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Downtown Lakewood back to drawing board By Ken Prendergast / February 11, 2023 After two years of seemingly endless meetings surrounding the redevelopment of Lakewood’s former hospital site, Roundstone Insurance has not only left the development project but decided to leave the inner-ring suburb entirely. Currently located in the former First Church of Christ Scientist, 15422 Detroit Ave., the headquarters of this fast-growing insurance firm with up to 240 employees and $17.5 million in annual payroll is due to leave Lakewood in April 2024, according to Mayor Meghan George’s administration. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2023/02/11/downtown-lakewood-back-to-drawing-board/

Density will actually increase -- at least structurally.

It's not good. The city is trying to save the project.

$25,000?? Seriously? When all is said and done, I expect NS is going to be paying everyone for their homes because they won't be able to move back.

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Firecracker? Oracle/Cerner to open Cleveland training center By Ken Prendergast / February 10, 2023 Cerner Corp., a healthcare division of software giant Oracle, is planning to open a training center at 3121 Euclid Ave. near downtown Cleveland that could accommodate hundreds of people in classrooms simultaneously. The proposed training center speaks to Oracle/Cerner’s growing presence in Greater Cleveland and the addition of another major healthcare employer to the region’s economy. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2023/02/10/oracle-cerner-to-open-cleveland-training-center/

Kind of a mini-bomb dropping here... Could be bigger than what I know right now. Still is pretty cool.

I'd like to see Queensgate Yard moved to a flat area across the Great Miami River from West Carrolton and Miamisburg. It would allow more room for expansion of the yard and the old Queensgate could be redeveloped with road- and rail-served industries and could also help boost industrial/warehousing development south of Dayton. For passenger rail, I would consolidate all of the freight on CSX and all the passenger service to NS south of Dayton and then flip them north of Carlise to put all of the passenger service on CSX through Hamilton. This would permit 110 mph passenger rail service from Dayton to Cincinnati (plus fast trains to/from Chicago). And with Queensgate gone from Cincinnati, it would provide a relatively congestion-free route to Cincinnati Union Terminal or wherever Cincy wants its urban core passenger station.

Toronto has also occasionally hosted container ships, but lacks a regularly scheduled service like Cleveland. That's correct.

When our communities are built around transit, it doesn't matter that people are working remotely. The trains and buses are still full of people taking transit to the store, school, lunch meetings, medical appointments, theater, nightlife, etc.

Ohio, planning orgs plan Amtrak expansions By Ken Prendergast / February 9, 2023 While Gov. Mike DeWine made the big news this week about Ohio seeking federal money to plan for and pursue Amtrak passenger rail expansion on two Cleveland-based routes, those aren’t the only routes that will be pursued. The Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency (NOACA) also confirmed today that it will be seeking funds for similar plans but for several other routes ending in Cleveland. If realized, the services that could result from those expansions would turn downtown Cleveland into a mini-hub for Amtrak. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2023/02/09/ohio-planning-orgs-plan-amtrak-expansions/

By the way, why was this thread renamed with the 3C&D corridor? ODOT is also going to be seeking money for Cleveland-Toledo-Detroit. NOACA is going to be seeking money for routes East and West out of Cleveland. MORPC will seek money for Chicago-Fort Wayne-Columbus-Pittsburgh. And OKI will seek money to enhance the Cardinal route from Cincinnati to Chicago.

On Amtrak routes where they run multiple daily trains, the most reliable ones are where Amtrak has taken over dispatching and the freight trains have moved to parallel routes or to the overnight hours when Amtrak doesn't run. This is true on the New York-Albany Empire Corridor, the Philadelphia-Harrisburg Keystone Corridor, and the Detroit-Chicago Wolverine Corridor. The latter, however, depends on a section from Porter, Indiana into Chicago that is heavily used by freight trains and which Amtrak doesn't dispatch. Some additional tracks have been laid along this section to ease the congestion but they still run into delays with freight trains. Virginia is developing a pretty successful model where they added significant new capacity along shared routes and get contractual buy-in from the freight railroads. Pennsylvania is pursuing this approach as well with the added service west of Harrisburg to Pittsburgh.

Article updated and corrected to note that the site is actually in Clark-Fulton.

Nice video!! Mayor Bibb! And....yuck

@ASP1984 There has been a lot of interest in that building lately. And right across the tracks is a vacant 1.3-acre property owned by Jason Lin's HCI Inc. I'm told he has a buyer for it who wants to develop it but I don't know who the buyer is.

@Dougal Awesome stuff. I've got another one coming. Still trying to figure out how big it's going to be, though.

Ohio City development to expand south of tracks By Ken Prendergast / February 8, 2023 Opportune Development LLC, an affiliate of ARPI LLC, is seeking to build a three-building project called Hub 27 one block west of West 27th Street and south of the railroad tracks in Cleveland’s Clark-Fulton neighborhood. While there has been much development activity on the east or Tremont side of West 25th south of the tracks, this is the first major development to push south of Ohio City into the Clark-Fulton side of West 25th. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2023/02/08/ohio-city-development-to-expand-south-of-tracks/

Sorry this is taking longer than I suspected. The article is mostly done. Just waiting for quotes and the OK to publish.

Incoming!

Good news this morning!! DeWine takes ‘first step’ toward Ohio Amtrak expansion by seeking federal money https://www.cleveland.com/news/2023/02/dewine-takes-first-step-toward-ohio-amtrak-expansion-by-seeking-federal-money.html

While not a ranking of cities, it is a list and a ranking -- of worst-to-first GCRTA stations. Good arguments and entertaining!

Great article and ranking. I agree with most station rankings.