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And we can’t overlook the intangible benefits to remaining or rebuilding in the center city. From the perspective of intangible assets, sports events can bring positive spillover effects and enhance civic pride… or called the psychic income that sports events may bring. These researchers say (1) sports events can generate social capital; (2) social capital can positively influence social identity; and (3) social identity can significantly impact event excitement, city attachment, and city pride in psychic income. https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.938905/full

The vertical fencing for the sidewalk adjacent ground floor patio units is unique. The color of the wood is kinda drab - looks like driftwood- but it should deter patio furniture thefts.

Yes is a no brainer that Downtown will suffer greatly if moved out of downtown. That brook park land should either be folded into the CLE expansion plans or offered to the aerospace industry that is now expanding around the perimeter of the airport/NASA. Thank you Mayor Bibb and Executive Ronayne for your nonstop advocacy for the people and what is right! https://www.cleveland19.com/2024/11/13/how-much-could-browns-brook-park-move-cost-cleveland-cuyahoga-county/

CMH plans are so many years ahead of ours but hopefully we will have news on CLE soon.

Looks like Vivek is out if he accepts the new position with Elon on Trump's new Department of Government Efficiency or DOGE. Guess DeWine can now go with his reported preference Timken as a placeholder for 2 years.

I hope it gets inspected regularly as it seems one of our summer strong storms or tornados could destabilize that faux wall as happened with the Fairmount this summer.

True - the St Vincent's site and Juvenil Court buildings will come into focus quickly with the planned CMHA housing redo, the news that the County is moving its Centers For Families And Children HQ to the campus, and the good Sisters remaining and collaborating with others on developing a Health and Healing Hub. Don't know what this will comprise but we have a hole in our overall social safety net to include the need for more workforce housing, medical services, and mental health services. Seems the like the dye is cast for those services to begin in this location - after all, social services and work force housing should be part any 15-minute city and TOD planning. There should also be room for a substantial Newcomers/Immigrant Welcome Center - maybe Gov DeWine could get the ball rolling by inviting his family's Haitian charity operation here and woo those newcomers to Cleveland instead of southern Ohio. The Health and Healing Hub concept seems like the right approach for our community and should happen soon (on the other extreme we are not worried about Burke as it can close in as little as 5 years with our current City/County visionary leadership leading to the easy conversion of the sleepy and tired redundant airport to an all-peoples access lakefront nature preserve).

Maybe another developer will option the land from UCI if Dimit and Petros are no longer intertested? Fron Steven Litt's 2015 review of One: "...It's also important to remember that One University Circle could be accompanied in the future by a second building at the corner of Stokes Boulevard and Euclid Avenue, which the developers also plan to lease from University Circle Inc.The corner will be used in the interim for surface parking to serve the first tower. But Dimit's design for that first building makes one wonder how a second one could be added in such a way that it makes sense as part of a unified whole..." I can't believe UCI would let this land sit idle longer than necessary if those 2 have moved on

True DeWine somehow escaped that mess like Houdini and if he wants pardons for his friends/donors who were not so lucky he will have to play ball with Trump and appoint Vivek- if that’s what Trump and Vivek want. Who knows…

I believe the sailor is facing Burke while shedding a tear In disbelief that Cleveland would put an airport where there should only be boating and public recreation access.

..or within 5 years as County Executive Chris Ronayne said recently. Let’s just do it with Metroparks waiting in the wings to take over. A lakefront nature preserve would be a relatively low cost force multiplier- activating underutilized land across and along the east side bluffs for development (like Gordon Square west side). Most importantly, this aviation expert (native Clevelander) also tells how easy it would be to shut it down. https://www.cleveland.com/opinion/2024/11/how-to-close-burke-airport-with-a-minimum-of-faa-and-private-aviation-pushback-roger-cohen.html Plus we have more than enough nearby FAA-certified Reliever airports ready to go in the region - no waiting. Why keep the airport open so the reported primary user Dee Haslam can board her jet in 5 minutes to fly to Palm Beach. Instead Clevelanders of all walks of life need inclusive and equitable lakefront recreation access.

