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During the Dual Hub corridor planning, they ruled out cut and cover for three reasons -- one, they wanted to use the "blind headers" for the Huron Subway the Van Swerigens partially built. From just east of the intersection of Huron/Ontario, the Dual Hub subway was to turn northeast with a station below the parking deck that the City Club Apartments is being built next to. The other reason was because the East 9th Street sewers are huge. I believe the combined storm/sanitary sewer is 9 feet in diameter. That's why they didn't want the Euclid-9th subway station to be built below that intersection and it's why cut-and-cover wasn't possible there. And there's that layer of quicksand that's not too far below the downtown surface which complicates all downtown digging.

I've been seeing construction permits for this over the past few months so I wouldn't be surprised if there's construction already happening. I just haven't been by that site in a long time.

About $250m for Shaker-UC connector, $250m for I-271 extension, and $300m to convert Euclid Corridor to rail. No subway and run the trains around Public Square as the buses do. Build subways in congested downtowns, not empty ones devoid of traffic like ours. If these rail transit investments help revive downtown then we can consider subways again.

Opportunity Corridor was jammed the day it opened. Why? Because GCRTA's rail system was built for DowntownCLE not boomtown University Circle. So: Red Line to Euclid: $1000m Blue Line redesign: $800m Green Line redesign: $400m Orange Line to Westlake: $350m

I updated the article with a detailed, preliminary site plan for the warehouse.

Because cars are more important than people. Or probably more accurately: people who are wrapped with cars are more important than people who aren't. So if you didn't put on your car this morning, you don't really matter.

They're in the wrong millennium

Brightline invested about $2.5 billion for Orlando to West Palm. The section from Cocoa Beach to Orlando is entirely new, built alongside a state highway. From West Palm Beach to Cocoa, Brightline completely rebuilt the Florida East Coast railroad, added nearly 80 miles of second track, and upgraded or replaced its many bridges including some long ones over inlets from the ocean. The section from West Palm Beach to Miami was expanded from single to double track about five years ago. Some of the stations are pretty elaborate but none are more elaborate than Miami's which includes several high rise towers built on top of it. This guy did lots of videos documenting the construction. But here is a summary video of the construction work done just in 2022...

That looks like soot-covered terra cotta. Is it? And if so, did the soot come from a fire or from the valley's many long-gone steel mills?

A mural of Batman and Robin climbing the east side of the Halle Building was a thing in the 1970s. The Wyndham hotel covered up that blank wall.

This is why it looks like this may actually be happening. Because stuff is happening.... CWRU’s $300m research center moves forward By Ken Prendergast / April 26, 2023 A proposed Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building with a construction budget roughly equal to that of the new Sherwin-Williams headquarters’ original tab is no longer just an idea for administrators, staff and students at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU). The university is already making moves to relocate classes and other services and activities out of Yost Hall, 2049 Martin Luther King Jr. Dr., so it can be demolished this summer to make way for the new research center. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2023/04/26/cwrus-300m-research-center-moves-forward/

Increasingly it looks like this project is going forward. And it's big enough to deserve it's own thread. Some background.....

When I first moved to Lakewood in 1996, I never had the number of close encounters with other vehicles driving in opposite directions on the city streets as I do now. I blame bigger vehicles. Even my Nissan Maxima is wider than other cars I've had in the past.

Not so in Culver City where councilman reminds us why forced sterilization should be a thing.

When acting helpless is a strategy

What does the article say about why the study is being done? Might want to read it.

Little Italy, Tremont townhouses planned By Ken Prendergast / April 25, 2023 A Cleveland real estate firm that has been renovating homes in the metro area is entering the new-construction market by building new homes in Sandusky and seeking to construct new townhomes in two of Cleveland’s hottest neighborhoods. ParaPrin Construction, located on West 105th Street, wants to construct six new townhomes in Little Italy and Tremont if its vision passes muster with the City Planning Commission. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2023/04/25/little-italy-tremont-townhouses-planned/

Little Italy, Tremont townhouses planned By Ken Prendergast / April 25, 2023 A Cleveland real estate firm that has been renovating homes in the metro area is entering the new-construction market by building new homes in Sandusky and seeking to construct new townhomes in two of Cleveland’s hottest neighborhoods. ParaPrin Construction, located on West 105th Street, wants to construct six new townhomes in Little Italy and Tremont if its vision passes muster with the City Planning Commission. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2023/04/25/little-italy-tremont-townhouses-planned/

Weston plans huge warehouse in Euclid By Ken Prendergast / April 24, 2023 Keeping Euclid's industrial facilities modern and competitive to attract new jobs is the goal of a large, new warehouse/light industrial facility called Tech Park 90 that could see construction start as early as June, said a representative of its developer, the Weston Group. Even more impressive is that the project is being pursued as a speculative development, meaning that an anchor tenant hasn't been secured prior to Weston's decision to move forward on it. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2023/04/24/weston-plans-huge-warehouse-in-euclid/

Another big step forward

Not many people are.

Chester 82 gets thumbs up By Ken Prendergast / April 24, 2023 When the Cleveland Planning Commission gave final approval of design plans on April 21 for the Chester 82 development, 1898 E. 82nd St., it coincided with the federal government’s release of the latest jobs data for Greater Cleveland. That data offered a reminder of why Chester 82 and other residential developments in Cleveland’s Hough neighborhood are happening. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2023/04/24/chester-82-gets-thumbs-up/

I would love to see something 10+ stories tall built between Aura At Innovation Square and the Rapid station, with some Metrohealth neighborhood clinic, retail/restaurants, job training facilities, new biz incubator/co-working spaces, etc on the first two or three floors. The non-residential floors of the building could be funded by federal Transit Oriented Development tax credits and create the pedestal on which the residential portion could rise. FYI -- if any developers or the Fairfax Renaissance folks are reading this, contact the good people at the Build America Bureau https://www.transportation.gov/buildamerica/ on how to tap TOD financing for projects near transit stations.

That's OK, I had someone in LA ask me in Cleveland how far away Pittsburgh was. When I told him "2 hour drive" he replied, "OK so same city."