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My sincere hope is that the entire Riverfront area can become a showplace for resilience and reinvention; to represent a new look forward for how we can reconnect with our surroundings. The area is very significant from an historical and environmental standpoint. We have got to play this up and create a place that's renown for health and for wellness, where people from all over will want to come to and experience it.

Borrowing this @CleveFan post of JonesDronescle nice skyline pic. Question for those with good spatial awareness skills: will the future Riverview development be substantial enough help fill in some of the gaps in the background?

^ he opened for the Beach Boys on their last real tour at Blossom back in 2012. He stopped his show at one point to recognize his childhood music teacher who was there in the crowd. She got a nice standing ovation :-)

^ interesting, and likely a good template (and parallels) for my book about San Diego.

I'll step away from bashing Watson for a minute. I think the hallmark of the Stefanski era of Browns football is a well-scripted good looking first drive, followed by a struggle on offense for the rest of the game. Just my perception. The guy just seems to somehow gameplan for winning close games, close to the vest ball, like the NY Giants in the 80's or OSU under Jim Tressel. So inevitably a few mistakes lead to the Browns losing to terrible teams they should be beating by 24 points. ** of course it didn't seem that way with Flacco or pre-injury Baker.

Okay 7I'll take it!! Seriously this looks a lot better than I thought it would. Only drawback is slide 20. I wish they could wrap even a portion of that blank parking garage wall with residential.

^ In Cleveland punk bands are playing diy shows in the w.117 taco bell parking lot and drawing big crowds.

Yep the Geiss plan. It is mentioned in KJP’s latest article. I thought it was a pretty good idea at the time.

Well I wouldn't say it's outside the budget of the league. I'm not sure how most of the stadiums arise in NWSL. But consider the San Diego women's team averages 20,194 fans per game. While Columbus Crew stadium capacity is 19,968.

^ If developers were foaming to build tall west of Burke but were restricted by the flight path I would also factor that in.

The guy opted to buy ACF Fiorentina and then paid for their $90M stadium out of pocket. Otherwise the Cosmos could have very easily entered USL. What I originally said was that a maverick owner could theoretically build a super team in USL and I stand by that because MLS salary rules absolutely prevent that. Agree USL-C is a great league. The exclusivity of MLS just about forces the uninvited markets to compete and get better. It will!

^ I cannot remember the last time I saw so many American cars.

Apparently so, it's in the article that Bibb reached out to a consultant that came up with a list of recommendations. I guess we'll see sooner or later where that gets them.

^ Completely ridiculous but sadly not too surprising. I have to wonder what the other reasons are for 2019 being the best year. Surely the permit process wasn't any better then vs. today right?

Even for a politician this guy is a major league hypocrite. I'm afraid the Peter Thiel playbook of acting like a dumb reactionary a-hole is just going to be the new normal for how to get elected in Ohio.

It would be interesting to know if a roof would reduce future maintenance costs. Does anyone trust there will be an unbiased and thoughtful cost-benefit analysis? I don't.

Don't leave out owners. Like Robert Kraft, and his little human trafficking-related misunderstanding.

Haslam is just such an idiot. To take someone of questionable moral background and make him the face of the franchise, in THIS day and age? It is just the most asinine thing ever. Tone-deaf out of touch billionaire makes maniacally dumb financial decision....

I know this is hardly Browns specific, but it sort of is. Can we please get rid of the worthless penalty for ineligible receiver downfield? Who on God's green earth gives a damn if a tackle or guard is running away from the line of scrimmage?

The design there was certainly a step backward as far as embracing the Lake goes. They have been keeping that little walkway hidden in most of the renderings. Perhaps the issue could be fixable with some minor improvements.

Maybe it is still premature or hyperbolic to call it the worst in NFL history, but damn, this cap hit and loss of draft picks is kind of insane. The entire league is once again laughing at the Browns right now.

Years back I was at a Christmas Ale tapping event at GLBC. Around 9pm a car full of people from Chicago rolled in for the event...only to find that the brewery had just ran out of beer 10 minutes earlier. It was sad to see. *If you build it, they may come back :-)

Agree to disagree. The buy-in for San Diego was $500M. Some anti-establishment maverick owner like the guy who owned the NY Cosmos (and now owns ACF Florintina) could raise that money and instead of paying MLS, could put it toward salary and operations. It wouldn't even matter that the USL-C league is not great across the board...this team would be eligible for playing teams all over in Champions Leagues, US Open Cup, etc. etc. But look, MLS being exclusive leaves a lot of room for Cleveland and other MLS excluded cities (Detroit, Pittsburgh, Tampa Bay, Phoenix, Buffalo...) to compete at a high level. Logically USL is that place and there is plenty of room to grow in the future.

Forgive me for being a broken record on this lol. But here is Stone Brewing Company's major facility. Imagine this along the river.

It could and should be very different. I'm thinking nature trails, connected to biking, ample indoor-outdoor dining space, architecture that lets nature inside, etc. etc. The original location remains an anchor of the block in an urban context. The new location can be a design for its unique more natural location, like an oasis in the city.