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I thought your idea of a park behind Lakeside Court House and City Hall connecting W3 to E9 was interesting. But please don't advocate closing more city streets. We've lost WAY too many streets to private interests in the last few decades. E. 3 is a critical link. If you're on Rockwell and want to go to Superior, without E3 you have to go all through Public Square adding more congestion to Public Square or other streets, more safety hazards, and certainly more carbon emissions. E. 3 is part of the street grid. it does no harm and provides a meaningful public purpose. There's absolutely no reason to close it. There already is open space on THREE SIDES of it--Mall A, Eastman Reading Garden, and Public Square.

^Simple solution: Don't buy crap from Amazon.

Really? When people are making decisions about where to live, is one of the criteria beyond good schools, good places to eat nearby, safety, a place they can afford, parking, etc., whether or not there is an amazon pick up place nearby? I'm asking in all earnestness as I have never heard this, but would be very disappointed if this were the case.....

Ugh. I'd rather have a real store, like a 24-hr deli or 24-diner there. Not more amazon crap destroying cities.

^What exactly is an Amazon hub?

Robotic lawnmower company relocating to Strongsville from Dallas following acquisition "A robotic lawnmower company is moving its headquarters to the Cleveland area following an acquisition by the Fahey Group LLC in Strongsville. The Fahey Group has acquired robotic lawnmower subscription service Robin Autopilot, according to a news release. Logan Fahey, founder and managing partner at the Fahey Group, in an email declined to disclose the terms of the acquisition....." https://www.crainscleveland.com/manufacturing/robotic-lawnmower-company-relocating-strongsville-dallas-following-acquisition

Is he from Columbus? I've never heard of him before. Just found his website and noticed 8 out of 10 of the stories on the first page are about Midwestern cities. That's not very balanced covered of American urban life. https://www.aaronrenn.com/

jonoh81--what are the drawbacks from using IRS data? I've looked at both IRS and ACS--and ACS is always older, lagging by a few years and has huge margins of error at times, sometimes larger than the value itself (e.g., 560 people moved from x to x, MOE= +/- 581). ACS is only an estimate and a sample, while IRS is real data, so I'm interested to learn why its less accurate than ACS. (I'm not familiar with the Aaron Renn at all--my question is about the data sources in general.)

^yeah, i agree.something is funny there. Tell Brookings if you can otherwise the wrong data will be perpetuated in later studies by others...

Speaking of MIA--and daily service--AA is upgauging its ERJ-145 planes with E-175s (much nicer) starting Sept 4th on CLE-MIA/MIA-CLE routes.

^that's okay. I still find any service that is less than daily--especially for a domestic route -- to be pretty annoying.

"and when I mean foreign, I'm talking Europe, Asia, Middle East, etc." Huh? by "foreign" what else would you mean? In any event, that's good to hear.

^That's quite an impressive view you have there!

^Got it, thanks. So 1.1M jobs in CLE. We are approaching -- but not surpassing --pre-2001 levels. Its taking us quite a while to recover. May 2002: 1087.4K May 2001: 1129.3K May 2000: 1144.4K (the peak between 1990 and 2019) May 1999: 1132.2K

^Am I reading this right?: Civilian Labor Force - 1,034.2K Total Nonfarm Employment -- 1,088.1K Does that mean that there are about 54,000 more jobs than people who can fill those jobs?

I believe Heritage Park is the little park on the west bank along Detroit Ave (the lower Detroit) by the Center Street Swing Bridge.

I finally tried out Blue Habanero at W 65 & Detroit----its was really really good. Good drinks and delicious food.

I finally tried out Blue Habanero at W 65 & Detroit----its was really really good. Good drinks and delicious food.

Last time I walked in there, it smelled really bad---like cleaner + other weird smells. I paused for a moment, then turned around and walked out---and I rarely ever do that. And i had eaten there before and it was fine. If that new smell was a constant then probably lots of people walked out and hence their troubles.... sorry to see them go as I had liked it when I did eat there.

Comparing housing units 2015 to 2018, the Census Bureau estimates Cuyahoga has less in 2018 than in 2015. Is this accurate? Cleveland Metro overall though, is up. Geography 2015 2018 Change 2015-2018 Cuyahoga 619,310 617,889 -0.2% Cleveland 7-Counties 1,273,720 1,278,967 0.4%

Many, many festivities this weekend celebrating 50 years since the last fire and subsequent clean-up efforts. However, there are still 7 areas of concern the Cuyahoga must meet to be removed from US EPA's list that we should not lose scope of such as Degradation of Fish Populations, Fish Tumors or Other Deformities, Degradation of Benthos, etc. I found this great list of the current status of progress made against these Beneficial Use Impairments: http://www.cuyahogaaoc.org/the-plan-and-targets.html [scroll a half page down for the list] [How did we not have a thread on the Cuyahoga? There are three for the Ohio River.]

^Interesting concept about CPD taking over the site--I'm sure they'd love that. But how sure is your source re the FBI moving? as they own the building its not a rent issue---why would they move?

Downtown proper needs a few 24 hr diners as well.

^Going from 5 lanes to 2 lanes is a good thing? Have you ever driven behind someone going 25 mph when the limit is 35? if there are two lanes/direction you can go around them. In the example above in LaJolla, not only are drivers inefficiently stuck behind the person driving too slow, everyone has to wait for anyone turning left. That's inefficient, causes congestion, and adds carbon output to the environment. And, in addition to a standard 8' parking lane in one direction, you also get a 16' parking lane in one direction? what good is that?

I hate the FBI compound on Lakeside as its set back and gated from the street. But I hope the FBI stays Downtown where it belongs. Secret Service has been at the 77-Rockside area for decades.....They both should be downtown somewhere.