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Some helpful maps/diagrams in this article..... Cleveland Airport project’s first two steps take offBy Ken Prendergast / May 16, 2025 Ten days ago, Mayor Justin Bibb announced a $1.6 billion plan to construct the Cleveland Hopkins International Airport’s Terminal Modernization Development Program (TDMP). Today, more details came to light about that plan, called CLEvolution, as the City Planning Commission unanimously approved the first two steps forward in that eight-year program. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2025/05/16/cleveland-airport-projects-first-two-steps-take-off/

There is a $20 million cushion in the Sin Tax funding that could be used for demolition of the lakefront stadium. It's probably not enough money, so that's where a Haslam contribution could come in to fill the gap.

And yet, we in Cleveland lament how long it takes get development projects done here...

I added a few other nuggets..... Haslams: stadium project to advance without countyBy Ken Prendergast / May 15, 2025 A spokesman for the owner of the Cleveland Browns, the Haslam Sports Group (HSG), told NEOtrans that they have sent a letter today to Cuyahoga County Executive Chris Ronayne stating they will move forward without the county’s support, saying they believe building an enclosed stadium in Brook Park is the only long-term stadium solution for the region. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2025/05/15/haslams-stadium-project-to-advance-without-county/

After a year or two of Cleveland's Transportation Demand Management program going into place, which is a program developers can employ to reduce their amount of parking below the city's parking mandate, it will be interesting to see how many projects take advantage of it. I recall that a number (a dozen or two) of projects have already done so -- some before the program was finalized. I wrote here about some of the constraints on investment from requiring too much parking to allow deals to get done.... https://neo-trans.blog/2023/07/22/city-considers-re-legalizing-the-city-again/

Oh how the mighty Masons have fallen. BTW, I once spent a week in Waukegan one evening.

My biggest fear of turning computers into human-like brains is that we would turn people's brains into computers.... An NYU professor AI-proofed his assignments. The students complained they were too hard and that “he was interfering with their ‘learning styles.’”

Cleveland-area TOD projects reach high in 2024By Ken Prendergast / May 14, 2025 An annual report by the Cuyahoga County Planning Commission released this week showed that Transit Oriented Development in the county reached an all-time high in 2024. But 92 percent of countywide TOD activity is occurring in the city of Cleveland. And only four of 26 communities along high-frequency transit routes and walksheds, called TOD corridors, had a TOD project in the past six years indicating a lack of suburban activity. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2025/05/14/cleveland-area-tod-projects-reach-high-in-2024/

Cross-posted in the random developments thread Cleveland-area TOD projects reach high in 2024By Ken Prendergast / May 14, 2025 An annual report by the Cuyahoga County Planning Commission released this week showed that Transit Oriented Development in the county reached an all-time high in 2024. But 92 percent of countywide TOD activity is occurring in the city of Cleveland. And only four of 26 communities along high-frequency transit routes and walksheds, called TOD corridors, had a TOD project in the past six years indicating a lack of suburban activity. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2025/05/14/cleveland-area-tod-projects-reach-high-in-2024/

I watched the Cavs all season. But I was pretty nervous about the Pacers. They just didn't match up well with them. I didn't watch a single game of the series (in part because my son and I were either at soccer practice or at a tournament).

Soccer stadium backers seek another propertyBy Ken Prendergast / May 13, 2025 Once again, we’re breaking the news on a pending real estate deal for a Cleveland-area sports stadium. But, unlike the deal by owners of a certain American football team for 176 acres in Brook Park, this stadium site and purpose were already well known. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2025/05/13/soccer-stadium-backers-seek-another-property/

Got a mini-bomb coming..... 💣

It's not just banks but equity firms, pension funds and individual investors. Their money is going to go where the return is highest. If those high-return projects are funded, they'll look to projects that offer a lower rate of return and so on down the line. Cleveland projects can compete better if they receive public incentives. Some may be able to generate returns for investors but those returns aren't high enough to attract their funding when other projects in other cities offer better returns. So the project doesn't get built. Now, without the 100 percent tax abatement, nothing downtown (a higher-cost construction environment) is even getting proposed let alone built.

