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Some ballparks villages don't have residential, and others aren't residential-heavy. The State of Ohio doesn't believe the city should have any say whatsoever with regards to leases of lake-reclaimed land (aka submerged land). The state believes only it can make that call. Once I proposed swapping the locations of the rail transit lines with I-77. But I like this idea better. You could run the rail lines in the median of an "I-77 boulevard" into downtown.

Ohio City retail defies recent trends By Ken Prendergast / April 4, 2024 This spring, the flowers aren’t the only things blooming in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood. So are the new stores and plans for more, including restaurants and cafes. While many new and renovated buildings have opened elsewhere in the city, their ground-floor retail spaces tend to fill with a pre-programmed routine of bank branches, coffee shops, the occasional bar/restaurant, art gallery, or stay empty for a long time. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2024/04/04/ohio-city-retail-defies-recent-trends/

Where AirBnBs are fully booked next week.

Fixed that for ya. 😉

Cross-posted from the Cleveland TOD thread

Lorain Road corridor wins transit planning grant By Ken Prendergast / April 3, 2024 In a continuing effort to create more affordable housing and transportation choices for Americans, the Biden-Harris Administration and the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration (FTA) yesterday announced $17.6 million in grants going to 20 communities in 16 states to support equitable Transit-Oriented Development (TOD). Greater Cleveland was among those communities. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2024/04/03/lorain-road-corridor-wins-transit-planning-grant/

The only numbers that seem to be way out of whack are labor force and especially employment. I mean, how do we go from 2.8-3 percent unemployment to 4.3-4.6 in just a month or two?? They're the only inconsistencies among the others which appear more in sync with trend lines. If it is real, what in the world is going on? We do have seasonal fluctuations but not like that!

Some of us current and former AAO folk have had an interesting debate about this. My take is that, in the long run, especially when combined with multiple daily corridor trains between Columbus - Steubenville - Pittsburgh, this is the best route for that single long-distance train. Until that happens, it may be prohibitively expensive to bring that route up to passenger train standards for a single daily round trip. A Pittsburgh - Columbus routing via Cleveland may be as fast or faster and cost less money to bring up to passenger train standards since 215 of its 280 miles already is up to passenger standards. And it's a way of introducing passenger rail to the 3C Corridor without it being wholly dependent on the whims of the State of Ohio.

Which is why I will never run for an elected office despite my wife suggesting that I should. She's from the Former Soviet Union and doesn't realize how public our lives would become.

And where are you guys getting that the land bridge isn't needed without the stadium? I contend it's needed more with the stadium replaced by a dense and diverse land use that offers more consistent pedestrian traffic on a daily basis. Browns home attendance in 2023 was 610,295. Much less than half of that are candidates for using a landbridge. Perhaps one-fourth or one-third? If you spread that total attendance over an entire year, that's 1,672 people per day. One-fourth to one-third of that is 418-557 people. You mean to tell me that it's unlikely that 418-557 people would walk across that landbridge each day? Even with a dense mixed-use development replacing the 20+ acre stadium? Even with a multimodal hub built into the land bridge?

Lake Erie island stadium concept floated By Ken Prendergast / April 1, 2024 Borrowing on the 1970s plan for a Lake Erie jetport, NEOtrans has learned that a $10 billion stadium concept considered for professional football in Cleveland could involve an off-shore site as well as its island gaining potential sovereign status and inclusion in a longstanding free trade program with the USA and potentially Canada. MORE https://neo-trans.blog/2024/04/01/lake-erie-island-stadium-concept-floated/

Sasaki also did CSU's latest masterplan.

And here we go.... Three redevelopments to boost Cleveland’s Lee-Harvard By Ken Prendergast / March 30, 2024 Three large redevelopment sites totaling nearly 20 acres on Cleveland’s Lee-Harvard neighborhood are the subject of city efforts to focus investment on them. The effort is intended to reverse decades of disinvestment that has occurred in Cleveland’s southeast side by producing jobs, new housing and catalyzing more investment. In fact, there’s some evidence that such a reversal is already underway. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2024/03/30/three-redevelopments-to-boost-clevelands-lee-harvard/

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With development potentially heating up in Lee-Harvard I'm starting this thread in the hopes it will take off. Past posts about this neighborhood are in the Cleveland East Side developments thread such as this one....

Kertesz doesn't work with Geis.

Pentacostal Church of God at Miles Park Ave and East 91st. Screenshot from WOIO-19 from yesterday's mid-day fire.

Ohio City megaproject nearly ready for roll-out By Ken Prendergast / March 29, 2024 As early as next month, plans may go public for a significant mixed-use development on the largest undeveloped site in Cleveland’s booming Ohio City neighborhood. Sources familiar with the project said the release of plans for the development, first confirmed by NEOtrans in October 2023, was delayed as the development team attempted to include a well-known property but will instead move forward without it. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2024/03/29/ohio-city-megaproject-nearly-ready-for-roll-out/

Replacing. Article coming later this weekend.

Where's our UO billboards??😭

Dave Ferrante owns both.

From 92.3's Anthony Lima: If you’re wondering whether keeping the Browns downtown is a priority, Cleveland Mayor @JustinMBibb did NOT address the stadium situation in his hour-long State of the City address this afternoon.

That's why I said "the Haslams believe" rather than "I believe." But they also have produced more winning football seasons and playoff appearances in the 2020s for the Browns than at any time since the 1980s and they're competing with other NFL owners (aka billionaire boys club) for the next big thing, plus free agents, money, etc. So what do I believe? I believe my next article on whatever the Browns do regarding the stadium situation will attract lots of views.