Htsguy

^I have never seen the Banks in person so I am hesitant to opine. But that has never stopped me in the past. 😉 I hope we don't look to it as a model as in my mind it is somewhat of a disappointment. I recall when I first heard of it I was so jealous. A huge swath of land along the river between two new stadiums just minutes from the central business district (a lot closer than our lakefront) with great support from the public sector. 25 years on it is still not finished. Lots of meh architecture and revolving developers. The retail is nothing to write home about, mostly restaurants that seem to struggle at times. Connecting it to the rest of downtown seems to have been an after thought. The riverfront park does seems to have been very well done, Again I have never been on site (although I know the city pretty well since I went to school nearby), I have read a bunch about it, especially on this forum were there is a fair amount of moaning and groaning for various reasons from many of the gang in Cincy (of course that never happens here up north LOL). Everybody is entitled to their opinion as much of criticism is subjective (although fact that it still has a number of developable lots after all this time is telling), but again I hope we can do better, especially in terms of architecture.

I guess a small consolation would be that the jobs would be staying in Cuyahoga County rather than going to Lorain (Avon) per the first proposal.

I am certainly not familiar with all of NRP's work, but in the past I thought some of it was really meh. The Collins seems to be an above average project for them, at least in my mind.

^I was under the impression that another company owned it.

Your not wrong. This opinion has been expressed regularly on the forum since the project was first announced.

Agree but my best guess is that it is not even close to being fully funded. Does anybody know for sure?

The legislation passed at Council just now. Three nays. Slife, Kasey and Polensak

^Step one. When issuing an RFP do a better job (that is the county or whatever public entity) of selecting the appropriate developer.

I never thought of that. It makes perfect sense. Makes me hate the Haslams even more if that is possible.

That means very little given that it was in the vested interest of many of the other members to suck up to her.

Google him. He’s a broadcaster based in northern California. I believe he now works for the San Jose sharks. He does these very detailed videos on YouTube delving into stadium funding issues throughout the country as well as other economic issues relating to sports. He’s been going nuts lately over the situation in Tampa Bay. The videos are about 10 minutes long and delve into both the politics and the economics of new stadium builds. I believe he actually did one about the Browns situation a couple of months ago, although I didn’t think it was as good as other he has done and was not as well researched.

@KJP you should send your article with the polling results to Brodie Brazil. I bet he would do a video with the information. This is the kind of stuff he salivates over.

This development needs a large building, at least 300,000 sq feet and preferrable more, to anchor Midtown and hopefully jump start other projects. Something the size of the original collaboration center before that developer stepped away.

I don’t know about that. I see a lot of junk in the Columbus threads. Columbus poster’s complain about mediocre designs and lack of quality just as much as we do

They usually do