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It's giving me that soaring feeling

I've heard a rumor the casino is being sold but have yet to hear it from a second source or any further details.

ReadySet Surgical moves HQ to Cleveland By Ken Prendergast / September 1, 2023 ReadySet Surgical Inc., a young, fast-growing company that provides supply chain management software and cloud-based platforms to hospital systems has relocated its headquarters to Cleveland from Cincinnati, according to two different sources. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2023/09/01/readyset-surgical-moves-hq-to-cleveland/

Go Johnny Utah!

The Waterfront Line is back! Almost.... First trains run next week for the Browns' home opener. And will run only for Browns home games until next year when it will return to daily operation. At least that's the plan right now.

For Immediate Release September 1, 2023 How You Can Report Unsafe Situations in Real Time Cleveland, OH – The Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority Transit Police would like to remind everyone on how you can communicate unsafe or stressful situations while riding or waiting for an RTA train or bus by doing one of the following with your mobile phone: See Something? Say Something! or See Something? Text Something! See Something, Say Something by calling 216-566-5163 connects you directly with an RTA Transit Police Dispatcher. When the dispatchers receive your call, they will listen to what you are reporting and then ask you some questions to better describe the suspicious behavior. If action is required, the dispatchers will notify officers to respond. The dispatchers will continue the call until the caller feels secure. See Something, Text Something at 216-575-EYES (3937) allows riders to discreetly ask for help from their mobile phone with an RTA Transit Police Dispatcher. When the dispatchers receive notification of the text, they will text back and begin “LiveChat” via text, with the person who texted them. If action is required the dispatcher will forward the “LiveChat” to the responding officers, and action will be taken. The dispatchers will continue the “LiveChat” until the customer feels secure. “Safety is our number one priority,” said GCRTA Chief of Police, Deirdre Jones. “Providing easy to use, efficient and safe means of communicating suspicious activity is important, and we are continuously looking to new ways for customers to report unsafe situations in real time.” Please add 216-566-5163 and 216-575-EYES (3937) to your contact list. For information on RTA’s work to keep everyone safe please visit www.riderta.com/safety or www.riderta.com/575EYES , and also visit www.riderta.com/humantrafficking for information about RTA’s efforts to stop Human Trafficking

They're using whatever is available -- Park-n-ride highway coaches, downtown trolleys, articulateds, regular ol' mainline buses. I'd love to know the policy for assigning which buses for which routes. I hope the policy is more than "Is the bus in serviceable condition?"

5-minute video on the new Lyons-Turin high-speed rail line featuring the Mont Cenis Base Tunnel, which will become the world's longest rail tunnel and there will be two of them.

I'm pretty sure that's why it got torn down. Look for UCI to replace it with a parking deck that can support a future overhead development or even pursue a parking deck in partnership with an overhead development.

Downtown Cleveland Inc. makes a move By Ken Prendergast / August 31, 2023 In written statement to the media and others, Downtown Cleveland, Inc. today announced board approval of its move to a new office location next year. The decision comes after careful consideration of the organization’s operational needs and strategic goals, with the aim of bolstering visibility, enhancing accessibility for stakeholders and the community, and reinforcing its refreshed brand identity. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2023/08/31/downtown-cleveland-inc-makes-a-move/

Downtown Cleveland Inc. makes a move By Ken Prendergast / August 31, 2023 In written statement to the media and others, Downtown Cleveland, Inc. today announced board approval of its move to a new office location next year. The decision comes after careful consideration of the organization’s operational needs and strategic goals, with the aim of bolstering visibility, enhancing accessibility for stakeholders and the community, and reinforcing its refreshed brand identity. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2023/08/31/downtown-cleveland-inc-makes-a-move/

So what does Playhouse Square need to become busier during the day, assuming office and retail are not going to be available to any large degree? Perhaps it needs so much residential that the share of remote workers in those residential spaces will help keep the district active in daytime? Or perhaps it needs something else to capitalize on the district's "playhouse" moniker, such as more media outlets, production facilities, advertising firms, small-scale theaters/schools, etc?

