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I would say I agree but in reading about this potential DC plan, writers elsewhere have cited Atlanta’s ballpark village which is 10 miles from downtown and truly suburban. I looked that up and it looks like Pinecrest or Crocker Park next to a stadium. It seems like what is driving these folks is access to land to be developed. And if Cleveland won’t let them commercialize the land around Browns stadium, it seems plausible they’d go elsewhere to do it. That said, the main obstacle is going to be who pays for it.

I'm pretty shocked by what seems to be happening in DC. The owner of the Capitals and Wizards is apparently planning to move the teams to nearby suburban Alexandria, which will be part of a new huge development. This would be pretty devastating for downtown DC. The current arena is perfectly placed near numerous Metro lines and drives ton of business to restaurants and hotels. https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/39100527/ted-leonsis-plans-move-wizards-capitals-virginia I post it here because it made me think of the Browns. Does a move like this give them more reason to look outside the city? The motivating factor seems to be about getting land for mixed use development around the arena.

I'm sort of surprised to read some of the comments about why trees shouldn't be on Euclid. I'm an unrepentant treehugger, though, and love seeing artists' imaginings of super eco-friendly cities that are not just dense but full of greenery and everybody is driving carbon-neutral flying cars. This intersection I found in Singapore is an example in "real life" https://www.google.com/maps/@1.2850886,103.8504532,3a,75y,165.22h,83.63t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sy0K0HgmWqlIjGth81ztdNQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu

Not that this is a fair comparison but the Avenue des Champs-Élysées is famously tree-lined. I know elsewhere in France many main roads are tree-lined thanks to Napoleon who back then understood the value of trees for pedestrians (aka soldiers marching).

We can’t have more legal immigration because we don’t have enough jobs and we can’t have more jobs because we don’t have enough immigration.

The idea makes sense. Companies like AT&T and Walmart are closing offices in LA and Austin and bringing those jobs back to their HQs (or cutting the jobs if people don’t want to move, probably). SW definitely doesn’t seem to be into remote, so it makes sense that they’d want to bring core functions to the place where they’ve invested big. Personally, if I got the instruction to move or get a new job, I’d want to be in the fancy new HQ complex, near all the action, not some random satellite location. I know Key has an office near the airport and that to me seems not ideal because you don’t have the same opportunity to cross network with departments or get seen by leadership.

More media coverage. This still seems pretty weird. If they were talking about her contract renewal at meetings all summer, why the last minute obstacles? The comments about process seem to veil some sort of beef? Does he have some issue with her performance? A 5% raise doesn’t seem all that crazy to me. https://signalcleveland.org/noaca-board-delays-vote-on-ceo-contract-after-push-from-cuyahoga-county/

This seems odd. Why did he all the sudden stick his neck out like that, especially when the board chair replied by telling him to go pound salt. Seems like a waste of political capital.

They are staying in the same school district, so there’s that. It seems like a no brainer decision to me. Space they like a lot very close to where they are now. Minimal risk. On the downtown side of things, it would really help if a heavy hitter or two was able to use their gravity to pull related businesses downtown like the Clinic is around their campus. I think the network effect would help create a bit of FOMO. I know in years past, the idea of locating downtown was sort of a civic commitment but I’m not sure that is enough motivation in 2023. It needs a business case. Maybe SW can get that going with their new HQ.

Really exciting. This + the new Clinic lab space and other investments seems like the realization of what the Medical Mart was theoretically supposed to do.

Something like this happened in DC near the zoo during their winter lights festival a few years ago. You used to be able to walk right in with hordes of other people but now you need a free ticket and they do a security check. Despite the comment above, I don’t know of any place in America that has found a full-proof way to shield people from gun violence (that the Supreme Court will accept). I personally have the same worry about gun violence at a festival like this in downtown Cleveland or downtown Medina.

That Brecksville site is 100+ acres? I wonder if they would have preferred being closer to their HQ downtown too but trying to get a site that big in a location they liked was probably difficult. Drove down Euclid Avenue from E. 55 today. I have to say, as someone who moved away in 2009 and came back in 2020, the changes here are honestly shocking. The SW building has amazing presence. Most of the buildings along Euclid look way better than they did in the early 2000s, too. Just need more housing in the vicinity to get the foot traffic up but wow what an amazing difference. It’s beautiful!

https://www.crainscleveland.com/real-estate/menards-buys-granger-township-medina-store-site-13-million Menards buys 300 acres in Medina County for $13M. Residents tried to prevent it but the Ohio Supreme Court said they had no standing. Exurban/rural sprawl to me is an issue where a motley coalition of townships, rural residents, city urbanists and land conservation/environmentalists could team up. There is no way to stop sprawl, especially when companies like Menards l pay top dollar for land, but a strategy could be put in place to try and control it a bit more. I’m not sure if governments would go for it though because it would likely mean less tax revenue.

