CleCaneFan

I think Francona has enough pieces/parts in the outfield to get decent production, the bullpen though......?

Correct, but selling all his dealerships? That's been mentioned nowhere unless you were talking tongue-in-cheek?

Say what?

Saw this in today's PD and thought of Marty?

If the aerial-tram idea could work anywhere, why not from Scranton Peninsula right into Tower City (as long as it could clear commercial river traffic)?

My dad was a Pipefitter Superintendent on that Tower City project (now retired) and I remember him giving my brothers and I a behind-the-scenes tour one evening while it was still under construction....I'm excited to possibly get an opportunity to be part of building the next chapter in TC's story.

I'm in the Carpenters Union here in town and this is absolutely true; with all the work going on right now, the projects slated to begin later this year (Nucleus, TC, OC projects, Pace lakefront, FEB etc) I don't know where all the labor is going to come from....I cant even imagine if SW had pulled the trigger on a new tower!

I'm guessing revealing primary sources now would get people in some serious trouble with NDA's and whatnot

While I'm excited about the prospect of potentially working on this, and the announcement of new investment & construction activity is pretty much always welcome news around here, I'm not overly excited about the concept being proposed here myself. While the potential "tech/blockchain" jobs sounds terrific, where are they coming from? (Guessing we'll know more as tenants are announced); how much public funding is in this? How much from the private sector? The redo of Prospect Ave & W2 sounds promising, but the potential loss of such a magnificent indoor civic space is reason for pause (I love taking my kids down there for the Winterfest & Toy Soldier show). Theres just so much about this we don't know and I'm just hoping that this redo will still allow public access & civic use when it's all said and done.

One would think that Bedrock would be close to announcing their plans for TC relatively soon given that physical work there is imminent; would Bedrock need to go before the city to get any designs approved for the space or since its strictly interior work would it just have to jive with whatever its zoned for and pull the necessary building permits?

Taking into account what I've been hearing on my company's end and some other rumblings/"rumors", whatever is about to happen at TC seems much more ambitious & costly than a data/call center imo

The company I work for (fairly large Cle-based GC/CM) has/had laborers at TC demo-img old retail spaces, including this past Sunday ( those of you not familiar with the Union building trades should know that Sunday work is double-time) so the heat is on to get these spaces ready for whatever's coming next; we've already been told by our superintendent that we've got more work coming at TC (not demo) later this spring/summer so something's definitely afoot down there.