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I would not be so sure. There has been little to no push back from either commission to date for obvious reasons. Maybe now that the headquarter building is a sure thing some members will actually grow some balls and not politely suggest things but just vote no. They do it all the time to small time homeowners and businesses.

As I understand it, although I hope I am wrong, they still don't have the funding to complete Phase 2. Does anybody know where this funding may come from (hopefully and realistically) and where they are at securing it. It is amazing that planning has been in the works since 2015 and the park is only half way done and it is nearly 2023 with no firm completion date.

According to @KJP, nothing if they don’t receive an upcoming TMUD.

It would have probably been even a larger majority except there was one abstention and three members stepped away from the meeting before this last agenda item was finished. This continues to be a problem both with Landmarks and Planning despite the fact they only meet for about 3 hours twice a month. I wonder if this would happen less if the meetings went back to in person like before the pandemic rather than virtual. City council now meets in person as well as council's various committees. Why can't the commissions?

They are both on Landmarks Commission not Planning Commission which is a different review board. I believe the chairperson, Trott, is an architect and I think Anderson is a real estate agent as well as an all around know it all.

^I hope Julie Trott does not run across this picture. It would just ruin her day

A number of years ago a friend opened a restaurant within walking distance of a large far west side hospital and medical office building. He thought it was a great location and his place would be packed at lunch with hospital employees (and medical office visitors). That type of business was practically zero. Just an occasional high up hospital administrator with more time for lunch or who might be holding a meeting with an outside vendor. Even that type of business was rare.

I did not read the article but how did akron make the list? It is practically new.

Actually I was mixed up initially. I thought the Geis project was next door to the Pearl (or as it should be known as Real Life's pretend project), You correctly pointed out that the project I was thinking about is next door to Treo (a project by out of town developers who not only follow through but do it quickly).

Or maybe I am mixed up and the project I am thinking of is abutting Treo

^This has been evident for sometime. Too bad. It was an interesting project and would have helped the corridor a lot. I wonder if that project abutting it is now in trouble because of this? I think it was a Gies project but may be wrong. Would seem to be less marketable and isolated without the Pearl as an entrance gateway to their lot.

The chair, Julie Trott, has been against the project from day one saying it was too high for the location. The problem is, she just states that without backing it with any common sense rationale. She also was against Waverly and Oak because it was too tall. She has a strange aesthetic. Anderson, after saying she liked many aspects of the design then goes on to vote no because it is too tall, Huh? As expressed by some other forum members in the past, it is time for her to go. I have never run across somebody who likes the sound of her own voice more than Ms. Anderson. She has to comment on everything but usually does not have much concrete to offer. She really sounded clueless when commenting on the agenda item just prior to Bridgeworks. To this day my favorite Landmarks moment is when Matt Wymer subtly put her in her place when she started lecturing him about project financing on one of his Little Italy projects. I was a bit concerned when they were voting. The project was roundly praised and it seemed like the vote would be a formality, and then it ended up passing in a nail biter, 3-2, due to an abstention and because a number of commission members just seemed to disappear from the meeting. I know, it is a rough job. Fingers crossed for the TMUD

A buddy is looking to rent a new apartment and toured Top of the Hill today. There is still a month or so before new tenants can move into portions of the complex and the leasing agent told him they have already leased 60 of 250 units.

And what kind of one year study only costs $500,000. Sounds like a job new Planning Commission hires right out of school could accompolish. Is this just something that needs to be done regulation wise so the city can start begging for money from the federal government?

If there is one thing the City of Cleveland and various administrations have been good at when it comes to the lakefront the past 30 plus years is spending money to "study" the lakefront. Not too good at actually implementing all these master plans. It is really starting to get embarrassing.

It really is not a prison but a jail, usually for those awaiting trial. Once convicted they are sent to other facilities. Of course, as we have seen, if you cannot make bail you might be in the Justice Center facility for a long time and it might seem like a prison. I am not sure but they might even use the facility for short sentences.

