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There's a reason the renovation got a whole segment on national news. As someone who was a middle schooler during the old museum days and a young adult post-renovation, despite not being the intended audience the level of quality and care to the exhibits and new technologies is 110% an improvement. Just went two weeks ago and was thoroughly impressed. Edit: I was recently in Pittsburgh and stopped by their natural history museum. The quality of their museum is undoubtedly impressive and I had a great time, but boy it takes bit to get through all of it, especially if you're also doing the art museum. Me and my partner were literally speedrunning it lol. In comparison I felt the CMNH was the perfect length for an afternoon.

Bumping some positive Cleveland news! Cleveland Clinic teams up with Miami University on new quantum computing program https://www.crainscleveland.com/health-care/cleveland-clinic-miami-university-partner-quantum-computing-program TL;DR State’s first specialized degree programs and research opportunities in quantum computing Creating a robust ecosystem that will attract, educate and retain top talent, while providing unparalleled opportunities for innovation New degree programs offered at Miami will be at the bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral levels Miami University also will have a physical location near the Clinic’s main campus as part of the Cleveland Innovation District University officials are already evaluating potential locations based on proposals from the Clinic Quantum sector is ripe for job growth, citing an economic impact report by The Quantum Insider, which projected the sector to generate approximately 250,000 new jobs by 2030 Clinic sees the partnership as one piece of that larger goal of building a quantum computing ecosystem in Northeast Ohio These are the kinds of innovative partnerships and thinking we need in the region. I feel Cleveland should be going all in on becoming a hot region for quantum computing. Let's bring those tech jobs here!

Interesting way to frame this LlamaLawyer, I never really thought about it that way. However I'll just say that San Jose is half the distance to San Francisco as Cleveland/Cincinnati are to Columbus and I think Bay Area regionalism is stronger compared to the individual regionalism still prevalent in the 3Cs which are competing with eachother. I remember in my ethics of engineering class at OSU recently learning from an industry exec about the aerospace infrastructure the state is trying to build up by leveraging NASA Glenn/OAI and Wright-Patt with Central Ohio companies to create jobs/supply chains between the three regions. I hope you're right and that other industries will follow suit and benefit all, not just one or another.

I def understand the Intel requirements - my response to the original post was that I'm more concerned with TeamNEO and friends securing large and relevant investments from nationally-recognized companies in general, whether that be sprawling acreage or not - Intel was just my example. I'm sure there are a lot of investments that could be made to attract thousands of workers to the area for say a tech company or national firm where they need a vertical office building instead of hundreds of acres, but I question the effectiveness of local and state orgs in promoting our region since those projects aren't happening here either. I guess I'm just tired of seeing news articles both local and national of these developments that say "X is building a shiny new plant in Ohio and will generate thousands of jobs over the next decade and oh look Ohio has such potential, what a great win for Ohio!" when it's clear they're only talking about Central Ohio. Also @X maybe this resource would be helpful? https://properties.zoomprospector.com/OhioNEO?page=1&s[SortDirection]=true&s[radiusLat]=0&s[radius]=0&s[radiusLng]=0&s[SortBy]=maxsize&s[IsBuilding]=false&s[SizeUnits]=1 There is one 1,000+ site in all of NEO and it's actually in Wayne County. Near Grafton there are two adjacent sites that when combined = 600+ acres, but otherwise everything within reasonable driving distance of CLE is 300ac or less.

Replying here instead of in the Cliffs thread: If this is true, I find it hard to believe they couldn't find ANY available land in Lorain or Medina county for the Intel plant. And now this Anduril project in Pickaway County... if Team NEO isn't inept, then I can only guess either every major company wants 1,000+ acres of land wherever they develop or the state of Ohio itself only cares about promoting Central Ohio to companies for billion dollar investments with thousands of jobs and not anywhere else. I guess I'd just like proof that TeamNEO is and has been actually trying to lure these big developments and not just letting them slip away. 😑 Rant over

Right, this is akin to saying "Dublin developments are negatively affecting downtown Columbus!" but nowhere near as large I'm looking forward to seeing the final product once it's all built out - could be an interesting area adjacent to the big R&D tenants. Vibrant cities are important, but suburbs with nice amenities are (fortunately/unfortunately?) important for the region too

While I certainly don't want this move to happen I'll play devil's advocate here for a sec: Does moving the headquarters actually change any of the operations in Cleveland? Or are we talking a few execs and corporate workers move to the USS building in Pittsburgh and we call it a day, then all the existing Cliffs infrastructure in Cleveland just gets renamed USS and the jobs are retained for the most part. Genuinely curious - I have no knowledge of how steel businesses operate lol

I reckon they could fill in the wall and remove the one way road then remove the bridge to W 3rd after that without affecting the existing truss work over the brick Main Ave. Add some modern overhead lighting, plantings, and updated sidewalk - boom. I'm not a bridge engineer though so don't quote me on that lol