The tavern itself has suffered some damage, too, I see. I hope they have insurance and it pays them soon.

@MyPhoneDead you mean 9410 Hough? Somewhat surprising considering they just requested approval for their amenity building.

You like the curtains to be hung symmetrically, don't you?

The old saying was that Downtown Cleveland rolled up its sidewalks after 5 pm. Now it rolls them out at 5 pm in some areas. Playhouse Square is one of the places where that's most true, due to its residential, restaurants and theaters combined with a decline in offices and retail over the years. The hope was that adding more residential would attract more retail and amenities and therefore encourage more offices. But no one foresaw the rise in e-commerce and remote working. Perhaps there's another trend around the corner that we can't see that will help or hurt downtown and especially Playhouse Square.

So far, there's no chatter about Lumen 2.

Yes, it is a suggestion by a significant stakeholder into the FRA's long-distance study. The deadline for submitting input was last week. For this come about, the first thing is to get expressions of support for this in the form of mayoral letters, city council resolutions, county commissioner/board resolutions, chambers of commerce board endorsements, etc. The next step is for a service development plan (cost: probably a few million$). The following step is for preliminary engineering/environmental clearances (cost: perhaps million$ more). The step after that is secure funding for capital construction for stations, track, signals, etc. and train equipment necessary to implement the recommendations from the planning process.

This was just posted by the Midwest Interstate Passenger Rail Commission.... note they are recommending restoration of the New York-Kansas City National Limited, which would give Columbus and Dayton an East-West route. Since much of the route between Dayton and Indianapolis has been gone for 40 years, I'm not sure what route they're suggesting. One possibility might be to route it via Hamilton via a new track connection. They are also calling for daily service on the Chicago - Cincinnati - Washington DC - New York City Cardinal route, additional service on the Lake Shore Limited route between Chicago - Toledo - Cleveland - Buffalo - Albany - New York City corridor as well as new east-west service via Detroit and Cleveland. The last one might be the cheapest new long-distance to offer. It could be done with only the added train-miles between Detroit and Buffalo with through cars operating on existing, state-supported Wolverine and Empire corridor trains. Link to their release on long distance corridors they are recommending to the FRA... https://miprc.org/News/MIPRC-News/miprc-member-state-dots-file-comments-on-fras-long-distance-service-study

How's this for a great photo? Love that density! Love the canyon effect! Love those cranes!

Midtown developments accelerate By Ken Prendergast / August 29, 2023 Long considered as the affordable and accessible place to live between downtown and University Circle, the Midtown neighborhood of Cleveland is starting to take off. Multiple development projects are under way or planned in this area, midway between two of Ohio’s largest employment hubs — the city’s central business district and its eds-and-meds hub. And a project that many consider to be the key to unlocking further development in Midtown is finally moving forward. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2023/08/29/midtown-developments-accelerate/

Photos don't do it justice. It is quite a presence in that area. I hope the next phase across the street nearer to the RTA station is even larger. And at some point, CWRU is going to acquire the last few houses it doesn't already own along Fairchild and Glenwood right next to the station and add more density.

Post really cool features, amenities, technology, designs etc that you have or want in your current/dream home. I'll start. I want one of these....

China’s Lehman moment is today with Evergrande down 90%. If that follows the 2008 contagion path, markets collapse within 3-4 weeks. Liquidity will flee China for safe haven assets, U.S and Non U.S. Some markets and stocks will be hurt or helped. If China collapses it is certainly not bullish for $AAPL or $TSLA, and very bearish for $LVS which has 90% of it’s properties in Macao now. https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/china-evergrande-economy-penny-stock-debt-real-estate-property-developer-2023-8

All Cleveland Amtrak trains are affected. Eastbound trains 30 & 48 were canceled before leaving Chicago. Westbound trains 29 will be terminated at Pittsburgh and 49 at Cleveland where CSX tracks meet NS.