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This is from last month. Build out already started and set to open later this year...https://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/2024/05/natures-oasis-to-open-natural-food-store-in-ohio-city.html

Cleveland is a unique situation in terms of retail because you essentially have 5 large concentrations of retail within a 20 minute drive or less of the city with Pinecrest, Crocker, Legacy Village, Van Aken and Steelyard. In my opinion all of the retail at these places should be downtown but instead it is spread out and makes it so that these national retail chains dont feel the area can support another location downtown that close to the other.

Not Cilantro but Condado is going in the the spot next to the old Galley and walking by you can see plenty of work being done. Also, Royal Docks was just at Landmarks getting their sign approved recently. I agree that at the moment it is very car centric and kind of isolated from the West 25th street foot traffic. But this all changes in my mind when you add Irishtown Bend there in a couple years. There will be massive amounts of foot traffic from that which is why it surprises me they dont have any foresight to that with this project.

Is the Hilton Motto still part of this project or is it just apartments now?

I dont know how to post a tweet on here. But someone from CBRE posted that the old Platform Brewery on Lorain Ave is already under contract to Scared Water Kava Bar.

I guess.. but now not only are billions of dollars being spent on putting a stadium in Brookpark Ohio but now we also need to pay millions more just to actually get people there? Just seems like there's a better solution on a stadium location. Maybe somewhere that already has the public transportation infrastructure and multiple highways around it.

Was listening to Baskin and Phelps on my way to lunch today and according to them the traffic problem a stadium in Brookpark will cause is actually really simple to solve. To them we just need to rethink our public transportation routes and instead of having a rapid line go through downtown we just need to build one along 480 from the eastern suburbs to the airport/new stadium completely skipping downtown and all will be solved.....

I will play devils advocate. Does it actually benefit a NWSL team to be in a market that already has an MLS team or would it be more beneficial to be in a market that currently does not have a professional soccer team at all so it would be the main draw in terms of soccer? Wouldn't there be a lot of people in Cinci who will have to decide whether they are going to switch their season tickets to NWSL over MLS? You wouldn't have that problem in Cleveland.

There is a concept called The Red Shed on the Landmarks Commission agenda that looks to be some sort of coffee shop going on West 32nd street near Franklin. I really like the look of this.

I know people like defending Lakewood but living there you still need to be worried about all the same types of crime you do in the city that you normally don't in other suburbs. All the neighborhood crime maps show this as well. But like I said anytime anything happens you only would know about it if you are on Lakewood Reddit or the Lakewood community fb page.

There's plenty of crime in Lakewood that happens. It just doesn't get reported the same way as crime in Cleveland does because it doesn't fit the "cities are dangerous, suburbs are safe" narrative the news likes to portray.

I'll stick up for Jaja because their food, atmosphere and service are all top notch. They had a consistency problem in the beginning but that seems to have been ironed out. Evidenced by it being difficult to get a reservation at a decent time a few weeks out. I think it will be around for a long time.

It's a quick train ride and about a 20 minute walk from Ohio City. Not sure how this is any more or less disconnected than Progressive.

I have mixed feelings about this. On one hand I liked CHA and its a bummer to see it close again but on the other, a dedicated sushi restaurant is one of the few restaurant categories Ohio City doesn't currently have. I think this can do really well if done right. https://www.clevescene.com/food-drink/cha-pizza-in-ohio-city-to-close-issho-ni-ramen-team-to-open-izakaya-and-omakase-sushi-restaurant-44306177

I'm still not convinced the post office site is completely out of play. Look what just happened in Chicago. It just makes too much sense.

Even if the stadium is in Brook park though I think you would still find those same thousands of people downtown on event weekends because they will need somewhere to stay aside from whatever hotel is near the stadium/airport. Once they are downtown they would also have no reason to go to the stadium other than for event time with all the bars/restaurants near their hotels downtown.

IF the Brookpark move happens I don't really see the loss to Downtown hotels/bars being all that much to be honest. This development will be lucky to get more than one hotel which would be shared with normal airport use. You have 30+ hotels downtown or near it so most people will still need to be staying downtown and going to the bars/restaurants near their hotels downtown before and after the events.

I was thinking the same but it also said local products, a bakery, cafe, community education etc. No Trader Joes I have been to has any of this. It sounds more like a Daves or the Meijer they just put in Fairfax.

That's what everyone on the Lakewood Facebook page is saying already but is Trader Joes really considered a "Boutique Grocer" like the article says?

Bridge/Carroll/Jay

Yes McCafferty Health Center near 41st

Not sure if any of this is new info but I was at a Block Club meeting last night and the majority of the meeting was derailed due to concerns related to lack of parking with the Lorain Midway project. To mitigate the parking concerns it was mentioned that there is an RFP going out soon for the McCafferty site on Lorain Ave and it will most likely have some form of public parking garage element to it. I've been waiting for this site to be developed but hoping its more than just a giant parking garage. Best case would be a public parking garage with apartments/condos on top and some retail.

Isn't he only closing the original one on Superior and still keeping Tower City or did I miss something? Edit: Just saw the Instagram post. Closing for reasons out of their control. This is a bummer.

I am still holding out hope for this. There's 80+ acres here. The Haslam's could do a lot with that and would control all of it. Plus maybe the city offers up some of the development rights on the Lakefront to mitigate the loss of parking revenue they would get in Brookpark. Having all of the sports facilities near each other would also guarantee foot traffic all year round.

Not so fast. Sounds like this is far from over and negotiations are still under way to keep it downtown. https://www.crainscleveland.com/sports-recreation/cleveland-mayor-justin-bibb-looks-keep-browns-downtown