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I'm not really worried about Cleveland Heights. We have a lot of new development for a suburb. We benefit greatly from being the suburb that is right next to University Circle. As of the last census, we were losing population, but it was a very slight tick down. I'd call it flat rather than going down, and I kinda expect it to have gone up when we get to 2030. Yes, the city leaders (and NIMBYs) have been shooting themselves in the foot somewhat. But as long as the self-inflicted wound stays limited to the foot, I think the future is bright.

I do feel like one thing we really lack as a city is a tourist-trap style observation tower. Aand...now that I'm typing it out it sounds so sarcastic, I should clarify that it's not, lol! Something like this would be an awesome and relatively inexpensive addition to the skyline! Something bigger than the Knoxville Sunsphere but smaller than the Seattle Space Needle.

Seems great to me. Like it or not, the future belongs to data centers and people who own them. It would be nice if they provided more jobs than they do, but I'd be very, very, very worried if we don't continue to have lots of them developed here. Thankfully, we're doing well so far.

When I read Ken's article it really struck me--when was the last time we saw a rendering of a new proposed 10+ story project downtown? I think it was Sherwin Williams. There's a lot of little things going on throughout the city, and I do believe that's more important in the long run. But the new high-rise projects downtown sure are fun, lol.

Are there new urban datacenter projects in other cities? I've been thinking for a while, the need for more datacenters is so, so massive, it would be a crying shame if we couldn't get more of them built in urban highrises. Even though they have relatively few jobs per square foot, it still seems like from an efficiency standpoint (including issues about power generation and transmission, etc.) you'd want them in an urban area rather than on reclaimed farmland in the country.

Maybe he is targeting his argument to his audience. Not sure the median listener is going to be very persuaded by arguments about good urbanism.

Overall crime is down about 10% y/o/y. So the murder decline is actually much more steep. Also, I would assume it's not simply a result of fewer "active gang beefs" since the murder rate has fallen every single year from 2020 to present. I would be speculating about what occurred, but the Bibb administration has made a targeted push at certain individuals they believe were tied directly or indirectly to a high percentage of murders. So it's possible that is part of what is going on here.

Something positive: Note, this is a classic example of counting chickens before they're hatched. BUT. Lookie here: https://data.clevelandohio.gov/apps/f1fa870ebbcc47beabdc4de4357d3c8b/explore City of Cleveland is currently at 66% as many homicides as it had through this day in 2024. In other words, homicides are down by 1/3 y/o/y. Murder rates are falling in most large cities, but our decrease is among the largest, so there's a decent shot our homicide rate will fall out of the top ten in 2025.

Dog park? Green space? It's like.... half of an acre fronting on one of the busiest and most chaotic intersections in Cleveland Heights. It is an absolutely terrible place for any kind of park. If the 40 residents want to preserve the property, they should pool their funds and buy it from Volpe. Otherwise, his proposal sounds very reasonable.

Demolition for JCU Gateway North has started and is proceeding at a fast clip. Looks like all existing structures on site could be down by the end of the day.

Cleveland and Cuyahoga County apparently pulled out of GCP as a result of the Browns stadium?? Can anybody help piece this one together for me? Sounds like a very rash decision that benefits nobody.

Not sure of the best place to put this. Pretty terrible few weeks for Mayor Seren. Separate from the underlying issues about his conduct, I don't see how he could possibly regain a position of respect. clevelandCleveland Heights Mayor Kahlil Seren needs to resign. Now...Since it seems obvious Cleveland Heights Mayor Kahlil Seren cannot or will not restrain his wife’s disruptions, outbursts and apparent bigotry, then it should be Seren who now heads to the door, wr...

I will be there briefly!

I'm kind of surprised they can save the elevator shafts that have obvious smoke damage. Isn't that a fire risk down the road?

