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If someone makes one of those for GCRTA, I will buy it. Won't have anywhere near as many lines and lights but still would be pretty cool.

Park Place Tech seals HQ deal By Ken Prendergast / April 15, 2024 After a year-long search for a new headquarters, Park Place Technologies has closed on its deal to acquire Progressive Direct Insurance’s Alpha Campus in Highland Heights. Consummation of the purchase agreement sets the stage for renovating the multi-building campus and ultimately relocating to it 500 headquarters employees from neighboring Mayfield Heights. Warehouse operations in Solon will also be consolidated on the new site. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2024/04/15/park-place-tech-seals-hq-deal/

Similar. Both use the Siemens Venture passenger coaches. But Brightline trains have SCB-40 Charger locomotives at both ends of the train. VIA's have SC-42 Charger locomotives at only one end of each train and a cab/coaches at the other. The nose of the locomotives and the cab cars are of slightly different styles to what Brightline has, too.

The orange location will probably make CSX happy since it's off the busier mainline. If funds were unlimited I would do something different. 😉

Indeed. What about recently?

I reported a source who said the same in my first article on PHS buying Greyhound. And while new housing on the bus station's parcels is probably kaput, keep an eye on neighboring parcels. 😉

Why do we need suburbanites to come downtown? That's nice, but not life-dependent. And I don't know if suburbanites were downtown today but it sure was busy.

Phase 2 awaits: Innovation Square, Fairfax Market By Ken Prendergast / April 14, 2024 Two mixed-market-rate apartment developments that just opened along East 105th Street in Cleveland’s Fairfax neighborhood have phase-two projects proposed. But construction on the pair of follow-on projects may not occur for a year or more as lending remains tight and leasing activity has been uneven. But things could accelerate next year after interest rates fall and hiring starts for thousands of permanent jobs at several large Cleveland Clinic buildings under construction nearby. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2024/04/14/phase-2-awaits-innovation-square-fairfax-market/

Dude, you need a girlfriend. But thanks for doing this! 🙂

A terrific article with some wonderful history, a good summary on how to explain the varied rail/highway/aviation cost responsibilities, how rail excesses from the Gilded Age haunt us today, and a lesson in messaging about public sector rail investment from Claiborne Pell. Thanks.

Cleveland’s increase in occupied housing units, its increase in income tax revenues and its decrease in population is a pretty telling combination.

This could go in multiple threads but I'll keep it to just two.....

Cleveland’s Greyhound/Barons Bus station futures By Ken Prendergast / April 12, 2024 While city-to-city bus services have vacated traditional downtown stations for remote, curbside boarding locations in Ohio cities like Cincinnati, Columbus and Dayton, Cleveland travelers may be spared that treatment in a plan being worked out with the city. But city planners and advocates say the long-term station site may be a new multimodal transportation center linking all modes of intercity and intracity transportation elsewhere in Downtown Cleveland. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2024/04/12/clevelands-greyhound-barons-bus-station-futures/

Which is why the old Cleveland Transit System acquired land there for a high-rise TOD planned during the Stokes Administration. GCRTA inherited that property in 1975 but has lain fallow ever since. I think a station at Fulton makes more sense, combined with vertical access to the Red Line Greenway, and tied in with future development in the vicinity. Maybe someday... https://neo-trans.blog/2020/02/24/fulton-road-deadzone-to-be-enlivened-by-trails-rails-housing/ But I was wondering more so about Lorain & 41st.

@Clefan98 Where is there room for constructing a parking garage at Lorain and 41st? How much demo would be required?

They have applied for a construction permit but the city has found some things in their detailed designs that aren't up to code, so they're working through it.

Middle class Americans live in the richest country on earth at a time of unprecedented global prosperity and have let online ragebait convince themselves that they are living through awful historical circumstances. https://www.slowboring.com/p/were-living-in-the-best-of-times Does anyone else think the reason there is a disconnect between people's personal satisfaction (85%) and their satisfaction with the direction of the country (17%) might be due to the endless river of outrage and fear being pumped to 100 million phones every day on social media?

It applied at least twice and didn't get it. Yet it was still able to get its project financing, albeit too late for the high-rise. It was unable to keep its construction financing, however, as lenders nationwide were pulling their financing for projects. Only small and mid-side lenders were providing construction financing which meant anything costing above $50 million to perhaps $75 million wasn't going to get built. I don't know if getting a TMUD would have helped but maybe the first one would have since it would've come before the lending market stopped lending.

That's part of the former Sherwin-Williams property.

That picture reminds me of seeing an aerial from a similar vantage point but in daytime shortly after the then-Jacobs Field opened. I was so impressed by how big-city Cleveland looked in that image without the pre-Gateway surface parking lots. We've added seven downtown towers of 20+ stories since 1994 and made that view even more impressive, especially during a total eclipse! Stokes Federal Courthouse 2002 Flats East Bank Tower 2012 Hilton Cleveland 2016 The Beacon 2019 The Lumen 2020 City Club Apartments 2024 Sherwin Williams HQ 2025

Yes it's new. And from what I can gather, it's not a standalone garage but rather part of a mixed-use development. Still trying to learn more. If anyone has any insights, drop me a personal message here at UO and I'll keep you on deep background. 🕵️‍♂️

No demo permit issued yet.

You'd think "bullet" trains would be popular in TexAss President Joe Biden is reportedly seeking to revive a project that would construct a high-speed railway from Houston to Dallas in Texas utilizing Japanese bullet trains. https://www.newsweek.com/texas-poised-first-bullet-train-line-us-1888433