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Ten60 Bolivar opening its doors DowntownBy Ken Prendergast / May 12, 2025 If you’re looking to live in a new-build residential development in Downtown Cleveland, Ten60 Bolivar, located at 1060 Bolivar Rd., between the Gateway sports-entertainment complex and the Playhouse Square theater district, could be your only opportunity for a while. NEOtrans just got an exclusive tour of the property to show you what’s inside. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2025/05/12/ten60-bolivar-opening-its-doors-downtown/

Not necessarily. I've seen other applicants submit filings, so they could get input from the city on any variances that may be needed. A permit can be approved and ready for pickup indefinitely. True indicator is when they pay for the permit to pick it up. Then they have one year to use it.

It isn't only the weather that can cause a city to enjoy population growth. See Canada. It's also being pro-immigration which is its own job creator. Immigrants start businesses, create jobs and cause innovation. If your city and country aren't pro-immigrant, you aren't growing.

19 individual permit application filings were submitted to the city yesterday for Watterson-Lake, using the address 1422 74 St and the permit record number B25015019 (I posted this here more so to make it easier for me to find this and occasionally check back on the progress!). The number of filings were slightly more in the favor of the multifamily building than the townhomes, which were referred to in the filings as rowhouses. Given the volume of material city building department officials will have to pore over and adjudicate, I don't expect to hear any news about permit issuances until perhaps the end of summer or fall. I'll keep checking this however,

Metroparks breaks ground on Parker Sailing CenterBy Ken Prendergast / May 9, 2025 The Cleveland Metroparks and its partners today broke ground on the Patrick S. Parker Community Sailing Center, a world-class community center coming to the East 55th Street Marina in Cleveland. When complete in 2026, the center’s two new structures will comprise the first community sailing center of its kind along Lake Erie in Ohio, offering stunning views of the Downtown Cleveland skyline and Lake Erie sunsets. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2025/05/09/metroparks-breaks-ground-on-parker-sailing-center/

The only direct way to get a passenger train at 79 mph speeds (or at any speeds) from Cleveland to Pittsburgh right now is via Bedford, Macedonia, Hudson, Ravenna, Alliance, Salem, East Palestine and on into Pennsylvania. The only other ways are very indirect -- via Medina, Lodi, Akron, Kent, Ravenna, Newton Falls, Youngstown and eastward or via Mentor, Ashtabula, Hubbard, Youngstown and eastward. If someone spent $20 million to restore one of the two track connections at Ravenna, it could be possible to run a Cleveland-Pittsburgh train via Youngstown. But I spent 30+ years trying to get the Ravenna Connection restored. When I first started seeking, back in 1988, it would have cost only $2 million to restore it. BTW, the rating system for the quality of track/traffic control system is the lower the number, the lower the quality. Most passenger-quality infrastructure is rated 4 or higher. A railroad's rating based on annual revenue is the inverse, with the largest railroads being Class 1, the regionals being Class 2, and short-line/port/terminal railroads being Class 3.

Greater Cleveland’s population edged upwardBy Ken Prendergast / May 9, 2025 New estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau show that, while population in Greater Cleveland edged up a bit for the second straight year, the metro area is still down overall for the decade so far. And the city of Cleveland saw its population shift at the same it enjoys strong increases in income tax revenues from young professionals and retired empty nesters replacing lower-income families. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2025/05/09/greater-clevelands-population-edged-upward/

No. The Clinic’s plan was tabled at the last planning commission meeting.

Why would they? In addition to the points Brian made, GCRTA has been spending and continues to spend millions of federal dollars on a rehabilitation of the Red Line catenaries. In addition to the fully depreciated costs of the existing catenary infrastructure -- all of which would have to be removed -- GCRTA would have to refund to the feds the funding it received for the catenary rehab. We're talking an expense of about $5 million per track-mile, or at least $350 million, to replace the existing power delivery system with a new one.

I drove around Lake Erie in 2003 and, while I knew there were no major cities on the Canadian side, the lack of development was very surprising. It's almost nonstop farmland and forests. And what also surprised was how much tobacco farming is done there. Being close to the relatively warm lake helps their growing season, much like it does with our grapes and wineries here along the southern shore.