@E Rocc For those who think we should maintain a "national character" should hang out at the futsal courts at Madison Park in Lakewood (Arabs). Or the soccer fields at Zone Recreation Center (Africans). Or walk the halls of the Midtown Towers in Parma (Ukrainians). That diversity IS our national character and it's wonderful to see, hear and enjoy. Always has been. It's just that 50 years ago in Cleveland it was the Hungarians, Mexicans and African-Americans from the southern states, then the Asians, Puerto Ricans and Middle Easterners. A century ago it was the Italians, Poles and Slovaks. 150 years ago, it was the Irish and Germans. And each time the established yet insecure Americans recoiled in horror at the changing character of our nation. The character of our nation IS change. It is diversity. You can either celebrate it, get out of the way and cope, or get run over by it.

The fault in their thinking is that reducing abatement in hot areas and keeping abatement where it is in not-hot areas would cause investment dollars to flow to the not-hot areas. That's flawed, parochial thinking. A hot area like Ohio City or Downtown in Cleveland is competing for national and global investment dollars with the likes of Columbus' Short North or Upper Arlington, or Detroit's Corktown or Midtown, or Pittsburgh's East Liberty or Carson Street. Cleveland's not-hot areas weren't competing with anything before Jan. 1, 2024 and they still aren't. The better solution would be to increase the abatement by lengthening the term of it in not-areas or provide some additional incentive to at least make them somewhat competitive.

Correct. That even includes the low-platform Blue/Green lines because their mini-high platforms have to be extended to reach the new, narrower trains' doorways without more than a 3-inch horizontal gap (and a max 5/8-inch gap). So each rail line or section of a rail line will be taken out of service to retrofit the platforms enmasse over a couple of weeks. Then the new trains will begin service over that line/section (when I say section, I mean the Red Line from Tower City's Red Line platforms westward or east of East 55th). The trick will be the Waterfront Line and the portion between Tower City and East 55th. Those will have to be done last. The Waterfront Line will be blocked by the widened Red Line platforms at Tower City (unless they will bypass it via the temporary Tower City station). Until East 34th and East 55th platforms are widened, they will not have ADA access. Consider these train widths (max horizontal gap is 3 inches/7.62 cm) -- Red Line train (Tokyu car): 10.33 feet (3.15 meters) Blue/Green Line line (Breda car): 9.3 feet (2.835 meters) New Siemens S-200: 8.7 feet (2.65 meters) And train floor heights (max vertical gap is 5/8 inches/1.5875 cm) -- Red Line train (Tokyu car): 42 inches (106.68 cm) Blue/Green Line line (Breda car): 40 inches (101.6 cm) New Siemens S-200: 41 inches (104.14)

Do you mean what percent of the new trains should be available for service while the rest is in for maintenance/inspection? Not all will be in service, even if they are available for service. That will be true even during rush hours as some will be be held for crush crowds like large sporting events, concerts, parades, etc. From what I've been able to see, there isn't a industry standard for this. Each transit agency has its own operating rules and preferences.

Do you want to see the original renders of The Collins or the Silverhilll? Something else?

Redirected from the population thread @E Rocc There is so much fear in your message. You know what aids growth? Hope and optimism. You know retards it? Fear and cynicism. You speak for you just as I speak only for me. It is dangerous to believe you speak for others. You have no idea what anyone else is thinking.

The development community is too afraid to discuss it publicly. No one wants to go on the record for fear of revenge by the city (ie vengeful building inspectors, opposition to future projects, etc). People fearing their governments in America is a disturbing trend.

Trump’s mass layoffs at the FAA reportedly included roles that DIRECTLY supported safety inspectors and airport operations. This suggests that Trump’s actions have directly contributed to the widespread dysfunction we are seeing at airports nationwide.

@Geowizical I responded here to keep this thread on topic...

Redirected from the Ten60 Bolivar development thread.... Yes. While there are new-construction projects planned for downtown, none of them can make their numbers work. Even most of the historic rehab/office conversion projects are having difficulty and cannot close financing. Having the 100 percent tax abatement restored would help many of these deals pencil.

Wrong thread. This is in Tremont.

They said they have no news to report. No filings have been submitted for the demo of the old MLK Library either.