GISguy

Blue skies!

I know you probably get tired of it but great scoops here (and not to say your other articles don't require work and great intel but!) you can tell a ton of work went into this. Dropping an afternoon Friday news bomb, catch everyone off-guard, nice! lol

lol nope, so now there's three progressive signs at the entrance. Edit: this is from design review presentation/what was approved

That's a state facility.

You're acting like this isn't coordinated from the city, I doubt this hasn't been discussed internally between high level staffers.

Someone on Browns reddit the other day referred to it as the Brookpark Ballet lol And unrelated to your post but semantics/since I've had to look one too many times for work, the city of Brook Park is two words, Brookpark Rd. makes me question it way too much.

All I'm saying is its not far fetched. Here's TPA International, much larger and busier airport than we have and they have a shopping center and stadium almost right under the flight path. As others have said it's not some pie in the sky idea: these highways carry a lot of ppl with money back to their suburbs and Medina Co. Do I want it? No! But also the Haslam's have plenty to go on with other ownership groups building "villages" to capture all revenue from the franchises (as KJP's pointed out).

hahahaha I hope we don't need to start a UO bail fund.

Hate to play devil's advocate but plenty of developments exist around apartments in other cities. Crocker Park was woods ~20 years ago, Pinecrest was a residential neighborhood <10 years ago, people live above/in both.

WELP that explains why the fencing has been moved waaaaay down W3rd. They fenced in the Eagle bridge and further down towards Carnegie. Noticed that a few weeks ago.

It's the MO with these stupid things. It'd be worth FOIA'ing how many times they've removed these and put them back/time frame. They take them out for larger/weekend events and put them back at the end of the weekend on the regular.

Ceremonial. Each dignitary blew an airhorn and waved a flag and then a barrier got moved. Tad awkward with the trailer behind having to be moved back and forth between the three, but a lot faster than a machine crawling between the three (maybe).

We could use a nice 50 story Econo Lodge downtown, jussayin.

I know twitter links are annoying but don't want to go through video upload, this was one of the more Parks and Rec things I've seen in a while lol

Paid 56k for it at a foreclosure sale. Gotta make back that "investment"! https://cuyahoga.oh.publicsearch.us/doc/168633893

Email from the Exec today that they're going to introduce legislation next week to enter into a lease agreement for 1801/new BOE location.

Very little Lake Erie in this vid, but neat lil kickoff to the 2024/5 shipping season vid from Interlake Steamship Co.

It's been answered above, but bigger frustration is that Metroparks offered to widen the bridge/pedestrian area and the city said no (which is why it's a squeeze right now). They were actually considering putting up a 'will it fit' rack for bike tourers because it's so narrow. Also part of this - the reason there's a loop coming down off the WP bridge is because the city demanded they have access for a crane within that. Oh, and last thing, the fence and pedestrian access is so restricted around the bridge as a condition for the bike path - if there were a bunch of people using the road Ontario Stone/Cargill/city threatened to cut off access. Really awesome stuff from the previous admin.

Carnegie about to get a redo and it's a whole bunch of the same old same old (https://www.clevelandohio.gov/sites/clevelandohio/files/Traffic Advisory/2024-03-07 Design Public Meeting Payne Avenue Part 2 Flyer.pdf) this specific area is from E79 to MLK but I think the state is going to point to the Midway and tell urbanist advocates to shut it- real shame that even with the Opportunity Corridor that we cant get rid of some of these 10 lane roads going towards the CC. There were rumors of something happening to Chester but I haven't heard much about that in at least a year.

If you look at property values in Old Brooklyn ~2018/9 to now it's safe to say it's already there. We're in the midst of getting our second coffee shop in the South Hills, the CDC working to develop the corner of Pearl and Memphis is also going to be transformative. The (almost formerly) poorest streets in the neighborhood exist near the best bones in the hood (Pearl/Broadview-South Brooklyn 'downtown'), I say almost formerly (weird phrasing) because the flippers are ROLLING on some of these streets (woo millennial grey!). We've also got what feels like 39 art galleries on Broadview. It'd be nice if these two developments in Brooklyn Centre had at least a local coffee shop or something - there aren't many full service amenities in BC, great housing stock in this little pocket off Pearl, but not a whole lot to do.

That was an interesting read, thanks.

Biden came out against it, “It is important that we maintain strong American steel companies powered by American steel workers,” said a statement Biden released Thursday. “I told our steel workers I have their backs, and I meant it,” it continued. “U.S. Steel has been an iconic American steel company for more than a century, and it is vital for it to remain an American steel company that is domestically owned and operated.” https://www.cleveland.com/news/2024/03/president-joe-biden-weighs-in-on-us-steel-purchase-by-japanese-company.html?outputType=amp

He's definitely setting the city up for the long-term, but I fear there hasn't been enough near-term wins for him to get a second term. Anything more and it probably belongs in the JB Thread in politics hah

A couple more views from industrial valley/slavic village/77ish