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Anywhere from 5,400 to 9,000, depending on what areas you count.

Bitcoin miners in texas are making more money holding the power grid for ransom than they are mining bitcoin. What a very real, totally not a scam currency. https://www.economist.com/united-states/2024/08/27/why-texas-republicans-are-souring-on-crypto

With more people living downtown and remote work on the rise, many of those downtown residents are also downtown office workers. We just have to keep converting the next obsolete office buildings to residential to get more people working downtown! Can you imagine what downtown Cleveland would look like if a pandemic had hit before the residential population started shooting up 20-30 years ago? Actually, for reference, see St. Louis....

British dudes eating American ribs for the first time. Wish there was more of this. Hilarious!

I took my son on it when he was 5 (he's now 11). He absolutely loved it! Of course I loved it -- it's a train. If you and your girlfriend go, you're going to want to have kids after experiencing it. 😜 It's truly awesome watching kids go nuts over Santa and the whole holidays experience. Check out the looks on my son's face when he sees and sits with Santa....

The one in Niles, Ohio (Youngstown area) closed in 2013 and the one in Austintown (also Youngstown area) stayed open a little longer but is now called Captain Arthur's.

This is how Axis At Ansel was doing when the developer offered to sell it. However it hasn't sold yet. https://neo-trans.blog/2022/04/21/new-hough-apartment-complex-for-sale/

Virginia is a rail leader. And NS will play ball with passenger rail when it's in their own financial interest. Virginia, NS advance new pact to enable passenger-rail expansion https://www.progressiverailroading.com/passenger_rail/news/Virginia-NS-advance-new-pact-to-enable-passenger-rail-expansion--72717

Looks to be just out of view.

"Too much time on my plans" -- if Styx was popular today.

I had my 15 minutes of fame on that video @GREGinPARMA

Yep. My dad worked at one in Dayton during World War II -- Acme Aluminum Alloy. BTW, right after the war, they were raided by the FBI because they may have sold industrial secrets to the Soviets.

Of course (you wouldn't believe how many renderings of partially-built/never-built projects I have)! Here's the World Trade Center... The Defense Finance Accounting Service Center.... And the Eaton HQ....

Hough groundbreaking set for Sept. 5 By Ken Prendergast / August 27, 2024 According to a public record located by NEOtrans, a groundbreaking ceremony is scheduled from 10 a.m. to 12 noon Sept. 5 for the redevelopment of a vacant 10-story apartment building at 9410 Hough Ave. in Cleveland’s resurgent Hough neighborhood. Kristi Halford, a spokesperson for the project’s development partners, confirmed the scheduled event in an e-mail to NEOtrans. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2024/08/27/hough-groundbreaking-set-for-sept-5/

If only one-third of available jobs are within a 90-minute one-way transit trip (as is the case in Greater Cleveland and many other sprawled-out metros that measure tens of thousands of square miles vs dozens of square miles pre-Great Depression), you are going to have higher rates of poverty and thus higher rates of crime, drug use and broken families than in compact cities where you can walk, bike or take extremely frequent transit (every couple of minutes so you're not on anyone else's timetable) to most available jobs. Think about the barriers to entry of the job market in these two realities. One of them costs $100 or less per month and the other one costs $1,000 or more per month per person. Those literally represent the cost of freedom and quality of life in each scenario.

The private sector projects don't include all of the costs. And in most cases, those are only direct construction costs (or older versions thereof) while the public sector projects include everything including soft costs like legal, property acquisition, interest, etc. All of that is publicly available whereas the private sector projects don't have to release everything or even be truthful about what the projects actually cost.

Nothing new here. UH plans Wolstein conference center on Euclid Ave. By Ken Prendergast / August 26, 2024 In an e-mail sent to all employees today, University Hospital Health System CEO Cliff Megerian announced that the health care provider will seek to build a new 30,000-square-foot conference and education center in Cleveland’s University Circle. The facility will be built on an underutilized green space at 11100 Euclid Ave. in front of an existing parking garage. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2024/08/26/uh-plans-wolstein-conference-center-on-euclid-ave/

Shaker Square sees $4.5M in updates, more planned By Ken Prendergast / August 26, 2024 Two years ago this month, Cleveland Neighborhood Progress (CNP) and Burten, Bell, Carr, Inc. (BBC) acquired Cleveland’s historic but faded Shaker Square mixed-use district. Today, the new owners outlined what they considered to be significant work and investment in making capital improvements to the property and carrying out a retail strategy to restore vibrancy to the square. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2024/08/26/shaker-square-sees-4-5m-in-updates-more-planned/

I posted a link to the same ad a long time ago on here. Shocked/Not shocked that it's still listed.

Probably won't see phase 1B until after Canal Road is rerouted. But that could get started pretty soon since the chain of title transfers for the TIF have already started. Another indication is that the reconstruction of RTA's bridge over the old Canal Road probably will get underway in about 2027 which is when federal funding will be available for the roughly $5.8 million project. That road probably can't close for the RTA construction until after the new road is built. The year 2027 is when the Global Center Global Peak Performance Center is due to open and start generating tax revenue for the TIF to help fund the next steps in the project. I assume rerouted Canal Road and the new Eagle Ramp may be funded by sources other than the TIF. So it may be around 2027 that we see Phase 1B start construction, depending on what's going on in the local and national economy. How's that for a worthless prediction? 🙂

Bedrock starts Downtown Riverfront phase one By Ken Prendergast / August 25, 2024 Construction permit applications were filed this week with the city of Cleveland’s Building Department so contractors can start digging and installing foundations for the first phase of Bedrock’s Downtown Riverfront development. That first phase is the Cleveland Clinic/Cleveland Cavaliers Global Peak Performance Center, touted as one of the world’s largest training facilities. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2024/08/25/bedrock-starts-downtown-riverfront-phase-one/

I have to wonder if a Cleveland company just bought another Buffalo-area employer. The last time I noticed a surge of Buffalo-area license plates was when First Niagara Bank was bought by Key Corp.

Don't know. But if East Cleveland was any indication, my guess is that almost every street would have had underpasses.

That's awesome. Thanks for telling me that!

Last round of megaproject tax credits opens By Ken Prendergast / August 24, 2024 Developers looking to transform their Ohio communities can now apply for funding opportunities through the Ohio Department of Development’s Transformational Mixed-Use Development (TMUD) program that awards up to $100 million in tax credits per round. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2024/08/24/last-round-of-megaproject-tax-credits-opens/