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West 73rd Apartments site on the market By Ken Prendergast / July 19, 2024 In a move that came as a surprise to some members of its own development team, a New York-based developer has decided to sell one of the last-remaining open development sites in Cleveland’s hot Gordon Square neighborhood near Lake Erie. The offering of 1321-1357 W. 73rd St. comes after its owner, Joe Zagelbaum of Brooklyn, NY, went through a year-long process to get plans approved by the city for a 196-unit apartment complex. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2024/07/19/west-73rd-apartments-site-on-the-market/

Is that someone famous from the 21st century? I stopped listening to pop music on or about Dec. 31, 1989.

Slavic Village site chosen by a growing business By Ken Prendergast / July 18, 2024 A new and growing business is seeking to move from its rented space in Cleveland’s Old Brooklyn neighborhood to put down stakes somewhere. And it found that somewhere in a faded brick building at 5363 Broadway Ave. in Slavic Village. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2024/07/18/slavic-village-site-chosen-by-a-growing-business/

175 Park Avenue -- to be built above NYC's second-busiest subway station. This kind of reminds me of the WTC That strange tapering of columns is necessary to concentrate the structural supports for the building onto the few places of earth available below the site without disrupting the station and subway lines.

Those CPD'ers are so clever

That's why when someone asks me to predict what's going to happen with this or that real estate development, I tell them I can't predict the future any better than they can. But the fact is that oil is a finite resource and will get too expensive to burn before it runs out, and thus it never will.

Unfortunately this is just a cosmetic, exterior rehab. From what I understand, no major improvements are planned by Kassouf inside. But if a tenant wants to pay for it, I'm sure Kassouf will be very interested.

This was last week.... VIA Rail to order over 300 passenger cars and locomotives for Canada-wide train fleet replacement https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/via-rail-passenger-train-locomotives-cars-fleet-replacement And while this article is about all kinds of transit and not just rail, this thread is the only Canadian transport topic we have.... NEW: “We’re making the largest public transit investment in Canadian history. Our government’s new Canada Public Transit Fund will invest $30 billion to expand, improve & modernize public transit —& make sure housing development is linked to that funding.” https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/canada-public-transit-fund-permanent-infrastructure-program

I replied with more info about CVSR here:

Redirected from the Bedrock riverfront development thread.... Diesel locomotives can operate the same in either direction by activating a reverser switch. But CVSR runs most of its trains with locomotives at both ends. It also has some 1950s-era self-propelled "rail diesel cars" or RDCs. There are modern versions of these called DMUs (Diesel Multiple Units) which I would like to see used by CVSR, but unless CVSR/NPS gets a really big federal grant, it can't afford them. They would be great for commuter service. But CVSR is a bad commuter route. There's no population along it and the NPS doesn't want lots of people driving into the park to catch trains or for anything else. Who would drive down into the park to catch a slow train into downtown? Instead, CVSR's extension to downtown is to make it easier for more people, especially low-income Clevelanders without cars and school children, to access the national park. Trains through the park are limited to 25 mph top speeds. North of the park (near Rockside Road), the trains might be able to operate faster but not much faster. When B&O train passenger trains on this line, they maxed out at 50 mph. There are many things to slow or stop passenger trains north of Rockside include the at-grade crossings of CSX and NS freight trains at Jennings Crossing, passing CSX's Clark Avenue Yard immediately adjacent to tracks where switching maneuvers are taking place, the lift bridge over the Cuyahoga River and the tight curves north of there into downtown.

It's part of a later phase. I added it to the article.

The ridership estimate from the 2000 CVSR extension study was that the downtown Cleveland extension would add 100,000 new annual riders to CVSR's typical 200,000 annual ridership. That assumed a riverside station stop directly below Tower City.

References multiple developments....

More data... Downtown Cleveland’s glimmers of hope By Ken Prendergast / July 17, 2024 While it seems like foot traffic is up in Downtown Cleveland since the pandemic four years ago, different organizations that measure the city’s central business district’s economic performance have numbers backing up that perception. And that’s also reflective of increased numbers of workers returning to their offices and more residential conversions and occupancies as well. But those numbers are still far from robust. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2024/07/17/downtown-clevelands-glimmers-of-hope/

Old article but new to me "If urban population densities had remained unchanged since 1970, more than 48,000 square miles (roughly the size of North Carolina) would have been saved from conversion to urban and instead could have remained in cultivation or as natural vegetation." https://today.tamu.edu/2020/03/24/texas-am-study-worldwide-urban-expansion-causing-problems/

Erieview, Shoreway towers win financing By Ken Prendergast / July 16, 2024 Today, the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority’s board approved $144 million worth of financing toward development projects with a combined price tag totaling $206.1 million. The projects include one new-construction residential tower near Edgewater Park, one renovated and converted Downtown Cleveland office tower, and a major expansion and renovation of middle school facilities in Shaker Heights. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2024/07/16/erieview-shoreway-towers-win-financing/

Erieview, Shoreway towers win financing By Ken Prendergast / July 16, 2024 Today, the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority’s board approved $144 million worth of financing toward development projects with a combined price tag totaling $206.1 million. The projects include one new-construction residential tower near Edgewater Park, one renovated and converted Downtown Cleveland office tower, and a major expansion and renovation of middle school facilities in Shaker Heights. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2024/07/16/erieview-shoreway-towers-win-financing/

Not the lakefront development we normally cover in this thread, but nonetheless important....

Cleveland Port’s bulk terminal gets $5M for rehab By Ken Prendergast / July 15, 2024 Last month, the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority awarded nearly $1 million for design work to reconstruct the iron ore conveyor system at the Cleveland Bulk Terminal on Whiskey Island. This month, the Port of Cleveland got a big chunk of the funding necessary to carry out the reconstruction work over the next two years. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2024/07/15/cleveland-ports-bulk-terminal-gets-5m-for-rehab/

The building that had the Broadway Garden Center is to be demolished... https://www.google.com/maps/@41.4536864,-81.63353,3a,75y,204.25h,99.27t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1svcILe5tGJsiA0L291t3CRQ!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DvcILe5tGJsiA0L291t3CRQ%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.share%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26yaw%3D204.24774246500616%26pitch%3D-9.27191995698469%26thumbfov%3D90!7i16384!8i8192?coh=205410&entry=ttu Not much left along this stretch of Broadway to demolish.

Big news for Albany and the Empire Corridor.... Construction begins on new CSX-owned rail bridge over Hudson River https://www.progressiverailroading.com/mow/news/Construction-begins-on-new-CSX-owned-rail-bridge-over-Hudson-River--72354

They're here.... https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/drc6fnuum4x0dgej2sbsu/ABhCvTVL3aAc7pAqiZrVBU8/Special Presentations?rlkey=plvxjvskid08x4x7j27xn32t8&e=7&subfolder_nav_tracking=1&dl=0 The City Planning Commission web site hasn't recovered since City Hall got hit by the ransomware.

Yes, but where in Cleveland. 🙃 "Oh, Bay Village."

Cleveland-Cliffs to buy Canadian steelmaker Stelco in $2.5 billion deal https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/cleveland-cliffs-acquire-stelco-2-101141593.html

I knew it would happen.