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The lights get replaced, the poles don't. At least that's how they did it in Old Brooklyn. Also, just getting it out there there's a cool web application to track the progress of the conversion: https://portal.cdmsmithgis.com/portal/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=c2594ce94b1646fa887845679bb1361d

They sure don't seem to be messing around! Wohoo. Are there any webcams near the market/facing that way?

If Allegiant also wants to play ball at Burke, it could be a pretty decent spot/shot in the arm that it needs.

So this kind of intersects with a few projects in here- soccer stadium, possible jail relocation, etc.- thoughts? "The Ohio Department of Transportation plans to auction off 28.72 acres in downtown Cleveland late this year. The state acquired most of the land in 2011 to provide access and construction-staging areas for the Inner Belt project." https://www.cleveland.com/business/2020/02/odot-to-sell-land-near-progressive-field-including-site-considered-for-soccer-stadium.html

Suburbanites have their Solon and North Olmsted strip malls and ample free parking. Whenever I go to a major city I always expect parking to be a major pain and plan accordingly. There's no need for us to build a multi-million dollar parking garage that will NEVER be paid for no matter how many people park there vs investing in a transit system, rail, etc. NEO really needs to get over their fetishization of ample parking and convenient drive times. The bus and rail (and active transpo) should always be faster than driving, ODOT just has their priorities all messed up. And to further derail this, people in all of the food groups here complain about WSM parking despite that lot never being full, like, ever. The resurfacing also added spaces, yet people still complain. People here will always complain about parking no matter how ample it is, or the fact it might be a block from their destination. Also, don't get me started on free weekend parking...

If only there was a thing like public transit to get people in and out of the city ?. Parking in the CBD shouldn't be convenient or cheap - two things that are so annoying about Cleveland.

This isn't QUITE the same, but reminds me of a place I used to work in PA - Southpointe, it's more in the middle of nowhere, but still, sea of parking lots and housing for short term visitors/really dedicated employees. It was terrible (here's the 'main street'). Hopefully it's more Crocker than anything else, but from the renderings it doesn't quite look it (I know, I know, it's just a 'what if' rendering at this point...but still).

Speaking of transit, it's also a major transfer point for busses!

JFC, I'm excited! Even if it takes 10 years to pan out our parking lot crater filled downtown is hopefully a thing of the past! It really seems like the incentive packages will really pay off (at least in Cleveland vs Brecksville). I'm really looking forward to the progress of this- just knowing it's going to get built is an amazing feeling unlike some other projects that keep getting dangled out there (*cough cough* NuCLEus).

Foggy Euclid without skyscrapers

Shameless Plug (feel free to delete/blow this up/move it), but speaking of breweries and the old sanborn maps I've got it on here: https://veganbrisket.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=19628b56e7f8479c9261b7700272616c as well as other breweries of yore.

If anyone is looking for a Finance Job with Detroit Shoreway Development Corp I just got an alert on indeed - it shows 80-100k which seems nuts for a CDC job! I'd post a link, but my employer probably wouldn't appreciate an indeed click lol Also, unrelated but the NEO GIS Symposium is coming up- great networking for area GIS professionals, as well as those in tons of other fields that use GIS in their day to day. I belive they should be announcing what the sessions are soon: https://neohiogis.org/

lol what a world. Wine drinking millenial here. Maybe it's because I grew up in wine country in WNY, but I can get some amazing wine for 10-20 a bottle when I travel home. Sure it might not have the 'pedigree' of a California zip, but whatever. I bring stuff from Johnson Estates (check it out next time you're going E on 90) to tons of places and it always gets solid reviews! But let the prices drop, maybe I'll hook into something different when my cases go dry lol.

@surfohio is that a photo of the actual tunnel? If it's yours great shot! Reminds me a tad of a claustrophobic version of Detroit's. It's crazy what small aesthetic things such as lighting can add to either a concourse walkway or tunnel.

You can see it from downtown pretty well from the street. Here's a view from Gateway Garage.

As promised, @KJP Symbolized from low (blue) to high (red) permit numbers. The numbers represent how many permits there were filed in 2019. And by value of permits: PS I can provide higher resolution if need be- just trying to reduce my uploads on here!

Thanks Ken, let me see what I can cook up around lunchtime.

Where's the permits chart from? I'll see if I can juxtapose something in there with the Cleveland Wards. I know it wasn't your intention on the original post, but here's a map that I put together based on 2017 internet data. From what I understand ISP's can cook the books pretty hard on the Form 477 data. If ONE person on the street has the download speeds that the government is asking for, it counts as covering the entire street...

Was just going through my google memories and here's a shot I took in 2018. I wish I had my good camera at the time!

For sure. I guess the narrow streets just help highlight the older architecture a bit better down there/makes it feel like there's more, not to mention our topography here is a bit different and things aren't forced to be squeezed together in the Golden Triangle. But that's a topic for another thread ? didn't mean to drag things, thanks for pointing that out.

I've mentioned this before, but I was driving a friend's friend around and he said downtown looked out of the soviet era (harsh) but he did have a little point with all of the conservative architecture and real lack of colors that aren't brown, grey, and black. When we get more things like this our downtown will really have an interesting feel to it. I wish we had a ton of our old downtown architecture like Pittsburgh, but we don't, so here we are- filling in craters where awesome buildings once stood. Here's to this being a future 'awesome building' on Euclid.

The Justice Center actually needs it though. It isn't built for today, as is the case with most brutalist buildings (they don't play well with networking equipment, wifi, etc.). The stadium on the other hand is already essentially a skeleton. There's a reason why older stadiums can continue to be renovated and upgraded vs built new.