GISguy

Billionaires doing billionaire things.

Happy to be corrected, the saga of them building a skyscraper when Progressive is selling off real estate and CEO's opinion of return to office that's been covered in here is where I'm coming from. Glad to hear it isn't as bad as its been made out to be. Sidenote, I was talking to my bus driver last night and he made it sound like there was some debris coming from the worksite during yesterday's storm (he mentioned their parking deck), curious if there was any worthwhile damage caused by the storm.

Check out Buffalo's Outer Harbor progress - it's kind of a hodgepodge of things but it's got the concert venue, lakeside trail (with hammocks!!), bike things (mountain bike singletrack, pump track, gravel garden), and connects to the city via a trail. Maybe it's more of a BKL thing, but it shows what's possible, especially based on some of the more recent comments. https://buffalowaterfront.com/outer-harbor

I don't think people feel they have to wear headphones, I think it's pretty standard in a lot of positions where you're in your own zone all day (like GIS/programming/etc.). Honestly with how strict SHW has been with WFH, I'd imagine they have restrictions on wearing headphones - I've heard of some companies requiring you to like leave an earbud out, which I wouldn't put past their leadership.

But we didn't lose the Browns like last time, they're moving one suburb over which should hopefully connect to public transit. Something to keep in mind, Metroparks are running a tight budget, obviously it's hard to forecast 10 years out, but they're anticipating a cash balance of ~$500k by 2032. They've had some (unanticipated) acquisitions in the past year that took their estimated 60M balance to 47M. If they're going to take on more projects grants are going to have to be the biggest piece of the pie (this is the route they're taking with CHEERS). https://special_district-cleveland-metroparks-oh-budget-book.cleargov.com/10704/fund-summaries/ten-year-financial-forecast

I work in a bullpen - 4 mid-height cubes in one setting (about the same height that's shown). It's really not that bad. Full size cube walls might offer some privacy BUT also limits your access to sunlight which IMO is much worse and it feels cavernous. I'd assume most people will also be wearing headphones to block out distractions. SHW isn't WFH friendly, and most places that are WFH friendly are hybrid anyways - full on WFH positions are pretty rare and limited to very specific industries. All this said, the styling of these is a bit too open for my taste. FWIW those also look like standing desks which is a nice little addition.

Midtown Collaboration Ctr.

Sorry all we have are 67R busses!

This has nothing to do with leadership, the Owner and NFL are the ones in charge here. Bibb/Cleveland offered $450M and that still wasn't enough. Per Part 2: it's been explored time and time and time again that sports stadiums rarely benefit the places that put up the money. From https://journalistsresource.org/economics/sports-stadium-public-financing/, which breaks down a 2018 study of stadiums: >The findings: Average personal income grew about 1.4% per year over the period studied, regardless of whether there was a sports stadium in the area. The economic effects of sports franchises account for less than 1.5% of local economic activity, measured by personal income, wages and salaries, and wages per job. >The author writes: “The results of this exercise are largely consistent with the findings of Coates and Humphreys and of numerous other studies that have found that the effect of sports franchises and stadium and arena construction on local economies is weak or nonexistent. Indeed, franchises, stadiums, and arenas may be harmful rather than beneficial to the local community.” >The authors “find that a median sports facility generates approximately $11.3 million of annual additional spending for food and accommodation and retail businesses, with the aggregate spillovers varying substantially across facilities and sports.” >The findings: Local economic activity is by and large unaffected by sports stadiums, “and the level of venue subsidies typically provided far exceeds any observed economic benefits,” the authors write. There is “deep agreement in research findings” that “sports venues are not an appropriate channel for local development policy,” they add. ---- As a Cleveland resident and taxpayer, I hope the Haslams have to substantially open up their pocketbooks vs what Cleveland was offering. An aside, but downtown Cleveland and the roads around it are extremely dangerous after games, I'm kind of looking forward to not having to worry about being hit by drunk fans. Let them have fun getting home on 71 and 480W.

I'm sure Jimmy has dreams. Maybe the CLEVELAND (er, Brook Park) LIVE makes it out there.

The Bills stadium uses a TON of Sheriff manpower, I'd imagine it'll be a similar case here.

They were torn down for the NFL Draft.

I could see this kind of going the Pittsburgh route - a lot of the surface parking around Heinz Field/PNC Park has slowly been converted into (mostly) restaurants and parking garages going in as the area evolves. Thing is, a lot of the parking garages are privately owned by their parking king, Alco Parking.

I found some super cheap tickets and decided to go lol Surprising re: attendance numbers - they had the city side nosebleeds covered up. For a brief moment we even got a blue screen of death (unintentional but lol)

I'll admit I haven't been into TC in a minute, the accent lighting is new to me. Despite the photo looking like a deadzone, the entire place is hopping with WWE folks today.

Can't help but add to the shi*post but The Firm was on last night and made me deep dive into the 'Mud Island Monorail', maybe we can get one going to/from the airport! Maybe if we're lucky we get a bass pro pyramid too.

These are some super nice visualizations, thanks for putting in the time!

Assuming BP is it, the real win for NYS (there wasn't much to celebrate TBH) but Pegula's/Bills are responsible for all cost overruns. So the state/county number is concrete. I doubt any other franchise will agree to those terms going forward.

Here's the admission tax figures from their document:

Here's the city press release w/details if anyone's interested: https://www.clevelandohio.gov/news/city-cleveland-proposes-461-million-financing-plan-support-browns-lakefront-stadium

I guess my point is that you'd never know that it's been planned (and some already in progress/complete) from Ed G. and the I-Team. Then again I'd never accuse Ed G./Fox 8 of creating a headline to generate clicks, never! Edit: I looked up photos from last time I wandered down that way - March - at that point they were already jackhammering ramps/concrete and doing a ton of interior work.

I don't believe this is anything new?

Almost positive the Burke viability study was initiated before Jimmy's stadiumapalooza took off.

Someone feel free to correct me, but the CHEERS funding (creating the park off of 55th/72nd marinas out into the lake) is a compromise to moving 90. The only motivating factor for ODOT to move 90 in this stretch was the lake washing up on 90, the CHEERS plan will harden the shoreline and prevent that.

He went on to say that the building is not going to fall down, but students can’t live there. Costs could clock in at a “range of many millions” depending on if the university would want to minimally repair it or do a major overhaul. The university currently owes about $17 million against the property. Edit: Shoot, meant to next this under my signal comment, but this is from the article.