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Read the outstanding book "The Western Reserve - the story of New Connecticut in Ohio" by Harlan Hatcher, published in 1949. I seem to recall that Moses Cleaveland in 1796 paid the few remaining natives for their land with various trinkets and booze. The book relied heavily of diaries written by Cleveland and his surveying party which was actually two surveying parties who trekked west and met on the banks of the Cuyahoga. The northern one came along the lakeshore. The other farther south, finding lots of swamps in what is today Twinsburg and Hudson. Both parties knew they had left Pennsylvania and crossed into the Western Reserve when they passed a 100-foot-wide north-south clearing through the forest. That was done to mark the western border of Pennsylvania. It ran from Lake Erie at least to the Ohio River and possibly beyond, but I don't remember. The part that got me was where one of the two survey parties described walking through the woods and came down a hill to the first bend in the Cuyahoga River south of the lakeshore. There they found a fur trapper's cabin that was in disrepair. it probably was built by the French decades earlier if not a century or more. They then measured their steps back up the hill to a spot where they planned a town square and marked its perimeter. As they looked up at the tall trees swaying in the breeze, they imagined a town being here someday. When I read that whole section, the way it was beautifully described, it put tears in my eyes. They knew they were doing something important but could not know how important. Cleaveland thought his new town might grow to be big as his native Windham, Connecticut someday.... https://www.google.com/maps/place/Windham,+CT/@41.6998913,-72.1583864,122m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x89e66370d6856305:0xd9d6a5c229789a5e!8m2!3d41.6998208!4d-72.1570219!16zL20vMHJnYzI?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDEyOS4xIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

Get a transit administrative job in another city, or at least at a transit agency elsewhere in NE Ohio and work your way up. But it will take more than 10-15 years of experiences to reach GM-level consideration unless you know someone. Also don't forget to do favors for local pols.

If this development was built on a parking lot in the Warehouse District, we'd have construction progress pictures of it every week. On the other hand, not having any progress pics since November suggests they haven't made significant progress to the exterior in more than two months.

Receiver appointed for Downtown office complex By Ken Prendergast / February 3, 2025 On Friday, Judge Christopher Boyko at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio ordered the North Point office complex in Downtown Cleveland be placed in the hands of a receiver to manage the property and, more specifically, to pay its creditors. The request was made earlier in the week by Wells Fargo Bank, as trustee for the benefit of the registered holders of GS Mortgage Securities Corp.’s distressed loan collateralized by the property. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2025/02/03/receiver-appointed-for-downtown-office-complex/

I had coffee with the developer a few weeks ago. They're ready to move forward and wanted to start at the back of the lot and building toward Warren. I suggested doing it the other way around to show passersby it exists. Wrote an article about it in 2023..... https://neo-trans.blog/2023/09/20/west-park-area-developments-emerge/

Downtown hotel to have new operator By Ken Prendergast / January 31, 2025 After 26 years in business, Downtown Cleveland’s Holiday Inn Express, 629 Euclid Ave., will close. But its already got a replacement lined up in the form of an AC Hotel by Marriott, according to a developer leading the transformation. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2025/01/31/downtown-hotel-to-have-new-operator/

Fixed (hopefully)

Boom? Ohio City apartment building planned By Ken Prendergast / January 31, 2025 A 109-unit market-rate apartment building planned along West 26th Street in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood recently passed its first hurdle. But it has more to come, including a rezoning, vacating an alley, design-review approvals and winning over urban neighbors who expressed fears of the multi-family development. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2025/01/31/ohio-city-apartment-building-planned/

That's a given. It takes three years to build an NFL stadium. The current stadium lease ends after the 2028 season so the new stadium has to be done before August 2029. That means a 2026 groundbreaking. Prett simple math.

I don't think Talking Heads played there... Yeah, that one was a reach.

Health care hub planned near downtown By Ken Prendergast / January 30, 2025 The closure of St. Vincent Charity Medical Center in 2022 has left a health care void on Cleveland near-east side. While that’s a big void to fill, an entrepreneur from the suburbs wants to start trying. And she’s already planted her flag at the northeast corner of Prospect Avenue and East 36th Street. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2025/01/30/health-care-hub-planned-near-downtown/

They do, but sometimes they stage Blue and Green line trains on the viaduct during rush hours. What time was this?

