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Yeah, sounds like theyre just going to put out a statement with some generic form of "We want to expand with X more teams within X years after 2026"

Is there a place to get notified about these things? I probably wouldve gone to this. Since we just moved here, but plan on staying in Ohio City long term, I'd like to start getting involved in stuff like this.

OCI still holds the lease on the buildings and is planning to open something new in the future, though they havent released any specific details on what. I would hope they already have a solid plan in place, or else kicking out paying vendors and then paying a lease while things sit empty for months sounds like a terrible plan, unless overhead costs really were that much extra and not being covered by the sub-leasing to the vendors. But also, buying this space knowing how much costs were exceeding income sounds like a terrible plan. So I dont know. Maybe they had a plan to replace it with a new concept all along, and its taken this long to finalize some of the aspects?

We own a bookstore in New Orleans in a business called the Good Shop, which is multiple businesses set up across a few rooms. The "diluted" experience doesnt hamper the retail aspect at all. But this store has a single checkout point, with all of the merchandise in a central retail system (Square), so all the partners who sell stuff in there just need to work the check out once per week (we have an employee who handles it for us since obviously we're not flying back once a week). This cuts WAY down on employee overhead for everyone, and also lets each vendor also focus on other things, if they have additional storefronts across the city, or need to spend time making the goods to sell them.

Just moved here a few months ago, but whats keeping more hotels out of Ohio City? Seems like between the amount of things to do here, and its proximity to downtown would make it a prime neighborhood for at least some smaller-sized hotels. The only planned ones I know of are the Whalen one behind GLBC, and the off and on again Hulett (seems to be "off" as of now?). Is it because the neighborhood's "turn around" has been relatively recent and hotels take longer to plan? Something more political like anti-hotel residents? Is it just easier and more economical to throw up multi-unit apartment buildings?

my guess is bad, considering some of the more unhinged parts of the press conference.

No pictures, but the complete rebuild of the Arbys across from the Walgreens at W117th/Detroit seems to be proceeding apace

Bookhouse Brewing is in that building, so technically Ken is correct

The prospect of cranes and construction happening right across the street from our window was one of the few "cons" in deciding against the W25th lofts for us when we moved here in September. Loved the building and location, but I had read that construction was imminent on that lot and the apartment we were looking at would've been directly over-looking it. (Dont worry, in the end, our current apartment beat out the W25th lofts on its own merits, and had nothing to do with any potential construction that may or may not ever happen)

wonder if its some new automated payment system and they got flagged and no one checked, and the evictions get sent automatically

I dont know how you can watch this game and want a dome.

West Side Market gets a $3.6mil grant from the Gund Foundation to help fund its renovation. https://gundfoundation.org/the-gund-foundation-awards-14-7-million-at-its-november-meeting/ and a paywalled Cleveland.com article: https://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/2024/11/west-side-market-renovation-gets-36-million-boost-from-gund-foundation.html

Royal Docks Tied House is officially open in Ohio City / Hingetown https://www.instagram.com/p/DCc7ErSNALl/

Ted Leo and the Pharmacists coming March 2nd. I’ll be on a cruise. Haven’t seen ted leo in 9 years. He does a great show.

Getting closer to Royal Docks Tied House in Ohio City https://www.instagram.com/p/DBtPwAduv9c/

if the stadium moves to burke, upgrading the waterfront line and replacing the current stadium spot with a Gaylord resort type of place (which can include mini-amusement park type amenities) tied into the convention center via the land bridge could be the final piece of the puzzle for hosting a Super Bowl. I doubt we get a Super Bowl in Brook Park.

This is it right here. Given the timeline of 10-15 years to upgrade Cuyahoga airport, close Burke, prep the land, and build a new stadium, the current stadium will be hitting 35-40 years old, which is the normal lifespan of an NFL stadium. Anyone who has the best interests of the city at heart would be doing this. Structural improvements and small quality upgrades at HBF. Encourage the city to start working on its lakefront plan in the existing lots. And they'd still getting the sweetheart deal of their own parking lots and football village at their fancy new domed stadium. Sure they might be gone by then, but they're still super filthy rich and they'd have an actual positive legacy in the city for generations to come

The Haslams can focus their efforts there all they want, but theyre not guaranteed the public funds at all. What happens if the county and state reject their request for $1.2bil?

Would any permanent retail work in that area? Or is it separated enough from the rest of downtown that this will really be a "game day only" type of spot? I dont see any kind of large scale "pre-game" area in the renderings with food/drinks. So if it's a "game day only" thing, I'd like to see some kind of Food Truck Park with 3 or 4 spots with electric & water hookups. Maybe get a brewery or two, or some local bars, that get licensed to operate temporary bars in pre-built structures. Have a decent area with seating, and then maybe a vendor's alley or something. This way no local place has to carry a year-round lease on something that might see 20 uses per year. I think it's good to have a nice pre-game area so youre not forcing people to pre-game downtown first then try to get to the stadium, or to do all drinking/eating in the stadium.

gonna have to go here when I get homesick for food, to test it out. Ironically I'm back in New Orleans right now for my birthday week as well. Might be able to get there on Sunday for the last day of their celebration.

Thanks for the confirmation! I've been pleasantly surprised by how chill the shoreway has seemed so far, and Cleveland drivers in general (except for the people blatantly running red lights... but thats the only thing I've seen worse, so far). I've long been a fan of taking down elevated roadways in pedestrian areas (like I-10 separating Treme and the French Quarter in New Orleans, which destroyed tons of thriving black businesses and a beautiful oak-lined street when it was built) so the conversion of this stretch of the Shoreway to a ground level boulevard sounds nice.

I just moved to Cleveland, so I've only traveled this part of the shoreway a few times, so just to get a clarification on the proposal... To use an example, driving from Ohio City to Beachland Ballroom... When I went Monday night, the shoreway/I-90 was entirely uninterrupted from W45th st to the E152nd St exit. Now there would be a light and intersection at W 3rd St? So coming from Ohio City, I'd stop, take a left on W 3rd, then take a right to continue on Hwy 2 / the shoreway out to I-90? Every time I've driven on the shoreway there's been almost no cars, so I cant imagine this will cause too much additional traffic or drive time going between the west and east sides... but like I said, I'm super new here, so I dont actually know that for sure

This article is ridiculous. On top of admitting the FBI data still shows a drop in crime, it goes on the use things like the NCVS, which is just INTERVIEWING PEOPLE to extrapolate how much crime occurs, to "prove" violent crime is actually up by over 50% instead of down 1-3%. They also toss out the "also lots of crimes go unreported" as if that only started happening in 2023.... which it didnt, so its entirely irrelevant.

2 arrests made so far. https://www.yahoo.com/news/2nd-arrest-arson-charge-street-194447963.html

Given the lifespan of stadiums in the modern NFL, I think the timelines match up pretty well. Based on what I've read on here, closing Burke will take years since we'd likely need to find a smaller regional airport and build a new runway and improve facilities there to be the new reliever airport for Hopkins. Then we're looking at a another year or two for land stabilization possibly since it was mostly drudged infill? And then another few years to construct the "Haslam World" with a stadium, hotel, retail, parking, etc. All told, I would say from announcing the closure plan for Burke to opening a new stadium it's probably a 7-10 year project Put in the money on the current stadium to make all necessary repairs and provide a few rehabs/upgrades, with the vision that these are just a 7-10 year band-aid while the new area and stadium are built. The old stadium will be over 30 years old by that point, which as I alluded to earlier, is pretty old by modern NFL standards.