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I'd say it's mostly because they don't care what you or I think.

I've seen cars literally pulled out of the ocean after 50 years and they still didn't look as bad as typical cars you see in Ohio. I'm not joking.

Whoa. Is it too obvious to blame the tons and tons of road salt we have destroying our entire infrastructure?

What? I could build the same exact thing for 1/10 that cost. -Geis

Perhaps it's finally time for the city to get real about a strategic parking solution that's a best-case scenario for residents and visitors alike. Imagine three or four large new garages with good accessibility and integrated with RTA. All situated to promote better transit, convenience and safer travel while also helping to keep automobile traffic out of the city core.

Listen you!!!!! (I like turtles....)

People just tend to hold onto old ideas of what "million dollar houses" look like. Where I'm from these 2BR/1BA summer shacks near the beach shot up to 100K and people laughed. Now they're all worth 7 or 8 times that at least. Location! Does anyone here think these residential prices would be anywhere near this amount if Edgewater Park was still in a deplorable state?

The wetland concepts were my favorite. I hope they survive

What is the gist of these purported zoning issues? Is it too difficult to build in downtown, within the city, or are we talking farm fields with hardly any infrastructure?

The U.S. crime rate is still dropping, FBI data shows Why does the public think it's going up? “There is definitely more disorder in cities than there was five years ago," said one expert. “People confuse disorder and crime." March 19, 2024, 10:10 AM PDT By Ken Dilanian New FBI data confirms previous indications that crime in the U.S. declined significantly in 2023, continuing a post-pandemic trend and belying widespread perceptions that crime is rising. The new fourth-quarter numbers showed a 13% decline in murder in 2023 from 2022, a 6% decline in reported violent crime and a 4% decline in reported property crime. That’s based on data from around 13,000 law enforcement agencies, policing about 82% of the U.S. population, that provided the FBI with data through December. “It suggests that when we get the final data in October, we will have seen likely the largest one-year decline in murder that has ever been recorded,” said Jeff Asher, a former CIA analyst who now studies crime trends. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/rcna144100

Ranking Every Mascot in the 2024 NCAA Tournament Field PATRICK ANDRES 21 HOURS AGO SEC commissioner Greg Sankey made a crucial mistake over the last week when he suggested, implicitly, that the NCAA men’s basketball tournament should at some point become the domain only of teams from power conferences. It was a flagrantly incorrect reading of history that was rightly crushed. The NCAA men’s tournament is not solely the domain of blue bloods, or of mid- or low-major teams for that matter. The NCAA men’s tournament is the domain of mascots. That’s right. At no point in American sports do so many mascots get so much airtime in such a short window. If you enjoy anthropomorphic hijinks, this is your month. https://www.si.com/college/2024/03/18/ranking-every-mascot-mens-ncaa-tournament-field

Nice idea! Also wanna mention the city angles for the NFL draft were amazing and would also serve as a worthy backdrop.

^ Please God, let this happen and be a successful template for developing the rest of these historic little remnants of the Flats.

Probably too ambitious but I always thought it would be cool to somehow get a little hostel inside there. Imagine some windows set into those great arches. That and some pockets of retail to keep the space activated from Ohio City all the way to Tower City.

I really hope you're right! A lot of the renderings still seem to leave out or are ambiguous with depicting what's happening along the water.

I'm sure the players will be up in arms against this, until they're paid to support it.

That pretty much how my Italian family and numerous other Italians ended up in Wooster, OH.

^ Cheap renovation is obviously better than no renovation. But I'm reminded why I stuck to my guns for years about keeping my original 100 year old windows vs. replacing with new vinyl.

Post-Covid I’m just hoping these planning experts design a layout so we aren’t packed like confused and chaotic sardines waiting to board.

^ Looks like the USA is about 60 years behind Japan in that regard. It's pretty sad.

U of Akron could particularly use a W right now it seems.

^ "The Park will be the missing link to connect the National Park to Lake Erie." Wow I've never thought of it like that.

I have read some very unflattering portrayals about them today on social media. While I have no personal experience I have to say I've been worried there's been no visible progress with restoring the original buildings. They look awful. Also as we've all seen these huge "temporary" surface lots have this sad tendency to last for decades.

It's almost shocking how east of Erieview the city appears to just....end.

Interesting. With that sort of demand it's going to be interesting to see how investment goes into Linden or other established-but-historically-struggling areas. I just would really hate to see all those little pastoral and woodsy communities in the hinterlands turn into tract housing and traffic nightmares. I've already seen that all play out in NJ, where the infrastructure could never handle the growth, and still hasn't.