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They're hanging upward facing accent lighting on the trees in Public Square. It'll look nice for the few weeks the leaves are still on for! Snark aside, it'll look nice.

Bummer, but I've heard through the rumor tree that Phoenix has first dibs on the space if CCC were to close. We'll see if it actually happens.

Knez is building multiple homes/owns a bunch of property in Fairfax. Some properties in Clark-Fulton/Metro neighborhood have jumped substantially based on the hospital plans. Platform opened Phunkenship and expanded, coffee shop has gone in, etc. I'd enjoy living off of Scranton but those homes are up in value a bunch too.

The Clinic got their driveway. Now lets take some lanes off of Carnegie and Chester...

This made me look into the funding mechanism for the loan last night, kind of unique how Cleveland does it. Someone correct me if I'm getting this mixed up, but the UDAG (Urban Development Action Grant) is provided by HUD and instead of giving the grants directly to a project Cleveland will loan out of the grant fund and then apply interest towards smaller projects - kind of a win win (in theory). The UDAG is tied directly to job creation (the application said this would create 40 new jobs) as are the projects that come from UDAG interest payments. I'm not a RE writer or genius over here but this is where an hour of googling got me please chime in if I got something wrong.

I hope they use someone other than Appelbaum w/a new administration. His background and "it's in the bag" attitude really was off-putting. Dude made a bunch of money on this though, good for his pocketbook. PS- all that said, council can still ignore this and vote to purchase it

The Justice Center Executive Steering Committee meeting is also currently going on:

I get it, but at the same time why do we always need to settle? It's dramatic, sure, but when every other city does it right why can't Cleveland? We literally have a member of landmarks complaining about height and density of a project across the river and got them to revise designs. Over here it's benches/public features and we're afraid that SHW is going to leave over them, come-on. Edit: and we (the taxpayers) gave them over $100M in subsidies. I think it's fair to demand better of SHW.

boooo! lol

Exactly...cities and companies alllll over the country have figured a way to coexist in downtown settings. When you're in Boston, NYC, Chicago, Pittsburgh, etc., they still manage to integrate pedestrians into building design. Also with Key and most of our large office buildings downtown, members of the public are able to go inside (not to elevators), but can at least take in the space. SHW on the flipside is doing the bare minimum and the city/county/state has been a-ok with it, despite dolling out millions in subsidies.

Sooo it's not named after Mimi from the Drew Carrey Show...noted.

idk what they're called, banners?, but the banners on the lightpoles coming across the Lorain Carnegie bridge have advertisements up for Tower City. Idk what lit the fire under Gilbert (NBA ASG?, water damage finally cleaned up?), but after owning it for however many years and not doing anything they sure have been on a tear with it lately.

Sharrows are useless and should be banned as a tool for bike infra. I do like the idea of making bike boulevards though...as long as they don't make ppl go out of their way to get from x to z. Too many times bike routes and bike boulevards don't take time and distance into consideration. All that said, it's absolutely wild that this will take $150-200k to develop...I need to get into consulting, what a ripoff.

My coworker made this! Awesome to see it here.

They're adding another 200 feet! Amazing. lol kidding.

There are plenty of places in the city that offer a yard and access to public amenities (and public transit). For instance, I rent in Old Brooklyn and my yard is massive, my walk to the bus takes 5 minutes and I can get to the city center in 25 mins (bus) or 30 mins (bike). There's many similar spots in Cleveland (see the middle neighborhoods initiative)...you just don't hear about them because they aren't hip in the Tremont/OC/DS/LI sense. To bring it back to the thread topic: sure, as long as companies are run by traditional suits who value their freeway access and free parking, business campuses and industry will be built out in the middle of nowhere but good luck getting non-C suite employees. It's shortsighted on the bigwigs' part. The region has sponsored the Paradox Prize which is working to figure out ways to get workers to employment centers because they're inaccessible to transit and anything but a car. I've brought it up before, but a young adult I mentor lived in Garfield/Maple Heights and had a job at the Euclid Amazon warehouse...he wasn't able to keep up with the job because his bus ride was 1.5 hours each way for a 20-30 minute drive. Now do it with employees who live in the city - to go from Hough to Solon is a 1.5 hour bus ride when it's a 30-40 minute drive. Sure, execs love their free parking and their palatial estates but it means nothing if you can't get employees to man your businesses - they'll use the excuse of "nobody wants to work" when in reality, there are better paying jobs that don't require 15 hours of commute over a week.

Said it on twitter and I'll say it here: Perkins aesthetic lol

To double down on what @KFM44107 said and to add some county perspective: I think a lot of things are suspended or emergency ordinances to get around bureaucracy - for instance, for something to get through county council it takes three readings - the initial where it's referred to committee (second reading), and then back to full council for a total of three meetings. Something that could be decided in 20 minutes now takes however long it takes to get the council together for those times.

Ok - kind of development related - but we stood up a site for folks to review all sorts of fiscal information that used to be in forms and hard to search - you can find your tax distribution and recent sales (Value Information Site section), TIF Maps/Abatement Maps/Municipal Impact Numbers (Incentive Information Site Section), and more for muni's and taxing authorities but can download documents too (Taxing Authority Site). All this can be found here: https://fiscalgishub.cuyahogacounty.us/ The TIF and Abatements sections will probably be of largest concern to the forum, but figured it'd be a nice tool to share!

That's great to know. We're lucky to have him while we do!

I fully expected him to pick it up and end up in a huge metro with the quality of his work, excited he's sticking around. I poked around on their site and all their reporting salaries start at $75k, that has to be very competitive for the NEO media landscape.

Estimated cost of jail w/interest- Jail: $725M Interest: $1.2 BILLION Total: $~2B This DOES NOT include a court tower which is estimated to cost $1B. Absolutely friggin' wild, even moreso that they're trying to strap a new executive with this, after having years and years to work this through.

Their current studios add pretty much nothing to the street other than a building wrap advertising CW shows and now their channel branding. Seems like there could be a better use for this quiet part of downtown.

Yooo, these are some good adds. I actually opted for Nuevo the other day - not knockout but also pretty good. The surrounding stalls are going to have to step up their game a bit to keep customers. Now I just wish we still had two competing chinese spots in there - the one in the corner was better (and cheaper!) than Cajun Joes or whatever they call themselves lol. Also, last week the patio area was open, idk the last time I was able to venture out there - 3-4 years ago?

Here's the City Club Debate from today: