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To be fair, the building that's actually next to it is a pizza restaurant & a daycare, and there's a well-worn path visible from satellite imagery from pedestrians cutting across this corner, so the path itself is probably justified. That said, you could still just move the road and sidewalk together, killing two birds with one stone. And build a small park around the arch. Relocating it seems unnecessarily complicated.

To be fair, the only building actually under construction isn't even in this photo. "This" is a heck of a lot more likely if it has Amtrak, CVSR, and RTA connections all in one spot. Sure—a push from the city government, Amtrak, Brightline, etc. would be huge. But at the end of the day, Bedrock's riverfront development is literally on top of the largest passenger rail station in the state of Ohio. If anyone stands to directly benefit from state/national rail service, it's them.

Count me as one of those people, haha. I stayed here for a night because it was a convenient stopping point on my way to look at colleges in Chicago (driving from the East Coast). I ended up going to college here. Granted, the "Hastily Made Cleveland Tourism Video" was basically only popular video about the city, so my expectations were very low.

From the amount of complaining about how the drop-in center doesn't fit the neighborhood, I never would've guessed there was already another homeless shelter and a food pantry located within a block. LMM has been in the same building for 60 years, so I can understand why they wouldn't want to move.

So like... a residential-only neighborhood with no retail where every errand requires taking a trip to a separate commercial district? I think there's a word for this 🤔 In all seriousness, I think we all agree demand for new residential significantly outpaces commercial—and no one's suggesting we build another downtown here. Even just 97% residential and 3% small-scale commercial would be conducive to walkability.

Cleveland Heights forwarded this press release to their mailing list...

Almost certain this was the same video I'd seen. From what I've read online about the Inner Harbor, it still sounds like one of the most popular destinations in the city (I haven't visited in person), but I assume the retail component was hit especially hard during COVID.

Unlike Cleveland, Baltimore has wayyy more waterfront development competing with this. So it's somewhat believable. But they also had a failed mall at their Inner Harbor (which was heavily retail-dependent), so maybe there's a little bit of pessimism about this project too.

I think hearing an elevated train go by every few minutes would help make midtown feel a little less empty. The HealthLine is very quiet. On the flip side, it would probably be cheaper to build a (good) streetcar, separated from car traffic. Elevated rail would have to be built over the tracks at E 55th, then probably descend into a subway after the innerbelt. A streetcar could continue at-grade through downtown if that was the most feasible choice. I've always thought elevated rail would be better for reinvigorating a wide street like St. Clair, although I'm sure the folks at St. Vitus would have some things to say about it ;)

Since we all seem to be talking about theoretical situations, here is a real one: as a college student, I don't own a car. I've never ridden the CVSR because the Rockside stop is inconvenient from most of Cleveland (without a car). Despite having been an avid hiker growing up, largely through Boy Scouts (I literally built a hiking trail as my Eagle Scout project), I've only been to the national park once: when I took the 77 (bus) to Brecksville to visit the metropark and walked far enough across to get to the national park side. Realistically, many of us just don't want to spend $9,000/yr on car payments, gas, insurance, maintenance, parking, and tolls just so that we can go to the 3 places in the suburbs that don't have bus stops. You've said that no one would ride the train because it's quicker to just drive—then surely, nobody would ever hike, bike, or kayak to the park either, because the freeway is faster. As others have said, it is a form of recreation as much as it is a form of transportation. To get back on topic, while the proposed station location at the riverfront is not ideal, it's possible it would be a very short walk to an infill RTA station at the new soccer stadium. If riverfront development continues around the Cavs facility and new stadium, this could make a good "Riverfront East" stop.

Good call. I put in a report for street debris.

To be fair it's already been almost 17 years since they paved Euclid... I'm not totally convinced that asphalt would be in much better condition after the same amount of time. I'm not an engineer, but it seems like filling in broken concrete with new concrete would have been smarter than pouring asphalt on top, although maybe I don't know what I'm talking about.

Having used these bike lanes many times in the last few years, I'm very sure that they weren't nearly this bad last year. I agree completely with your second comment.

Same, actually I got all of these pics in one 3-hour long bike ride. I'd just been waiting for it to get warm out while I was free. Being on a bike makes it easy to cut across side streets to look for development activity. I think it would be cool to have a group go out and get some photos! In 2 months I'll be 21, so I'll be able to join y'all at breweries too ;)

It looks like a few were built around 2022-2023 (via Google Earth)

Probably the Carnegie Ave streetscape improvements starting. Also apparently Midtown has a skatepark now?? Street tree work across most of the Innovation Square district I'm very pro-construction, but damn the Euclid sidewalks/bike lanes are a mess...

Signs for The Canyons/Omni development taken from the bus (3-7-25)

Lake Ave townhomes (3-9-25) The Equinox CLE townhomes

Midtown Collaboration Center getting its finishing touches (3-9-25) Carnegie signage at Foundry Lofts

Gordon Crossing (3-9-25)

89th Street Rising apartments... I counted 6 new buildings Infill on E 100th St (from E 101st)

Skyline on Stokes (3-9-25)

More Scranton Peninsula pics: A couple shots from the Red Line... this project has gone a long way in terms of making Cleveland feel like a "big city" when entering downtown

Work on the riverfront is coming along very fast... you might even say Bedrock has hit Peak Performance

Ten60 Bolivar (3-9-25)