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I thought the same--even if the fare is more the corporate expense accounts could justify the higher "luxury" fare and added ground transport into Manhattan--with no hotel room. They must have done their homework, so wishing the best for this flight!

http://www.cleveland.com/travel/index.ssf/2016/12/ultimate_air_shuttle_to_launch.html

Good stuff happening with our neighbor to the east.... How Buffalo Got Its Waterfront Back River restoration is influencing the city’s economy, public space and environmental health. On a warm evening late last spring, I took a kayak tour of the Buffalo River, because I wanted to see how Buffalo has transformed a derelict industrial waterway into a nautical playground. I rented my kayak at Canalside, a park built around the unearthed terminus of the Erie Canal, the waterway that 191 years ago made Buffalo a major Great Lakes port. Our tour flotilla passed powerboats, a jet ski, a rowing crew and a stand-up paddleboarder. read the rest... https://nextcity.org/features/view/buffalo-waterfront-redevelopment-economy

I don't know the ins and outs of Ohio public law, but I doubt this is is really much of an issue. States routinely run surpluses to create "rainy day funds," for example, and courts are extremely deferential and considering "public purpose." There is also wide leeway for planning multi year capital budgets. I don't think there's much of a mystery here why CMSD is doing what it's doing. There's no public high school on the near West side and very few available large lots. Vacant land is fairly cheap in Cleveland, even in Ohio City and vertical construction (especially over an open span like a gym/auditorium) and structured parking are expensive to build. I don't think a large lot without a view of the lake and Edgewater would be hard to find. I can think of a couple without putting much effort into it, starting with the Trinity development site next to the new kennel. It even has better transit access for the students!

How did it work for the offing of the downtown HQ to a hotel developer then? I guess the adminstrators had a "need" that students and teachers don't have?

Coming from a district that has been in a pretty dire financial situation for the last 40+ years, I would think they would be able to identify a "need" to justify selling this land. I'm sure the profit could cover thousands of computers, etc....

Public schools and housing should by law be required to perform a real cost-benefit analysis for relocating. It's just fiscally irresponsible not to. I'm glad I'm not the only one thinking this. That real estate would have to rank on the higher value parcels in the entire city outside of downtown. Why wouldn't the cash-strapped CMSD want to sell that and move up the road? There is a ton of property further up Detroit near that new dog kennel (grrrrr), close to the Red Line, etc that would have let them turn a profit and get a new school

I wouldn't say Toronto is without sprawl subsidies. Drive any given afternoon on the Gardiner, 401, QEW etc....and you'll see non-stop road widening and construction. With this in mind, their extreme population gains makes density and planning extremely important. I wish we had those problems in Cleveland! I imagine Cleveland in the early 20th century must have been that way....

Same. Agreed--although I have to admit, once I turned 16 with a car and thoughts turned to girls rather than baseball, the Metroparks were a great hang... ;)

Right on cue, this article on Next City: City Park Advocates to Get More Power in 2017 https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/cities-park-access-big-data-tool

We would go to Edgewater Park more often if it had a playground. A park of that size should have a playground at least comparable to the old playground at Lakewood Park, let alone the new one that's under construction. But I'd love to have a playground like that within walking distance of my home (or better still, something indoor -- the Fifth Church would have been perfect for it, but playgrounds don't make enough money to be sustained privately). It's why my wife misses the children's amenities she had in Ukraine (and that most were free and within a short walk). Everything here seems so far away to her -- driving 20 minutes for anything just blows her mind. Good thing we don't live in an outer suburb.... That sounds like my fiance, except we don't have kids and she complains that living in the city of Cleveland she has to drive 20 minutes to get to everything she likes (Crocker Park, etc).

At the risk of this thread turning into a City of Cleveland Parks thread, I wonder if any serious consideration could be given to turning the entire parks and rec operation over to the Metroparks. I can't stop congratulating them on the turn around they've achieved at Edgewater. I wonder what they could do if given the money and resources to at least maintain and operate Halloran, Luke Easter, etc....

Go to silde 11: http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2016/08/clevelands_income_tax_increase_1.html#0 Great...so the grass will continue to go unmowed....

^^Agreed. Unfortunately I don't think the Mayor's new tax increase will go to any upgrades in these facilities. Maybe at the least we'll get another 100 full time parks and rec employees to maybe mow the grass more than 1x a summer....

^^good to hear. It certainly seems the entire project combined with the Shoreway updating is a net positive. It's amazing to see all the construction happening through the corridor (IMO lacking recent precedents in Cleveland!). All along the Shoreway/Detroit there are new apartments and businesses popping up the school coming down, continuing on Clifton with several retail and resident renovations and new construction about to break ground at 117th. Hopefully this keeps going!

Not only Tower City, but the Airport, on trains and buses, and even in front of HQ on W6th....there are lots of "entitled" people who work for RTA to collect a check and have no fear of being terminated.

It's a good solid building--will be a great rehab!

I guess they have to pay for that new (hideous) covered parking. Because at Hopkins you can park your car under a cover, but you can't get dropped off or picked up without getting soaking wet.....

^^I can't wait to hear KJPs "factual" rebuttal to this.

HQ on down. I'm sure the level of nepotism and cronyism in RTA would make a City of Cleveland official envious....

Not only is the timing horrible, RTA once again falls short in the communications-to-riders department... "Mechanical issue" is not good enough; and it's not just Twitter; this same explanation is on RTA's website. I didn't see anything on cleveland.com about it... Guess we should be happy they warned people not to take the trains... I guess. There is nothing "mechanical" that can take down an entire rail line.

Great news for Detroit--I feel bad for Auburn Hills though. That's a lot of revenue to replace!

I hope Governor Kasich took note. I wonder if he would react to Ohio paying for education leaving to other states by cutting funding for education?

IIRC the light rail was also helped along by the 2002 Winter Games....

^^The GOP version of "social engineering." Highways are designed to let the residents of Westlake deal as little as possible with people from the "other side of the on-ramp."