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Hasawai Building, 12/17

I love to patronize them, and I want similar businesses to become as accessible as the areas along the boulevard become developed. It's easy to interpret this as a joke, but I'm far more likely to stop at a business along the OC than along a traffic sewer like Chester Ave.

🎵 It's like getting arraigned on your groundbreaking day 🎵

Like @smithmentioned, Waze is including Opportunity Corridor in routes as of today, and I know yesterday it was showing up in Waze's maps but not routing...but in addition I saw an ODOT sign around noon on the Jennings Freeway by Steelyard announcing that Opportunity Corridor was now open, so that will get the word out some as well.

You were thinking of Explorys

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@KJP's public records request for TMUD applicants revealed the following: HOF Village NEWCO, LLC Hall of Fame Village Canton 2014 Blake Avenue as a General applicant seeking $6,170,000.00 of $20,000,000.00 available credits, of which there were $32,803,543.30 total requested by 11 "General" applicants (outside of major metro areas). http://freepdfhosting.com/4ac96bae52.pdf

You have decades of experience seeing opportunities come and go because of lack of political will in Ohio, but would MPOs fall in state-chartered agencies? Seems that MORPC doesn't like the lack of rail in Columbus and that NOACA at least virtue signals an interest in multimodal planning activities, even if they're overly keen to focus on hyperloop planning and not acting on tangible HSR. Surely there is more appetite between MPOs than the statehouse even if it is still a low level.

Looks like this would remove route 101 which could serve SHW's R&D Center, but interesting to try comparing this system redesign versus GCRTA's latest. I love to see inter-agency connections while our region's transit systems remain disparate networks, so it is intriguing to see the hourly service to Southgate. It feels that the inherent shortcomings of a hub-and-spoke system make transfers awkward for adjacent areas on separate lines, but it seems there is a greater focus on equity for those riders who are most transit-dependent, so that is nice to see.

Maybe in Ohio, but not all states were surveyed into Townships. Florida was not widely developed until the latter half of the 20th century, and it shows - you have many unincorporated areas which only really roll up to the county they are part of, and e.g. receive safety services and other functions from the county. Likewise, you don't have fiefdoms overseeing their own school districts, you see countywide consolidated school districts. While townships are relatively small in land area, lumping an entire county's unincorporated area into a single place does not make sense if there are clustered populated areas that can be called out instead. Of course, there is a hierarchy that drills down to the census-block level and can be aggregated into e.g., block groups, tracts, but they may not aggregate cleanly into what comprises a related area. Here's an interesting breakdown: https://www2.census.gov/geo/pdfs/reference/geodiagram.pdf There are also others at: https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/geography/guidance/hierarchy.html

Thanks for your longstanding advocacy. In spite of our state and GCRTA leadership, hope to see meaningful progress with passenger rail in our state, with AAO continuing to serve its role. It's been great to see your writing become more prolific as you've shifted your priorities.

The county executive's plans envision a 125-mile fiber backbone throughout the county connecting all 31 municipalities, with each municipality able to expand on their own terms from there. There's a real discrepancy between Townships, Villages, and Cities in the wherewithal to extend residential fiber that goes beyond resident demand and socioeconomic indicators. I think it speaks to the sweet spot you mention. For example, while it is low density on Summit County standards, Bath obviously is an example of a Township with affluent residents, and there is widespread demand for fiber from their residents to their Trustees. In spite of this, there are plenty of excuses (even compared to other unincorporated areas in the area). From this recent article: https://www.scriptype.com/2021/08/31/township-administrators-corner-19/ To your point, incorporated bedroom communities that are relatively compact and have middle-class residents have enough resources to make things happen without a self-destructive, defeatist attitude that it's all-or-nothing in terms of serving its residents that larger municipalities with higher population, land area, and more income disparity would face. In my opinion, Fairlawn's network reaching every door was a key to its success. Hudson was content to serve its businesses and the few residents who happened to live along their lines. Accordingly, they have resentment from their residents who would rather see the city focus on neighborhoods who don't have municipal water since they view the city's resources as being "wasted" on broadband since they are not personally benefiting and don't acknowledge the economic development perspective of broadband infrastructure. So overall, I think you make a salient point, @Gramarye - mid-sized communities may eat the lunch of smaller and larger places alike when it comes to deploying fiber to the home, and to appealing to a work-from-home lifestyle that hedges the impact of shifts in working trends on city coffers. And broadband access is certainly a deciding factor on where working professionals live who have become reliant upon it.

I believe @roman totale XVII was saying the opposite - the sign was added sometime between yesterday morning and night.

Thanks @KJP and @tykaps for the latest article. Dan Whalen's words and actions as of late have had an air of reverence for Cleveland and have been a breath of fresh air. As the building has risen, it has had a commanding street presence yet yielded to the West Side Market tower with its respectful massing. The news that Harbor Bay intends to not open a ramshackle construction office but establish a proper home in INTRO for future operations in the CLE market with aspirations of 150 staff bodes well for the Cleveland market having future contributions to our urban fabric from a first-class, quality firm who gets things done. Some firms finance an apartment building, sell it off immediately, and reinvest and leverage (literally) the capital for their next big project, but holding and growing a portfolio signals that a firm is going long on themselves if they're not holding out of mediocrity (see also: Scranton-Averell). I like @audidave's reference to operators such as Cedar Fair Entertainment, cruise lines, etc. Those tend to be insular developments, but walled gardens nonetheless; I don't get the sense that Harbor Bay is quite that standoffish. Love the mention of the Christkindl Holiday Market (really feels like Night Market!) as an example of public programming - spaces like Church and State with their whimsical slide really feel much more inviting than say...a service alley on Frankfort Ave. Can't wait to see what Harbor Bay brings over time.

