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Yeah, but is what they do legally able to be called "football"?

If I had to guess, privately, they are happy, but publicly they need to keep up the appearances of the fight. Can't be the administration that "lost" the Browns to Brook Park. When Jimmah packs his toys and goes to the suburbs, they fought to keep the team in downtown as hard as they could and the statehouse stabbed the region in the back. Purely speculating on this, but it's a narrative that plays well.

That sounds about right, I've taken that flight a few times and it's always at the very end of C. I've had it planned a few times for A, but it always gets moved to C before the flight.

As someone who was at Hopkins a few years ago when United had one of their worst days ever (simultaneous weather in Chicago, Denver and New York region), waiting to just get a plane so I could take my trip and eventually giving up after about 6 hours of delays, I don't get why we don't hear more about the airlines looking into that. Former hubs like CLE, CVG, etc could all serve a very useful purpose instead of trying to cram even more into ORD, EWR, ATL, etc. They already have the facilities and repair bases to do just that. It seems like the Hopkins master planning team is at least trying to position the airport to handle a more diverse set of things down the road, which is all we can ask for now.

There tends to be a trend in master planning teams to lean towards preserving as much as you can too. Better criteria that all new is acceptable from the Owner/Client helps to break out of that, but I've seen numerous master planning teams bent into pretzels to try and keep things before finally giving in and building all new after numerous truly insane planning iterations. I am glad they went this direction though in the end, it looks like it improves the biggest pain points while maintaining the most flexibility. That being said, while I think Jackson was the right person during truly tough times, he was in office for far too long and he did hold progress back towards the end of his term. I have to wonder if the current flight issues with overloaded hubs like Newark might finally lead to a change in operations for the airlines. To me it would make sense for some the airlines to have two tiers of hubs to try and relieve the pressure that's causing so many issues right now. In that, CLE would be perfectly positioned, but I know that's probably a dream and won't ever happen.

Yeah, this makes way way way more sense. You really only see a change of CM for things like criteria documents to construction documents, not usually between phases of work. Something happened for sure, but we'll likely not get the full story. Turner either walked, or were shown the door.

I drive past that site every day and to say they've moved fast is an understatement. In the past week the elevator/stairwell towers look to be nearly complete already. It's good to see that dead area finally getting filled in.

I'm pretty sure it was in the Shoreway tower thread that people were saying the tax rates for "unfinished" buildings is different in a lot of places, so there's an incentive for the building to never be fully "finished" as well. Going back and forth with the plans examiner and AHJ is pretty normal, and how much you have to do depends on the reviewer and the day you catch them on sometimes. I've never found the Cleveland examiners anymore cumbersome than other cities, but most of my work is in the commercial space, not the residential, so maybe the folks who look at apartments and condos are different. I don't consider this to be a sign of trouble though, just the normal process. Some of the back and forth is likely due to the A&E team and examiner interpreting the code differently. It could be the design team submitted a response that the examiner didn't accept and it was bounced back again for a re-response.

The short version is essentially the old hospital site was more contaminated than was previously known, in particular where the old hospital laundry was. There was a disagreement over who was responsible for the cleanup between the Clinic, City and Developer. Developer could no longer afford the project because of it and walked away, City re-engaged the second place team to develop the site. I don't remember if Roundstone was part of that second development or not though. The second development has been moving at a snail's pace though. Roundstone has a brand new shiny building in Rocky River now because of that.

I hadn't heard that Moen moved because of the airport, but I'm not terribly plugged into the topic. Everything I've read is that the Chicago area gave tax incentives that the region couldn't match (nor were they really given a chance to by Moen's parent company). That being said, Terry is intentionally conflating several things to score easy social media points. Let's not sit here and pretend that O'Hare is any sort of objectively good airport to spend time in. It's a dump on par with old LGA. Large portions of it smell like sewage regularly, entire concourses have ceilings just falling apart and in desperate need of replacement. Gates have waiting areas that are far too small, so passengers regularly spill out in the main concourse while waiting and boarding. I could go on, but the fact is you, you fly in and out of O'Hare because you need to, not because you want to. The thing O'Hare has that very few airports have is access and flight volume. Hopkins should and could keep working to bring in more flights, and sure the master plan will make it a better place to spend time, but until an airline decides to re-hub Hopkins, it will always face the same challenge vs hub cities.

Oh, don't disagree there. This winter was more in line with what we used to get, but we've had nothing but mild winters for quite a while now, so by comparison it was a rough one, but compared to historical, yeah it wasn't bad at all. Still probably not a great idea to have people tearing out and replacing seats when it's in the single digits before wind chill. My broader point I guess was, the team has at least acknowledged that it's not finished, but will be after one more offseason. The new blue seats do look great though. The Jake is still one of the top ballparks to me and it's so great to see that it's constantly being improved instead of the team throwing up their hands and demanding a replacement.

Hammy did say on the radio that the rest of the upper deck would be changed out to the blue after this season. The especially brutal winter set them back on schedule to get it done before this season. I appreciate the tip on the roof over the seating behind the plate, I watched the game in the late innings and couldn't place why behind home plate felt "off" from what I was used to.

Isn't that pretty par for the course for discourse in 2025?

I actually didn't know there was one there, I mostly had neighborhoods like Tremont, Ohio City and Gordon Square in mind when I was thinking about it, especially Gordon Square. Kind of amazing some of the developments by the Shoreway didn't include one.

As a self proclaimed coffee snob, I agree on their coffee (it's fine, but not GOOD), it's meant mostly for the mixed coffee drinks vs just drinking it black. But as Ohio City starts to get more things like hotels and become a true destination for people outside the city, seeing things like a Starbucks goes a long way. If I'm on the road and I need a decent cup of coffee quickly or a place to set up shop and work for a while, I'm usually looking for exactly that. I recently did exactly that for work, was going to a new area for me, was over an hour early for a meeting and wanted a place to work comfortably for a while and Starbucks was the perfect fit. I still strive to find local places when I have more time, but it's an easy, consistent place to make a snap decision to go. It will fit Ohio City well as it continues to grow.