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Those are some pretty high rents. Is that on par with other new developments in Little Italy? Also, flipping through the gallery, they're not gonna really say out front "Baricelli inn HOUSING" are they? "Housing" sounds so institutional or CMHA. https://www.baricellicle.com/gallery/

On the beer front--THIS Saturday, the 17th: "The Brewsology Beer Festival will take place at the Great Lakes Science Center for a one of a kind experience -- a night at the museum! The event will feature dozens of local and domestic breweries, sampling their summer seasonal beers." https://www.eventbrite.com/e/brewsology-beer-fest-cleveland-tickets-147679161347

It should not be high-end or only high-end---it should be a mix of many shops and the retail spaces should be made much smaller, which makes a business less likely to fail (lower overhead) and if it does, creates a smaller gap than a giant closed store.

Though it is similar to "The Avenue" mall concept, I like it and hope it works.

Using @KJP's link above, yes, this certainly looks nice from West 3, looking west.....

The term "Cleveland" has been trending upwards in Google's Ngram Viewer. The Ngram viewer counts the occurrences of a term in books over time. Below is 2010 to 2019. I get that "Cleveland" could include the president and that "Columbus" includes references to Christopher Columbus, Columbus Day, Columbus Georgia, but "Detroit" and "Pittsburgh" are pretty much the cities themselves. Cleveland is trending up! Here's the same chart, but 2000-2019--Cleveland's (and Pittsburgh's) increase has been steady, unlike for example, Detroit's:

Ha! that's what happens when you get old---you get old and cranky. "Northwest Neighborhoods" screams utter laziness and mediocrity and it comes on top of so much else of the same sort lately--SHW HQ only 35 stories and with it a horrendous "future use" space on W 6 and closure of an avenue and a squat structure on Public Square, the police HQ moving out of downtown when it should be downtown, Justin Bibb who is horrendously underqualified to handle the job of mayor getting some traction (yet people criticize Kucinich's administration in the 70s and are just going to get another version of it but worse); the list goes on. But to the subject at hand: there are a thousand names better than "Northwest Neighborhoods"--even "Northwest" CDC would be better. But how about using a tiny bit of brain power? "Lakeshore CDC" or "Lakefront CDC" or even "CDSE CDC"?

"The former Detroit Shoreway Community Development Organization and Cudell Improvement Inc. said Thursday that the new organization is called Northwest Neighborhoods CDC and will provide economic development, community and marketing services to the Detroit-Shoreway, Cudell and Edgewater neighborhoods of Cleveland." Northwest Neighborhoods? Are they kidding--that's the best name they could come up with? Utterly lame--it doesn't bode well for the new organization if they can't even come up with a decent name--there is little confidence they can accomplish much. https://www.cleveland.com/metro/2021/07/clevelands-detroit-shoreway-cudell-community-development-corporations-merge-under-name-northwest-neighborhoods.html

Thanks to @KJP, learned of more nonsense from SHW's little building plans: "SHW considers Frankfort to be an alley. City planners consider it to be a street. If it is a street, then SHW must provide a liner building with actives uses along Frankfort's frontage, minus its proposed vehicular entrance at the west end of the deck. If it is an alley, SHW doesn't have to provide active uses or even a liner building. By vacating Frankfort, that debate is moot." https://neo-trans.blogspot.com/2021/07/shw-skyscrapers-crown-soars-street.html Frankfort AVENUE is not only a street, it's actually an avenue. It certainly not an alley. Alleys are not four lanes wide and the city and Councilman McCormack should know this. The city gives away too much free land to private interests which makes the city less walkable with giant blocks. And of course, in this case, SHW doesn't just want free land, it wants to be free of creating anything decent along Frankfort--and the easiest way to do this is to make it disappear. I know my comment above was disliked by some, but the truth hurts. We are so used to despair we grovel and take whatever we can. 2-4 stories on public square? catwalk over W. 3? locking up dedicated, vacant space along W. 6 for decades, and now 'vacating" Frankfort Ave?

Overall, a very disappointing plan. I know we're so bruised as a city of jobs leaving and just so grateful that SW is staying that we take almost ANYTHING and rationalize it as great or pretty good or okay. Lets be frank about what they've proposed: a two-story bldg on Public Square where each of the other four quadrants have a 45+ bldg on them a 36-story bldg that could have easily been a 60-70 story bldg. If SW is holding other land for future uses they could have easily built a 70 story bldg and rented out half of it until they themselves needed it. by holding adjacent land for "future use" it almost guarantees no new development related or spun off uses--new housing, new retail, new offices, etc. Pretty $hitty all around. And I didn't even mention the catwalk across w. 3 that takes people OFF city streets and also creates a visual eyesore.

Good God thad ad is embarrassing. How would anyone think that this effective? It certainly doesn't make anyone want to move from NYC to farm country with squat buildings. That ad just reinforces stereotypes of Ohio---farmland, rural, RED/backwards/conservative (Ohio is even shown in red in the picture), and not so business savvy.....

