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I scooped Canon. They posted it on Globe Newswire 30 minutes after I posted it. A source gave me a copy of this PR this morning... https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2025/02/24/3031452/0/en/Canon-Healthcare-Acquires-Building-in-the-Cleveland-Innovation-District-for-Main-Office-and-Comprehensive-Imaging-Resource-Center-to-Accelerate-Medical-Imaging-Innovation.html

Owner Larry Dolan has died. Lots of implications which we can discuss later.

Canon Healthcare buys Cleveland building for HQ By Ken Prendergast / February 24, 2025 Canon Healthcare USA, Inc., a subsidiary of Canon Inc., today announced its acquisition of an established building for its headquarters, adjacent to Cleveland Clinic’s main campus in Cleveland’s University Circle district. This purchase has been in the works for some time and NEOtrans had reported recent progress toward the deal earlier this month. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2025/02/24/canon-healthcare-buys-cleveland-building-for-hq/

Cole Eye Institute expansion opens today By Ken Prendergast / February 24, 2025 Cleveland Clinic Foundation continues to keep the ribbon-making industry in business as it cut another streamer today in opening the latest addition to its growing Main Campus near University Circle. The new building is part of a $172 million expansion and renovation of The Jeffrey and Patricia Cole Pavilion at Cleveland Clinic’s Cole Eye Institute. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2025/02/24/cole-eye-institute-expansion-opens-today/

Could use more trees but, yeah, I like Manegg. Good model/example. There's also tons of city-owned land between the CSX tracks and the Shoreway from East 9th almost all the way to East 55th (plus some on the north side of the Shoreway) that could be a part of an RFP or a series of RFPs to measure interest and get some ideas for redeveloping them. But that would probably have to fall under an expanded jurisdiction and direction of the North Coast Waterfront Development Corp., including setting a development masterplan and supportive zoning. A TIF from expanded area that could help fund infrastructure including a local share for an extension of the Waterfront Line.

The Haslams are trying to expand a constituency to put pressure on the state lawmakers to create their preferred address-specific, value-capture funding mechanism. The ask requires lawmakers to pick a municipal winner and a loser, something the governor was unwilling to do, but certain lawmakers might. But this isn't a clear-cut suburban Republican vs urban Democrat matter in which the Republicans could support the Haslams' preferred location/funding mechanism from the state to harm an urban Democratic powerbase. For Brook Park, yes the state senator (Patton) is a Republican but the state representative (Glassburn) is a Democrat. And Patton's district reaches into and includes portions of the city of Cleveland (Bellaire-Puritas, West Boulevard, Clark-Fulton, Old Brooklyn, etc). So geopolitically, this could prove difficult for the Haslams on the state level. We'll find out in a couple of months which way the wind is blowing.

There actually is a legal term for this, something I learned from my rail advocacy, called "coming to the nuisance."

I wasn't making a statement based on values or opinion. I was stating what is, and now was.

A cut through isn't an idea here. it's the status quo. The residents said they don't want people from the Rapid station and drunks from the Market District cutting through anymore.

The eastbound Amtrak goes through Mentor at about 6:30 am, so it's not uncommon to see this train in daylight. But it usually runs on time because of all the schedule padding into Toledo and Cleveland. The train that's having a hard time running on time is the "new" Floridian which combined two long-distance trains into one so that it now has more enroute station stops than any other Amtrak route in the country. It often runs hours late. If you're going to Chicago and want to take the train, take the Lake Shore Limited. If you want to go to Washington DC, the Carolinas or Florida, fly or drive.

