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Create a new organization. Call it something like Citizens For The West Shore Rapid. Find a few businesses, chambers, mayors and city council members (current or past) to be on your steering committee. Create a website and social media pages. Then start putting out data why expanding the Rapid to the West Shore communities is a good idea. I'll bet you could get Westlake Mayor Dennis Clough to be on it. Might get the West Shore Chamber of Commerce too. Perhaps they'd even be willing to be the fiscal agent for such a new organization? If NS can end through service on the line through Lakewood for two months (as it did from Nov. 10, 2022 to Jan. 10, 2023), then it can do it all the time. Buy the right of way from them. This is the NS rail line on Jan. 5, 2023 at Fry Avenue. After East Palestine, now would be an opportune time to make that overture to NS...

Bridgeworks wins financing, start date By Ken Prendergast / April 12, 2023 For more than two years, a planned high-rise at the west end of the Detroit-Superior Bridge in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood has sought public funding to fill a financing gap. After missing out twice on tax credits from a statewide program, the developers looked closer to home and found the resources to start and finish construction. This week, the developers united under Bridgeworks LLC were awarded the final pieces of the fiscal puzzle to the $108 million project, allowing them to start work in June, they said. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2023/04/12/bridgeworks-gets-county-loan-start-date/

I'm sharing someone else's comparison, which I consider interesting and valid enough to share here.

Corridor overview Detail of proposed flying junction using existing infrastructure PROPOSAL: GCRTA (or a public agency on its behalf) acquires NS Cleveland District from Cloggsville Connection (near Monroe Cemetery) to State Route 83 in Avon or, at minimum, from about West 90th Street in Cleveland west to Crocker-Bassett Road in Westlake/Bay Village, and give NS trackage rights for limited, local-only freight service between Sheffield Yard and Cleveland. Use 11.3 miles of NS Cleveland District track, Add/use 8.3 miles of second track (1.3 miles in Cleveland, 7 miles in Rocky River and Westlake/Bay) including 3.3 miles of existing second track. Acquire at least 11.5 miles of right of way from NS = $15+ million electrification of 19.6 track-miles x $5 million track-mile = $98 million (say $100 million) new track at $2 million per track-mile = $10 million upgrade of existing second track at $1 million per track-mile = $3.3 million renovation of Rocky River bridge (placeholder) = $5 million install universal crossovers near Crocker Rd = $4 million Construct 8 single-level stations at $5 each = $40 million Construct 1 two-level station (West Blvd) = $15 million rehab flyover bridge and underpass = $10 million construct four turnouts = $5 million expand Siemens railcar order by 10 cars = $55 million SUBTOTAL = $262 million 30% contingency = $79 million TOTAL = $341 million I estimate a running time of 35 minutes (vs 60-75 minutes by bus) from the Crocker/Bassett station to Tower City Center. Headways of 15 minutes from 4 a.m. to 1 a.m. Eastbound trains would wait at the east end of extended double-track West Clifton station in Lakewood for the westbound train to pass, then enter single track across Lakewood. When the eastbound returns to double track at West 110th Street, the next westbound is allowed to enter the Lakewood single track. EASTBOUND station.....miles dep/arr times Crocker-Bassett..00.0 dp 4:00a 4:15a Dover Center........01.5 dp 4:03a 4:18a Columbia P&R......02.7 dp 4:06a 4:21a Elmwood Park......04.8 dp 4:10a 4:25a Rocky River..........06.0 dp 4:13a 4:28a West Clifton.........06.7 dp 4:15a 4:30a Lakewood Ctr......08.0 dp 4:18a 4:33a West 117th St......09.5 dp 4:21a 4:36a West Blv-Cudell..10.5 dp 4:23a 4:38a West 65th............11.9 dp 4:27a 4:42a Fulton...................13.0 dp 4:30a 4:45a Ohio City..............13.8 dp 4:32a 4:47a Tower City............14.9 ar 4:35a 4:50a WESTBOUND station.....miles dep/arr times Tower City...........00.0 dp 4:10a 4:25a Ohio City...............01.1 dp 4:13a 4:28a Fulton...................01.9 dp 4:15a 4:30a West 65th............03.0 dp 4:18a 4:33a West Blv-Cudell..04.4 dp 4:22a 4:37a West 117th St......05.4 dp 4:24a 4:39a Lakewood Ctr......06.9 dp 4:27a 4:42a West Clifton.........08.2 dp 4:30a 4:45a Rocky River..........08.9 dp 4:32a 4:47a Elmwood Park.......10.1 dp 4:35a 4:50a Columbia P&R.......12.2 dp 4:39a 4:54a Dover Center........13.4 dp 4:42a 4:57a Crocker-Bassett..14.9 ar 4:45a 5:00a