Ohio City boutique hotel plan gets Landmarks nodBy Ken Prendergast / May 8, 2025 A proposed boutique hotel for Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood was significantly redesigned after conceptual plans were first presented to the city’s Landmarks Commission six months ago. Members of that same commission praised those changes and the additional design and material details that were presented today by the hotel’s development team. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2025/05/08/ohio-city-boutique-hotel-plan-gets-landmarks-nod/

From the Rail Passengers Association -- this administration is going to kill somebody (maybe a lot of people), if not in the air then on the rails.... There are reports that Amtrak executives fired around 450 employees in response to pressure from the Trump Administration to achieve an operational profit in the next four years. These personnel cuts will most definitely hinder Amtrak’s ability to efficiently serve America’s passengers and manage the score of major construction project that Congress funded through the Infrastructure Investment in Jobs Act (IIJA). The Rail Passengers Association is particularly concerned about reports that Amrak has laid off members of its procurement team and capital delivery team, who are playing a vital role in managing billions of dollars worth of investments that will address the railroad’s crippling state-of-good-repair backlog. Your Association is calling on Amtrak to provide a high-level explanation to the public of why these firings were enacted at this particular point in time, which departments will be affected, and how these personnel cuts will impact operations and capital programs. If, as is being reported, Amtrak chose to pursue these cuts to achieve an operational profit -- a goal not required in any law passed by Congress, during a period of record taxpayer subsidies to the federal interstate highway system -- Rail Passengers strenuously disagrees with this decision. This move has the potential to undermine billions of dollars worth of long-term recapitalization efforts to save millions in its operating budget. Amtrak only recently announced record levels of ridership and revenue, both nationally and on key State-supported corridors; we believe the American public is best served by a strategy of improving its operating ratio by growing service. Just last week we saw an air traffic control system meltdown at Newark Liberty International Airport -- yet another symptom of the federal government’s unwillingness to engage in sustained investment in the physical infrastructure, technology, and human resources that undergird the U.S. economy and our American way of life. The IIJA represents a meaningful investment in the renewal of our nation’s rail network. However, if we walk away from that investment less than four years after it was passed into law, we will be destabilizing this critical transportation system for generations to come. The millions of passengers and communities reliant upon Amtrak for their social and economic success across the country are once again being told by suits in Washington DC that they don’t matter. You matter to the Rail Passengers Association. We are your voice. Help us get loud - Donate today! With Determination, Jim Mathews President & CEO

Refs were awful, especially in the final two minutes

Just catching up on yesterday's big news? 😉

GCRTA seeks more railcars; program over budgetBy Ken Prendergast / May 8, 2025 There’s good news and bad news when it comes to the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority’s (GCRTA) new railcar program. And the good news is the result of trying to keep the bad news from getting worse. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2025/05/08/gcrta-seeks-more-railcars-program-over-budget/

💥 Big railcar story scheduled to post at NEOtrans at 5:30 a.m. 💥

A number of buildings along Lorain in the West 50s are about to get renovated. Individually, none really justifies an article by itself. But in typing that, I realized that all of them together would like the Ohio City piece I posted above.

Yes (Jumping in here). Although LDA continued to work on the Stokes project to provide the detailed designs, programming, etc.

@snakebite All the answers to all your questions are here: https://myplace.cuyahogacounty.gov/ Just keep double-left-clicking on the area you're interested in and you'll zoom in. Then when you're close enough to make parcels easily clickable targets, single-left-click on the one(s) you're interested in for parcel info.

Article updated with quotes from David Jenkins at Haslam Sports Group.

Agree. I would have voted against because of its narrow application -- if I had remembered that there was election yesterday and that this was on the ballot now.

Officials urge Haslams to publicly release their Lakefront Stadium renovation plansBy Ken Prendergast / May 7, 2025 After the first image of a renovated Huntington Bank Field on Downtown Cleveland’s lakefront was publicly released today by Scene Magazine, local officials are asking why it and other images weren’t released sooner by the owners of the Cleveland Browns so that the public could have a more informed opinion on which stadium plan to support. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2025/05/07/officials-urge-haslams-to-publicly-release-their-lakefront-stadium-renovation-plans/

Yes, we had it. I think I still do. Not exactly the easiest book to fit on one's shelf, however. It was oversized. Yeah, I'm pretty sure where the car is within three lanes of traffic heading one way against one lane of traffic heading the other is probably Carnegie -- likely east of the railroad overpass since it cannot be seen in the distance. It's a wonderful video but Cleveland was extremely dirty. Even in the sunny shots, the ground-level haze was hard to ignore. I vaguely remember the foggy haze of pollution from the 1970s was Cleveland industry was fading fast.

Hopkins Airport remake about to take flightBy Ken Prendergast / May 6, 2025 Mayor Justin Bibb and Port Control Director Bryant Francis unveiled plans and action steps today for a $1.6 billion first-phase, five-step program of improvements to Cleveland Hopkins International Airport in the next seven years, representing the start of more phases to come. The improvements come as Hopkins celebrates its 100th birthday this year. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2025/05/06/hopkins-airport-remake-about-to-take-flight/

I tried to find on Google a larger image of the one below, but Google kept trying to tell me that this was the Tirupati Airport, also known as Sri Venkateswara Airport, located in Renigunta, Andhra Pradesh, India! Looks very similar!