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^Thanks. Re BKL, that doesn't seem like a very good approach at all. Very labor intensive, and as you said, not wholly effective. I just googled and there are a bunch of companies out there. Here's one: "The Mega Blaster PRO repels birds using recorded predator cries and bird distress calls, and covers up to 30 acres." https://bird-x.com/bird-products/electronic/sonic/airport-bird-control-system/ Such a system or similar could be put by the wind turbines if necessary.

^Thanks. That's great to hear. Please let me know (or post here) the next time there's a Cleveland music event in NY.

If there are no birds around, then there is no issue. (But don't birds--like every other animal--look out for hazards in its paths anyway?) But what i was going to say if birds are present, couldn't some kind of high frequency sound be emitted to keep them away? I think that's what airports do to keep birds away and from getting sucked into engines. Many big airports are located right on the water (LGA, JFK, to name a few) so seagulls would otherwise be destroying jet engines left and right, but this is not the case. I wonder if BKL uses them.

I don't get this flyer---was it for an event in NYC to support Cleveland nightlife spots?

^"Interlake Steamship Co, a privately-owned Middleburg Heights company, has ordered the first new ship built for Great Lakes service in 37 years." So what does Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding do when its not building ships for the Great Lakes--smaller river crafts? Or do they make ocean-bound vessels (for other customers)?

From the last photo in the set KJP posted, what is "The Hippodrome" supposed to be? Is it a placeholder name for a restaurant? (I know the bldg is the former site of the famous theater.)

Doesn't WTAM host the Rush Limbaugh Show? If so, its not really a decent station. But I will give them credit though for firing this guy, who deserved to be fired. That said, who is Kyle Cornell? He claims he meant no ill-will by the term. Is he just a clueless guy? Or a guy who had a slip of the tongue as "person of color" is an acceptable phrasing? Or is he an @sshole who made the slip because he talks that way in general with his friends off the air? Or is he an @sshole who made the statement intentionally? I never listen to the station so I am not familiar with him. But its NOT easy to make such a mistake, so I'm leaning towards my last two possibilities.......In any event, he deserved to be canned.

Thanks for posting those. I hadn't noticed the windows that stick out at an angle before.

If you need gas and you're around Kinsman and E. 139, I don't recommend the Hanini gas station on that corner. Its quite a deadly gas station. "A 41-year-old man is not expected to survive a beating at a gas station in the city’s Mount Pleasant neighborhood...Three people have been killed at the gas station so far in 2020." Man pummeled at Cleveland gas station not expected to survive, court records say https://www.cleveland.com/metro/2020/08/man-pummeled-at-cleveland-gas-station-not-expected-to-survive-court-records-say.html

On Friday's City Planning Commission mtg, they approved some new apartments on Larchmere in the "East Side" neighborhood (Lazy--even for cleveland.com). Anyway, I didn't see it posted here. Here's the brief writeup. No idea how many units or where on Larchmere. In the article its tucked in between the W. 73 bldg and the Viad(a)uct. "A building of micro-units, or small apartments with elements that retract to make more space, that will occupy a site along Larchmere Boulevard in the East Side neighborhood. The project was developed by Rick Maron – who retired from MRN Ltd., the real estate development company he founded – and Russell Berusch." https://www.cleveland.com/realestate-news/2020/08/cleveland-planning-commission-gives-ok-to-new-apartment-buildings-as-vacancies-increase-downtown.html

Is the W. 73 Apartment bldg a separate project from this four-story apt. bldg on W. 73?: https://www.crainscleveland.com/real-estate/four-story-apartments-proposed-battery-park. With the empty site immediately behind it on W. 70, it looks like the project that planned two bldgs back to back one on W 73 and one on W 70.

Oh my, that's a really ugly spelling with the extra "a". I really hope its just "Viaduct".

Did one of the non-local companies change their mind about moving to Cleveland as a result of covid or just the economy in general?

^Thank you for telling me what "across" means. But "across" E. 105, that is, the west side of E. 105, would be Hough, not University Circle.

^Thanks. So schematic approval is enough to begin construction and final design occurs while the foundation is being dug?

^What does that mean? What was approved and what wasn't?

What's the Quad area? the original site was already on the east side of 105--on Park Lane between 105 and 107.

On one of my favorite projects I have not heard anything in a long time---its the Park Lane Condos (second on this list: https://www.centerforcleveland.org/current-cle-projects#University Circle). Do you know if that's still moving forward? It seemed delayed well before covid. Or is it one of the projects that is officially cancelled?

KJP--that's a beautiful photo!

Also: "Sources & Methodology HireAHelper's COVID Moving Study analyzed Hybrid moving data in the US, booked through our online platform in 2020." So its just who used their platform. Hardly a representative sample fo the country. I've never even heard of them.

I found the answer after digging around---not from Crains or the PD, but the Center for Cleveland: https://www.centerforcleveland.org/blog/estimated-revenue-shortfalls-for-the-city-of-cleveland-from-the-covid-19-recession It says, "Revenue shortfalls for the City of Cleveland are expected to be between $187M and $305M for FY2021, calculated for less severe and more severe scenarios. These amounts in percentage terms are 6.4% and 10.4%, respectively, relative to projected revenues without a global health pandemic and resulting recession." I would have expected it to be much higher--but will gladly take these numbers over what I was expecting.

NYT article: "The Recession Is About to Slam Cities. Not Just the Blue-State Ones." Where does Cleveland fall in terms of impact? The article lists Columbus, but not Cleveland--very annoying. Am I missing it? Is the full data set shown somewhere else? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/17/upshot/pandemic-recession-cities-fiscal-shortfall.html

No loss here! Neither are desirable banks to me, but especially not Wells Fargo after they illegally opened all those accounts for their customers. If I had a Wells Fargo account after that, I would have closed it immediately and gave my money to another bank. I think the fact that they're still around is because people don't give a crap and have become so abused by large companies that they have become numb to when one does something incredulous. And anyone who was born, say, the past 20 years will have no idea that there's a better way to treat people and that, while this may be 'normal' business, it's not how it has to be or how it used to be.

Does Bank of America have other retail branches in Cleveland or is their first one?

I find it strange that there's so much excitement for a bank! If it were in the heart of Glenville or Kinsman, I'd get it, but not here. Would expect excitement for a cool and needed retailer or a non-chain/franchised restaurant or cafe.