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According to Berea City Council Minutes from 10/28, the hotel will indeed be Marriott-affiliated and called The Barker. Also of note, the apartments are market-rate and overall the parking is planned to accommodate 1600 cars.

Could be one of the "Forward Innovation Center" sites. Probably not Brook Park for obvious reasons, but maybe the former Ford Plant in Walton Hills. It looks like they recently completed a building there. https://forwardinnovationcenter.com/available-spaces/east-property-1/

Berea Mayor Kleem provided some financial details on his Facebook page:

FYI this is the methodology. I can see how fertility and mortality are pretty predictable, but the uncertainty on migration rate has to be enormous.

I saw this in the latest Cleveland Planning Committee presentation. Two new hotels, Waterwalk by Wyndham (an extended stay hotel) and Springhill Suites by Marriott, as well as McDonalds and a new fast-casual restaurant are proposed next to the Orbit and Centaur across Brookpark Rd from NASA Glenn. It's the same development group that did the Orbit and Centaur, so I assume that means they're doing well. I think the restaurants will do great with the GRC lunch crowd and the hotels are very convenient to GRC, as well as the airport, and the football stadium if that happens. I know for a fact that a lot of overnight visitors to Glenn stay in the group of hotels along Country Club in North Olmsted, so having closer options will presumably bring some of that business back to the city of Cleveland.

He may be hesitant, but I think they're going to accept having the stadium. Here are his comments from the 8/20 council meeting:

I've been to at least one soccer friendly there. It looks like they've hosted a few other matches over the years, including CONCACAF Gold Cup group stage games in 2017, so I assume that means the field dimensions are up to spec.

I would consider living there if I were younger. It’s very close to where I (and lots of other people) work at NASA. Plus it would be super convenient for taking flights and getting to Ohio City and downtown on the Red Line. The airport noise perpendicular to the runways is much less of a concern than in the flight paths in my opinion. Plane noise in Lakewood and especially Olmsted Falls seems much worse to me than at GRC, even though they’re farther away.

Plus Aldi and Giant Eagle on 117th! Agreed about western Lakewood being an ideal spot. I used to live in southwestern Lakewood and it was sort of equidistant from the 117th stores, the Bunts Giant Eagle, and the West Park one. Definitely a first world problem, but a walkable one in the neighborhood would have been incredible.

Agree that’s pretty unreliable. These posts by commenters in the Reddit thread have my hopes up a bit more. Cleveland Soccer Group making a possibly subtle celebratory post on IG and a state senator meeting with the NWSL commissioner.

Looks like the NWSL playoffs are 11/9-11/23, so they’re saying it would be announced around that timeframe.

I don’t know why they took the video off YouTube, but it’s available here: https://www.irishtownbendpark.org/video-tour

The city of Berea is leasing some land to the Browns for $1 so the Browns can apply for a grant for some development costs (source: https://www.cityofberea.org/ArchiveCenter/ViewFile/Item/179). Still no specifics on what exactly will be a part of the development.

I believe it’s just for the parcels identified in this article from earlier this year by @KJP https://neo-trans.blog/2024/03/21/metroparks-buying-more-cuyahoga-riverfront-land/

Metroparks received nearly $3 million from the same grant program that awarded Irishtown Bend towards the purchase of Ontario Stone's land just south of Wendy Park. Per WKYC:

Moving this to the Lakefront thread… Metroparks posted this update last week:

Cliffs reaffirmed their commitment to make the upgrades to the Middletown plant. Their concerns about not having a buyer for greener steel struck me as unfounded. Ford and GM in the US (among others worldwide) have committed to using at least 10% "near-zero carbon" steel by 2030, and there are currently almost no steelmakers making low-carbon steel. I think the market should be there by the time this plant is done with its proposed changes. https://www.clevelandcliffs.com/news/news-releases/detail/652/cleveland-cliffs-reaffirms-commitment-to-middletown-works

Berea’s school system is pretty mediocre actually (it ranks in the lower 50% for the state). The city has assembled tons of land just north of the Browns’ facility that has sat vacant for over a decade I believe, so I doubt developers would be banging down their door for the land they just bought. The Browns also recently renewed their lease in Berea, so there’s no reason to believe they have any interest in leaving. And as @Stang10 mentioned, they were actively building on their current building this summer.

Wow that's even older than I would have guessed. Hopefully GLBC still has something similar in mind.

@BoomerangCleRes beat me to it

No idea how old these are, but I came across these renderings when looking up more info about this project. From https://coburnpartners.com/project/great-lakes-brewing/

Hopefully the appeal is that they’re at the epicenter of downtown, Ohio City, and Tremont, so they’ll build something attractive to customers, and not just a production facility.

Why wouldn't OSU agree to let the Browns play there? It seems like a great deal financially for OSU. Also, 3-5 years for renovations seems way pessimistic. Even playing 2 years away from home gives you ~32 months to complete the renovations, and the renovations don't even need to be totally done. They just need to be able to let fans in (ie exterior work could continue for longer). In 2002, Soldier Field did a $1 billion+ renovation in today's dollars in about 20 months and only lost one season of home games.

There was a Tim Horton's planned for Berea a couple years ago that made it all the way to approval by the planning commission, but apparently it's on an "indefinite hold". https://bwexponent.com/berea-tim-hortons-plans-placed-on-indefinite-hold/

I've been looking through current soccer-specific stadiums, and I haven't located any instances of converting an old NFL stadium into a smaller soccer-specific stadium. I'd guess it's prohibitively expensive. However, there probably hasn't ever been the confluence of an NFL team abandoning a stadium at the same time a soccer stadium is in planning. The closest I could find is DC United continued playing at RFK Stadium for about a decade after the Redskins moved into their new stadium. It doesn't sound like they made any substantial modifications to do so though. Then, they decided to move to a new stadium because it was too expensive to maintain RFK. I'd imagine any new team might play temporarily at Browns Stadium with the upper deck covered, but continue with plans to build their new stadium. Unless somehow immediate demolition of Browns Stadium could be planned and a new soccer stadium built from scratch on-site. (side note: near immediate demolition of retired stadiums was more common than I thought. Candlestick Park in SF, the Metrodome in Minneapolis, Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh were all demolished within about a year of their last game.)