It's not an accounting of population in residential areas. It's an accounting of population in Statistical Planning Areas. Many neighborhoods are SPAs but not all. Some neighborhoods are more residential than commercial. Some are more commercial than residential. Here is a list of Cleveland SPAs with their population density at left, SPA square miles in the middle, and overall populations at right. Note that as some neighborhoods see more investment and get wealthier, their population density goes down as more doubles are turned into singles and more single homes that were owned by big, lower-income families are bought by young professionals who have only one or two people in their household. Remember that in 1940 Central's peak population was just over 100,000 or nearly 43,000 people per square mile and Hough's peak population was in 1960 at 76,000 people or nearly 38,000 people per square mile...

Because a criminal-led* family is so lovable. * = Thomas "Tony" George was convicted of a felony and accused of/investigated for many other crimes.

@ProspectAve Summer House is a George family restaurant in the ground floor of The Carlyle, 12900 Lake Ave. The Lake House restaurant was on the ground floor of the Lake House, 11850 Edgewater Dr.

Stunning. Thanks for sharing. Having family in Youngstown, I got see it in the 1970s before it was wiped out. Most of my memories are just quick images. But I have a vivid memory of crossing Center Street bridge on a cold day shortly before Christmas 1977. I'll never forget the large amount of steam from Republic Steel's Haselton Works drifting through that steel truss bridge. Even into the 1980s, Market Street south of downtown was very densely developed, heavily trafficked and active neighborhood with many shops and restaurants.

I included office market data from some cities surrounding Cleveland

Greater Cleveland office market still struggling By Ken Prendergast / April 11, 2023 Newmark, one of the world’s leading real estate services firms, issued its first quarter 2023 (23Q1) office market report for Greater Cleveland today and it continues to show a worsening situation in the region’s office sector. While only one submarket within Greater Cleveland showed an increase in office occupancies, none are taking it on the chin more than the central business district (CBD), its retailers, restaurants and transportation providers. But that data may have been disproportionately affected by a major deal. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2023/04/11/greater-cleveland-office-market-still-struggling/

I'll be happy if we could get a couple of 300-footers.

I don't recall seeing any building permits submitted for W&S.

Missed this one. America loves its cars to the hatred of everything else, including people...

We need cities to take over this problem in their jurisdictions since many states won't and the federal government is unable to lead.

Good point! A city shouldn't be less dense than its suburbs!

Treo opening doors on West 25th By Ken Prendergast / April 10, 2023 Treo, named for where Tremont meets Ohio City, is the first of the big, market-rate apartment buildings to come to this no-man’s land part of town. Built on the site of a former auto repair and scrap yard business along a lesser-traveled section of West 25th Street, Treo’s first resident moved into the 171-unit property last week but cannot yet live there as construction work is still wrapping up. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2023/04/10/treo-opening-doors-on-west-25th/

This is most welcome

The average cost of a new car is $50,000 and the average monthly car payment is more than $700. Not surprising that more parking lots are going bye-bye. Ohio's largest cities what have been vandalized with surface parking lots for 70 years are finally seeing them get reduced in number by development. How parking lots across the U.S. are being turned into housing https://www.fastcompany.com/90876627/how-parking-lots-across-the-u-s-are-being-turned-into-housing

Alec Sheiner's much-deserved departure put the kibosh on the training camps going to Columbus.

Redirected from the FES thread I also noted Minneapolis' Viking Village development which may be larger than the Star District in Frisco. And an international airport (albeit a much smaller one) is closer to the north end of Berea which should be enjoying more spin-off benefits from it than it is.

I wrote about this right before COVID hit, using 2015-2020 data. Ohio's six largest metros, and especially the 3Cs, accounted for Ohio's job growth, despite the state passing anti-urban policies like cutting local government assistance, constantly attacking home rule, and its anti-transit/rail policies. Imagine how much better Ohio's big cities would perform with a state that supported them... https://neo-trans.blog/2020/01/26/ohios-largest-metros-are-carrying-the-states-economy/

Cop chopper was flying yesterday

Still, I'm curious why their Berea property was just transferred to a new LLC under Serpentini. Perhaps the old LLC has too many legal claims attached to it and they wanted to sell it free and clear by selling the new LLC and not the property?

This story is somewhat related to FES, but I will only refer to it from here. Please discuss the Berea project in the suburban development thread....