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Someone posted a shot from one of the lifts on r/Cleveland, if I wasn't on my work computer I'd post the link but it's got to be the top thing on there right now.

^ the human construction cam - great view!

*Potatoes

SimCity2000 strategy, I (and my cities) dig it. I don't think Burke will allow for construction of Arcos though...

Any story behind the chunk of façade that's missing here?

From 2/15: Post Brite Winter angle that will be plugged in:

*airhorn noises*

I was off work with COVID and it gave me the perfect opportunity to tune into the Budget Hearings (woo, exciting times). I mentioned it on twitter but NOACA's Grace Gallucci did a great job taking the heat from Patton while also hitting back with facts and rational responses. I think Gallucci helped show that Patton's argument wasn't in good faith and Rep Skindell did a great job voicing just how many people have been involved up until this point (Patton had said that not all stakeholders were involved, which was a crock of it). Really great job by all involved. I still think Patton deserves to get booed at the St. Pats Parade for burying a poison pill 175 pages into a bill, but that's just me.

I don't think a stadium belongs right downtown - Lakeside or otherwise. Just me thinking on my own w/o knowledge but it sure seems that the area around Lakeside and St. Clair has a ton of potential that doesn't involve tearing down a bunch of buildings for parking lots. Not sure what life a stadium would add for all the hype that everyone's speaking about...I mean the stadium's sat on a gold mine of a site for 20 years and the only development has been tearing down of a warehouse for the draft. Also (to continue w/the negative tone) a superbowl is NOT worth it to a host city - the amount of money that host cities spend on placating the NFL is atrocious. Totally against UO standards, but I'd be fine with them building in like Summit/Lorain/Ashtabula County - let their taxpayers take up the burden for once.

Rumor floating around is a Haslam threat of moving the Brownies and using the stadium as bait.

I've got a BikeCle meeting at 6, but it's in the right neighborhood to head over after..

People are dying to get into that neighborhood

Not super important and more factoid than anything but the reason you see so many parcels here is because you're looking at air rights in addition to area parcels. It really doesn't come across well in our viewers because really, you're mapping 3D space in a 2D environment. Same goes for condo points...

County Imagery shows desolation a little bit better lol - click the eagleview link to see 360 of oblique imagery.. https://gis.cuyahogacounty.us/html5viewer/?viewer=cegis&layerTheme=&scale=1128.497176&basemap=YWVyaWFscw%3D%3D&center=-9093275.175926978%2C5086508.699906481&layers=1PxIHe2k%2FQXp

I wonder if they'll keep the public tv or the public art around...sidenote this was a sleeper of a street - I was jealous of those houses when I first biked over that way.

A lot of them also have separate entrances (which may be illegal now?). But if fancy/self important ppl can't interact with "normal" people then maybe they shouldn't live downtown. Anywho....

Quick q: what are the locations of DORAs in Cuyahoga Co? Figure this is a better source than googling lol

I mean the person you replied to is a CPD officer so I think it's welcome insight and far from defeatist. The police have been trying to get their numbers up for years, it's not like it's on Bibb or an overnight phenomenon. It's most likely due to a lack of long term planning that government can be so bad at. I went through the budget yesterday and I'd recommend diving in. Page 45 lists the percentages that departments gained (or lost) in funding (to the Bibb hates the police crowd, they got a 3% funding bump), and page 48 goes through which positions existed in 2022 and will/won't in 2023. The individual department pages go into a lot more detail. Signal/Nick Castele has had the most transparent reporting and non-click baity headlines out of all of this, it's refreshing to see. The entire document is here: https://www.clevelandohio.gov/sites/default/files/forms_publications/2023MayorsEstimate.pdf

Whoaaaaa mad props.

I enjoyed the folks telling the DEVELOPER that his plans are wrong. Hotels aren't doing well! Retail is dying! Hotels bring bad people! I'd venture to guess a lot of these folks work in business parks with hotels, retail, and all that jazz. They also act like the VA was some bucolic building. White people, man.

Almost any time I fly I'm on Frontier or Spirit. If you know what you're getting into it's absolutely fine - I call it the Greyhound of the sky when describing it to folks. They aren't in the flashiest part of airports and you'll prob have to hike to their gate but I'm cheap. If you need to get somewhere on the cheap and don't expect ANY extras you'll be fine (drinks, snacks, power at your seat, a normal sized tray table, screen, etc. (lol, the list goes on...)). And yes, the seats are a few steps up from like the RTA's hard plastic seats. It makes flying one of the legacy carriers a real treat in comparison.

Anyone headed to the Bike CLE annual meeting tonight?

Decided to make a pitstop before Goldhorn. Sterles from today. Just like the playhouse, please be mindful sharing these out. It's like they closed and nothing changed- there's still a menu on the kitchen whiteboard, notes, menus, etc. . The most damage is in the kitchen and area above it. What a bummer.

They're starting to frame the outside of the second floor, so we'll start seeing it sooner than later.