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Miami-Dade Takes Another Approach to Funding Rail After a county sales tax failed to bring Miami-Dade residents the dramatic rail expansion they were promised, officials are trying a different revenue strategy: property taxes. https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/miami-dade-rail-funding-property-tax

Unfortunately too often that is our governments. Everything has to be done via formula and books, stifling any chance of thinking outside the box. Multiply this by 3 in this case, with the City of Cleveland, RTA and State of Ohio. It's too bad Cleveland Clinic isn't a more progressive member of our community and spearheading the charge for these changes to help their employees who don't live in Avon Lake get to work.

Maybe this is a solution we are all not seeing. Let the buses run through during peak periods. During quieter hours and weekends, they go around. We could install those hyrdraulic posts that come up out of the ground to block the road, and make that section "prettier" some how?

My guess is a small part of this is the movement of millenials and empty-nesters from the burbs back into cities. They want these same amenities that they had out yonder. We just need more of them because they too will be interested in transit once we reach a tipping point in cities.

The Amtrak station is separate, but close by. It's just across Liberty Avenue inside the old Pennsylvania Station. I believe that PennDOT funded most of that project about 25 years ago. PennDOT continues to put large amounts of funding (hundreds of millions of dollars) into Amtrak stations across the state. The Grant Street Transportation Center has the Greyhound station on the ground floor of a new city-owned parking garage bond-financed by parking revenues and a Greyhound lease. Sound feasible in Cleveland, right?

Hey KJP--just out of curiosity, what financing methods did Pittsburgh use to get their bus station/Amtrak facility done?

If we stay down the path we are on, there won't be any weekend buses in a couple years....

^^LOL for real! I'm down with KJPs idea for the structure, but it should be mixed use offices, restaurant and maybe even residential. Burke is a development tool waiting to happen--it's too bad our city's airports are run by bureaucrats with no vision.

The only positive to me: Can a downtown location drive enough traffic away from Lodi/Aurora to shut those sites down and bring this type of retail back to the center? I'm very skeptical this project will do that though. I think there will be three less than 1/2 filled outlet centers. I agree. This is why Tower City and a casino tie-in make the most sense. If big enough, this could be a driving force in getting Phase II of the casino constructed, along with a massive parking structure to keep the soccer moms happy.....

United Airlines may be poised to drop one of its hubs. No story about United is complete without a little jab at CLE! :whip: http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/united-airlines-may-be-poised-to-drop-one-of-its-hubs/ar-BBuX8TN?li=BBnbfcL&ocid=msnbcrd

Nice article. I think the whole outlet mall needs to go away from that location. Horrible idea. Believe me I hate that render but I think outlets could be good, but only if the design fits the location. Monolithic structures are anathema to coastal access. Now I've been lots of coastal places where retail adds a great deal of vibrancy. A retail/family entertainment district like Broadway at the Beach or Barefoot Landing (both in Myrtle Beach) would be awesome for Cleveland. It would never turn out like one of those due to one slight issue: November through April would be BRUTAL walking around shops down there. Tower City and Dan Gilbert should absolutely be on the radar for this. Casinos and outlet malls draw the same crowds.

I'm sure the NBA players and brass love partying in New Orleans. Cleveland should have passed open container laws and put a big casino in the flats 20 years ago and we'd be in the same position!

It's a municipal lot, ... as in owned by the City. Make it available. That's easy enough, and the City would reap the tax windfall. Or better yet, sit them down with Dan Gilbert and get Phase II done of the casino. This is the perfect pairing with that. Casino crowds love outlet malls. And Phase II needs some help if it's ever going to get off the ground. Too bad Mayor Jackson is the most savvy deal broker.

The outlets should go at Tower City. Perfect match for the casino and hotel.

This is not prime lakefront land. This is on a parking lot hidden behind other buildings. This land was being marketed for office use. It's not as if this is being built on the water. And right next to an airport. A perfect place for an aviation related business to locate. Have you ever wondered by airports like Cuyahoga County and Akron Canton are ringed with aviation businesses and Cleveland's airports have relatively few? My guess is in the management philosophy.

We should get Al on board for a Twitter campaign asking the Mayor and all of council to use public transit for one month. #leadbyexample

Delegates may not be while staffers are. Voting delegates tend to be a bit pampered. Correct. RTA is there for the help. The delegates may have an event at the Rock Hall, but they sure aren't taking the waterfront line to E9th. They are on planned transportation from hotel to event.

^^Love the Calabrese quote about preparation. Makes you think he might start planning for the future (or not). I've said it in these forums before--the rank and file RNC attendee is not riding RTA. They were bussed in from the airport and will be bussed back.

This was a topic of discussion among some of my R friends last night. To them, "Repeal Obamacare" is hollow but necessary talking point; that it has no likelihood of actually happening. Go ahead and repeal it--as long as they replace it with something better. We are all ears!

Buses don't run through the middle of Crocker Park. But they do in the transportation hub of our city. I'd rather have the movement and action of a busy city, not a quiet park.

^^Key to bringing the convention to Cleveland....but don't ask us to vote to fund any of it.

^^ I applaud all Burke supporters. Until there are developers lined up with shovel ready offers to build 450 acres of apartments, condos and shopping on old fill dirt, this is something we have that other metros do not. A downtown airport can be a great economic development engine. In the meantime there is all that unused parking and greenspace on the Marginal side of the field where a future development can take root.

Montreal Trades Expressway for “Urban Boulevard” Montreal has begun tearing down its part of a mid-century expressway to make way for a greener, more transit- and pedestrian-friendly boulevard, reports the Montreal Gazette. The Bonaventure Expressway, an elevated 11-lane highway built for Expo 67, will give way to the street-level Bonaventure urban boulevards, a combined nine lanes of traffic separated by a series of green spaces. Montreal’s new, $142 million entryway is scheduled for completion in mid-2017, just in time for the city’s 375th anniversary. https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/montreal-tear-down-bonaventure-expressway

Sadly that's pretty much all stadium acts today. Hopefully some younger bands will take root and carry the torch.

I had no idea, so digging further. According to this site, the Howard Johnson's was just a restaurant, and had shops: http://wikimapia.org/1224060/Don-s-Lighthouse-Grille