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Youse guyz are just too much! :cool2:

You won't get one from the state. If it doesn't promote God and guns while gagging gays, they're not interested. Job creation? What's that?

^ I thought that too until I saw it submitted to the Landmarks Commission. But I don't think the developer would take it this far unless he's truly interested in building something. And the plan is very close to what the Warehouse District masterplan recommends. Why care if your plan meshes with the CDC's masterplan if you're just going through the motions? They're putting a lot of attention and care in this plan merely for a head fake.

Read Sun Newspapers.

Hey, Amtrak charges an arm and a leg sometimes and they do stupid stuff like that all the time! Here's a favorite example of mine: A few years ago, Amtrak put only one locomotive on a double-deck, 10-car train operating through hilly territory, and lo and behold, the locomotive's engine fried up.

It's pending before the Landmarks Commission. When you see construction crews on-site, that's when it's a done deal.

Yes, the Lighthouse development is the new name for Front Street Lofts. And I beat you to posting renderings of that project. ha ha

We're probably going to see a lot more blocked crossings as rail traffic increases and public and private sector funding for more track capacity fails to keep up.

Maybe after the U.S. stops being "world policeman" and tends to its own business (and Americans debt themselves out of their automobile addiction) we can hope for similar infrastructure improvements in this country. ______________ China announces plan to build 11 high speed railways 04.07.2006, 08:27 AM BEIJING (AFX) - China set out an ambitious blueprint for the construction of over 12,000 kilometers of high speed railways to connect its major urban centers, Xinhua news agency reported. The plan calls for four north-south high speed lines, four east-west tracks and three inter-city networks, Su Shunhu, a leading Ministry of Railway official was quoted by Xinhua as saying. Train speeds are expected to exceed 200 kilometers per hour on the new lines, he said. The plan was unveiled only days after the central government gave the go ahead for two new high-tech, high-speed railway lines, with the rail ministry announcing on Monday that the construction of a high-speed rail line between Beijing and Shanghai would begin this year and that services would start in 2010. The expected costs for these lines are over 140 bln yuan. ........ [email protected]

OK, so how about a Bank of America tower AND a Quicken Loans tower downtown? And has anyone heard for certain where DFAS is going to go?

Some interesting stuff from CB Richard Ellis' 4th quarter report... http://gkc2.cbrichardellis.com/GlobalMarketReports/us/cleveland4q05ofcdt.pdf Based on what we are currently seeing in markets nationally, we are hopeful local markets will continue to stabilize and improve during 2006 as a number of large tenants begin to occupy space over the next year. Cleveland’s Central Business District (CBD) has further reason to be optimistic when looking to the next year. Case Western Reserve’s commitment to 131,000 square feet in the Halle building and Forest City bringing to market the Higbee Building in phases is an important step for downtown recovery primarily along the Euclid Avenue Corridor and Public Square. Additionally, Education Loan Servicing Corp. will expand to 63,000 square feet in MK-Ferguson Plaza by the end of 2006. While the suburbs may continue to be an attractive alternative to downtown, recent enacted legislation such as the approval of the Special Improvement District and rollout of the CBD Job Creation Incentive Grant program should continue to add some much needed leverage in retaining existing tenants and attracting new tenants to the CBD. However, if owners in suburban markets continue to offer attractive rates and incentives as well, the CBD could be in for a prolonged fight for tenants shopping in the market. I must have missed Education Loan Servicing Corp.'s locating at MK Ferguson. Of course, we have Quicken Loans going in there, too. Plus, CBRE didn't mention University Hospitals putting 600 workers in the former Atrium Office Building, plus some other recent moves to downtown (not to mention the DFAS expansion). Something tells me downtown's office market is about turn a corner it hasn't turned in about 15 years....

Great find, Archer04! And welcome to the forum. I rode Ottawa's starter line in 2003 and liked what I saw, though it didn't go into downtown Ottawa (required a connection to the east-west bus transitway). I can think how a similar starter service here in NEO might offer the same kind of spark to rail expansion (and transit ridership expansion) in this neck of North America....

