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Ohio has 1 of the worst economies in the US, according to recent study https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/2024/06/11/ohio-worst-state-economies-us/74046364007/

Northern Ohio Blanket Mills ready for next role By Ken Prendergast / June 11, 2024 For more than 15 years, the landmark Northern Ohio Blanket Mills, 3160 W. 33rd St., sat empty and decaying. But this summer, following a $30 million renovation, residential and commercial tenants are moving into the 19th-century factory in Cleveland’s Clark-Fulton neighborhood that was once the country’s largest manufacturer of woolen horse blankets and carriage robes. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2024/06/11/northern-ohio-blanket-mills-ready-for-next-role/

Watch Brightline start LA-Vegas service before CAHSR does

Waterfront Line to operate this Saturday, June 15...but only after 4:45 pm. Why not run it all day, especially so that train operators can settle into a routine by the time the concert crowds start showing up?

Some of their biggest property acquisitions -- parcels 12621001 and 12621002 -- came in 2018 and 2012, respectively. OCB was advancing planning-wise but not guaranteed in 2012. It was definitely happening by 2018. And that's when Miceli started taking down lots of buildings and remediating the land over by the boulevard. The activity north of Buckeye to Cumberland is very recent -- starting around the time OCB finishing up. GCRTA said they started talking talking to Miceli a couple of years ago, right around the time OCB was completed.

I mean, look at the potential size of this thing. I wouldn't be surprised if Miceli's takes over everything south of Cumberland, east of Opportunity Corridor, north of NS/GCRTA and west of CSX except for a couple of churches. We're talking potentially 45 acres if Miceli's acquires these residential parcels and a small church or two.

What's up with the Great Lakes states? Given how many buildings I see get hit in Cleveland it blows me away how bad drivers are around here and in neighboring states. What shocks me is how many buildings get hit. How do you morons crash into a building?

Why?

I took these photos on Friday....

Offer decent train services, people will ride them. Shocker.

@scg80 I reached out to Councilwoman Gray about the jobs being offered to locals first, but since it was a Saturday, she didn't get back to me and I didn't think she would. I'm sure we'll hear a lot more about this big, multi-phase project in the coming weeks, months and years.

I just realized this project deserves its own thread.

I just realized this should have its own thread. It's big enough to deserve it..... Miceli Dairy plans $128M expansion, 250 new jobs By Ken Prendergast / June 8, 2024 Cleveland’s booming food industry on the city’s East Side continues to boom. The next explosive expansion could more than double the size of Miceli Dairy Products Co., 2721 E. 90th St., in Cleveland’s Buckeye-Woodhill neighborhood. The company, which turned 100 years old last year, is planning an investment of about $128 million divided among three phases of expansion that promises up to 250 new jobs. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2024/06/08/miceli-dairy-plans-128m-expansion-250-new-jobs/

Nope, nothing.

I'm going to try to get this published tonight. So...

Sherwin-Williams outlines new HQ parking plan By Ken Prendergast / June 7, 2024 This week, Sherwin-Williams released a parking plan for workers at its new Downtown Cleveland headquarters that is due to open sometime in mid-2025. The parking plan was provided to the nearly 3,500 headquarters employees to answer their commuting questions, although the impacts of the plan will effect other workers, residents and visitors in the western part of downtown. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2024/06/07/sherwin-williams-outlines-new-hq-parking-plan/

The counter to the personal debt story (below).... (my own anecdote is that my wife and I have zero credit card debt as of today for the first time in years)

I hate to be "that guy" who finds the cloud to a silver lining, but the strong labor market isn't going to help the real estate market, including new construction. As long as people are getting hired at this frenetic pace, the Fed isn't going to lower interest rates. And that means all these cool housing developments we want to see happen aren't going to happen unless they get a bunch of subsidies... JobGrowth in May came in at 272K, well above economists' expectations of about 180K. Over the first 5 months of 2024, job creation has averaged nearly 250K a month. This is in line with average monthly job gains in 2023 and signals the continuation of a very healthy labor market. https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/payrolls-popped-by-272k-in-may-5986529/

It's just a business. If you don't like their product, don't buy anything from them.

St. Theodosius Cathedral begins its long recovery By Ken Prendergast / June 6, 2024 Plans for shoring up the structure of St. Theodosius Cathedral, 733 Starkweather Ave., in Cleveland’s Tremont neighborhood, to prevent its collapse following last week’s devastating fire were submitted to the city. The plans included close-up photographs of the extensive damage caused by the accidental May 28 fire. The photos were filed with the city today and published here by NEOtrans. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2024/06/06/st-theodosius-cathedral-begins-its-long-recovery/

It happens only if someone decides they want to make it happen. Haslam has seen what other NFL are doing and he wants it too. And given his experience with football, soccer and now basketball, he's showing interest in having a big sports training complex much like what Spire has up by Madison. That has created spin-off development. The only time the Browns in Berea get any meaningful visitors is during a few weeks in August for training camp. The rest of the time it's a private facility. That's not enough to create spin-off development.

I see a Browns training facility being more of a contribution than a stadium. Like Clemenza says, "Leave the stadium, take the training facility."

Probably another article.

ODOT was directly involved throughout. I believe they did the traffic analysis. That analysis showed that an intersection at East 9th would "fail" traffic-wise without the East 18th extension. FAA requires all Commercial Service Airports to have a reliever airport in the same geographical area and to meet specific design and size minimums with regards to runway length, tarmac area, hangar spaces and terminal spaces. Burke has it; other nearby airports don't. FAA probably will not allow Burke's closure until another nearby airport like Cuyahoga is expanded. I learned late last night there is more to this. There is another funding application.