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BUT THE PARKING, WHO WILL THINK OF THE PARKING!?!?!!?! -Some suburbanite, somewhere

So looking at the plat now, the Detroit Superior Viaduct ROW was vacated under ORD 1367-2019 on 12-2-2019. It appears the 'standard highway easment' to the City of Cleveland is still there on the southern end of the property (about 36' off of Detroit towards the north- it looks to serve access to the D-S bridge, ~14,000 Sq. Ft./0.32 acres in area). AFN: 202002040272 for the curious https://recorder.cuyahogacounty.us/searchs/generalsearchs.aspx

I know parcels were definitely consolidated and the row may not have been updated in the GIS. I'll dig up the plat when I'm not on my phone.

Oh most tailgaters do, it's the corporate dollars that want to move it, but I digress lol

A coworker of mine has always been a fan of the area right below Gateway in the flats, it'd be an interesting location...but I'm also not ready to give up on a stadium that was built 21 years ago. I'm a bills fan, our stadium is from the 70's and while it's nothing special, it's not crappy enough to merit a $1B public stadium (ironically, corporate fans want it built in the city/waterfront).

Is there a running list of local cancellations? I'm trying to build out an all in one dashboard and I'd think there's something out there?

Aw man, this stinks. Especially no rescheduling, pass on my apologies to the board @musky! Also pass my thanks along for keeping the public in mind- this had to be a very hard decision for y'all to make.

One of my coworkers just filled me in. He said it was so they could get the diving board in the building- they lowered it down from the roof and into the newly cut window hah! He has a point-when the building was built, boards were much larger because they were wooden and didn't have the composite spring we're now familiar with and were double if not triple the size, which totally and bizarrely makes sense...

Perhaps this is veering into the gentrification thread, but to echo @KJP - NIMBY community involvement is what's caused a lot of this housing shortage and crisis in the country. Locally, look at the hot neighborhoods and the pushback to anything that's more than two family multifamily houses (block groups in particular), which again causes major problems when it comes to the existing population and property values. Taxes are based on what you're able to get for your property if you were to sell on the day of the sexennial valuations being solidified, and the new taxes solidify that, these neighborhoods are now the places to be in the city. Housing is a commodity and that isn't going to ever change in the US, same for city, county, and state services that play into your property taxes. Also, please provide citations for the mass exodus after abatements expire. But back to the topic at hand, I've been at events with the city folks, and woooweee the higher up staff just seem arrogant and unable to see the forest from the trees. It'd really be nice to get a younger, technologically savvy and progressive-ish mayor/cabinet in charge but I won't hold my breath. Edit: By paying for a house (most likely at a much higher property value from the average house price years ago) in one of these abated neighborhoods, aren't you part of the proclaimed gentrification/commodification problem @Cavalier Attitude?

SO how about metro-stockyards? I keep checking this thread (similar to OC thread a while ago) for news on developments but instead come back to more irrelevant talk that is probably better suited to another thread on here. The forum has been good about preventing threads from getting locked, but damn, can't y'all have discourse somewhere more appropriate? Edit: Whoa, low and behold there's a thread for this!

I guess I haven't been down at night lately, it looks amazing with ACTUAL lights on/not construction lights. Great shots @Silent Matt!

I really like the homage to geology in the building design!

Lol I only give that reaction because I'm trying to buy soon and ob is the only place where prices still seem fair by cle standards. "Old Brooklyn, best kept secret" lol

I keep meaning to snag one in the other direction. It's cool seeing this as well as the crane/elevator shafts going up at metro. Next time anyone is on the Pearl road bridge by the zoo you'll see what I mean. Heck, as I type this I can see the crane lights blinking at metro. Such a cool time to be a Clevelander!

What happened to all of the 'google is financing it' talk?

^Awesome. I'll try and snap some pics on a bike ride home one of these days.

I love temporal views like this. If you want another way to see the differences, go to the county GIS viewer and toggle the building footprints. https://gis.cuyahogacounty.us/html5viewer/?viewer=cegis Layers>Property and Use>Building Footprints

Rent prices seem right if that's ONLY the fifth floor! Wow! Props Playhouse Square Foundation!!!!!!

Looking great from the l-c bridge

I'll believe this dude when I see some action outside of shoring up bricks falling off of one of his decrepit buildings. Also I can't help but notice what a cesspool of a twitter he has, yikes.

Good morning from the bike

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This^. If I miss a bus in Old Brooklyn (which is serviced by three 51 busses), I'm SOL for at least 25-30 minutes, if not longer. Other neighborhoods barely have a bus an hour. The last place that needs more transit is OC.

Okay, this Ohio City numbers game is kind of annoying at this point, can y'all talk demographics somewhere else? This week is the first week of demo of the plaza, I'd hope to see some pics (even if they aren't showing a whole heck of a lot!).