I realize anyone can view the images at the landmarks commission site, but I thought it would be helpful to have them shown here in this thread. See below.... scroll right ----->

Our other Sun reporter, David Plata, has written numerous articles about this project. I don't remember the last one he's written, but you should be able to find complete articles in the archives at sunnews.com

^ They used to also have a connecting bus service from Ft. Wayne to Waterloo for several years after the service was rerouted out of Ft. Wayne. I guess Amtrak figured Waterloo was close enough to Ft. Wayne that most people could easily drive it (and the rest could walk?).

^ Everything that has come out of the county thus far says that's their intention. I'd like to see them sell it off for housing, but they would have to be convinced of it. They didn't buy it for that purpose, but I wonder why the properties they have acquired along East 9th wouldn't be sufficient for the large floor spaces they want in their tower (not to mention their parking needs -- keeping or expanding the deck south of Huron/Prospect.

Ooops! _________________ Jackson official loses job offer 3:25 p.m. Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson withdrew his $150,000-a-year job offer from Michael Montgomery Monday, after a search firm that helped select Montgomery accused him of lying about a 1999 arrest involving prostitution. Jackson announced Monday that he was withdrawing the job offer because of the "candidate's breach of the standards of full disclosure that the Mayor expects from all his Cabinet officials." Montgomery, who was to be the city's first director of regional economic development, lied when he told the search firm that he had informed Jackson of the 1999 arrest, the firm said in a statement Friday. Montgomery was arrested in a prostitution sting after offering a police decoy $10 for oral sex. He pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of disturbing the peace, spent two days in jail and was sentenced to two years of probation. Three years ago, he was permitted to withdraw his plea, and the case was dismissed. ........

Blasphemy!

Perhaps the Huntington garage is the solution. With this development, it's too bad the vacant building next to the old Cleveland Trust rotunda can't be saved for housing. It's a neat building and would help create that ol' planning maxim of "critical mass" for Euclid Avenue.

Mayor Jackson has withdrawn the offer of employment to Michael Montgomery as the city's first director of regional development. Jackson cited in a press release today Montgomery's failure to disclose his arrest for soliciting a prostitute in Oakland several years ago. Not exactly the best way to get regionalism off the ground in Greater Cleveland!

Put a "Dear Editor" at the start of that and a "Sincerely, Mr. X" at the end and put it in the mail! Get your next-door neighbor to sign it and put their phone number on it so the innocent can be protected!

Now, Oxford is making the pitch to Amtrak ever since Hamilton lost its station stop on the Cardinal route. But Oxford is running into the same problem -- the new federal regulations on disabled patron access to trains (called level boarding, as the feds now require the platform height to be level with the floor of passenger train cars). Problem is, since passenger trains share tracks with larger/wider freight trains outside of the Northeast Corridor, this prevents many old/proposed stations from meeting the standard without major expense that renders the stations infeasible. Thus, many station projects that might otherwise benefit disabled citizens may not get built, further immobilizing them (how ironic!). Some speculate this is just the anti-rail crowd in our beloved Nation's Capital from squelching rail from a different angle.

^ That's because you've become a seasoned city dweller. For many suburbanites, anything more than walking from the front door of a building to the first row of cars in a surface parking is considered a cross-country hike! :cry:

I find it interesting, even strange, that we're running a public transit system to accommodate daily commuting drivers to downtown. I certainly agree with that. And if the city wants to boost revenues, put those damn parking lots on the market and consolidate the remaining spaces in a deck somewhere down there. The Muny Parking lots aren't quite a greenfield, but are about as close as you can get to one downtown. They're a relatively clean, developable property with few legal or other regulatory strings attached. EDIT: Clvlndr - ya beat me to it with your last post!

I hate to say it, but when I first glimpsed at the middle sign, I thought it read "Ammunition Alley." Maybe the vandals can work on that sign next so it will read that way....