Not so much anymore since the Ontarians do patronize our Cleveland Clinic in great numbers and because we love the Canadian Prince and Princess since their epic wedding but they can have these two:

watching them and the bridge movements never get old

No need to throw the word "dumb" around here.

The residents of the river facing units are going to have amazing free river traffic shows from their living rooms as the other day we saw a giant freighter parked in front of and dwarfing the construction site as the boat waited for the bridge to raise so it could travel up the river (or down?) inland. So if intertested in that building I would reserve one of those units...

Democracy is messy as we have been told this week but look at the results in Columbus and Chicage vs here...In hindsight we should not have laughed at Jim Rhodes when he ventured into Northeast Ohio just before the elections pitching us a Bridge to Canada. https://www.nytimes.com/1966/04/24/archives/cleveland-gov-rhodes-pushes-idea-of-lake-erie-bridge.html

The body language arms folded and frowns do not give us much confidence in the Port board letting his contract expire. Must be a back story there...

True. Buffalo is an another great example of how far behind we are. Our Lake Erie sibling is doing well with their 99 acre new park (notably named after Bills family foundation). https://www.ralphcwilsonjrfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Ralph-Wilson-Park-Announcement-7.19.22-FINAL.pdf We could use a landmark bridge like Buffalo’s at our new 18th Street connector to Burke. https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/17032-buffalos-ralph-wilson-park-welcomes-a-new-pedestrian-bridge-after-a-journey-across-the-atlantic

Noticed the beautiful Medical Mutual/Rose building showing off in the foreground. Hope Project Scarlet gets off the ground soon (TMUD?) to activate this corner.

That was quickly and quietly completed. Interesting to see what happens with Cliffs and US Steel given the election results. https://www.nasdaq.com/press-release/cleveland-cliffs-completes-acquisition-stelco-2024-11-01

Nailed it - Well done native Clevelander! He definitely is an expert on the subject of closing sleepy Burke. "...with local alternatives like Cuyahoga County Airport and Lake County Executive Airport, corporate jets don’t need Burke. Sherwin-Williams Co. chose Cleveland Hopkins International Airport for its corporate jet hangar because of its few airline delays. Football fans might not appreciate the sacrifice, but if the city redevelops the stadium land instead of the larger Burke site, only one Greater Cleveland Partnership (GCP) board member would sacrifice their walk from planeside to work -- the Browns’ Dee Haslam." "Tuesday’s election has opened new political paths for the business community. Make closing Burke a priority in filling the JD Vance Senate vacancy. The White House directs the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), and if Republicans take the House as well as Senate, Republicans will likely chair the powerful House Transportation and Infrastructure and Senate Commerce committees, the last bastion of bipartisanship and behind-the-scenes horse trading. Closing Burke becomes an easy, “I’ll scratch your back vote,” especially if no local politician is willing to die on their sword for the little-used airport." "Check out that former Meigs site on your next visit to the Windy City. Northerly Island offers pristine views nestled against Millenium Park, a world-class recreational, arts and civic mecca on Chicago’s lakefront. "Cleveland deserves no less."

Good point Brown is smart so he must have read the tea leaves on immigration/crime early but unfortunately chose unauthentic imagery as if he was either a full-time Border officer or standing with Po-Po as if filming an episode of COPS. We know Brown's policy wonk strengths over the decades but he may have turned off the new voting youths (or yutes) by introducing himself otherwise in seemingly round the clock ads.

I thought there were some housing plans for the Ohio Bell Building the last few years? That crown really needs updated and lit up to accentuate its cool design. That building for some reason gives off Superman/Daily Planet vibes - if only there was a Superman connection to Cleveland..

Not sure why but I am getting a West Side Story vibe with this image... but it seems a knife fight or dancing (or a present-day street takeover) could break out at any time

Thank you!