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Hmmm, mysterious contacts at waste water treatment plant? Ken's journalistic chops is certainly partially built on wading into the $h!#. Nicely written article 😄

Nice photos @MayDay, as always! I'm confused in regards to function if the v-shape group of pilings here. Is this a staging area to store the pilings vertically or actual permanent location?

Looks great! I wonder if this pagoda/shrine can be appropriated at the end of the show and reconstructed in the Cultural Gardens to represent Japan? LOL.

This playoff loss by the Cavs feels emotionally similar to the MLB strike in 1994-95 season when the Indians had one of their best lineups and the strike wiped out the season. I think @LibertyBlvd is right about this: The NBA post season has too many teams and games.

Hmmm, Downtown Cleveland is sinking in quicksand? 🤔

Man, those crane operators need to know that the soil stability underneath the cranes has been signed off properly by their geo guys/girls! There needs to be a lot of trust on their team.

Agree. Good article. Hope this story can be used as timely example of positive Governance to offset the other sh#$ happening.

Great! Can I send my work PowerPoint slides to you for editing? @Enginerd PS, maybe it was prescient by the slide's original creator to move Buffalo into Canada - our presumptive future 51st state. And move the East coast cities inland so they don't get flooded out by sea rise. 😟

@Geowizical (are we) Amirite?

Hello All, it's obviously great to have gotten a big shiny skyscraper added to skyline, but is it now safe to comment again how mediocre and unsettling the design of the asymmetric crown appears. Plus, just how g'd awful the shack turned out. Maybe I'm over reacting since I live out of state and don't see the building in person very often. Gulp! Someone convince me otherwise. I'm hoping to be proven wrong. PS: maybe I'm just nervous about how the Browns will run their draft tonight and that anxiety spilled over into this post.

@Htsguy like you, I have little standing in this argument having been away from Oxford for 40+ years. Gulp 😟! My guess is the other and worst locations were chosen on purpose because the fix was already in for Cook Field.

I just can't imagine anyone affiliated with Miami U. over the past two centuries who would gaze on the open space of Cook Field and think what a great place to build a massive sports arena. Is there any public pushback to this announcement @mu2010 and @Htsguy?

Hey @Htsguy, I'm coming around to the notion that it IS really all about you. I will need to adjust my future UHIO (Urban Heightsguy in Ohio) ramblings to run my drafts through you for approval. PS, Evidently we missed each other by one year. I spent my freshman year in Dennison in Fall 77 to Spring 78. 😉

That seems like too many structures to try to stuff into a relatively small area. It's been 40+ years since I was a student there, but the open sports fields at the front door of the university help preserve the historical character of the original campus. Not sure why Miami needs to turn itself into a high density "urban" UPenn clone? Oh well, "Love and honor to Miami our college old and grand."

I can't shake the image of the horses trotting around in a circle to power the drilling rig. Maybe I'm both a nerd and part Amish 🤔

Raised beds are better if the native soil is high in clay and thus has poor drainage. Also, it makes it easier to control weeds and you don't need to bend over as much. If you can afford it and can get a large volume delivery of high quality soil, raised beds are great choice. Buying bags of soil at the big box store is cost prohibitive.

Perhaps you could purchase a shorter roll length, but I don't recommend going any shorter on the height. At our home, we turned the extra length into 5 or 6 ft diameter cylinders for caging tomato plants. You will still need need support poles because the fence isn't stiff enough to support itself on its own. If you continue gardening, you will never run out of future uses for extra fencing.

https://redbrandstore.com/products/deer-orchard-fence-2672-6-14-1-2 @YABO713 I recommend this fencing. It's 72" inch tall and not too heavy to handle and attach to steel t-posts every three or four feet on the perimeter.

Hi Ken @KJP Thanks for the detailed update. Looking forward to tomorrow's second 'bomb' article. $7M seems like reasonable estimate for plumbing repairs/replacement. However, I haven't seen a real accounting estimate of the $175M total backlog of building repairs cited. And if indeed this is accurate, why the heck would the city of Cleveland be interested in purchase even at fire sale price? Something seems off about the decision.

@dave2017 I'm impressed that they started right in on building the cooling tower for the small nuclear reactor. Need a lot of juice to run those biga$$ guitar amps. In all seriousness, we all appreciate construction photos of anything nowadays. D.O.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.gsa.gov/system/files/FY2020%20Cleveland%20OH%20Anthony%20J%20Celebrezze%20Federal%20Building.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwiUm6n2mK6MAxVZM1kFHcUDCVQQFnoECHoQAQ&usg=AOvVaw0-cDFN2jYybnqqNl_Ns3Y- @stpats44113 just curious ...where does your $200M estimate come from? This GSA document from 2019 claims $70-something M for interior renovation.

Here at "Cost-plussing" Field "our customers are too unsophisticated to understand."

Or, they want to sell the pieces to to their billionaire donor friends... @LibertyBlvd e.g, privatization of functions within current agencies such as Medicaid, NASA, etc

@Paul in Cleveland ! Also not a designer, more of a dreamer. How about the letters "Cavalanche" ? Plus, crazy lights and and a big sparkler shooting embers out the top at the start of said Cavalanche ™ ?