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Ohio City got two projects funded.....

Alcazar Hotel and more.....

My own meager contribution

Many projects won. Here's a round-up of them.... Cleveland, NE Ohio projects win historic tax credits By Ken Prendergast / June 26, 2024 From Downtown Cleveland to the suburbs to outlying cities in Northeast Ohio, nearly a dozen planned redevelopments of aging buildings were blessed with historic tax credits from the state. They were among 35 awards totaling more than $68 million to preserve dozens of historic buildings in 12 communities across Ohio. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2024/06/26/cleveland-ne-ohio-projects-win-historic-tax-credits/

Have I posted this yet? If yes, so what! Turn up the volume!!

Turns out someone posted the link to that article on one of SHW's internal sites.

@PlanCleveland @Boomerang_Brian I uploaded the full 2007 Ohio Hub plan onto my site, thinking I might be able to work it into the Cleveland-Akron-Canton article somehow. Alas, it didn't happen. But here's the full plan anyway: https://neo-trans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/OhioHub-FullReport-2007.pdf

For some reason, views are skyrocketing today on my article from more than two weeks ago... https://neo-trans.blog/2024/06/07/sherwin-williams-outlines-new-hq-parking-plan/ What gives?

Cleveland Metroparks wins $19.5M for East Side trails By Ken Prendergast / June 25, 2024 Cleveland Metroparks announced it has been awarded a $19.5 million federal grant, the largest ever to be received by organization to construct 4 miles of all-purpose trails on the city’s southeast side into Downtown Cleveland. Construction work on the trail segments is planned to begin in 2026. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2024/06/25/cleveland-metroparks-wins-19-5m-for-east-side-trails/

I'm surprised no one has complimented you on the product placement in this photo....

At my age, 17 years seems like a long weekend! But seriously... Do you know who the architect is? If you can find that out, it may help your search. Same with contacting the developer/architect who oversaw its renovation. I'll bet they have old pictures in a file. So might the City Planning Commission. Hope that helps.

I'd heard Patel has a contract to buy the Rose Building a few weeks ago but that he may have been backing out. Glad to see he's back in. Mine's just a PR rewrite too... Downtown’s Rose building to be hotel, apartments By Ken Prendergast / June 25, 2024 In a strategic collaboration that allows Cleveland’s urban gems to shine in a new light, Spark GHC and Cleveland Construction today announce a groundbreaking joint venture. Project Scarlet represents a significant commitment of $100+ million to transform a 400,000-square-foot office space, formerly Medical Mutual’s headquarters, into a dynamic mixed-use development. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2024/06/25/downtowns-rose-building-to-be-hotel-apartments/

Cleveland-Akron-Canton train route a puzzle By Ken Prendergast / June 24, 2024 Last week, a bipartisan group of Ohio Congresspersons wrote to Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) Director Jack Marchbanks asking his department to include an Akron-Canton-area station stop in its upcoming passenger rail development plans. Those plans for Northeast Ohio include potential new Amtrak services from Cleveland to Toledo and Detroit, as well as from Cleveland to Columbus, Dayton and Cincinnati (3C&D). MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2024/06/24/cleveland-akron-canton-train-route-a-puzzle/

There's 11 county councilpersons, not six... 😉

Awesome pictures @NorthShore647! I may be bugging you in the future for reprint permission for some of those! 🙂

I hope he learned new stuff at Golden State because his record in NJ was pretty bad... Cleveland Cavaliers hiring Kenny Atkinson as new head coach: Reports https://sports.yahoo.com/cleveland-cavaliers-hiring-kenny-atkinson-as-new-head-coach-reports-141736415.html

I'm wrong too. 3C ranked 8th, not 10th. This was the top-10 metro-pairs with the most person trips between them two decades ago. Notice something about them? They ALL have have passenger rail or active plans to build it. In fact, most have pretty extensive passenger rail. The two city-pairs that don't (Dallas-Houston and Las Vegas-Los Angeles) are the subject of multi-billion-dollar high-speed rail development plans. One of them has started construction. The other one is in the evil empire of texass. 1 Los Angeles - San Diego 10,466,883 2 Las Vegas - Los Angeles 9,120,296 3 New York - Philadelphia 8, 476,339 4 New York - Washington DC 7,773,377 5 Los Angeles - San Francisco 7,049,954 6 Sacramento - San Francisco 5,337,613 7 Philadelphia - Washington DC 4,678,680 8 Cleveland - Cincinnati 3,750,772 8 Dallas - Houston 3,097,228 9 Portland - Seattle 2,605,223 10 Norfolk - Washington DC 2,590,212 The 3C ranking is if Cleveland-Cincinnati, Columbus-Cincinnati and Columbus-Cleveland were added together. Of course, 3C would rank higher (sixth) if the city-pairs between Washington DC and New York were lumped together to take over the top spot. If you break the trio of 3C city-pairs, Columbus-Cleveland was the most heavily traveled with 1.8 million person-trips or 24th nationwide, ranked just below Austin-Dallas and just above Houston-San Antonio.

The median isn't. And the areas surrounding the stations at Warrensville and Green are vastly underdeveloped for a transit station setting. I especially like the Warrensville station area that could be developed as an extension of John Carroll University, especially with the west side of Warrensville undeveloped from the college to the station. In fact, I renamed the Shaker-Warrensville station as Shaker-College Station. At the Green station, I made this long before the pandemic. So all of the parking near the West Green station could be developed too.

So certain about the future?

The aviation obstruction lights were on the construction crane but now that that's gone they have to be on the building. Any structure 200 feet tall or taller has to have these lights per FAA regulations.

Same as with any other project. Establish a vision, organize a constituency for it, get a project sponsor/fiscal agent, secure planning funds, create a construction-ready plan, secure construction funds, build it.

Ferry is owned by one.

Sort of. I have housing densities for the urban core of Cleveland, as well as for overall density in Cleveland that also shows some inner-ring suburbs where most of the housing density is located. The other maps/charts show how much transit-supportive zoning there is within high-frequency transit corridors -- it's only 5.5% of land area or if you want to push it, 21.6% of land area is somewhat supportive or better. That's still pretty bad. The dark blue areas in this map show where housing densities are 30 units per acre or better, the minimum threshold for transit-supportive housing density... Again, blue is transit-supportive housing density in Cleveland and inner-ring suburbs. Not a lot of blue on there... You can't have transit supportive density if your zoning doesn't allow for it. And the darker the green, the more transit supportive the zoning is... This is using those color codes to measure how much applied zoning is transit-supportive and how much isn't. In other words, we don't allow land use to be transit-supportive, even in high-frequency transit corridors. And that's a big reason why our transit ridership is so low...

Let's move this discussion over to the I Love Cleveland thread to keep this thread focused on SHW HQ stuff. I posted a couple more Wednesday night in the city pics there too...

To redirect from the SHW HQ thread, here's a few photos on the busy downtown scene on a hot June Wednesday evening....