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The conceptual masterplan shows the hotel being built atop the Cavs practice facility and I was told that the Clinic plans a large sports/rehab medical facility associated with the relocated Cavs practice facility which in the suburbs is called Cleveland Clinic Courts. Gensler is, at the minimum, designing the Clinic facilities, I've been told. Given its linkage with the Cavs facility and the potential for a hotel above, its possible that Gensler is designing all of those components as well but I haven't heard that specifically. I also haven't heard what else, if anything, Gensler is designing in the rest of phase one which also includes the office tower, the residential structure, and the public realm improvements. The mystery company that would move to the suburbs if not for Bedrock's riverfront development may in fact be Rocket Mortgage. The limited description of this mystery company fits Rocket Mortgage -- a large office user that is facing the end of its lease in a few years. Some have asked if Rocket Mortgage could move into Sherwin Williams' offices. Sure, it could. But I don't think it will. The Landmark Office Building is obsolete as an office space, especially for a large company. It lacks open floors but has natural light. At Higbee's it has open floors but lacks natural light. Neither old structure has modern air circulation systems. At a new tower, it could have all of these features plus high-end technology, built-in amenities for employees and other things that could encourage existing and prospective employees to want to work in the office. And, perhaps not so coincidentally, the conceptual rendering of the office tower in phase one reveals a square footage that fits Rocket Mortgage's existing space needs perfectly, with a little extra (about 5 percent) for future growth. Bedrock could allocate lower floors of the Landmark Building for offices and accommodate any unexpected future growth of Rocket Mortgage there until it could build yet another building. @cfdwarrior A covered bus facility/waiting environment is proposed there. See images below. (It would be nice if it were built so that a structure could be built on top of it -- you know, use some public dollars to build a structural foundation!).

Gensler is one of the largest and most prestigious architectural firms in the world. They are apparently designing the Cleveland Clinic Cavs facility.

The masterplan is done. Fortunately individual buildings are being designed by different architects. Gensler is one that I've heard.

Better get control over downtown or the residents will leave too

Which is why we should be discussing the Monmouth Building in the General UC thresd

More trouble on Public Square

Interesting topic. While former industrial powerhouses like Cleveland and Pittsburgh and Detroit will probably be OK, the same cannot be said for Youngstown, Warren, Lima, Chillicothe, Mansfield, Steubenville other former industrial cities.

West 117th’s fast-food makeover By Ken Prendergast / July 3, 2023 The sites of three fast-food restaurants in a short stretch of the Cleveland side of West 117th Street are about to get a new look. But only one of them isn’t going to be slinging its quick, cheap chow anymore. The other two will continue to offer fast food and to make it easy, if not easier to grab the grub and go without having to get out of your car. And all three sites will continue the practice of building single-use structures along a busy thoroughfare whose car-dependent land-use patterns have more in common with outer suburbia than being in the midst of one of Greater Cleveland’s most densely populated areas. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2023/07/03/west-117ths-fast-food-makeover/

I never park at the Amtrak station. I always get a ride from a friend or Uber/Lyft/Taxi. Seen/heard too many bad stories over the decades.

If the raise is approved, RTA CEO would earn $335,000. By comparison, County Executive Ronayne earns $175,000 and Cleveland Mayor Bibb $156,000. Other transit leaders in Nashville, Chicago, Pittsburgh and down the road in Akron also earning less. https://www.cleveland.com/news/2023/07/big-raise-would-make-rta-ceo-a-top-paid-public-official-transit-leader.html

I'll be in Amsterdam and Barcelona in a month.

They're familiar with Cleveland but the extent of development they saw on this tour was probably the most they'd seen. From the west side and downtown, we had weaved through the Cleveland Clinic Campus (which still doesn't have new buildings popping up yet from their multiple construction sites), into Hough and Glenville, into Uptown and Little Italy (one tour-goer hadn't been in UC since the 1970s!), up to Coventry, past Top of the Hill and then past CWRU's South Campus dorms construction. I'm familiar with that project and it still surprises how large and dense it is.

The last two tours I've given to out-of-towners, we came down Cedar Hill after being impressed with Top of the Hill, made the turn onto Murray Hill and got a shocking response from the visitors after seeing this development. And this is only phase one!

So.... how 'bout that Van Aken District

Great to see them beef up their outside shooting, the lack of which killed them in their "appearance" in the playoffs. Question is, can JB mix them and get the chemistry right.

I've updated the article with more information. Plus, I've embedded links to the lien release and the two deeds mentioned in the article.

I came here to post that. I can almost understand their support of Trump because he's the Republican's choice for president. But Kennedy? He's nothing but an injectable virus.

I was looking at real estate in Kitchener-Waterloo while Ion was being constructed. I should've pulled the trigger! This also suggests what Hamilton and London are missing out on by not building light rail.

I suspect it was a combination of laziness and an intense desire to remove all barriers to the Bedrock development. They wanted to make sure that the city's liens in the two deeds didn't get in the way of Sherwin-Williams' property sale to Bedrock and possibly another transaction. The B&O right of way immediately to the east/south of the Sherwin-Williams land, which hasn't been abandoned by CSX but is owned by Rock Ohio Caesars Cleveland (a Dan Gilbert/Rock Ventures company) as far south as Eagle Avenue/Stones Levee Rd, may need the city's lien removed from it for development (ex: condos or financing for a joint partnership). So rather than pursue a third deed with Rock Ventures and vacate the lien in that deed, it took the easy way out and vacated the lien in the railroad deed that extends all the way south to I-490.

Wait, I'm the first one to share this, and six hours after Woj dropped the bomb?

Residences at the Guardian. Condos. https://www.theguardiancle.com/

If CVSR and its six trains a day can't come downtown, paying the costs of reactivating Tower City as a railroad station become tougher to justify if only Amtrak and its four nightly trains are the only ones involved.

I'm no lawyer but I thought that the process it took to do something has to be done in reverse to undo it.

Here ya go.....