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And 30 years ago, conservatives falsely claimed it was just wealthy people riding Amtrak and therefore why subsidize the wealthy. Angry people just want to anger.

NE Ohio wins two transformational tax credits By Ken Prendergast / January 29, 2024 Out of eight Northeast Ohio development projects that applied for Transformational Mixed Use Development (TMUD) tax credits from the state, only two of them received the awards, the Ohio Department of Development announced today. This was the third year of the four-year TMUD program with $100 million available in TMUD tax credits each year. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2024/01/29/ne-ohio-wins-two-transformational-tax-credits/

@DO_Summers Don't know. Haven't seen it. BTW, thanks @Ethan for the nice photo of the stage. It was a lot better than what the PR firm or DCI provided!

That's what I love about NYC. New commuter service over existing tracks? Cool, let's add enough housing to it so its population is equivalent to a small city.

No, it certainly doesn't.

Um, 2047 ?? 😵

Flats East Bank sets the stage for more By Ken Prendergast / January 29, 2024 With construction now complete, Downtown Cleveland, Inc. and Flats East Bank today unveiled a new performance stage on the Flats East Bank boardwalk, adjacent to the Cuyahoga River and The Flats at East Bank Apartments. But that could set the stage for more to come on the Flats East Bank. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2024/01/29/flats-east-bank-sets-the-stage-for-more/

Cleveland-based NRP Group names new CFO By Ken Prendergast / January 29, 2024 Cleveland-based NRP Group, one of the nation’s top-10 largest developers and managers of multifamily housing, has a new executive to guide the company’s strong finances through some challenging market headwinds. The change in leadership comes as a result of the retirement of the company’s longtime top financial manager. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2024/01/29/cleveland-based-nrp-group-names-new-cfo/

My name is Luca. I live on the fifth floor.

BTW, we need to change the name of this thread. It's no longer the Global Center for Health Innovations. It's just the Huntington Convention Center.

The Browns hired the one OC candidate who was fired midseason only to watch his former offense perform better without him. If there's a silver lining I'm sure he won't have any power or much of an impact at all, so there can't be too much damage he can do.

Ohio business leaders support redistricting reform amendment https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2024/01/25/ohio-business-leaders-support-redistricting-reform-amendent/

Japan has plenty of earthquakes and plenty of rail tunnels including the 33-mile Seikan Tunnel linking the Japanese island of Honshu from the northern island of Hokkaido.

Was that from the construction cam @freethink?

Yes, it was.

From Sean Sweeney, Minneapolis real estate developer.... Everyone wants to be a real estate developer. It’s sexy. The financial upside can be enormous. Famous developers are treated like gods. Even modestly successful ones get treated way too well and get way too much credit. 😉 It’s the dream for a lot of real estate people. But the day to day reality is quite different. Can you stomach going years without getting paid? Can you sign a recourse loan knowing if the project isn’t successful you might go bankrupt? Can you do that over and over and over again? Can you spend hundreds of thousands of dollars pursuing a project, only to see it not get off the ground? What if that happens twice in the same year? Can you face the wrath of your neighbors in meetings? Where they yell and curse at you? Where they call you the devil? Can you manage every single detail of a multiple year process, knowing that one slip up can derail the entire thing? My advice to most is not to become a developer. Buy existing assets with non recourse loans. Build a portfolio over time. Get wealthy. Sleep well. Only become a developer if you’ve tried everything else and know in your bones it is what you want to do. Then do it! _____________ More..... If you are one of the crazy people who want to give this a go, the world needs you. We are short roughly 6.5 million housing units in our country. Developers are going to be the ones to build those units. That's the only choice as it stands now. So get educated. Learn the ropes. Go work for a developer. Understand everything they do. Then go do it yourself. In the meantime, there are resources for you. Join a peer group at joincohorts.com And/or sign up for my free newsletter at thebrightbuild.com Go change the world!

Teams like Cleveland have to overpay to overcompensate for their real and perceived shortcomings. I believe weather is a "tax" on the Browns. A domed stadium helps reduce that tax.

This is more of a Sherwin-Williams' business/corporate policy story, rather than an HQ development story. So I posted it at the business section. But it's based on the company's reactions to photography by HQ construction workers...

