cle_guy90

Does anyone have a side by side chart of the estimated vs. the actual in terms of state population? It would be interesting to see the difference!

Don’t really like that because for a person like Bobby George it won’t cause him to change. If anything it could make him hold out more and not want to cave.

I really hope Cleveland gets to host again in the next 10 years as a make up for a poorly attended draft.

Gotcha! My brother bought his house in 09 with Obama's first time home buyers program so my reference point is different.

Disagree here. Even though it is rapidly increasing now the Lakewood Market has been increasing for years now (https://www.zillow.com/lakewood-oh/home-values/)

Yeah and the bummer is with place like Lakewood and especially UH/CH one might get priced out not because they can’t afford the down payment or even the actual mortgage payment (interest/principle), but if the house gets reassessed by the city the property tax might become one that they can’t afford. For instance, a house that was $175k in UH four years ago now often is going for $250k. We are talking about an additional 3k a year in property taxes alone.

I could see a variety of people 1) Younger people from NYC and other areas where they could have accumulated good money and the cleveland area would be relatively cheap to them. 2) Older people who would have accumulated money of their lifetime 3) People taking loans against their 401k and other assets (I hope this is not the case). 4. People borrowing from their parents

With the workforce housing at Centennial and the micro units with Rockefeller and City Club we are talking about over 1000 units available to people who may not have been able to afford it previously. Great to see!

Yeah with deaths likely outweighing births (due to COVID) I think we will see a loss of around 2k overall.

Yeah the data I think also shows that if Millennials and Gen Z were having kids at the same rate as say the Baby Boomers or even Gen X the population of the county and especially Cleveland would be going up. I know several Millennials who don't want to have kids or if they do have kids it's two max. Larger families are a thing of the past amongst young professionals due to things like the number of women in the workforce and the desire to not settle or slow down.

For people who want to watch it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ki-q7r7Dn0

When can an owner get fined and cited for having a building in disrepair or that is just a flat out eye sore? Do they do that in Cleveland?

Should this go back into the Van Aken thread :)? I was trying to refresh myself on what the development looked like and the initial discussion on it was and realized that the original posts about the project where in the other thread.

These are restaurants not apartments.

Yeah but it's not like it's just one or a couple of houses with bidding wars. It's the entire market experiencing this and dictating the increase in values. So it's not like an appraiser can really say that this house isn't worth this amount of money when literally everything (price of other houses being sold, scarcity of houses, the amount of cash offers, and all of the bidding wars) is pointing to the value being accurate.

This is a big deal. The developers stated in the article that they are going to make renovations before finding a tenant and that they aren't going to wait for someone to come to them. They are going to be very proactive.

Yeah I live 12 minutes from downtown Warren and don't see it making it. Hopefully I'm wrong.

http://www.downtowncleveland.com/DCA/media/DCA_Media/2018-DCA-Annual-Report.pdf Last I can find it from is the 2018 annual report where they said there was 880 condo/townhomes downtown.

I remember you referencing that they may not be committed to the region. Is that still the case? Have you heard anything about where they might look if they remain in the region?

Also, NPR apartments is another project that is dead and could be removed.

Ohio Bell should probably be removed since the project is dead. Great work!!

Yeah you would think it would have to be either sexual or racist or something at that level for it to warrant this.

Absolutely ridiculous. Does any of our legal people know if Ford is actually able to go back on their commitment that they made during the UAW negotiations? https://www.wsj.com/articles/uaw-accuses-ford-of-shifting-new-vehicle-production-from-ohio-to-mexico-11615990216

The tax incentives for the Western Reserve Building were approved. https://www.cleveland.com/cityhall/2021/03/tax-incentives-okd-to-help-redevelopment-of-western-reserve-building-in-clevelands-downtown.html

Yeah. Best case scenario their is new ownership and management. That is one of the few hotels I did not want to try out downtown because I read the reviews through the Marriot Bonvoy app and they were awful for that hotel.