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Another neat perspective to see it rise:

Cleveland police to increase ‘unarmed uniformed’ presence on Public Square (From DCA's LinkedIn Page) Today, Downtown Cleveland Alliance (DCA) and the Cleveland Division of Police (CDP) are opening a Co-Deployment Center on the first floor of Tower City Center. DCA’s collaboration with city leadership continues to help offer a welcoming environment at the city’s core. This is a national best practice, and we hope to expand the program assuming it is successful. More information can be found below... DOWNTOWN CLEVELAND ALLIANCE’S CLEAN AND SAFE TEAM AND CLEVELAND DIVISION OF POLICE OPENING A NEIGHBORHOOD CO-DEPLOYMENT CENTER IN TOWER CITY DCA and CDP collaboration to open November 16th in Tower City Center DOWNTOWN CLEVELAND – Downtown Cleveland Alliance (DCA) and the Cleveland Division of Police (CDP) are opening a Co-Deployment Center on the first floor of Tower City Center Wednesday, November 16th. DCA’s collaboration with city leadership continues to help offer a welcoming environment at the city’s core. The new center will house two Neighborhood Safety Specialists and two Downtown Services Unit officers. They will specifically focus on the Public Square and contiguous areas surrounding it in an effort of increasing unarmed uniformed visibility through DCA resources along with on-duty law enforcement. After several months, the group will assess the deployment and location and adjust if appropriate. DCA always encourages residents and visitors that if you observe criminal behavior, please call 9-1-1 immediately. For anyone seeking clean, safe, and welcoming services, please call 216-621-6000 between the hours of 7am and midnight, seven days a week. There is access to full-time outreach specialists, whose primary duties are to support those unsheltered and underserved in the community. WHAT: Co-Deployment Center – providing an increased offering of unarmed uniformed visibility to the Downtown Cleveland area WHEN: Opening Wednesday, November 16th, 2022 · Operating Wednesday – Sunday from 8PM to Midnight WHERE: First Floor, Tower City Center WHO: Cleveland Division of Police in collaboration with Downtown Cleveland Alliance’s Clean and Safe Team Related Story: https://www.cleveland19.com/2022/11/16/cleveland-police-increase-unarmed-uniformed-presence-public-square/

WeWork is a terrible company but that's a discussion for another part of the forum. Searching google for "coworking spaces downtown Cleveland" yields a bunch of results. It looks like quite a few are scattered in the downtown core.

The county is a big part of the microgrid project as well.

Just gotta say the election was not close at all. I really expected it to be much more competitive. Chris Ronayne (DEM) . . . . . . . 240,108 - 63.79% Lee Weingart (REP) . . . . . . . 136,050 - 36.14% WRITE-IN. . . . . . . . . . . 273 - .07% Over Votes . . . . . . . . . 174 Under Votes . . . . . . . . . 28,335

And to your point @LlamaLawyerI really hope the 3C's can flex our power at some point...

I'm guessing? additional blown-in insulation. He was saying they could hear their neighbors, uh, hanging out, while they were watching TV multiple times.

With you a million percent @jonoh81. Your last sentence really brought it home - it's been years of chipping away at things to breed such apathy. Now that the SC is completely red it's only going to get worse. I think part of getting more people engaged is not just using folks for photo ops and instead engaging with the poor, weak, and downtrodden. I don't think people realize that things like the food bank expansion up here in Cleveland is a result of federal dollars, or the lack of transit is a result of state lawmakers not caring, or that the cost of electricity is burdened by HB6 and the surrounding corruption. It also takes a ton of energy and resources to be engaged - a lot of these neighborhoods barely have accessible internet access.

My coworker moved into Intro a couple months ago and it sounds like they're working out kinks left and right. Walls are thin (apparently they're working on fixing that), some fixtures didn't work and stuff like that. I'd imagine this is an issue with any new build and tight move-in schedule, but yeah..

This - if folks don't think politicians are working for them or care about them what's the incentive to vote? There are 1000 other things to worry about and caring about some unknown politician (congressperson, judge, etc.) is exponentially low on that list when you can't put food on the table.

I was definitely a bit more salty than was necessary because I do want him to succeed and our city to succeed. I also get the point of him traveling and promoting the city but yeah, last weeks events really showed a lapse in his (and his staff's judgement). There's a ton of red tape and issues with our current system, if he can cut through even a tiny bit of it good for him and us(!).

This'll be a neat spot to watch it rise:

I get your point, but COVID absolutely decimated their downtown workforce. I work across the street - I've seen like 2-3 people come out of there when I'm on my lunch breaks and their cafeteria on the first floor has been empty save 1-2 people most days. I swear the county brought us back into the office just to subsidize Geis' parking garage and Heinens. Downtown work ain't what it used to be.

lol I forgot the name, I was thinking the same thing. We'll quickly see a "what's a Pugu" comment if the past is any indicator.

I've kind of soured on Bibb and I'm tired of him doing cheerleading trips and his people defending him through all the criticism, but this an extreme sky is falling type comment. Please tell us more about how he treats his staff and waitstaff? Let us in on all of this insider info that you seem to have. I'm over his honeymoon period, and I think a lot of other folks are really, really tired of the photo ops and attention without seemingly any action that he's had. I get it, the bureaucracy is absolutely wild in our city but from my perspective I've seen so little change that it's really getting to me. He campaigned on a lot of ideas, notably the "People Over Cars" mantra and hooboy I've seen nothing other than small scale pilot programs and a planning director that doesn't like criticism (why is the midway taking 47 years? where are contiguous bike lanes/networks? why are we building 'speed tables' and not installing permanent speed bumps?, etc.). It's a thankless profession - I don't want it, but still, I want to see something. At least my councilwoman Rebecca Maurer is transparent and is putting out information on all the issues, we need the same from our Mayor and his team.

Friendly reminder that once the article gets written out/published for the news tomorrow you can access it free through library resources. Same goes for Crain's digital access.

He's not Frank, but my frustration with Bibb is starting to mount. Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb abruptly ends interview when pressed about resident response to leaf pickup https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/local-news/cleveland-metro/cleveland-mayor-justin-bibb-abruptly-ends-interview-when-questioned-about-leaf-pickup-upsetting-residents

Stopped by biking home last night - you can tell metro has safety in mind - the park is lit up like its day:

Well??? lol kidding

Oh man, reading this is an exercise in seeing just how NEO leaders kick themselves over and over. Most notably the portion about how they made money from the sale of HQ and all of that jazz. To borrow a line from South Park ...annnnnnd it's gone.

Ok, the building is great and all but how am I supposed to get ahold of Marie now?

There's a restroom in the rebol building - like outdoor access, but I've never actually tried to use it during the day. The city also made a point of having a trailer restroom on PS this summer - not sure if that'll come back once the ice rink is around.

Browns subreddit has been fun - if tickets keep dropping I might have to make my way back downtown tonight to see the bengals play...