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A friend of mine boomeranged from Chicago and got a $700 one-bedroom apartment there. It's not in as good a condition as I would've liked, but it is possible to rent some nice apartments. I see several apartments at Mayfield Station have opened up. They're going for $2.50 to $3 per sq ft though.

The big news is buried in the last line of the story: 90 percent of area leaders support Amtrak. https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/local/2023/03/31/columbus-area-officials-must-have-game-plan-for-must-reach-consensus-on-transit-issues-as-area-booms/70046661007/

Posted at the Cleveland Random Developments thread

Board of Elections is moving out By Ken Prendergast / March 31, 2023 Cuyahoga County’s Department of Public Works this week issued a request for proposals from building owners and real estate brokers who can accommodate the requirements of a proposed consolidation of operations by the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections (BOE) into a new location. For decades, the BOE’s main offices have been located at 2925 Euclid Ave. in Cleveland’s Midtown neighborhood. But it also has two other locations that, in total, equal the size of their main offices and could be consolidated into a new, accessible location by year's end, county officials said. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2023/03/31/board-of-elections-is-moving-out/

I don't think Scranton Peninsula was ever developed with residential, even in the pioneer days. If it was, it may have been only one house for Joel Scranton (1795-1858). He owned a mostly swampy Scranton Peninsula in partnership with James Averill and his son William of Massachusetts. The Averills never moved here. Their descendants continue to own shares in the stick-in-the-mud land-owning company Scranton-Averell (spelling was changed sometime in the past 200 years). Here's a map of Scranton Peninsula from about 1850. The railroad line shown across Scranton Peninsula was still under construction toward Columbus. I wrote about some of that history here: https://neo-trans.blog/2022/10/26/clevelands-first-railroad-is-history/

Yes. It's free, too. The station parking lot gate is locked when there's no trains (ie daytime). Just don't leave anything of value in the car. But I usually take Uber/Lyft from/to Lakewood.

Any development there would probably be like the Harbor Verandas just north of the Rock Hall -- no basement. Just a slab.

Thanks for saying. And, once again, an article of mine is at the bottom of a page!

As of a couple weeks ago, Stokes West is still on but delayed. Apparently it's stuck in processing at the short-handed Building Department.

Browns, city want you to rule out FES renovation By Ken Prendergast / March 30, 2023 A COMMENTARY “I stand by my sources.” I write that after this week’s statement from Browns owners Dee and Jimmy Haslam which followed NEOtrans’ most recent article about the Browns’ desire for a new all-purpose stadium for Cleveland. At the National Football League’s (NFL) Annual Meeting, the Haslams said “They remain committed to upgrading the Browns’ stadium — with the primary goal of renovating FirstEnergy Stadium in accordance with the City of Cleveland’s plans to upgrade waterfront area between Lake Erie and downtown.” MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2023/03/30/browns-city-want-you-to-rule-out-fes-renovation/

Where are the protests? Ohioans should be furious over this!

I'm considering writing another article, including to make a few points I didn't make in my last article.

Columbus could build a "downtown transit center" where they also want their railroad station and add the station platform and access later. But there's a risk in that because the freight railroads may not want a station where the community wants it. That would only be determined as a result of a Service Development Plan.

No but there is interest in remaking the Lake-Detroit intersection with a right angle.

I don't think any route involving Columbus is low-hanging fruit. It's been 44 years since a passenger train has served Columbus. To bring any rail corridor involving Columbus up to passenger train standards is going to cost hundreds of millions of dollars. Perhaps the only ones that won't are the extension of a Wolverine Corridor train from Detroit through Toledo to Columbus (ironic, huh?) or maybe a section of the Maple Leaf from Buffalo through Cleveland to Columbus. But there are still lots of things wrong with the rail infrastructure within those two routes that would take tens of millions to fix, not the least of which is that Columbus doesn't have a station or a place to store and service the train(s) overnight in between runs. The low-hanging fruit in Ohio involves the existing routes, such as a daily Cardinal through Cincinnati, an extension of a Keystone West train to Cleveland or even Detroit, the extension of a Wolverine train to Cleveland or even Pittsburgh, and the extension of an Empire Corridor train/Maple Leaf section to Cleveland or even Columbus.

It "shall continue in effect until 21 years after the death of the last surviving descendants of King Charles III, living as of the date of this declaration." 🤣 A thread...

A benefit of Columbus-Chicago train service is that it would not have to compete with a direct Interstate highway. After investing about $1 billion to bring the tracks and signal system up to passenger train standards and restore missing tracks between Gary, IN and Chicago, a 6-hour run time may be possible. Taking the train to NYC from Columbus would take about 13 to 14 hours after investing hundreds of millions of dollars or more. Amtrak currently takes 9 hours from Pittsburgh to NYC, at 110+ mph east of Harrisburg. In 1979, Amtrak's National Limited took 4½ hours to travel nonstop from Columbus to Pittsburgh over a route that has since seen its signal system removed and 40 miles of track pulled out from Weirton, WV to Pittsburgh. Trains can reach Pittsburgh from Columbus now, but follow the Ohio River via East Liverpool which, for a passenger train, will add another 30 minutes or so to the trip. A train service might be competitive if it ran overnight from Columbus to NYC, leaving each city at about 6 pm and arriving the other at 10:00 am.

No Red Line rail service on the East side in April

Nyet!

That would depend on Indiana. I don't see Indiana doing anything either. USDOT data says many more people travel CLE-COL or COL-CIN than COL-CHI.

Here's a chance to learn about construction timelines, potential commercial tenants, and more!

They did until interest rates went up and the demand for mortgages and re-fi's went down.

Inject it right in....

I want George's attorney on my payroll. And I would like to know who was the Port Authority's attorney?