Given what has occurred in the past I doubt there will be much push back and the project will receive a certificate of appropriateness. The Landmarks chairperson has an irrational opinion regarding the height of the project but I imagine even she will vote in favor.

I would shoot myself it every day I had to report to work at Landerbrook Corporate Center.

On Euclid.

Bridgeworks' construction approval is on Thursday's Landmark agenda. Recall that demolition was already approved a few months back and at that time the principals claimed that they were going to begin demo in October. We will see. Curious if this project is a go even if they don't receive a TMUD award in the upcoming round. By the way, shouldn't the agency be announcing the awards soon?

Was glad to see the schematic approval. It was an interesting meeting to say the least. I am curious as to who owns the empty lot directly north of this project. You would think it would be another key development parcel even closer to Battery Park. I wonder if there is some new hesitancy to develop this lot due to all the heartache (maybe that is too strong of a word-mind less NIMBY aggravation may be better) the developers of this project have gone through. Have to commend the developers for their diligence (they could have just walked away like the previous group) and thoughtful presentation when it came to explaining how these two buildings could, and should, be the future of Cleveland in many neighborhoods, where appropriate, in relation to public transit and walkabilty.

^Love it

Sounds right. Strangely, my mom's nurse from South Carolina was living somewhere in a rural area near Canton. He said he really didn't even know where he was or how he got to the hospital every shift. He just plugged in his GPS.

^UH can certainly use the former St. Vincent employees. Since early July my mom has experienced 4 UH emergency room visits (Ahuja) and eventual hospitalizations of anywhere from 1 to 5 days. She has dementia so I was usually with her 12-14 hours a day and was able to observe first hand hospital operations in the ER and on the floors (as well as front desk and food service operations). It was obvious to me, as a layperson that they are having real staffing problems, even with the closure of Bedford and Richmond, and this was confirmed in many conversations with the nursing and tech staffs. One Saturday night I felt I was in a horror movie as the many nursing stations on the floor were practically empty. I learned one stat that really surprised me when talking at length with a gossipy ER nurse. She told me that at least 90% of the UH nursing staff were not employees but what they all referred to as "travelers", or what I would consider a contract employee, retained through an agency. They considered themselves a traveler even if they were local and just moving from one Cleveland hospital to another. However, many of my mom's 12 hour shift nurses were from out of town: As close as Warren (they would stay at a local Beachwood extended stay and then go home when they had days off in a row) and as far as South Carolina, Florida and California. I got the impression these warm whether nurses would be heading out to new assignments once the snow starts flying. The chatty nurse told me she worked at the Cleveland Clinic main campus ER for 20 years but could not stay because they could not match or even come close to the huge amounts of money she was making as a traveling nurse, even with local assignments, as she had no interest in leaving Cleveland proper. She said the tables may turn in the future but for now all the nurses were taking advantage of the situation. She pointed out a number of long time employee nurses in the ER that were leaving UH shortly for other assignments. It seemed like the only UH employees were nurses right out of nursing school (we had a great one who was from Athens and went to school with Joe Burrows and currently lived in Kent and commutting from there as she went to KSU for nursing). Apparently you have to work professionally for at least one year before you can travel.

I certainly hope there is a team at SHW actively working towards facilitating the development of the vacant land on West 6th and St. Clair, probably the same people that were responsible for the tower project, but I see no visible evidence of this. Hopefully things are happening behind the scenes. I know there is still a long way to go with the actual tower project but it would seem that the SHW team at this point has to have handed off a lot of the heavy lifting to the construction experts they retained. And even if they still have a lot going on with the tower, I would hope they are bright enough to walk and chew gum at the same time. I wonder if the motivation is there? Throughout this process it seems like, maybe rightfully so as it is a public company, that SHW has been more concerned about what is good for the company rather than the city and the urban fabric. However, even if that is the case, you would think that developing these parcels would be good for the company and the project as a whole. Again, it has been suggested that things are happening behind the scenes but it would nice to even hear a minor rumor to give us some hope. Nothing but crickets to date.