This is more of a Sherwin-Williams business story than it is an HQ development story..... Sherwin-Williams hits pause on HQ worker videos By Ken Prendergast / January 26, 2024 After a construction worker’s videos from the top of the new Sherwin-Williams’ headquarters tower in Downtown Cleveland were posted on YouTube by a friend, the global coatings giant told the friend to delete the video and has clamped down on workers taking pictures of views from the construction site. This comes at a time when tradespeople complained to NEOtrans of an oppressive work environment and harkened back to a paint-mixing TikTok star who was fired four years ago by Sherwin-Williams. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2024/01/26/sherwin-williams-hits-pause-on-hq-worker-videos/

Browns were 8-1 because they had a good team with a great defense (most of the time). NFL players spend their winters in the south if not in the Caribbean. There's no weather advantage in the NFL except for the warm weather teams having another hook to attract more free agents. Give me a dome at home.

For Immediate Release January 26, 2024 Emily Garr Pacetti Sworn In to The GCRTA Board of Trustees Cleveland, OH – The Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (GCRTA) announces the swearing-in of Emily Garr Pacetti as the newest member to their Board of Trustees. Ms. Garr Pacetti was sworn into service by Janet Burney, GCRTA Deputy General Manager of Legal Affairs during today’s Board Retreat meeting inside Tri-C Corporate College Conference Center at 4400 Richmond Road, Warrensville Heights, Ohio 44128. Ms. Garr Pacetti’s appointment was made by Cuyahoga County Executive Chris Ronayne, with Trustee Garr Pacetti serving an unexpired term ending in March 2025. “GCRTA welcomes the appointment of Emily Garr Pacetti to our Board of Trustees. We agree that her professional expertise and dedication to community development, and economic mobility will be beneficial as we continue to enhance public transportation’s impact on the social economics of our community,” said GCRTA General Manager and Chief Executive Officer India L. Birdsong Terry. “I’m proud of the diverse group of experts that have been recently appointed to the GCRTA Board of Trustees and pleased to welcome Ms. Garr Pacetti as our latest member, said GCRTA Board President, Rev. Charles P. Lucas, Pastor Emeritus, St. James AME Church. “I look forward to working with Trustee Garr Pacetti as well as all our Trustees as we move forward to achieve our shared goals in guiding GCRTA as a leading transit authority both locally and nationally.” About the Board Appointee: Emily Garr Pacetti currently serves as Vice President and Community Affairs Officer at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. In this capacity, she leads the Community Development team which conducts research, policy analysis, and community outreach focused on the Fourth Federal Reserve District, an area that comprises Ohio, and parts of Pennsylvania, Kentucky, and West Virginia. Ms. Garr Pacetti holds a MPA from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, an MS in urban studies from El Colegio de México, and a BA in political communications from Emerson College. She is a frequent transit rider who currently serves on the Board of Cleveland Neighborhood Progress and Equal Measure, a national non-profit devoted to helping clients shift systems, policies, and practices to make communities stronger, healthier, more equitable and inclusive.

Saw a building permit application for Dominion Energy to do work in front of this house which is one of the coolest-looking, IMHO. It certainly supports what the planning commission chair calls Glenville's "Front Porch Culture." Might be the biggest front porch I've seen on a house -- certainly when scaled to the rest of the house. Also look at it from the Thornwood side.... https://www.google.com/maps/@41.5283061,-81.6058328,3a,75y,81.21h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1skDfz9OA8LWML9V9zvYxWyg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu

And another one in South Collinwood -- a four-banger that got its renovation permit approved. It shows only $5,000 worth of improvements, however. I've never spent so little on just one condo flip... https://www.google.com/maps/@41.5530059,-81.568581,3a,75y,32.13h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sP7GLPZWGsqkH_bUbd4sFnA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu

Yes, TIDs exist as an ODOT program https://www.transportation.ohio.gov/programs/jobs-commerce/03-transportation-improvement-districts And as a federal program https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ipd/value_capture/defined/tid_tdd.aspx

Fun fact: Amtrak ridership in Virginia hit an all time high, surpassing last year's all time high by 300,000 and we're not even talking about trains that go over 90mph. Fund the trains.