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That's about 1957 since 55 Public Square is pretty far along. It opened in 1958. Check out this cool view looking south on East 9th. The streetcar is on Euclid Avenue.

New family clinic coming to Clark-Fulton By Ken Prendergast / September 4, 2024 Cleveland’s growing demand for affordable health care and having one of the worst infant mortality rates in the country is behind a new clinic planned for Cleveland’s Clark-Fulton neighborhood. Cleveland-based Neighborhood Family Practice (NFP) is proposing to open a community health center in the newly refurbished Northern Ohio Blanket Mills at 3466 St. Rocco Ct.., just off Fulton Road. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2024/09/04/new-family-clinic-coming-to-clark-fulton/

Charlotte City Council voted to buy Norfolk Southern’s O-Line tracks, moving them closer to building the Red Line from Uptown to Mooresville.

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However, that site has been a source of rumors that Cleveland Clinic (which owns the land) would do something with it -- possibly sell or lease it to a developer. I've asked the Clinic about it but they've said they have nothing to share yet about that site. Then again, that was probably a year ago.

It's not kaput. Between high interest rates/construction costs and some personal matters of one of the principals, it has been difficult to advance this project at this time.

Huntington Bank Field name to outlive Browns’ current stadium lease By Ken Prendergast / September 3, 2024 At least we now know what a Brook Park multi-purpose stadium would be called, if the owners of the Cleveland Browns football team decides to build it. While most terms of the naming rights deal were not disclosed by the Haslams Sports Group and their National Football League franchise, we do know that it will outlast the current stadium’s lease which ends after the 2028 football season. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2024/09/03/huntington-bank-field-name-to-outlive-browns-current-stadium-lease/

Haven't heard a peep

My guess? A naming rights deal.

@TBideon What do you know about addiction and recovery? Some people are born with an addiction gene and all they have to do is take a drink or a puff one day and they will be lucky to live beyond another 10 years. I was one of those who abused alcohol to feel normal and complete and I am lucky to be alive today. You don't choose to be an addict. But you can choose to be sober with a lot of help from other people. It's like walking on endless slippery ice every day for the rest of your life. I've run into many people who have no idea what it is to be an addict and all I have to say is, you're lucky, but try not to offer a reactionary opinion about a dark world you know nothing about.

And it barely registers as "news"

Great thread, Tom. It was probably very frustrating rolling right past Hopkins at 79 mph on Amtrak. Or the fact that the Waterfront Line wasn't running, which would have made the downtown transfers easier. Sadly, this is amazing transit in our vast area of neglect. Nothing like this is even remotely possible in the rest of Ohio.

FYI

At $64m, that's sounds more like a environmental clearance document.

Hough MLK Plaza redevelopment advances By Ken Prendergast / September 2, 2024 While Northern Real Estate Urban Ventures, LLC (NREUV) is getting ready to break ground this week on its first Cleveland development, it’s already putting together the pieces for its next project here. The redevelopment of MLK Plaza, 9300 Wade Park Ave., in Cleveland’s Hough neighborhood would replace an aging, mixed-use complex with modern, low-income housing over ground-floor programming and common areas. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2024/09/02/hough-mlk-plaza-redevelopment-advances/

They just cleared out all their tables and chairs and left them on the sidewalk with a sign saying "free."

That's a very good point. If we want parking lots in the rest of downtown to be developed, we have to get them on the market. Their owners simply aren't going to sell them as long as they're profitable. So make them unprofitable by increasing the supply, keeping the new supply publicly owned (although leased to the Haslams for $1/year), and thus not subject to extra costs like liability insurance and property taxes. Maybe part of the deal would be that on non-stadium event days, parking at the stadium and at undeveloped Muny Lots can be had if you buy an RTA pass. Then you ride the Waterfront Line or a bus to your downtown destination.

The city could lease land at Burke to the Haslams for $1 per year for 99 years. The Haslams would pay no property taxes and generate all of the revenue from whatever is built on it. The existing stadium site could be developed with high rises with the airport gone. Grassy parking lots are common. Here are the outer lots at Patriot Place is Foxborough, MA And at Blossom Music Center And the paved parking lots (in black) at Burke could be broken up with development (in red). Or, with them broken up, each one of those 5,000-space lots could be replaced with two 3,000-space parking garages next to the stadium and surface lots beyond, separated by development. With this much land, anything is possible.

All quiet on the phase 2 front. Too quiet.

Officials want Burke Airport on the table for Browns By Ken Prendergast / August 30, 2024 Two key public officials have, in recent days, suggested that Burke Lakefront Airport be closed down and replaced by a new Cleveland Browns Stadium and supportive developments, parking and public spaces. But if such an idea evolves into a serious project, it would also likely require making interim repairs to the existing stadium. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2024/08/30/officials-want-burke-airport-on-the-table-for-browns/

Incoming!

Cleveland offers up prime Ohio City property By Ken Prendergast / August 29, 2024 Cleveland city officials followed through on a promise they made in early July when they announced they would be making the city-owned McCafferty Health Center property, 4242 Lorain Ave., available for redevelopment. Today, they issued a formal invitation to professional real estate development teams to respond to a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) to redevelop the site and address the need for affordable housing in the Ohio City neighborhood. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2024/08/29/cleveland-offers-up-prime-ohio-city-property/

CVSR hired Steve Wait who was president of the Wheeling & Lake Erie, an 800+ mile freight railroad. He went to CVSR prior to fully retiring and considered CVSR somewhat of a partial retirement since it didn't pay what W&LE did. He also dabbled a bit in business development for the shortline freight hauler Cleveland Commercial Railroad. Steve hired me to do some consulting work for CVSR and CCR after Kasich killed 3C and I was searching for some local rail work to do. Nice guy, but I wish he hadn't abandoned W&LE through Cleveland's North Broadway neighborhood into the Industrial Flats.

‘Lakefront plan’ becoming ‘lakefront project’ By Ken Prendergast / August 29, 2024 One of the most important pieces of legislation regarding the future of Downtown Cleveland's lakefront is working its way through Cleveland City Council. The proposed ordinance amendment, if passed at council's next regular meeting Sept. 9, would codify the desired lakefront land-use features and set the city on a course to implement them. In other words, it would no longer be a lakefront plan, but a lakefront project. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2024/08/29/lakefront-plan-becoming-lakefront-project/

Corporate greed = re-regulation/breaking up of monopolies and conglomerates. During Antitrust Trial, Exec Admits Kroger Jacked Up Milk and Egg Prices Above Inflation "The thing is, execs all over the economy were saying this stuff on their earning calls back in 2021," said one progressive economist. "This was not a secret." https://www.commondreams.org/news/kroger-egg-prices