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You left out the part I'm sure most are wondering--as I was myself: "But the 75-year-old artist, who lives and works in Tremont, has not decided what, exactly, he's going to hew from a piece of Cleveland culinary history. "It's something that's going to be unique and special, for sure," he said. "But I'm not exactly sure yet.""

Do council people get to pick what committees their own (pending space) or are they just assigned by the president?

This. This make sense-- spend $3M towards a very needed pedestrian bridge--not making an urban and dense area with plenty of greenspace nearby less urban and less dense. seems like Metroparks is on some kind of land acquisition power spree and can't stop before ruining its own good name.

From Planning Dir to office of quality control is certainly a demotion. Sounds like a temporary place to put Collier so he can collect a paycheck while he finds his next real role. Why did Collier stick it out to the end? Maybe he thought Kelley would win or that Bibb would keep him? Or some shady dealings by Bibb? It doesn't really make sense to boot out Collier before his replacement is found unless you really want to publicly humiliate him and give him the middle finger and let him linger around in "quality control".

Also there is already green space about a couple hundred feet to the south all the way to settler's landing. too much green is BAD for the city. This is really $hitty news.

what horrible news. We don't need green space there--we need to build up a vibrant commercial district. Can the city fight this on the ground of zoning violation? Metroparks is out of line here.

Yeah, its a little hairy coming from the north, but I've never had any issues. From the south, people can just exit at Snow Road. The priority for airport access should be from the north. (Downtown/University Circle, for example should be favored over people coming from Strongsville/Brunswick.)

Interesting, but the priority must be upgrading or replacing the terminal. Who would pay for this? All these properties are the suburb of Brook Park so the city of Cleveland would not even be making the sales, property, and income tax from these uses.

^What is that land you're building on --the Ford Plant?

If you want to see how our award compared to other cities, here's the full list. We got $3M, average award was $9.6M: https://www.maritime.dot.gov/sites/marad.dot.gov/files/2021-12/2021_ PIDP Grant Awards - Combined Project Descriptions.pdf

Cleveland port authority gets $3 million grant from U.S. Transportation Department "WASHINGTON, D. C. - The Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority has been awarded a $3 million U.S. Department of Transportation grant to conduct a comprehensive planning study that will help address the port’s cargo handling, environmental and economic development needs and broader regional planning goals. It was among 25 grants totaling more than $241 million that the Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg announced Thursday..." https://www.cleveland.com/news/2021/12/cleveland-port-authority-gets-3-million-grant-from-us-transportation-department.html

Great news! This was the maybe-to-be 21c Museum Hotel right? Spooky rectangular grey area in the sky between the bldgs in that photo!

Luke--if anyone made the suggestion about women having children and their inability to lead, it was you, not me. Regarding failures, read the bunch of posts in this thread. But I will ask you this: Is RTA better today than it was when she started or worse?

^Wow. I thought that “It Is What It Is.” line was a joke, but I zoomed in and its really there!

Pitiful. She's really working the system. She got maternity leave even though she didn't qualify. So why not do it two more times whether she qualified or not? She's sees the board as a mindless rubber stamp.

I'm never said she is unable to lead because she has or is having children. I know plenty of competent women who lead and have children. But spending 1/4-1/2 of all her time in this contract in maternity leave, she is not leading. But who knows, even if there was no maternity leave question, she might not be leading anyway. Whatever the root cause she's not leading. In these times of covid AND sudden piles of money, we need leadership (normally I'd say strong leadership) to leverage those federal dollars and better serve the city. Unfortunately its not her for whatever reason. I hope the Board is able to realize this and send her packing in two years or whenever her contract is up.

I assume it was her plan to use the 'idiots of Cleveland' to give her a five-year pause in her career to have children while also receiving a full $200-$300k per year paycheck. I hope the board actively starts looking for a new GM a year before her contract is up. But the board seems pretty clueless as well so they may well just keep her, regardless of how incompetent or useless she is. After all, Calabrese was there for some 20 years. This is why CLE doesn't grow--bad leadership after bad leadership managed by incompetent boards that do or know nothing about what they're overseeing.

Sounds like if Birdsong really was a good leader, she would have gotten rid of the bad next level leadership after she did an assessment of the staff. But she hasn't meaning she doesn't know better, doesn't know how to manage, or doesn't really care. Didn't she take two maternity leaves in her first two years? It may be a combination of all of those, as she laughs her way to the bank and thinks CLE are a bunch of idiots who don't know better.

Pretty poor leadership by Costar--absolutely the wrong time to release such a "study"--the new cases of KNOWN covid are piling up faster than we have ever seen before and a full 25% include those that are fully vaxxed or boosted.

ah- @mrnyc's post above was posted just seconds before mine. Exactly as I was thinking. Amazon had a dirty hand in effecting the outcome of the election. No way they would risk having to treat workers like people up to a simple vote of people that they sh!t on.

Also, I'm sure Amazon spent MILLIONS with targeted ads into Alabama to fight it. But more importantly, Amazon probably did a little more on-the -ground tactics too like intimidation, if not outright secret threats or secret perks for those that could influence others. Amazon was not going to let an amazon location unionize. No way, no how.

Regarding the project at 105 and Cedar with the Meijers grocery store: HUD No. 21-209 HUD Public Affairs (202) 708-0685 FOR RELEASE Tuesday December 21, 2021 HUD Announces $9 Million Loan Guarantee to Cleveland for Development with Nearly 200 Housing Units, Grocery Store "WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development today announced a $9 million loan guarantee to the City of Cleveland, Ohio for the development of a mixed-used site that includes nearly 200 housing units and a 40,000 square foot grocery store.....The mixed-use development includes a new 40,000 square foot Meijer Grocery Store, approximately 150,778 square feet of residential space including 90 market rate one-bedroom units, 90 micro+ units, 6 standard micro-units, 10 two-bedroom units, 200 parking garage spaces, and 125 surface-level spaces for the grocery store. The project is expected to create 40 new full-time-equivalent jobs...." https://www.marketscreener.com/news/latest/HUD-Announces-9-Million-Loan-Guarantee-to-Cleveland-for-Development-with-Nearly-200-Housing-Units--37389129/

That's cool. I wish both Jade and Let's Talk well--especially given the timing of their openings with the latest covid wave. Also, glad to see new restaurants in the CBD core as well, not just in the hot entertainment-like areas of E. 4 or East Bank.

I think other mayors had their inaugurations at Public Hall or Public Auditorium in the past.

If the Dream hotel opens up across the street--it will certainly create micro-area of energy that would then push from more development---I'd even take a few 10-story condo/apt/office buildings along 36th, 40th, Euclid, Prospect, Chester with some street level restaurants that support and be supported by the two hotels and some other neighborhood-level retail.