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So far, nothing has been teased. But I didn't get a heads-up about the mayor's presser yesterday until about 30 minutes before. And when the Haslams released their Brook Park vision, it just suddenly showed up in my e-mail and on social media. So we shall see....

Walking may not be illegal in America, but too often it's d@mn-near impossible

BTW, does this separate thread need to exist? The name "Huntington Bank Field" will move with the team to Brook Park, if that facility is built. Semantics, I know.

So, Sandusky? 😉 Credit Tom Horsman

Imagine Brightline zipping through here on the way to/from Ohio

Stay tuned...

Here's a rendering to show how different this area would look in five years. And it could look even more different if the stadium is no longer there.

If I was the city of Brook Park and they're going to be part owners of any stadium, I'd charge an advance event fee to the sponsor of said event to cover the cost of set-up, security, clean-up based on projected attendance, with a follow-on escalation fee based on the actual attendance. No discount since the city would have to have workers assembled based on the projected numbers, but that could be adjusted based on advance bookings something like 48 hours prior to the start of the event.

Yup!

Some people are not blessed with self-awareness and introspection

Yeah, I'm surprised they're still building parks and public spaces in Chicago and Boston after both of those cities burned down.

They played Russian roulette with this rail line though. They didn't check to see where the cenotes are below the surface. And while our military could take on rail projects, they still have to follow NEPA laws which requires our lengthy federal permitting process. Meanwhile, we now turn to Switzerland for a different reminder of how backward America is.....

I covered the Crocker Park development for Sun News. The $5 million per year was from project-specific tax revenues to pay for the free parking garages and street/sewer infrastructure which were financed through the Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority. John Carney was a development partner with Bob Stark and Carney served on the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority board, so the developers went elsewhere for the debt financiers to avoid a conflict of interest. No other development components were TIF financed because it wasn't needed. Standard bank and equity financing paid for the rest of the project from rents and leases.

There could potentially be a infill rapid station outside of the airport tunnel entrance, at the top of the RTA rail ramp. An Amtrak station could be built there too, but it would have to be built on a separate track considering the amount of freight train traffic through here.

Pretty simple really. Any new tax revenue generated by the stadium (income taxes, property taxes, admission taxes, parking taxes, etc) is fair game for being run through the city coffers and used to service debt over an extended period like 30 years. That's true that the city may not have the debt ceiling that's necessary to support such huge debt issues, so they will probably partner with another agency like the the port authority.

Bibb: Haslams, Browns ‘abandoned’ Cleveland By Ken Prendergast / October 17, 2024 An obviously exasperated Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb today claimed the owners of the Cleveland Browns football “abandoned” downtown for suburban Brook Park, in a move due to be announced by the team as early as tomorrow. But Cuyahoga County Executive Chris Ronayne said he wasn’t ready to concede defeat yet. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2024/10/17/bibb-haslams-browns-abandoned-cleveland/

Oh I do think we'll get a Super Bowl. I don't expect to see the Browns in it, though.

The city of Brook Park is going to TIF the heck out of it, per request.

Bibb is getting out in front of it. Press conference today at 2:30 pm. Most TV stations will carry it live on TV or stream it online.

I'm told tomorrow's The Big day

Duck Island adding new townhomes By Ken Prendergast / October 17, 2024 Christoff Group isn't wasting any time in moving forward on a new townhouse development in the Duck Island section of Cleveland's Tremont neighborhood. Only two months after acquiring just over a quarter of an acre of land, the developer and its realtor are announcing a six-unit collection of large, for-sale homes. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2024/10/17/duck-island-adding-new-townhomes/

There should be at least one on Public Square. Probably several, actually.

Brilliant Electric Sign Co. of Brooklyn Hts. is doing the work. Exterior signage for the HQ and parking deck is a $325,000 job. The application is still in process, according to the city's Web portal.

And many more stores with groceries including two Drug Marts, Target, CVS and a million ethnic grocers along West 117th I wrote about it once for Sun News, in one of the few of my Sun articles that's still on the Web https://www.cleveland.com/sunpostherald/2012/12/clevelands_west_117th_street_h.html

No, no, no, no, no, no....