I also include a development site plan in the article to more easily understand what was damaged and not damaged by the fire Developer to rebuild after Cleveland Hts fire By Ken Prendergast / January 29, 2025 The developer of the Marquee development has informed Cleveland Heights city officials that it will rebuild the structure that was destroyed by an overnight fire that began Jan. 25. The 139-unit Marquee at Cedar-Lee building fronting Cedar Road in the 13200 block, was still under construction and unoccupied at the time of the fire, which started about 7 p.m. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2025/01/29/developer-to-rebuild-after-cleveland-hts-fire/

Yes, an executive at CrossCountry Mortgage planned a mid-rise development there but backed off when the pandemic hit. The Frangos Group also had expressed interest in these properties and was working with a joint developer but nothing ever came of it.

New East-Side fieldhouse due at Breakthrough School By Ken Prendergast / January 29, 2025 Having affordable, comfortable places for the community to gather for events, sports and even voting can be hard to find in Cleveland’s Kinsman and Woodland Hills neighborhoods. But that could soon change for the better based on plans for a new fieldhouse at Breakthrough Schools’ Woodland Hills Campus, 9201 Crane Ave. Those plans were submitted this week to the city’s Building Department. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2025/01/29/new-east-side-fieldhouse-due-at-breakthrough-school/

Click each of the charts in the column marked "Back Data." Unfortunately, you have to click each one. Fortunately, the data goes back a ways and includes a chart to quickly see the progress (or lack thereof) for each category.

Astronomers discover 196-foot asteroid with 1-in-83 chance of hitting Earth in 2032 "Odds have slightly increased to 1 in 83," Catalina Sky Survey engineer and asteroid hunter David Rankin wrote on BlueSky. "This is one of the highest probabilities of an impact from a significantly sized rock ever." https://www.space.com/180-foot-asteroid-1-in-83-chance-hitting-Earth-2032

This site shows the same. Assuming some of the 102 total units are being withheld from the availability count, it appears that about 60 units have leased... https://www.apartments.com/driftwood-cleveland-oh/fe5thpv/

Haven't seen any updates, but here is where you can support the project.... https://www.supermanstatuecleveland.org/

Only one or two are still active.

I flipped a condo in 2019. It was built and equipped with appliances in 1965 and it wasn't significantly updated since. To enter it was a trip back in time -- and I found a buyer for the avocado green appliances who was practically foaming at the mouth over them!

Haven't heard. The legislative sponsor who got it passed four-plus years ago was State Senator Kirk Schuring. He died in November of pancreatic cancer.

Yeah in the 60s

I moved my response to the Random Developments thread to keep this thread focused on Bedrock's project/plans

Redirecting this from the Bedrock Tower City-Riverfront thread to keep things in focus there.... Regarding Greater Cleveland's lack of winning TMUDs -- some of this is our own fault. You can't get projects funded if you don't submit them. Seems so long ago now, but the TMUD program was the creation of Stark Enterprises which sought it for the nuCLEus development. Stark's rationale was that, while the state had tax credit programs for repurposing historic buildings with new uses, it lacked programs for new construction -- especially high rises of 15+ stories. So the state finally created TMUD after multiple fumbles. Guess what? How many new-construction projects of 15+ stories in Downtown Cleveland were submitted? Two. I'll count Bridgeworks even though it's at the other end of the bridge from downtown. It was the perfect project for TMUD and got rejected twice. And now we have the 17-story Rock-n-Roll Land hotel/complex which got less than 1/4th of what is requested. Not a stellar record. There were several high-rise developments in Downtown Cleveland that were/are in the early stages of planning. I'm specifically thinking of the Magellan development but it's not the only one. A couple of Playhouse Square towers. A tower next to May Co on the Prospect side. Maybe something in the Warehouse District. Point is, none were submitted for TMUDs. I understand the post-pandemic environment has been a lousy time for new construction projects. But isn't that the point of public incentives -- to help us ride out the tough times? They say if you don't vote, you can't b----. Well the same thing here. You don't submit projects, you can't complain about your city not winning state incentives.