I didn't tease you with a bomb graphic because it's an academic competition. But it's still very cool. Click on the link to each of the entries to review their proposals. Got an opinion on who should win? Universities worldwide compete to redesign Cleveland’s Lake Shore Power Plant site By Ken Prendergast / February 22, 2025 With deference to the classic movie “Casablanca,” of all the abandoned industrial sites in North America, the Urban Land Institute’s (ULI) Hines Student Competition picked Cleveland’s vacated Lake Shore Power Plant site as the canvas for its 2025 design competition. Four finalists were announced today in the competition that drew 82 entries from universities worldwide, with the winner to be named April 3 in Cleveland. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2025/02/22/universities-worldwide-compete-to-redesign-clevelands-lake-shore-power-plant-site/

Superseding Indictment Charges Two Brothers and a City Mayor’s Assistant with Tax Fraud, Public Corruption, and Money Laundering https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndoh/pr/superseding-indictment-charges-two-brothers-and-city-mayors-assistant-tax-fraud-public

Thank you @Geowizical Public Square info hub gets grant, design approval By Ian McDaniel / February 21, 2025 Improvements to Cleveland’s Public Square took a step forward today when the City Planning Commission unanimously approved a temporary, yet robust programming hub. The hub, designed to replace tents currently used by staffers for downtown events would not only provide workers shelter and a place to store materials, but also function as a kiosk for posting event schedules and wayfinding. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2025/02/21/public-square-info-hub-gets-grant-design-approval/

Not only they could, but they should. A model is Tri-Met in Portland, OR which is directly involved in TOD project at/near its properties: https://trimet.org/tod/#projects A decade ago, I urged RTA follow Portland's lead. And yes, RTA said "we're not growing like Portland." Defeatism was policy. Hopefully it is not anymore. Ironically, the one place where GCRTA could/should be directly involved in a project is the Westinghouse development. GCRTA's senior real estate guy is James Rusnov who is also a consultant on the Westinghouse project. I sent this to Rusnov..... Another possibility would be to add intersections here with bus stops at the intersections.... An overview of both intersections....

Love this project!!

Crap. I totally forgot about it.

This might be worth watching. A change of use permit request (Record B25005732) was submitted to the city today for the Tremont Neighborhood Veterans Club-Roosevelt Post 58 (Polish Legion American Veterans), 2442 Professor St. The owner 3CRS LLC (aka Anthony Cross, general manager of Happy Dog) and Jake Szaraz of MJM Building Standards Inc have submitted a change of use for the property. The change is not specified so that's why it bears watching to see what happens next here. BTW, in addition to Szaraz running MJM, he also has developed some big warehouse and commercial projects for Ray Fogg https://www.fogg.com/bio/jake-szaraz-pe/

Unfortunately it is dependent on delivery of the new Airo trains which won't be for a few more years. The new trains will have a dual mode electric and diesel capability. They will operate under the wires from Washington DC to Sunnyside Yard and then under diesel power to Ronkonkoma. Their electrical contact will be by overhead wires/pantograph rather than a third-rail shoe. I'm surprised only three daily round trips are proposed. Five or six would be more convenient.

So we qualify! 😜

Historically, something like 80-90 percent of Red Line ridership passed through the turnstiles at Tower City. But is that the case anymore? If not, how accurate are the ridership numbers if they are using probabilities to measure the non-Tower City ridership?

FYI

Pioneer/Jaja restaurants at INTRO set repair plans By Ken Prendergast / February 20, 2025 Just after 3 a.m. on Halloween 2024, an Audi crashed at high speed into a section of the INTRO mixed-use complex, at 2050 Gehring Ave. in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood. While the driver wasn’t seriously hurt, the damage to the structure was so severe that two restaurants, Pioneer and Jaja, affected by the crash are still closed and repairs won’t be completed until 10 months after the initial impact. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2025/02/20/pioneer-jaja-restaurants-at-intro-set-repair-plans/

New Orleans Pelicans forward Javonte Green has agreed to a contract buyout and intends to sign with the Cleveland Cavaliers upon clearing waivers, sources tell ESPN. Additional wing depth for the East-best Cavs.

How about a state says, file your federal taxes to us and get your federal refund from us, otherwise a Treasury Offset will be enforced and we'll intercept your federal tax refund to pay for state-funded projects that otherwise would have been funded by the feds.

Good article. Rich typically does a good job with giving "a personality" to dry stats. https://www.cleveland.com/news/2025/02/cleveland-rtas-ridership-rebound-whats-behind-the-numbers.html