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Do Playhouse Square owns these buildings? If so, I am wondering why they were considering building new for lumen phase ii (when it was still alive) instead of building on top of these structures? Is it because of lack of parking or is there an increase cost for building on top of an existing structure?

I think there are too many lots in the urban core that needs to be filled up before we consider tearing down any building. I want to see us focus on empty lots on prospect, huron and bolivar. This will create a nice block of activity.

For two to three weeks, the ceo thought that they were really leaving the city. As other cities were really aggressive with their pitch (e.g. incentives, networking with colleges to create talent pipeline, and covering cost of relocation). Also, mentioned they considered having the tower to include R&D, but they thought the pilot paint plant wouldn't belong in public square.

Thank goodness they don't have a livestream like city club, or else I'll be looking at it all day. But seriously, when is the construction cam going up?

airliners* forum for aviation.

Will it use the same trains as the one on the Acela (assuming unify fleet) and what kind of upgrade would the tracks need.

it usually under the live stream tab on youtube.

Watched the committee meeting last night: The main argument is the west side market needs 30 million dollars for defer maintenance (to bring it up to the point where the west side market is stable and not IMPROVEMENTS) and the council members wants the number dropped from 15 million to 10 million allocated from the ARPA funds. In the councilman view point they believe too much money is going into fixing the west side market, when there are food deserts throughout the city. Since the WSM is a city asset, the non profit thinks the city needs to provide funds the fixing up WSM to a basic standard and at this point is where the Council believe they were oversold on the concept of a non profit. The Council thought turning the WSM into a non-profit would allow them to gather funds to fix the WSM without asking the city for this amount of money to fix it up. The non-profit argued that it was very hard to ask donor for money for basic maintenance that the city should provide and that the donor is mainly interested for upgrades to the market (where the donors names could be plastered in places). The main thesis for the non-profit is that once they could get these basic improvement done they could be more self sustainable and won't have to keep asking the city for more money. Key points of each speaker I found interesting: Blaine Griffin: Said some of the members wanted a lower number than 10 million. He also said he wanted money invested into the city should yield back many dollars back in return. He said for too long money invested in the city yield back quarters to the dollar invested. (I hope he keeps up this energy when the Haslam's comes and ask for public incentives to build/renovate the stadium). Also, in the beginning he also incorrectly stated that all the non-profit markets throughout the us don't come and ask the city for money. Polensek: Asked the non-profit what are they doing with the parking lots and how much they are charging for parking. The non-profit said they are charging less than what the city-meters are charging the citizens. The non-profit also said the parking hasn't been that profitable since the gates keeps needing to be replaced because people keeps crashing into it. Thus, the non-profit said they are going to change the fee structure of the parking lots. Councilman Polensek also asked if there were plans to develop the parking lots. The non-profit said that it might be a possibility in the future, but want to focus on the WSM since it is in such bad shape. Starr: Seemed really angry that a lot of money is being poured into the west side and not enough investments are being made to the east side. Wanted to remind Mayor BIbb the east side helped elected him into office. At this point he asked the non-profit what kind of deficit the WSM is running at. The non-profit said that the WSM currently collects 1.2 million in rent and the market needed 1.9 million in order to run. At this point he said WSM is out of its glory days and not all old things should be saved. He also mentioned that in his ward Daves supermarket has left and that why the Mayor didn't create a Senior Strategist for other things are in dire need. Spencer: Asked if 10 million is going to be enough for the non-profit to leverage it in order to carry out all the deferred maintenance. The director answered that it was going to be very difficult to ask the donor for the rest of the money because the city is isn't carrying it weight in its own assets. He said 15 million would've been a better target because he could spin it to the donors as a 50/50 match. At this point the Councilwomen recalled a story how the city in the past has spent money to renovate one of the board rooms at the WSM and that weeks later all of that money went to waste as the roof collapsed and the board room encountered water damaged from the rain water. Thus, the renovations to the WSM needs to have synergy and have to work together. Hairston: Gets the WSM is a city assets and the city needs to invest in. Asked the non-profit on how are they getting minorities to open stands in the WSM. The non-profit responded that they have spoken to many minorities and they want to open stands in the WSM, but they can't because the WSM lacks many of the basic amenities for them to start the stands. They also said they hope to have 25-30 minorities represented in WSM in the future. At this point Councilman Starr interjected and asked what are they doing to the 5 million dollars that they are withholding from the WSM. Councilman Griffin said that he is looking into solving food insecurities in the central and northeast neighborhoods (contrary to the reporting he wants to put the 5 million into housing). Kazy: Brought up the idea that if the WSM is a money pit, maybe it is time to sell the WSM since it is prime real estate. He said is not supporting the idea, he is just brining it up for discussion. McCormack: Said WSM is a gem for Cleveland and that even though WSM is in ward 3 the institution is so important that it doesn't belong to any ward just like the many other gems cleveland have. Also brought up how Councilman Blaine and him went to the mayor a decade ago to persuade the mayor on how to improve the WSM. He also feels the other councilman concern on food insecurities even in his own ward. Might be in the minority here, but I kind of see both sides of the argument here. For so long we have neglected the WSM that the city needs to step up and fix it up. On the other hand there are other pressing needs in the city and food insecurity/desert seems like an important issue that the city is facing and needs to tackle instead of investing in an already rich neighborhood. In a perfect world, we give the WSM the money here and we could use the 700,000 dollars that they received from the city each year and subsidize a grocery store in a food dessert (this assuming the WSM non-profit works and will become self sustaining). The WSM have so much potential though, I hope it follows other markets in the region like North Market. Many business have started there and became successful and started to expand around the city (Jeni's and Hot Chicken Takeover) and I hope we could emulate something like that here.

Hopefully they could find a better location for the station. Couple years back when I took the greyhound for school it was often delayed by a couple hours and the boarding took awhile. It would probably suck waiting at a rapid station and probably be crowded having tons of people waiting for different bus routes.

@X The article may not have mention Mayor Bibb, but since the mayor have taken office he has met with a few times Secretary Pete during his short stint as Mayor (a little over a year): had a one on one with the Secretary in DC a couple weeks after the mayor was inaugurated had the Secretary and Congresswomen Shontel Brown tour the City back in May of last year spoken at the same virtual event with other mayors about climate in March of last year had another meeting with the Secretary in DC back in late January of this year about advocating more funds for Cleveland all of this had lead effort had lead the Department of Transportation to grant grants for smart traffic signals, the airport, and now the port. Not saying all this was because of the mayor, (obviously the congresswomen's mentioned in the article had to put in some hard work into it as well) but seeing the mayor advocating for the city and seeing the results is quite refreshing compared to the previous administration.

Mayor Bibb gets ragged on for going out of town too often, but this is the reward for advocating your city on the national stage. Refreshing.

Link to the State of the City Address: https://www.youtube.com/live/fz_osvwthuo?feature=share&t=1415

Is this a way for the Haslams to make the general public think that a new stadium is a better idea than a deep rebuild of the old stadium?

crain's reporting the hotel will be "motto by hilton"