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Why don't we redirect this to the general Ohio City thread? But it will almost certainly need its own thread.

Cleveland seeks developers of JFK High By Ken Prendergast / October 3, 2023 With demolition underway at the 14-acre former John F. Kennedy High School and Recreation Center site in Cleveland’s Lee-Harvard neighborhood, nearby residents may wonder what’s going to reactivate this large property. City officials began taking steps yesterday to answer that question by inviting real estate developers and others to express their interest in the site, 17100 Harvard Rd., just east of the Lee-Harvard Shopping Center. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2023/10/03/cleveland-seeks-developers-of-jfk-high/

Whoa...

With the Flats Industrial RR getting ripped up, I'm sure it will become a trail. Don't need two trails.

Both

I think they have some of it. I'll have to check.

If no delays, by the end of this month

How am I the first person to share this news?? We don’t have a functioning democracy. Gov. DeWine & the lawless legislature have grabbed power from an elected school board (which came about due to a Constitutional Amendment) and are set to eliminate Ohio’s Dept. of Education. They’re defying an in-force temporary restraining order to add it to the Governor’s bureaucracy. DeWine: Part of overhaul of K-12 education will happen at midnight despite a court order. https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/politics/2023/10/02/gov-mike-dewine-to-speak-at-515-about-education-department-lawsuit/71036139007/

Wait until you see the vision for the land across the street

Just west of the railroad track? Isn't that Cooper Flats? Berges submitted a permit application for a 21-unit apartment building at 1923 Willey on Sept. 5.

Oh, and a TIF for 1250 Riverbed is on the agenda too https://neo-trans.blog/2022/03/01/flats-apartment-project-wins-bza-nod/

Glenville’s Cory Church, nee Park Synagogue, to be renewed By Ken Prendergast / October 2, 2023 Cory United Methodist Church (UMC), the first stop on Cleveland’s Civil Rights Trail and a landmark in Cleveland’s Glenville neighborhood for more than 100 years, is about to undergo major repairs to its worn exterior. Thanks to recent grants and donations, the façade of the former Park Synagogue will see significant restoration work to include fiberglass replacements of missing pieces of masonry, repairs of cracked concrete and bricks, plus a rebuild of its columns, cornices, parapets, granite stairs and more. Plans for the repairs were recently submitted to the city. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2023/10/02/glenvilles-cory-church-nee-park-synagogue-to-be-renewed/

Eagle Avenue demolition is on Planning Commission's agenda this week. https://neo-trans.blog/2023/06/23/eagle-avenue-lift-bridge-to-be-demolished/

Erieview TIF is on Planning Commission's agenda this week.

I hate to tell you, but these guys are in business to make money, not to create skyline art. Beyond my interviews Friday and Saturday, I ran into another member of the development team yesterday. Sure, they like to leave their mark on the landscape. But they consider each of these designs as an evolution caused by internal and external influences. They are overjoyed that their returns will dramatically improve with this latest design. They get to provide almost exactly the same programming but for far less investment and operating cost.

So, in other words, no one really knows. I'm going with the Western Reserve angle to further distance ourselves from the rest of those Northwest Territory rubes.

Getting empowered to shape Cleveland’s landscape By Ken Prendergast / October 2, 2023 Fourteen promising entrepreneurs from diverse backgrounds have been selected to participate in an innovative new real estate development program with a clear mission: to break down historical barriers and empower these individuals with the knowledge and tools needed to shape the future of Cleveland’s communities. The Cleveland Equitable Development Initiative, or CLE-EDI, will bolster the ranks of successful minority real estate developers in the region and to stimulate economic growth in the communities from which these entrepreneurs hail. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2023/10/02/getting-empowered-to-shape-clevelands-landscape/

I don't know if this article was posted here two years ago, but it remains interesting (to me, at least). Lessons From the Rise and Fall of the Pedestrian Mall Car-free shopping streets swept many U.S. cities in the 1960s and ’70s, but few examples survived. Those that did could be models for today’s “open streets.” https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-09-09/why-america-fell-out-of-love-with-the-pedestrian-mall?utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_content=citylab

I never thought of that before. Interesting!

Want to reduce traffic? Reduce roads. Improve land use. Provide alternatives. Departments of transportation “prefer to ignore history, and hope that this time a new road will reduce travel time and not increase trip making. There is no basis for such a hope.” — Engineer Robert L. Morris, P.E., in a report to the city of Durham, North Carolina (1979).

“New research indicates that there may be a whole host of toxic chemicals being shed from tires & brakes that have been largely ignored until now. Even worse, these emissions may be so significant that they exceed those from a typical car's exhaust.” https://www.thedrive.com/news/tire-dust-makes-up-the-majority-of-ocean-microplastics-study-finds

The world continues to achieve

Oh boy (part II): No Deshaun today. Decision was announced in the 10 a.m. hour. Instead it's DTR's first start against a top-ranked defense. The upside is that Baltimore likely didn't spend much, if any time preparing for him. I suspect the Browns knew days ago Deshaun wouldn't be starting.