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Chicago's Daley and Rahm were visionaries in their ongoing world-class lakefront development. https://uapost.us/en/news/northerly-island-park-opens-friday-on-chicago-lakefront/ Cleveland has one last current chance to reposition its image for the Gen Zs, climate change refugees and newcomers and we better do it quick. A 400-acre nature preserve (with or without a dome/economic developmet on the western edge) will help and be readily inclusive, equitable and relatively low cost to develop the footprint and then let nature and all citizens take over (Hello Bibb/Ronayne and James Corner Field Operations: https://www.newyork-architects.com/en/james-corner-field-operations-new-york/projects). Build it and they will come C-bus version: Before Daley/Rahm who can forget the visionary Columbus Mayor Buck Rinehart who famously manned the bulldozer in the middle of the night to knock holes in the national landmark Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus to stop cold the then nascent historical preservation efforts. Without it Columbus would not have the amazing professional hockey, soccer, MLB stadiums and thriving downtown-adjacent neighborhood developments. Cleveland slept while Columbus planned for 50+ years (shout out to even earlier C-bus visionary Mayor then Guv Rhodes who tied water access to annexation). Cleveland we are on the clock...

KJP - is that a construction tower crane being assembled on the Riverfront Clinic/Cavs Phase 1A project?

Probably a good time to sell and package both properties. quick right turn...I saw last week that the Aracde was rented out for the 1st Anniversary of luxury realty brokerage The Agency (owner seen on Housewives Beverly Hills). The Arcade photgraphs well in the Instagram post attached to the Akron Beacon story: https://www.beaconjournal.com/story/entertainment/2024/11/01/mauricio-umansky-visiting-cleveland-real-estate-the-agency/75989867007/ https://www.instagram.com/reel/DB1TLyypBa-/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=f35a66fb-2e96-4c3a-9c2b-6ea831063ab4 The firm's website also have a nice aerial shot of Cleveland (without SW though): https://www.theagencyre.com/region/cleveland I don't see Jimmy's Bratenahl house listed (yet)...

I thought there was some movement mentioned on this recently? How sad if the broken windows and tumbleweeds remain when the new SW neighbors move in after the New Year. Can't imagine being a visitor staying in the new Hotel Cleveland and seeing our living homage to Dresden (or Detroit until Gilbert bought all of downtown Detroit). btw...where is the rooftop Hotel Cleveland signage?.

On positive note Ohio Statehouse Dems picked up 2 seats in each so that’s how the pendulum will start to swing back to the middle. Interesting read in New Jersey they are reportedly thanking their favorably redrawn districts by their Dem controlled Statehouse as preventing losses there as NJ suddenly moved near swing status this election.

Is very possible for the future uses of the Burke site. Hopefully the James Cormer Field Operations will be engaged further to continue their lakefront planning eastward to include some Burke ecomomic development and an iconic public access nature preserve. For examples look at their refforts in China https://www.fieldoperations.net/project-details/project/taopu-central-park.html or their plans in Staten Island for 750 acres of former landfill (sound familiar?): https://www.fieldoperations.net/project-details/project/freshkills-park.html or brooklyn's waterfront https://www.fieldoperations.net/project-details/project/river-ring.html I think we have the right firm to help Cleveland reimagine the future of considerable but misused assets...

Will be interesting what DeWine does as he has not been a trumpster So Vivek is not likely and DeWine is tight with powerful Dolan family so that is possible or taking the safe route and just picks Portman who is also not a trumpster back for the two year interim before a special election.

What history before those unfortunate events. Haven't been down there in a while. Will have to stop by and and look around some time and maybe pop in Citizen Pie across the street (if still there?)

Definitely reads like just a needed face lift per the full slide presentation - but we'll take it. Sounds like this 1st lipstick phase needs to launch soon so that allocated funds can be drawn down quickly to reset the area for some interim neighborhood uses while it also then staged to catch a second looks from potential new owners and developers with the wherewithal to take it to the next level. We appreciate the design teams’ frankness and clarity by identifying safety concerns (actual or perceived) that must first be addressed they summed up as dumpsters, dark passages, across a wide road to an empty spacer, desert island, no-man’s land… Next Phase? Why not high-rise apartments and condos/coops appended behind/above each of the 4 squares that would feed the nearby growing appetite for close-in modern housing for Cleveland’s Eds and Meds giants. As the slides (page 22) say: Rear lots are opportunities for on-site residential creation and Existing transit into Downtown supports Transit-Oriented Development Why not here at here at of one of the nation’s first TODs which was unfortunately blunted by the 1929 crash and then followed by all the seemingly never-ending challenges that have accumulated there since. More Circle Square or Van Aken-type residences here. If not, we will settle for a successful version of South Park’s SoDoSoPa and even their competing City Part of Town redo (aka Shi Tpa Town).

Can’t be any less shocking that the Danny Greene mural next door

Yes talk to the Miami Haitian community and they will tell you all about it - not just corrupt locals we have propped up but the UN and others-where did the $13 billion plus go.

It is so sad for the remaining citizens who can’t move to a safer area or get the leadership they deserve. Too bad Mayorkas didn’t resettle the 25,000 Haitians in East Cleveland or Cleveland where they would be welcomed unlike southern Ohio. What a way a restore the population with eager newcomers who would likely embrace good government in EC and school the current regime there on the American dream. We could use a Little Haiti or Port-au-Prince enclave.

