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A view from Salem? Nice zoom lens, @MayDay

More Mississauga... Toronto obsesses over angular planes, meanwhile Mississauga allows unlimited height and density directly adjacent to single family homes at City Centre. (Image is a rendering for M City, which is like half built)

I pretty much wrote the lede in my head while attending my son's out-of-town soccer game yesterday evening. My wife wasn't happy that I was spending more time on my phone during the game and starting to write the article at dinner afterwards. I finished after driving back to Cleveland and proofread it this morning. EDIT: and I just updated it with new information.

It still is the center of the nation's railroad system. Granted that's not the dominant mode of transportation anymore. It is the center of the nation's aviation system, or at least it was until Dallas and Atlanta challenged it. Cleveland was in a unique position in the 1800s of being in an ideal cargo transit location between the Mississippi/Missouri and Great Lakes/Atlantic waterway systems. And it followed that by being the ideal rail/ship transfer location for shipping coal out of Appalachia and iron ore into it for the making of steel. It meant that the rail cars and ships were seldom empty regardless of which direction they were traveling.

The building is actually 39 stories tall if you include the mechanicals/utilities floors.

Bridgeworks grows by shrinking By Ken Prendergast / September 30, 2023 In Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood, and in the face of financial headwinds affecting projects nationwide, the long-planned Bridgeworks development underwent a major redesign that would cut costs and add more space by filling land, not the sky. Gone is a 16-story building and separate parking garage, replaced by a single, seven-story building that incorporates parking within a structure that fills out more of the 2.13-acre site at the west end of the Detroit-Superior Bridge. The revised plans will be reviewed by the city’s design-review boards in the coming weeks. Financing from the city, Cuyahoga County and Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority was arranged last spring. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2023/09/30/bridgeworks-grows-by-shrinking/

I think you may feel differently after you read my article.

They can probably build it one building at a time. And TurnDev seems to be pretty liquid. Two of their backers are among the wealthiest people in Greater Cleveland -- Ron Leonhardt and Rob Risman.

It was never 18. Max was 16. Big projects simply cannot get construction financing right now. Anywhere. Big banks aren't lending at all. Small banks and equity partners are lending less and less. Absent new liquidity, it's going to get worse before it gets better. The situation is literally changing from week to week. If you can't value-engineer your projects under an accountant's red line or break them up into bite-size pieces (see downtown Lakewood), you're not putting shovels in the ground.

Thank you @Geowizicalfor the great graphics! Repurposed Greyhound station, tower planned By Ken Prendergast / September 29, 2023 Two Connecticut development firms have returned to their state’s Western Reserve with the goal of redeveloping the landmark Greyhound bus station in downtown Cleveland. While their plans are still early on, a basic concept for the plan appears to be taking form and the developers are reaching out to City Hall and Playhouse Square Foundation officials to get their input on that vision that could include a repurposed station and an apartment tower. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2023/09/29/repurposed-greyhound-station-tower-planned/

Incoming!

The GOP is not led by serious people

From Supervisor Kathryn Barger @kathrynbarger I'm at the @metrolosangeles Board mtg. today. Glad our Board approved $1.6M to fund new mid-day & evening #AntelopeValley @Metrolink trains during the week + more weekend service. The #AV line will be the FIRST #Metrolink line to offer nearly hourly service w/ a consistent/predictable schedule. Proud to have led this effort for our constituents in the #Antelope, #SantaClarita & #SanFernando Valleys. More: http://tinyurl.com/AVMetrolink

I also just heard today Maron will probably be going to design review in the next month or so.

Guardians start Progressive Field renovations Ken Prendergast September 28, 2023 After yesterday’s emotional send-off to Cleveland Guardians’ Manager Terry Francona at his last home game at Progressive Field, the Major League Baseball team is wasting no time building for the future. Today, the club work put renovations to the baseball stadium into fastball mode by removing merchandise, furniture, equipment and even the grass on the baseball field, according to an e-mail sent earlier this week to the city and other stakeholders. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2023/09/28/guardians-start-progressive-field-renovations/

Rumors about Millennia's financial troubles were true. Crain's has the story.

Might save about 20-25 minutes. Just my guesstimate based on express train South Shore schedules. The Cardinal can stay on the planned South Shore extension to Dyer. Scary thing but I can see Indiana investing in expanded Indianapolis-Chicago service long before a regularly scheduled passenger train ever sniffs the 3C&D Corridor. And it has nothing to do with ridership potential.

I dunno, sometimes I feel like people just don't understand the scale of the problem

Where did you see that? I find that very hard to believe, especially since the traffic heading west of Harrisburg also comes through Cleveland. And the frequency of NS traffic through Cleveland is very heavy.

Bumping this since the article was the second-to-last post from the bottom of the previous page...

Not anymore. The teams are turning them into year-round development sites with lots of corporate branding and sports lifestyle stuff. Look at what the Cowboys and the Vikings have done.

Redirect from the visualizations thread...... There have been no interested parties associated with that area who have been involved with the county's RFP. And since the deadline for responding to the RFP was extended, I get the sense that either the county isn't happy with the responses they're getting or the interested parties aren't happy with the county when it comes to guidance. How much is the county going to commit to the courthouse project? We probably don't know that until the county council extends the sales tax and the jail project bids come in.

EDIT: I'm going to respond in the Justice Center replacement thread....

The Clinic's previous research activities have caused this, so I wouldn't doubt that more will be in the offing.

So if Cliffs can acquire US Steel and bring FPT HQ staff (which is very small, perhaps a couple dozen people) to Cleveland, we're looking at about 1,800 to 2,200 HQ jobs. To simplify, call it 2,000. At 150 square feet per person, that works out to 300,000 square feet. At 200 square feet per person, it's 400,000 square feet. Add 20 percent for future growth to be filled in the interim by suppliers/contractors offices, or 60,000 to 80,000 square feet for a total of 360,000 to 480,000 square feet. Modern average floorplates for offices range from 20,000 to 25,000 square feet (they're about 30,000 SF in 200 Public Square). With a two-level atrium/lobby with ground-floor retail/restaurant, such square footage could require a building of about 16 to 26 stories. This assumes no parking levels are added to within the tower but are instead next to (which would be less expensive) and/or below the tower.