Wow, the comments from HSG are really petty and sophomoric. It would be hilarious if the county responded with a letter that had a bunch of bullet points about how terrible the Browns team is and how bad a decision Deshaun Watson was. I actually think this is kind of good news. If HSG wants to build a stadium in Brook Park without county funding, they should do that. It's his money. And if the General Assembly wants to issue a bunch of bonds that are eventually going to require general fund disbursements not to default, well that's their problem.

I....may actually be able to make this one! Not certain, but fingers crossed.

@E Rocc I believe there is no such thing as a "national character." What people might call the character of our nation is just a snapshot of a small place at a small time. We would be strangers in the United States of 25 years ago, a world without smart phones, where same-sex marriage is illegal in every state, not a single Starbucks is to be found anywhere in Cuyahoga County, and the big disturbing political discussion of the day is hanging chads. I was pretty young 25 years ago, but I do remember how it was. I think we have more in common with a lot of foreign countries in 2025 than we do with the United States in 2000. It's going to keep changing, and faster. Older people die. Little kids grow up and start running things. Unless you manage to cling to a pre-industrial society like the Amish do, it is not possible to preserve a "national character." That's only to talk about time; it's even more different with place. Is the "national character" more like Parma Heights or like Shaker Heights? Because those are examples of just two cities within biking distance from each other, which I don't consider to have very similar "character." I don't think the types of people who live in those cities (their style of dress, their socioeconomic status, their level of education) are particularly similar either. But I'm glad we have both, and I don't think we should be burning down Parma Heights or Shaker Heights for fear that the culture of either community might overflow its legal bounds. And so to bring it back to immigration, I think we can focus on people, humans, and protecting and defending them as opposed to protecting and defending vague notions such as "national character." In that vein, if there is a specific and credible risk that a person who comes in will harm the people who are here, then that sounds like a legitimate reason to think twice about allowing them to immigrate. But if the concern is just about having to hear Somali or Ahmaric spoken in the grocery store, then maybe priorities aren't in the right order.

I don't have any insider info, but I would see no real reason to worry about the project at this point. There have been lots of supply chain and economic disruptions over the past few months and it's fair to expect the developer needs a bit of time to get ducks in order again. Their track record so far has been good. The Cleveland rental market is still very hot. I suspect if we just give it time there will be more news in the next few months and then eventually (probably not as soon as anyone wants, but eventually) there will be shovels in the ground again.

Dang, I love it. When I first saw the picture, I wondered if I had accidentally ended up in a Columbus thread or some non-Ohio projects thread, because this is a much higher caliber design than the run of the mill stuff we get, in my opinion.

Not sure how they're planning to do the new concourses, but with where the new terminal would be, they could easily build a new concourse C where D is now, then demo current C when new C is up and running. Build new B where C is now. Then demo current B and build new A where B is now. You could replace all three concourses without ever losing a concourse or having to put passengers into a concourse that's being renovated.

Does anyone have a link to an overhead site plan view? I'm struggling to envision how this will look. Are the gates all going to be abutting the current terminal and then they'll demo the current terminal so the gates will front directly onto the tarmac?

I'm as opposed to these laws as the next guy, but I'm skeptical they make much of a population difference. Here's a map of current population trends. The biggest winners are not exactly progressive havens.

I thought this was dead in the water. People are still pushing?

March BLS numbers are out. Household survey looks good. March #s beat out March of 2019, suggesting an approximately 100% recovery from the pandemic. Establishment survey is fine, but not great. https://www.bls.gov/regions/midwest/oh_cleveland_msa.htm

I don't know much about soccer. Most of what I know comes from Ted Lasso. But it strikes me that the gap between MLS and other U.S. leagues is way smaller than it is in other sports, such as in American Football, where everything else is a total joke compared to NFL or in baseball, where MLB effectively controls most of the minor leagues. The USL's decision to adopt the relegation/promotion system seems important to me, and it's not obvious that MLS's long-term hegemony is secure. All just to say that I don't think we should scoff at which league the teams will be in. Again, not an expert in any of this, but it seems like there's a lot more opportunity for teams in a brand new soccer league to thrive compared to a new league in any other sport.