Governor DeWine: Looky here…great spot next to CLE and NASA (more suitable use than dome stadium and humongous parking lot) https://www.loopnet.com/Listing/18300-Snow-Rd-Brook-Park-OH/14119072/

According to unnamed off the record sources who may not actually exist in reality believe IKEA has a back up option to buy the Brook Park land when Jimmy drops it and either locks arms with the community they profess to love and build the lakefront dome - or- they move it to C-bus as they really want.

That area is a tough nut to crack in its current state. Not sure if another vacant grass covered lot or park as Polensek has pushed with other previous eyesores on Lakeshore when funds are available but in that area it may lead to another drug zombie hang out. On that note could prolly benefit from walkin medical clinics and treatment centers. Also they need to first redo E 156 connecting Waterloo Arts District to these vacant structures at the north end of 156 & Lakeshores. As you know it has been allowed to deteriorate to a year round October 31st streetscape. Good luck in the front lines there!

Love the throwback 70s image and childhood memories but the obvious poor air quality made me reach for my abuterol rescue inhaler

So true such generic townhomes are found all over the dmv and overlapping b-more burbs and do not provide any sense of place. While these in Brooklyn center mimic the traditional Cleveland framed houses we grew up with and with the few bookending this lot. Just do a 360 spin of the street on google maps as GISguy provided at the onset. We should commend the developer risk taking given the less than views across the street. We do hope they differentiate the facades for each from this initial proposal though. https://maps.app.goo.gl/HZkwwvM9MWNomqgr9 then scroll to the most current view with the autobody shop bulldozed. If these are successful they may trigger more residential across the street if they can be rezoned to residential.

Looks good in this brochure but hopefully it is not 24 hours as the pumps and parking don't seem visible from the street intersection - particulary if it is an area in need critical Po-Po attention. Hopefully it is a peaceful Mayberry-like area with no street take-over meet ups or other only-at-night unholy shanningans that occur in some other areas. https://cohencommercialgroup.com/propertypdf/Brochure- Cleveland; 3074 W. 14th Street.pdf

Maybe we will have a future Cliffs HQ news if Biden does block the Nippon takeover of US Steel in December as he has threatened. Nippon just revised their submission so they must be worried. It sounds like Cleveland-Cliffs’ CEO Lourenco Goncalves will then snatch it up as promised especially since the Canadian Stelco closed so quickly.

Good eye! That view between the bridge arches will frame the Cavs/Clinic Phase 1a perfectly - and also what follows. This pic viewpoint really drives home how critical the reimagining of the hulking but beautiful Sherwin Williams structure will be. I hope Bedrock made a pitch for the soon to be released TMUDs! If the County can't build new in the Pit this may not be a bad alternative for spin-off effect alone! Could be why Ronayne has gone silent on this other than today's PD statement to the Judges who want to reopen the earlier joint committee on both the new jail and courts decisions. The judges may not like whatever decision gossip they are hearing. https://www.cleveland.com/cuyahoga-county/2024/11/cuyahoga-county-judges-plea-for-jail-steering-committee-to-be-reinstated-in-letter-to-executive.html

seems they do have a special permit per their website. Now whether they are encroaching beyond the approved area to park nose in on the square is a different story. https://oldstonechurch.org/parking

They look totally appropriate and in context for this specific street and neighborhood based on the draftsmpics and maplink provided by GIS guy above. Also we like each has rear-loading 2-car garage allowing the front of the homes to enage the street and neighbors. They also seem to be directly across this narrow street from some commercial machine shops and such (one already torn down from earlier Goodle images). So again these desgns makes sense. Nice deep lots and do not tower over their neighbors - definitley not McMansions.

Is this a Sunday morning pic and if so could be for services at Old Stone Church? Is a practice we have seen on the east coast like DC on Sunday's in gentrified neighborhoods where congregants may have moved to the burbs but return for services and parking becomes diagonal rather than parallel to curb.

Didn't expect to see the word Vibrator while reading on an early Sunday morning 🫢 I had to search the KJP archives to see recent names of the key TurnDev project. Per this KJP pic it looks like there are 2 buildings with 2 proposed names (if current?) - Hanover House and Clinton House. Not as catchy though we admit, but great that each of these are slowly filling in and creating critical mass approaching the Clinic Lutheran parking lots, West 25th and the soon to be iconic Irishtown Bend park.

We have been casually but eagerly following the development news of the NFL Hall of Fame Village (or whatever the current branding is) - the brithplace of football - for a very long time and it seems sad it never seems to get done and or the plans keep scaling backward. Why can't the greedy NFL owners each contribute and build a state of the art development there rather than or at least equivalent to the billions each contributed to the surroundfing SoFi stadium development for the NFLs clubby West Coast HQ. Canton should be proud of what they have accomplished on their own but they shouldn't have to go it alone and beg for donations. The Hall of Fame should also have an NFL-built and funded dome modern stadium where maybe even the Super Bowl could be played from time to time - like the Rock Hall induction ceremonies in Cleveland. If the perceived grifter Haslam would take the lead on this type of worthy effort maybe he could garner some much need positive PR. https://www.cleveland.com/business/2024/11/more-financial-questions-arise-about-cantons-hall-of-fame-resort.html