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This building is Artisan. It's a part of the Circle Square development which has multiple phases.

The Republicans in the Redistricting Commission have refused to meet, violating the Ohio Supreme Court's order. Also have suggested they need to wait until after the November election to see the voter split there. It seems pretty obvious they're hoping to wait until 2023 when Maureen O'Connor will be out. This kind of cheating is more disturbing than anything I've ever witnessed. Not making predictions either way because anything can happen, but I am gravely concerned about whether the United States will be tenable in 2030.

Due to my obsession with tall urban trees, I also have to point out they planted maples which are (unless some kind of dwarf) going to grow 40+ feet tall over the next couple decades and further create a great street presence.

In other words, $2,500/mo. apartments = very bad. $800,000 new construction single family homes = very good. There's no point in trying to think through NIMBY "logic." I heard someone complain about the Top of the Hill development in Cleveland Heights because it's right next to a drive through Chipotle and they said it would make the drive through too busy. Y'know those apartment dwellers who get in their car to go to the drive through 300 feet away from their apartment.

This is excellent and will match nicely with the Chester 75 project, which . . . . by the way, whatever happened to Chester 75?

This poll should start money flowing into the Ohio campaign. It's been rated likely Republican, but I know the Democratic Party is just salivating over the opportunity to pickup in Ohio, PA, and WI. EDIT: Also just have to add that Tim Ryan has some of the best ads I've ever seen.

https://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/2022/05/rock-roll-hall-of-fames-next-chapter-the-beatles-los-angeles-and-a-100-million-expansion.html Some pretty interesting stuff in here including: 2022 start date for rock hall expansion controversial “guitar pick” design is being revised.

So, this is pretty awesome. As context, what’s the last low-midrise, new construction, multiuse project downtown had? (I am intentionally excluding high rises and adaptive reuse.) I’m struggling to think of even one. We’re obviously not going to fill every vacant lot in the cbd with a 15+ story building. And so I’m hoping for 20 more of this. Successful areas (eg Short North, Hingetown) are full of these kinds of developments, but I can’t think of one downtown in Cleveland.

This, particularly during the winter. Downtown gets a lot more dead when the weather is crummy. Uptown is much more consistently busy when it’s cold.

I think the tenant turnover is pretty unremarkable. And most of the tenants now are nationwide, reliable tenants (eg, planet fitness, chipotle, bibibop, etc.) The businesses that failed were either mis suited to the area (eg Corner Alley) or closed for reasons that had nothing to do with the health of the district (eg Crop Kitchen). There are also more residents in the area than ever before. I’m personally disappointed by some of the closures (in particular Dynomite and Crop Kitchen), but the district is quite healthy and has good fundamentals.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/intel-selects-diverse-ohio-based-222300202.html Mentioned in Columbus threads, but hasn’t gotten attention here. Of the four primary contractors selected for Intel construction in New Albany, one (Northstar) is Cleveland based. Pretty good sign that the Cleveland economy will be substantially benefitted by Intel’s presence, as many here have projected.

I’m pretty apathetic about Planet Fitness specifically, but I’m so glad to see the space getting filled quickly.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/20/politics/kfile-jr-majewski-secession-2020-election/index.html Y'know, I kinda think Marcy Kaptur is gonna win her district.

Why can't we have streets that look like this? If cost is the problem, then how does Portland, OR have a thousand bajillion big tall trees all over downtown? It costs them about $4.6 million per year. We spend about $3 million per year. Portland is about 2x the land area of Cleveland. So they have way better urban forestry and spend less per acre.

My main hope is they plant tall trees. It seems like urban landscaping tends to focus on little dwarf and semi dwarf trees. But we are the forest city. There's no power lines nearby and the area in front of the welcome center seems pretty open. Absolutely no excuse not to plant oaks/sycamore/sugar maples, etc.

Probably. Also, David Adjaye talked about how he wants his project to reflect the unique architecture of the city. That seems to echo the COO's statement. Fingers crossed we get some cool renderings soon.

I'm 100% for this if it moves the ball from airport. Burke is just so freaking huge. It's 100 acres larger than Augusta National. With some thoughtful planning, you can fit a golf course onto the eastern half, some major development on the far western edge, and still have 150+ acres of park and beach in between. I'm not a golfer, but I think a golf course in walking distance of downtown would actually be a huge asset. I'd hate to see the whole area devoted to golf, but it doesn't have to be and it won't be.

This is my favorite Geis design I've ever seen.

NIMBYs rollin' up to ruin your day.

It's better now, IMO. Simpler, and the cladding is more timeless. I'm not a huge fan of the uninterrupted glass facades and I'm glad they moved from that.

If it helps get the ballpark village accomplished, I suppose a garage isn’t a bad thing. But the idea of the NuCLEus site after all of this time becoming a five-story parking garage is very ironic.

ROFL What happened to this guy, eh? I met him back then and he was a lot nicer.

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So I guess what they're basically doing for multifamily development is keeping the current 100% 15-year abatement but adding a $20,000 x .25 the number of units penalty. So a 100-unit market-rate project is now $500,000 more expensive. To use some real world examples, this would make Bridgeworks about 1.2% more expensive, Treo about 2.2% more expensive, Church and State about 1.3% more expensive. And that's a maximum amount, to be clear, assuming that the developer is paying for the full credit as opposed to just paying the taxes. You'd obviously never pay for the credit if it would be more expensive than the taxes. I gotta say I'm not knowledgeable enough to project the effects. But I've looked at tax incentive programs in a few other cities, and I'm surprised to find that the new plan is comparable or more generous than most of them. Is my impression correct, that in most of the U.S. a 100% 15-year exemption is not the norm? After looking at a few other midwest cities, the only other 100% 15-year incentive city I found is Cincinnati. Obviously, I didn't look at every city. If the new tax incentive program is fairly standard for the midwest, are there market factors that make folks think Cleveland can't compete with, say, Pittsburgh, Detroit, or St. Louis on equal footing?

There was a bunch of utility work on it about a year ago, and yeah I have no idea what's happened since then. I would assume it's stalled out except that it's Bo Knez and he seems to have a pretty good track record of making stuff happen. If this and the Taylor Tudor development up the road both happen, it would certainly change the area dramatically.