Tonight (June 17th, 2021): Red light photo from Gehring & Lorain From WSM Parking Lot:

Here's a great resource for tracking news: https://www.fairlawngig.net/munibb/ See also the following documents: https://www.fairlawngig.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/FairlawnGig-New-Brief-2021-06-14-Final.pdf https://www.fairlawngig.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Resolution-Opposing-Broadband-Restriction.pdf https://www.fairlawngig.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Joint-Letter-OH-HB-110-6-9-21.pdf I contacted my State Senator yesterday and their aide had indicated that they were receiving a lot of calls with similar sentiments. I've only managed to receive the voicemail for my State House Legislator so far.

The Anti-competitive Municipal broadband ban in the Senate Budget Amendment got unanimous condemnations from both Summit and Medina County Councils. In Medina County, their Port Authority funded a fiber ring it launched in 2010. Now, a Public-Private partnership is trying to wire up every home in the county for Residential service on an open-access network that allows multiple providers to use the infrastructure. In Summit County, the city of Fairlawn started FairlawnGig after trying to engage incumbent ISPs with subsidies to improve broadband and falling on silent ears. It now has a 61% take rate. They've garnered national attention for their efforts, getting accolades from PCMag.com and landing Fairlawn designation as one of the World's "Smart21 Communities of 2021" across 8 countries, one of only 4 in the US. They've been proactive about expanding: they were in discussions with Summit County to build a fiber ring to connect 31 communities in Summit County, 12 of which had reached out to Fairlawn looking for expansion to serve their residents CARES Act Funding was used to fund a fiber ring in record time last year as part of a criminal justice project to empower videoconferencing to avoid in-person hearings, connecting county and city of Akron buildings to the FairlawnGig network Fairlawn was given a contract for a Computer-aided dispatch network in Summit County FairlawnGig enabled the city to participate in an autonomous driving pilot and empower a better traffic management system Additionally, the city of Hudson operates its own municipal fiber network as well. The language in the Bill prohibits municipalities from covering areas that are served by "broadband" clocking in at speeds of at least 10 mbps download and 1 mbps upload, while the FCC's outdated definition is 25/3. 1.72% of the entire state falls into this classification of "unserved/underserved". This does not even get into the discussion of affordability and digital inclusion since access is only half of the picture (see DigitalC's EmpowerCLE+, whose customers enjoy Internet access for $18/month plus taxes). Why shut down capitalized services and prevent them from using public funding offered to them that they are otherwise eligible for? Lastly, why include policy in a budget bill? Here's a good podcast discussing the amendment: https://communitybroadbandbits.com/pushed-through-in-the-dark-of-night-ohio-senate-aims-to-ban-municipal-broadband/ Contact your state house and senate representatives! The budget will go to a conference committee to work out differences between the Senate and House versions and be voted on most likely June 27th.

View of the Wendy Park bridge from the mouth of the Cuyahoga at the "Iron Curtain" lift bridge, standing at the end of the Flats East Bank boardwalk from across the river.

Eye-level view of the new riverfront buildings from the boardwalk, taken today, May 23rd: (Above: Southeasterly-most building) (Below: Northwesterly building)

Agreed but I assume that a holistic plan of how that is sequenced and prioritized isn't depicted since NOACA and AMATS are different MPOs. Smells reminiscent of the MSA vs CSA discussion in the population trends thread...or of course the regionalization thread/western reserve threads. Seems clear to me that commuter rail between Cleveland and Akron should be light-years ahead of prioritizing rail to Medina, particularly when NOACA tries to champion equality measures in its highway project funding evaluations. If only we could bring back the ABC railroad (but faster than the 2.5 hours it took back then).

Update on the Hasawai building - taken today, May 8, 2021:

I'm willing to bet it's more that the Correctional facility population is overwhelming the statistics.

Perhaps the master plan for Merriman Valley being undertaken jointly by Cuyahoga Falls and the City of Akron will touch on this even if independently of any progress being made? That plan is expected to start this month and not intended to wrap up until early 2022. According to the Beacon Journal's reporting: https://www.beaconjournal.com/story/news/2021/03/23/cuyahoga-falls-akron-teaming-up-merriman-valley-master-plan/6958361002/

This will have to do!

According the city, that's the number of internments at Erie St. http://www.city.cleveland.oh.us/CityofCleveland/Home/Government/CityAgencies/ParksRecreationandProperties/Cemeteries Redirecting the conversation to NuCLEus, here's what excites me if we can be picky: Height of original tower, mixed use, unique mix of first-to-market and local tenants (Starbucks Reserve, Cleveland Live, etc) Thoughtful E 4th like Pedestrian Laneway WITH parking garage liner for a thoughtful street presence Minimal curb cuts for the parking garage with thoughtful consideration of ingress/egress Inclusion of Herold building