"Aide to Obama's Senate staff" -- let's call it what it was---he was an intern. But look at how he wrote this on his website (https://www.bibbforcle.com/meet-justin): "He interned for President Barack Obama when he was in the U.S Senate" ummmm.....the president was not the president when he was senator..... He could have more clearly said, "He interned for then-Senator Barack Obama." In other words, he's playing with words here--God knows what else he's spinning about himself or his plans. But more importantly, this just shows how clueless and inexperienced he is. If you're gonna spin something, don't have it be instantly identified as wordplay. He doesn't really understand how things work. If he gets to the mayor's office, corporations, council, special interests, thugs, organized crime, EVERYONE---will run circles around him. He won't know how to respond or lead.

This. This point makes a lot of sense and underscores how inexperienced he is. Yes, he's a smooth talker---but that is all.

I agree his resume is good. But he would be an incompetent mayor.

Bibb is VERY unqualified. He's very inexperienced with the real issues he will face as mayor. Its not as nice and clean as the corporate world and he is quite immature. For those who thought Kucinich was bad in the late 70s, Bibb is the new Kucinich. Maybe Bibb will be good in 20 yrs or so, but as of today, he doesn't really get it. He would make poor choices that will actually be bad for the city, while thinking he's doing the right thing. It's because he hasn't been around long enough to really know how things work. His grandmother who he constantly talks about would probably make a better mayor than he would.

Last time (2017), the top 2 and 3 vote getters were Zach Reed and Jeff Johnson. Jeff Johnson was found guilty of federal bribery charges. And he not only ran, but was #2 or 3 (I can't remember which).

Don't misinterpret. I would never vote for Zack Reed. His ranking "at the top" of the list (#4 or 5 out of 8) is a reflection of how many undesirable candidates there are. Maybe Landry Simmons---a Republican---should be above Zack Reed. I'm still trying to learn more about him.

Let the fun begin! Here's my ranking so far--though I need to do more research on all of these folks: 1. Sandra Williams or Kevin Kelley 3. Dennis Kucinich -- I know, I know! But he's better than the names below. 4. Zack Reed or Ross Dibello -- really not a fan of either of these, but they're better than those who follow 6. Landry Simmons 7. Justin Bibb 8. Basheer Jones

Not yet--there's one left acc to the article---in Cuyahoga Hts: "The closing leaves the Arthur Treacher’s at 1833 State Road in Cuyahoga Falls as the nostalgic brand’s last remaining brick-and-mortar restaurant in the country serving the original menu. "

Isn't it fully surrounded by Ambler Park? Being surrounded by a park is nice for some people.

if that's true--and hopefully it is--then there is some element of "metropolitan" then in Highland Hills!

"Metropolitan in Highland Hills" that's a good one! Definitely up there with other oxymorons like military intelligence, civil war, and negative growth.....

Yeah it does seem like a scam of certain sorts. I ran some numbers based on the above post. If a company has a bad year they pay an incredibly high tax rate (higher than any other state). If they have a good year, they pay very little: Bad Year: Revenue 200,000 Expenses 195,000 Profit 5,000 Profit Margin 3% OH Rate 0.6% Taxes Paid 1,200 REAL tax rate 24.0% Okay Year: Revenue 200,000 Expenses 180,000 Profit20,000 Profit Margin 10% OH Rate 0.6% Taxes Paid 1,200 REAL tax rate 6.0% Good Year: Revenue 200,000 Expenses 160,000 Profit 40,000 Profit Margin 20% OH Rate 0.6% Taxes Paid 1,200 REAL tax rate 3.0%

Somewhere on this site someone posted a billboard in NYC that said, move your business to Ohio---we have no state corporate tax. And that is true---44/50 states do--and Ohio is not one of them. But I just came across this: State Corporate Income Tax Rates and Brackets for 2021 "Forty-four states levy a corporate income tax. Rates range from 2.5 percent in North Carolina to 11.5 percent in New Jersey.....Nevada, Ohio, Texas, and Washington forgo corporate income taxes but instead impose gross receipts taxes on businesses, which are generally thought to be more economically harmful due to tax pyramiding and nontransparency..." (https://taxfoundation.org/publications/state-corporate-income-tax-rates-and-brackets) So do we still tax businesses, but just don't call it a corporate tax? Are we trying to dupe businesses, which after they do their homework, will find out the truth? I'm not familiar with the practice of "gross receipts taxes"--but it sounds like it doesn't account for expenses like employees, materials, and mortgages....

RTA is so anti-rail, its mind-boggling. Construction work on the subway entries has not happened yet. If RTA wanted this plan, they could simply NOT seal the subway entries. Otherwise undoing such RTA stupidity once Birdsong is booted out will just add millions to this project.