This is why I think Cleveland is better positioned for growth over the long term. Cuyahoga County suburbs are mostly developed and resist density. They can't really get bigger, especially as our populaton ages and we have less kids in households. Cleveland has more amenities and more capacity to build new housing, especially denser housing. But I don't see sprawl to Medina, Lorain, etc. stopping. That's why we need to increase our regional population with more newbies, and I think if Cleveland can continue to build and improve on progress of the last 20 years (especially safety and schools), it's going to be a very compelling option for new residents.

Here is the map tool if anyone wants to play with it https://onthemap.ces.census.gov/

The exterior doesn’t bother me that much but it seems like it’d be hard to repurpose the interior for anything that would be super desirable. There is plenty of office space available downtown and elsewhere that is already better suited for that use case, and it’d likely be pretty hard to make it housing or a hotel. What would a developer do with it?

The study says the data is 2020 and 2021, which is peak pandemic, but it seems to me this movement is probably still happening and probably was before too. When you really zero in on it, I think it's very plausible that a lot of the out-of-state income migration is from seniors retiring. If I'm reading these tables correctly, if you remove Florida as a destination, Ohio is basically unchanged. The other thing that is interesting is how obvious suburban sprawl shows up as so many people moved from Cuyahoga County to neighboring counties.

I'm curious how much of those outflows are seniors. It seems like every older person I meet in Northeast Ohio aspires to move to Florida. Lee, Collier and Palm Beach counties are top draws of Cuyahoga residents, according to this map--meanwhile we're drawing more people from DC, NYC and Chicago. Maybe I'm reading the map wrong?

Based on the margin these campaigns are winning by in Republican states, I think that would inspire civil disobedience like nationwide strikes.

If you’re referring to the program I shared, I don’t think that is a fair statement. Some of those schools systems are wealthy and not diverse, but that’s not true of all of them. I think if you look at the demographics of the kids served, it shows as a very positive example of how regional partnership can take place.

That’s why I suggested expanding it.

I think for our region we need to be more creative when it comes to regionalism. Every city in the county works and collaborates with regional partners, often very productively. There are a lot of redundancies sure but nobody is totally independent either. Politically there is zero appetite to merge cities, school districts or police. But what are some things we can do to: 1. Lower our spending by sharing services 2. Improve equity to improve the future prospects for everyone. I actually think the current way this happens is pretty smart, focusing on individual projects rather than running out with some regionalism master plan that gets people all worked up. I do think we can do more on education at a county level. This is a good model that could be expanded https://www.solonschools.org/Page/3277 edit: On the topic of mergers of cities, schools, etc. I don’t think they are possible unless a city is under financial duress. If we were to face some major economic challenges in the future, I could see that changing. But there isn’t a lot of incentive to give up power if you can afford to maintain it. But even then I’d bet most places would try and piecemeal merge, sort of like they are now with shared 911 and ambulance service.

Fair points. I remember as a kid hearing about people coming to Cedar Point from places like Japan and Europe because it was among "the best," and I just wondered if the lack of centrality would make it hard for CP to stay in that conversation in the future as bigger markets elevated their games. But I also don't know much about theme parks, so that impression may have been my Ohio pride!

I agree with most of what you wrote, but the one different thing I'd argue is that locating jobs in downtown areas will help support residential living. This is just me popping off, but I also think having so much of our office-based workforce sprinkled all over the region is actually an economic drag. In cities where more work is done in a downtown area, it's easier to run across town for a business meeting with a customer or network over lunch or coffee with a potential new employer. Or even meet new people who you might want to start a business with. But I'm not sure what the constituency is to make a pivot like that. I think it would be good for our economy but for individual businesses things like parking and cheaper rents will be more important.

If the corporate owner is basically saying being located in Sandusky is inconvenient for them, it doesn't seem like that big of a leap to say going to Cedar Point is inconvenient for consumers, too? I'm not suggesting they'll pull the plug on the park, but it seems like they'd be more likely to invest more in their other properties and CP would be more of a regional draw?