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Any overruns would most likely come from excavations. This article says the Bills stadium excavation is anywhere from 30 to 50 feet... https://www.audacy.com/wben/news/local/major-excavation-of-bills-stadium-site-well-underway-in-orchard-park The proposed Brook Park stadium is estimated to be an 80-foot-deep excavation.

The city contribution is based on the tax and parking revenues that can be generated by the facilities in each community. More revenues are possible with the proposed Brook Park location than with the existing downtown location. The municipality is merely a legal conduit through which the values can be captured. Scale of the project matters. Scale of the municipality does not.

Cleveland’s new hot spot: BVQ District. Here’s why… By Ken Prendergast / March 6, 2025 There’s an underutilized 50-acre area on Cleveland’s near-West Side dubbed the BVQ District. It is surrounded by Ohio City, Tremont and the La Villa Hispana section of Clark-Fulton. All of those neighborhoods have seen, and continue to see a lot of investment. BVQ has been walled off from that activity by Interstate 90 and the Red Line tracks. But like water overtopping a dam, soon that dam is going to break. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2025/03/06/clevelands-new-hot-spot-bvq-district-heres-why/

I updated the article this morning. Babu confirmed it.

Why was the Green Line boarding from the reserve-old Shaker Rapid station at Tower City yesterday? Are they still doing it? https://x.com/DylanCarter2004/status/1897647517140955433?t=Q24AuYg6HkE57S4eQBwl4w&s=19

I saw a Certificate of Disclosure for Zagreb but the others are interesting too. Lots of sudden activity for that area.

Lotsa riverside construction going on -- here, on Scranton Peninsula and possibly West Bank (1250 Riverbed).

FYI...

Tick Tock Tavern leased by Sausalito On 9th owner By Ken Prendergast / March 5, 2025 A public record filed this week provided the first indication that the space which housed the Tick Tock Tavern in Cleveland’s Edgewater neighborhood has a new lease on life. The owner of Downtown Cleveland’s Sausalito on Ninth was notified by the city that his plan to start renovating the recently closed, eight-decade-old tavern was approved. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2025/03/05/tick-tock-tavern-leased-by-sausalito-on-9th-owner/

Charter bus operator to offer Midwest routes By Ken Prendergast / March 5, 2025 Starting this summer, GOGO Charters will begin offering regularly scheduled, daily bus services from Cleveland as part of a 15-city Midwest expansion. The new service promises fares as low as $10 for those who book early, similar to Megabus which operated popular routes to Cleveland prior to the pandemic. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2025/03/05/charter-bus-operator-to-offer-midwest-routes/

@Paul in Cleveland West 65th and Father Caruso is going to be townhomes with construction costs of about a $1 million. Wonder what the asking prices will be?

Sorry, dental surgery put me on hold.... Cleveland soccer stadium to move forward By Ken Prendergast / March 4, 2025 Cleveland Soccer Group (CSG) today announced plans to build a stadium to host men’s and women’s professional soccer games in Cleveland in 2026, with the proposed development of a new 10,000-seat South Gateway Stadium in Downtown Cleveland. This is intended to coincide with a new announcement in the coming weeks regarding Cleveland securing a new women’s pro soccer team. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2025/03/04/cleveland-soccer-stadium-to-move-forward/

W&S is the same as has been reported. Monmouth is just a rehab of the existing building. Not yet the proposed addition in back. That's what I was hoping to see.

McCafferty site redevelopment in Ohio City revealed By Ken Prendergast / March 4, 2025 Six weeks ago, city officials announced that they had picked Pennrose, LLC and its proposal to build senior affordable apartments on the current site of the Thomas F. McCafferty Health Center, 4242 Lorain Ave. in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood. Now, with a Pennrose-led development team submitting to the state its application for Low Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTC) for the project, the public can see the developer’s proposed plan. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2025/03/04/mccafferty-site-redevelopment-in-ohio-city-revealed/

Phase F-U. 😉

Hopefully GCRTA can find the money from the state and/or federal flex funds. If not, it's going to be very tight. But consider this, the last five years was the perfect time for GCRTA to be replacing its rail fleet. It got a massive federal bailout through COVID relief funds. It needed some relief from a drop in fares, but not the $100+ million it got. Sales tax revenues dropped only briefly and not significantly, IIRC. Biden stepped up with a big increase in federal formula funds for transit and Sherrod Brown helped create the rail car modernization fund, from which GCRTA got its largest ever federal grant ($130 million). And it got that funding under contract before F-elon & F Elon dove under the federal hood and started ripping out all of the wires and hoses. We could've lost the rail system altogether if we had Calabresed ourselves any more and delayed pursuing federal funds until last year.

GCRTA orders trains for Shaker-Waterfront lines By Ken Prendergast / March 3, 2025 The Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (GCRTA) has exercised an option to order an additional 18 new Light Rail Vehicles (LRVs) from Siemens Mobility to replace their aging fleet of trains, according to GCRTA and Siemens today. This adds to previous orders, allowing GCRTA to, at minimum, provide a base-level of service on all three of its rail transit lines by 2028. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2025/03/03/gcrta-orders-trains-for-shaker-waterfront-lines/

Chicago planners said that the parking garage is what's putting the butts in the seats of the people mover, not the train station. My reaction was, you could've actually designed it for both. "How?" Rick Harnish created a design for it. He called it O'Hare Terminal 7 (see below). "Nope, too expensive. Not worth it." The current situation is not even better than it was (for rail travelers), which involved taking a shuttle bus from the north end of the parking lot that preceded the garage. The shuttle bus stop was convenient to both the parking lot and the Metra station. On the downside, the shuttle bus only took you to the nearest people mover station, not to the any of the airport terminals.

Given the location of the drilling rig, it could be for The Tony George Memorial Billboard next to the Shoreway bridge. https://neo-trans.blog/2024/04/05/cleveland-planners-ok-150-foot-tall-billboard-in-flats/ And here's the phasing plan for the FEB. Obviously not everything in phase 3 is going to be built all at once and, so far, only the riverfront restaurant stuff has. So that's 3A. The parking lot between Phase 1 and 2 is 3B. And the rest of the Phase 3 stuff along the railroad tracks is TBD.

The translation is that Flats East Bank phase 2 (actually, it's probably phase 3b), another version of unknown design is in the works. And now I think it's the 3rd design concept. There have been rumors it could be be taller than Ver1 or Ver2. So I guess that would be FEB3b-Ver3!

Because FEB2-Ver2 is in the works.

Before COVID, investors were buying up doubles in Lakewood and converting them to single-family homes. They would be under contract within hours of listing.

It will have 616 units by the end of this year, or about 1,000 people A good start, and with the trails it could probably support some kind of small store like you would find in a decent-sized extended-stay hotel. But that's about it.

Lakewood senior housing planned at ex-theater site By Ken Prendergast / March 2, 2025 The site of the former Hilliard Square Theater that closed in 1988 and was demolished in 2017 could become an affordable senior housing development if its developers win highly competitive Low-Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTC) and a loan from the state. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2025/03/02/lakewood-senior-housing-planned-at-ex-theater-site/

Glad to see there's activity there.