LlamaLawyer

Correct.

They've got several tank fermenters installed at the location, so unless those are some stupid-expensive decorations, at least some beer will be brewed onsite. I've got a hard time understanding why they'd do a substantial canning operation here since their HQ is Columbus. But that would be great if they do!

Not guaranteed, but the two projects I would rate as most likely to get funded based on the stated criteria are Centennial and North Market Tower, in that order. The criteria favor larger projects.

@KJPPutting my follow up question here to stay on topic-- Any idea if it's an employer that is new to the region or to downtown?

Glad that place is finally filled. It's not a great location, because it's basically hidden. Lee's Seafood Boil is good but definitely a downgrade from Crop Kitchen. Almost anything else would have been too though.

The clerk’s office has been slow recently, so we have to wait until Monday to be sure. Sometimes something gets filed on Friday and doesn’t show up on the docket till Monday. If we don’t see anything on the docket Monday, safe to say the suit is done.

This seems like the kind of simple and efficient change that maybe Mayor Bibb oughta use his bully pulpit to facilitate.

That’s what I assumed before reading @KJP’s article.

I’m confused by the uc square application. Is Midwest suggesting they don’t have funding in hand to complete the building they have already started building? If not, then what exactly is the money for?

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21098092-tmud-applications-2021

This map is visually appalling although it's an improvement on the current map. Rightly or wrongly, I judge gerrymandering based primarily on the visual compactness of districts, and by that standard this is an improvement but still woefully lacking. Politically, this looks kinda like a high-risk, high-reward play for the Republicans. They're whittling the Democrats down to 2 safe districts, but creating a few new districts that could be lost depending on who the candidates are. The district the Democrats are losing is Tim Ryan's which would probably be a Republican district anyway were it not for Tim Ryan's incumbency. The new 15th District particularly looks very precarious. Mike Carey just won the old 15th 58-42, and the new 15th has a whole lot more Columbus and a whole lot less cornfield in it.

Maybe when you look from 50,000 feet it's basically the same, but those little border shifts include tens of thousands of people. I believe the new map includes all of Cincinnati, whereas the old one did not.

The coalition you mention is a good illustration of my point. I mean, Bibb got the endorsement of freaking Crains Cleveland Business. He also used to work as an executive at the largest bank in the city. Definitely not an anti-business candidate or platform.

I'm amused that my back-of-napkin thought experiment ended up quite close to the final result. Bibb won 62.9% to 37.1%.

I've been pretty busy the last few days without much time to look at or comment on threads, but this project, if it pans out, would be probably the most impactful project announced since the Cleveland Innovation District back in January. I really think the key to the region is developing a vibrant urban core that extends all the way from Gordon Square to University Circle. Once that's in place, Cleveland starts to look like a vibrant city with depressed areas as opposed to a blighted city with isolated up-and-coming pockets. The urban core can then slowly and thoughtfully radiate outward, for the benefit of the whole city and the region.

I liked what I heard of Kelley's concession speech, and I hope his promise to work with Bibb and the new city council is literal, not figurative. He has a lot of experience and knowledge that he can contribute.

I don't think it's a "bad" description of Bibb. I just think it gives someone who has no knowledge about the race the wrong impression on what it's really about. I think the race was more about experience and building on the status quo versus energy and vision. In a strict sense, perhaps that's "progressive versus moderate." But the national discourse is such that when somebody from Virginia reading about their election who happens to see a footnote about Cleveland sees "progressive versus moderate" they picture AOC versus Joe Manchin, or perhaps if they know a bit about Cleveland politics Shontel Brown versus Nina Turner. The only issue that Bibb and Kelley disagree on that falls into the national level narratives is issue 24. Other issues like the fate of Burke, or public comment at meetings, or how to balance the interests of east and west side neighborhoods really don't fit into a national "progressive versus moderate" framework.

The national reporting I’m seeing is all along the lines of “Progressive Bibb beats moderate Kelley.” I think that’s not a very accurate representation of what’s really been at play in the race and represents the national media’s need to make any story fit in a neat box.

Annexing municipalities is hard legally and practically because municipal politicians don't want to give up their jobs and suburban residents don't necessarily want to be living in the big bad dangerous city. If you look at Columbus, I believe most of the growth came from annexing unincorporated areas or townships, not cities. Columbus refused municipal water and sewer service to surrounding areas, and so it could strong arm surrounding small communities into joining. This was something that was easier to do because the surrounding areas were still fairly rural and didn't have water or sewer connections yet. Columbus's annexation started when cities became concerned about the rise of the suburbs in the '50s. Before the '50s, exodus to the suburbs was not a well known phenomenon, so there wouldn't have been as much reason for a central city to feel anxious about its suburbs. By this point, Cleveland's and Cincinnati's suburbs were pretty well built out and independent already.

I hope those trees end up being as big as the scale model suggests.

In other words, Do we know what the brickwork used to be?

Look at Cleveland 60-70 years ago. Most of the density we lost was in midrise buildings.

Dang, I wanna learn more about test pit 17. What's that?

My comment was poorly worded. I know you're not saying that, but others on the thread were implying it.

Obviously two things can be true at once. Just because we need more trees doesn't mean we shouldn't be cutting some down. In comparison to the tens of thousands of trees that need to be planted throughout the county, this lot is nothing. In our climate, any empty lot that isn't sufficiently maintained will eventually end up with trees. So saying you don't want to cut down trees on vacant lots is pretty self defeating if you want to have a city.