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It's like The Richfield Coliseum only with airport noise instead of a national park.

I look forward to the City continually readjusting its development focus on housing and its associated amenities for the city center rather than parking lots for the weekend suburban sports invasion. I mean it's only natural to expect a family that made its money serving a freeway economy would head to a freeway suburb. Maybe they'll help RTA with a Pilot Flying J Red Line station? Good riddance.

How is $145,000 cheaper than a port-a-potty? These things are just metal port-a-potties, right? There is no hookup to the public sewer? Interesting that they propose placing one at the (apparently) officially designated homeless camp on Payne Ave. So many questions. Does this also figure into why Cleveland didn't do the smart thing and rehabilitate the old Police Headquarters, with all its city owned property, and instead collaborated with the George family on purchasing the Art Craft building? That decision will come out in the wash eventually.

I hope the Hopkins Airport redesign gives it a new official address. The funny thing about its current one, 5300 Riverside Dr, is that there is no Riverside Dr. Riverside Drive was renamed Rocky River Drive North of Brookpark Rd, and the section South of Brookpark Rd along the SE edge of the airport, was completely replaced with the Berea Freeway. Dunno what address could be used though?

The true problem with these "street takeover" events is how thoroughly they normalize violent driving in general.

Keeping this about cars......The Automobile industry has known since its inception that there is no way of controlling the designed capabilities of their products. An automobile is the essential criminal tool of anyone who needs to "get away fast."

Imagine walking to everything you need "on your own schedule"

Umm... that's car culture and car dependency. Or maybe that's what you implied?

Consider the demise of his empire, (not at all likely though,) as a public safety service to his young female employees.

Just more of the true plague of vehicle-supported violence that never subsides. It's a byproduct of the wider vehicle dependent culture. It's the number one problem in all American cities. First it enabled the abandonment, now we can't re-develop without accommodating its costs and demands, such as parking and drive-thru convenience. Cleveland is a city that could break the pattern with car-free neighborhood development in some of its wide open spaces, but we lack the vision, and are stuck in a regressive set of expectations.

My old man worked there right up until they sold to a Japanese concern and everything was dismantled. There's an unwritten story on how Acme-Cleveland, a huge company with many divisions, (including Cleveland Twist Drill) just 'gave up.' The Henn Mansion in Sims Park was the home of a founder.

"fiscal priorities" I would think the rent money from Germany (Greyhound is German-owned) would be something CSU would appreciate. OR they could have just sold them the property and avoided security costs.

Well I was wrong. It was CSU afraid of city people all along: "Cleveland State University rejected a plan to relocate the city’s Greyhound bus terminal on its grounds, saying “the safety and security of the CSU campus, and the strategic and financial priorities of the University, must come first,” according to a spokesperson." https://www.cleveland.com/news/2024/08/cleveland-state-nixed-plans-for-relocated-greyhound-bus-station-near-campus.html

Unrelated? Does your idea of a healthy neighborhood rely on drive-thru services? Maybe UC should rid themselves of this silly pedestrian area and put the drive-thru there? Yes these are mostly either national or regional, or local chains, looking to emulate the recognized champion, Chipotle, which at one time was just as local, then regional then national as they hope to be. These are not spaces that foster the social bonds that create a neighborhood. Instead they compliment and encourage the kind of 'neighborhood' found in strip mall America. This is not what Cleveland, especially a college environment should aspire to.

Flixbus, (owner of the decimated Greyhound service) is moving away from "city people."

I see Dave's Cosmic Subs failed in replacing the Barking Spider which is irreplaceable. Now L'Albatros will probably wither away. The only remaining bar in University Circle is Jolly Scholar. Amazing for a campus district. Bunch of chain crap on Uptown Blvd, which BTW, has cars driving on it regularly to pick up Chipotle. Call it "Euclid Ave Double Park Overflow." Which brings me to the new Euclid Ave Redesign meeting I attended, where traffic and parking enforcement was brought up, being necessary to make any redesign or any present day reality effective in being pedestrian or bike friendly. It was tacitly revealed that UC Police have been chastened into non-enforcement because it would dampen economic and/or tourist activity. The understanding is that if people can't park for free they won't come. Just another area in Cleveland ripe for pedestrianization that will never happen because of car addiction.

Just checking how that DC vs Heller was working out? Oh. That https://americanenlightenmentproject.org/guns-a-problem-becomes-epidemic/

There is zero traffic law enforcement in Cleveland. Half the cars on the street have no valid license plate and/or sticker, or any plate at all. For police departments, it simply isn't worth the effort. BTW, this stupidity has been going on in NYC for a while now. It's the thing to do with the powerful missiles produced by Stellantis and provided to anyone with a down payment. As I always contend, the industry is responsible for this culture and should be held to account. Very comparable to the production of assault weapons. But vehicle producers can always count on the Cult of Personal Responsibility rampant in America. They have also always known, for over 100 years that passing off that futile responsibility of law enforcement to police was the most effective deflection in US history.

Cleveland and the rest of the US prioritizes automobile use so thoroughly I don't see any way this ever changes. Consider the Van Aken district, with healthy development and more on the way. I've never seen anyone use the Blue line to travel here other than myself. Tons of parking though! It's just too easy to jump in the car! Downtown is suffering as a work destination. Development of park and ride lots, while an excellent idea is also dependent on a healthy downtown as the central destination for all of these termini, or at least as a reliable and efficient pass-through to other developed, former park and ride destinations.

GIS for the Win!

Yes but the new Rainey Institute is in Hough I should say that the old one is in Hough but also in the St Clair Superior CDC

Another Theater bites the dust. 😪

No matter what, everyone in Bay Village will drive everywhere all the time. But I predict this exurbanite will suggest chasing riders in Avon.

The theater looks in decent shape from the outside. A clear view of the back can be had from Addison Rd.

Are there any updates on this (imo) disaster waiting to happen? https://neo-trans.blogspot.com/2020/10/seeds-sprouts-xii-early-intel-on-real.html Hopefully the project is dead and the old Ezella theater can be rescued. https://cinematreasures.org/theaters/8354 Many performing groups are looking for space and there is a severe lack of that on the east side of the city, (I always need to specify the city so that Clevelanders don't bring up the Heights.)