jam40jeff

Richmond, VA is confirmed as well. https://www.richmond.com/business/nordstrom-may-permanently-close-its-store-at-short-pump-town-center-mall-owner-says/article_869e709c-c07c-5506-91ab-b56bd4d861ae.html

Everybody already knows Columbus is the third most important city in Ohio anyway! ? *ducks*

Cleveland's national stature isn't any better than Akron's? I have nothing against Akron, but come on.

I had to see if this by chance was THE Don King. Nope, it's this Don King... http://www.heightsobserver.org/read/2018/06/26/reverend-don-king-to-retire-after-40-years-of-ministry Note his quote at the end of this almost two year old article...

They probably feel their constitutional right to have a municipal surface parking lot next to their property is being trampled.

I have noticed many days, even before all of this started, where you can see downtown pretty clearly down Cedar from around Taylor Rd. and you can even see Key Tower pretty clearly from just last Legacy Village.

"Thanks for the complement!" said the West Side Market.

Kent and Ravenna absolutely are Akron suburbs. I don't think there's much of a question about those.

Not so anecdotally, the Census Bureau considers Hudson (as well as Streetsboro, which I would also agree with) to be within the Cleveland Urbanized Area. Akron: https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/dc10map/UAUC_RefMap/ua/ua00766_akron_oh/ Cleveland: https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/dc10map/UAUC_RefMap/ua/ua17668_cleveland_oh/ Akron: Cleveland:

Also anecdotal, but one of my college roommates, my sister-in-law, and a few friends all either live in it grew up in Hudson, and all of them think of it as a suburb of Cleveland. As a matter of fact, I'm pretty sure I've been to Swenson's and Rockne's more than all of them combined.

Hudson is very much a Cleveland suburb. Stow (just to the south) is the first real Akron suburb. But how about Macedonia, Twinsburg, and Aurora? Those are good sized cities that are even more Cleveland suburbs than Hudson, and none of them count towards the Cleveland MSA.

I'm not sure why that would be. They are charging 5x or more per room for them, so even if they only hold 1/4 as many riders, they still shouldn't be losing much more if any. How do they even run the numbers on something like this? It would be a shame to lose the sleepers. Sure, reclining seats are more comfortable than on airlines, but there is no substitute for the privacy and comfort of a sleeper. If they need to charge 10x for them, I'd bet most travelers already paying for them would still do so.

The dining car especially is a loss leader. They might find they lose even more sleeping passenger revenue without it, considering how expensive those tickets are.

All sleeping car passengers "buy" food, and most buy alcohol while they're there. If they were losing a few dollars on the food, raise the sleeping car ticket prices by a few dollars. It's a drop in the bucket of the overall cost of the ticket.

The dining car fiasco is enough for me to want him out.

This sounds like really good news! Anderson can't go fast enough.

That would certainly be something as they didn't even locate any of their NEO locations so far in Cuyahoga County, let alone the City of Cleveland.

To be fair, an article was posted in another thread. I don't remember where, but I remember seeing it somewhere.

London sees an average of 1633 hours of sunshine per year. Cleveland sees 2280. Cleveland gets more hours of sunshine in every month of the year than London. For all we dump on Cleveland's weather, Cleveland is also sunnier on average for the year than Columbus, and much sunnier than Pittsburgh. (Columbus gets more sunshine in the winter, but less in the summer.)

Did you read the end of my post? I am fine with this building being torn down. I only said I understand that line of thinking *sometimes*, whereas you said you *never* understand it.

I do understand that line of thinking *sometimes*. There are many buildings which have now been repurposed beautifully that could have been demolished for junk with this line of reasoning. Imagine if in the 60s, the Schofield had been torn down and replaced with a brutalist pile of crap instead of just being sheathed in aluminum. However, this building seems pretty far gone and it's not a gem to begin with, so I'm OK with it being torn down, even if the replacement isn't great.

Pittsburgh has its fair share of non-historic junk architecture (as well as some newer, conservative architecture). What gives their downtown a nicer feel IMO is the narrow street widths. Our super wide avenues are what give downtown a strange "big but open at the same time" feel.

Good to know, but do you think there was more context? Re-reading the quote, it's hard to imagine what else was meant by "As with everything these days, developers have taken over," although he does then go on to explain how they gave him an opportunity to come into the new building but he was just ready to retire. I'm just not sure why the first part was necessary.

And most importantly to them it seems, an opportunity to complain about the development boogeyman.

Original NuCLEus...and Pesht! Except it's Stark, so none of that was ever going to happen as originally planned.