with the legalization of weed is it possible to expand it to include that as well to increase funds instead of taxing cigarettes more? It seems like less and less people smoke and more people are buying weed.

Could the sin tax be changed into a fee similar to what is implemented on the Lakefront but for the Gateway District?

So you feel that the money should go to a billionaire over education?

It's because no matter the amount of shopping centers, office parks etc. that opens in the county, the city of Cleveland is the heartbeat and pulse of the county if Cleveland struggles, ultimately the county struggles. Ronayne to me hasn't lost any support from his stance, if anything he probably gained support for his strong stance to protect county dollars over something so reckless. He comes off as a defender against billionaire greed, but what I noticed he also did was let himself look like the "bad guy" to the Haslam's while letting Bibb to fall to the background to salvage whatever relationship he can to get money from the Haslam's as they depart.

Like atomic bomb or a grenade?

I really feel like Bibb views this as a legacy defining project and I feel that he really will do everything in his power to redevelop this land. With all of the preliminary steps taken, like the North Coast Harbor non profit group, the lakefront fee to help pay for it, I feel this is the closest we've been to a developed lakefront. I also feel the motivation to outdo whatever the Haslam's build in Brookpark will help drive this.

I doubt that the residential and hotel portion is going to start anytime soon. My guess would be 2032-2033 at the earliest depending on where this country is. That gives Cleveland and the County at least 5 years from now to plan and 2 years to build to counter the loss felt. We will be okay.

University Hospitals doesn't build on their main campus much but when they do they build buildings that are so much more unique than Cleveland Clinic.

The Browns stimulus package can be seen as a crutch. Once that crutch is gone now you pivot to things that replace that. Build up the lakefront with a navy pier, navy yards or Wharf type of experience and now you have a year round influx of visitors that makes you forget about the Browns impact. They did it in the 90s and they can do it again.