Wake up, huge money just dropped! Cleveland receives nearly $70 million federal grant for downtown lakefront project https://www.cleveland.com/cityhall/2025/01/cleveland-receives-nearly-70-million-federal-grant-for-downtown-lakefront-project.html This is in addition to the $60 mil received in October. That we know of now, it appears now that at least EDIT: $150 mil / $450 mil (33%) of the project is funded. Still a long way to go but things are in motion😃 "The city is aiming to break ground on the first phase in 2027. That work — pegged at $100 million total — is expected to include the demolition of the stretch of Shoreway along the Main Avenue bridge, which runs from West Ninth Street to Erieside Avenue, and the demolition of the current West Third Street bridge. It would also include the construction of a new West Third Street bridge, which will be wider and better accommodate foot and bicycle traffic, and the construction of the new Shoreway boulevard between West Third Street and East Ninth Street. Bibb intends to pursue the plan whether or not the Browns extend their lease at the lakefront stadium, according to city officials." Mods can we unlock the lakefront thread and move this post there? Thx!

Legend says they're still waiting to this day...

And the additional residential should hopefully boost the foot traffic. I'm impatiently waiting on this Arcadia development across the street though. That thing was approved in like, 2023? and its 2025? 😑

I know it's not that simple but if the city could mandate that utility lines are buried for all roadway improvement projects, it would eventually eliminate the power line problem lol And it just overall really helps with the beautification process

I can try! but I don't know when I'll get to it - I'm spread thin at the moment trying to wrap up a big project I wanna share by the end of the month 😯

Almost nothing on the planning commission agenda to kick off the new year tomorrow, but the one item is big and its the Canal Basin Park. Here's the presentation: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/v5ay5i591zgqfszr78lrx/ADxouXcPwfTBXjkTEettKD4?dl=0&e=1&preview=20241206+Planning+Commission+Presentation+-+Canal+Basin.pdf&rlkey=m2ggjkfyv0i7hilp8vwbvwsh8&st=t17h80i8 Looks as though they are past the community planning phase of the project and are now presenting to the commission for conceptual approval. They were originally supposed to present at the December 06, 2024 meeting.

A little end of year ITB update pano:

JCU Gateway North was approved by planning commission. Construction starts May 2025, finishes by December 2026. Grocer still unnamed but is a “specialty boutique grocery store” that “sells a lot of its own items and which has a following and is not a large grocery store".

Doesn't it say stabilization will finish in early 2025 though, not 2026?

Well we don't know the population really is 1,249,418 because it's an estimate, but your point is still valid! Now that I think about it, I was comparing 5-year data (which is the most accurate) as a year-to-year which is actually a no-no because it actually an amalgamation of the past 5 years data (so, apologies on my part!). If you want to use the ACS 5-year 2023 (which is a more accurate than ACS 1-year), then you can only realistically compare it to the 2018 dataset because the 2018 data is entirely independent from the 2023 data: Cuyahoga County ACS 2018 5-Year = 1,253,783 Cuyahoga County ACS 2023 5-Year = 1,249,418 Total = -4,365 over 5 years This five-year comparison would be much more accurate. Problem is, it tell you nothing about the trend since 2020, because the year-to-year could vary wildly in between and you'd still get this total. For example we could've lost 10k people between 2018 and 2020 but then gained 6k since 2020 (still net -4k), which could be a case where the county is in fact gaining population since the last census. I'm not a professional but this is just my understanding of what I've learned from studying the Census's various explanations for their methodology. I guess this means, if we want to see the changes in population since 2020, we won't be able to make that first comparison until 2025 data is released as that would be five years. So all this to say: I'll recant my previous projection and I'll get back to you in two years on December 2026 with an answer haha 😜

Technically hasn't lost population - you can't go from a census number to an acs number accurately, you have to go census to census or acs to acs: ACS 2020 = 1,241,475 ACS 2023 = 1,249,418 +7,943 Census 2020 = 1,264,817 Adjusted Census 2023 = 1,272,760

Very fortunate for the opportunity - thanks @KJP for entrusting me to cover such a fascinating saga of a project! And it only felt natural to carry on the "end-of-page NeoTrans curse" 🥲👻

ACS 2023 census tract data was released today. I updated my projections for 2023 and things are looking good for the most part 3 years into the decade. All counties saw an increase in population while Ashtabula decreased by a minimal amount. The 2023 estimate takes the 2020 census data and uses the change in ACS data between years to estimate what the census actually is for that year. The reason for this is because ACS underreported Cuyahoga Co population in 2020 by about 23k people compared to the actual census which is a significant difference. The adjustment factors in the margin of error for ACS data, which is a 90% confidence.

Not this week from what I saw, but planning commish publishes their agenda every Wednesday on the week of meeting, so I'd look for the Dec 20th agenda then to see.

^Bumping the above, and also 6400 Herman Ave is on the agenda for planning commission Friday for schematic approval, the former warehouse will be apartments fronting Herman Park: https://planning.clevelandohio.gov/designreview/drcagenda/2024/PDF/CPC/CPC12-06-2024.pdf

Has anyone heard anything about Depot on Detroit? Drove past it the other day and noticed nothing happening on the site...

I feel like Cincinnati bid news can go in the Cincinnati thread...