KJP

If CREATE doesn't happen, or isn't built-out anywhere close to plan, the rail traffic congestion in Chicago is going to force more railroads like CN to run around Chicago and do their interline transfers with other railroads in other cities (St. Louis, Kansas City or even Memphis). You may see secondary rail lines that bypass Chicago get beefed up to mainline standards, traffic increased over them and major interline terminals established along them. That could be quite a loss to Chicago and a benefit to other cities. I hope the federal government doesn't fail Chicago.

Non-practicing hetero here...

Somehow I missed this two-year-old thread.... Barely graduate from Kenston High School in Geauga County in 1985. Got into Kent State University where I majored in transportation logistics management, minored in urban geography. While I did well in my major/minor classes, I stunk in the prerequisites. In my fourth year of struggling along, I spent more time starting a rail advocacy project between Cleveland and Pittsburgh than I did attending classes. KSU said "go away kid" and gave me the heave ho. I was devastated as I packed up my stuff at my off-campus apartment and returned home, talking to myself the whole way up Route 43. I angrily vowed I would get my degree. If I failed again, no school would even consider me. I got into Myers College in downtown Cleveland, and devoted myself to earning my BS in public administration. In 1992, after just 2.5 years, I graduated with a 3.8 GPA overall and 4.0 in my major, while I worked full-time. Those years at Myers (then called Dyke College -- don't ask, don't tell) were some of the best of my life, and were capped off with the natural high I got walking across the stage to receive my diploma. I will never forget those years, and the life lessons I learned about finding one's focus.

So when are you moving back!! :-D MayDay - I didn't even know you were snapping that pic of me! I guess I was too busy chatting with one of the Panzica's of Panzica Construction (foreground) and architect Paul Volpe (behind Panzica). I think it's the area for the parking deck. Am I right?

Actually it was. But the for-profit language in the National Rail Passenger Service Act of 1970 was later removed by Congress.

It was actually Jackson's Chief of Staff Ken Silliman who said that in my presence. But he didn't say what those project's were. If I were a betting man, I would wager that it's probably the convention site at Tower City that's the issue.

Wimwar, do you know that was called "The Bloody Corner" during Prohibition? Look up "Cleveland Corn Sugar War" on Google and you'll see what comes up. BTW, sad to see St. Agnes church in there. What a huge loss. And does the Seeanbee look like it's 5,000 feet long, not 500 feet? Pretty typically of promotional postcards to literally stretch the truth to the point of overdoing it.

Excellent renderings! P.S. doesn't Graystone have a website? Or do they receive their inquiries the old fashioned way??

Not sure if this belongs here, but here goes. This is from RTA... On Tuesday, the RTA Board will discuss concession leasing: * Stokes Windermere, where there may be a new tenant. * Lynnfield and Coventry on the light rail, where tenants may stay the same. * W. 65th St., where RTA received no responses to an advertisement What's up with the no-response to RTA's advertisement for leasing space at the EcoVillage station? I realize ridership is pretty small there, but not all businesses depend on a walk-in trade. I will inquire further.

Ha! :lol:

Possibly. I'll bet rain keeps that giant rat (made in Malaysia?) from inflating properly. EDIT: DAMMIT - YOU BEAT ME TO IT BY FOUR FREAKING SECONDS!!

When I was doing a purge of images from my web hosting space, I inadvertently deleted the white trash ad I composed. I am hereby reviving it...

No protesters were seen or heard.

I didn't mean to imply you pounded your chest upon identifying yourself. That would be a little too "ColDayMan".

And I thought Ohio was screwed up!

So MayDay shows up at the event and gets to the sign-in table. There's a space to fill in the company/organization you're representating. He shows up as Joe Citizen, and the lady asks him who he's with. He says he helps run the website Urban Ohio. "Oh!" the lady says, her eyes lighting up. -- Story according to MayDay, celebrity moderator of UrbanOhio.

How cheap? I'd be willing to buy.

Thanks. Someone's gotta try to counter the Poverty Doomers so that we all don't end up leaping from the Valley View bridge. Besides, if we did that, we'd land on the main offices of Sun Newspapers. :-o

I am putting in a formal request for map of the property's location, and submitting it in triplicate (and thanking you in advance).

It was a great crowd, and the rain stopped shortly before 11 a.m.! Nathan Zaremba must've sold his soul to Dick Goddard... MayDay was there, but I didn't see his camera out. Perhaps our friends at Zaremba Co. got some photos? They were a little busy, however. And they were beaming like proud papas. Congrats fellas!

So what you're saying is that this isn't a reality-based decision? :-o

For the first phase, I'd say 9 or 10. Stark is about as doggedly passionate about this project as I've ever seen him. As for full build-out, I'd agree that 6 or 7 is more realistic. It requires the involvement of many players, depends on an unknown housing market in the future, and has other complications. But I think it ranks above a midpoint because Stark already has the support of landowners who control a significant amount of properties (Asher, Khouri/Kassouf, Port Authority, city of Cleveland). And, the message Stark is carrying to potential lenders and retailers appears to be winning them over.

How accessible (by pedestrians) is a Neal Avenue location to the High Street corridor?

You surprise me sometimes, Noozer! But I guess a recovering media sponge who has worked around the country would know lots of stuff!

I thought the MultiModal Transportation Terminal was no longer an active plan? Wasn't the funding for it dropped for that reason?