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30 years was a pretty good run for Karl's Inn of the Barristers Downtown Cleveland restaurant closing after more than 30 years in business https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/article/downtown-cleveland-restaurant-closing-after-more-than-30-years-in-business/ar-AA17dKvt?cvid=371d1005d18d4888bd1b716d279eaba6

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Seeds & Sprouts XXVI – UC tech building, EOC going downtown, Tech Ready Mix buys land By Ken Prendergast / February 7, 2023 According to public records, an affiliate of Tech Ready Mix Inc. is in the process of buying a 7.95-acre parcel of land from Buckeye Welding & Fabricating Inc. in Cleveland’s Kinsman neighborhood for what could be a new production and storage facility. The acquisition by the concrete and aggregates wholesaler includes a vehicular easement through the 3.77-acre southern portion of Buckeye’s property that it will retain at 3300 E. 87th St. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2023/02/07/seeds-sprouts-xxvi-uc-tech-building-eoc-going-downtown-tech-ready-mix-buys-land/

Seeds & Sprouts XXVI – UC tech building, EOC going downtown, Tech Ready Mix buys land By Ken Prendergast / February 7, 2023 The Cleveland chapter of the 1993-founded Entrepreneurs’ Organization is opening offices and meeting facilities downtown after having little more than a mailbox at Clemens Corporate Park on Clemens Road in Westlake. According to a building permit application submitted to the City of Cleveland last week, EO Cleveland will invest approximately $250,000 to establish a 4,121-square-foot office at 1020 Bolivar Ave. in the Gateway District. HSB Architects + Engineers of Cleveland is providing design services for the renovation work that includes non-structural architectural and mechanical-electrical-plumbing elements. MORE https://neo-trans.blog/2023/02/07/seeds-sprouts-xxvi-uc-tech-building-eoc-going-downtown-tech-ready-mix-buys-land/

Ahem, it was 55 degrees. We've earned those extra 10 points! Meanwhile... Seeds & Sprouts XXVI – UC tech building, EOC going downtown, Tech Ready Mix buys land By Ken Prendergast / February 7, 2023 Plans for renovating a former Cleveland Clinic office building into a place for start-up firms especially for those engaged in health care and bio-tech were revealed when the architect posted the plans on the City of Cleveland’s Building Department web portal. Dimit Architects of Lakewood submitted the plans on behalf of CedarTech LLC of Pepper Pike. Those plans show the renovation work is estimated at $1.2 million for the 49,205-square-foot, 1956-built building at 10900 Carnegie Ave. in the University Circle area. MORE https://neo-trans.blog/2023/02/07/seeds-sprouts-xxvi-uc-tech-building-eoc-going-downtown-tech-ready-mix-buys-land/

Like the Federal Railroad Administration?

A Twitter account worth following...

Similar to how Americans react when they go to Europe and marvel at their walkable cities, then come home and say we can't do it here.

I think we need to go our Separate Ways...

Journeys coming to Steelyard

Stay tuned!! ⊂(◉‿◉)

Because it doesn't fit their paradigm. Whenever a rail service fails, they hear about it and advertise it as if it is common.

Couldn't find a better place to put this

Minnesota's service may not be used by Minnesotans, but it will be "used" by Ohio's rail-phobics.

I originally posted a response here but I moved it over to the Ukraine thread to keep this discussion on topic. See the post here...

This project needs to go away. I just don't see it generating much ridership. Duluth-Superior metro population is less than 300,000. And the towns in which this train would stop are one-traffic-light villages. 3C, by comparison, is one of the most heavily traveled intercity corridors in the United States.

Yes, a lot. There's a couple of new high rises in my wife's hometown of Cherkasy, which is about the population of Akron. A few I saw in Dnipro (has about 1 million people), but not many in historic central Lviv although they're building a lot more just outside of the core. But the number of new and under-construction high-rises in Kyiv was mind-blowing -- reminiscent of Toronto. Same with Warsaw which also has lots of new high-rises, mostly residential. I'm often surprised at how many for-sale units there are but some people (not companies or big-time real estate investors) buy them and rent them out monthly or as AirBnB's. BTW, these are all privately owned buildings but all on publicly owned land.

Yup

They might get another as a result of that article.

Norfolk Southern put a train on the ground a year ago just up the line in Ravenna. Precision railroading is giving the federal government a strong case for nationalizing the railroads, preferably just its infrastructure...

I don't know whether it's comparable or not. The data shows interesting comparison between different countries with their own unique histories. I don't know whether it's "good" or "bad" and that wasn't my point in sharing it. My point was that it's interesting to see the differences -- and that national wealth doesn't necessarily correspond to homeownership rates, for whatever reason is applicable in that country. Which is another take-away from that chart.

It sounds like some companies may end up adding square footage? Even if their workers come in only three days per week or, for a certain percentage of the staff, not at all.

It's pretty cool when a real estate brokerage likes and retweets an article in which you write that said brokerage has two bidders seeking to acquire a downtown office property and convert it into residential. That's what we call a confirmation.

Wow