Cleveland has zero now.  We had 1 on the Hilton hotel downtown but its gone now.  Curious what Cbus & Cincy have.  It always blows my mind when I go to other cities and see them everywhere on the skyline.  I was in Nashville a few months ago and stopped counting at over 30 that were visible on downtown skyline...

 

Currently Cincy has one freestanding crane and one that's attached to a building that's being renovated in addition to a few small ones that aren't really visible on the skyline for smaller projects. The two that were on the riverfront (on the cincy side) for Radius at The Banks and the GE Building were removed a few months ago. I believe there's still one across the river (maybe two?) for Aqua on the Levee and the Aloft Hotel. By the end of the year there may be a few more though if everything goes as planned.

I don't recall seeing any when I was in Cbus earlier this week

Cleveland will have several, soon after the convention.  Probably.  Two from Stark, and maybe WHD?  Also one or two near Case.

There are two in our second downtown, University Circle

Outside of Ohio State Campus, which has quite a few, downtown Columbus currently has one for the new Lifestyle Communities building, which is sort of a joke at the glacial pace that has taken, a second one at the site for the new downtown city campus building and parking garage, and a third one next to North Bank Tower where Nationwide Realty is building phase 1 of 3 of their new condo towers.  There may be some smaller ones I'm unaware of, but that is what is current before a few more new projects break ground soon.

Tower cranes look cool but I'm always more impressed when I see crawlers than towers. Crawlers are the real heavy lifters.

so it sounds like there's a little crane activity in Cleveland, Columbus & Cincy, but not a ton in any.  Just trying to get a general sense of the overall development pace in each of the cities.  I think Cleveland has been lagging Cincy & definitely Columbus. 

If we're talking about overall development, cranes aren't the only indicator. There have been a ton of residential conversions in Cleveland.

If we're talking about overall development, cranes aren't the only indicator. There have been a ton of residential conversions in Cleveland.

 

Of course, cranes are certainly not the only indicator of overall development, but they are a quick reference for new construction, something we've really lacked downtown Cleveland.

Yeah the same is true for Cincy. Between 2015 and 2016 there was/is $1,220,000,000 worth of development just in the core (OTR, Downtown, and Pendleton. None of the stuff across the river counted) yet that only resulted in maybe half a dozen cranes at most ever going up. There are about 1,000 units just in the core that will be finished this year with several thousands more coming but it'll still only result in a handful of additional cranes.

Once all available buildings for residential conversions are completed we will see more new construction.

Which is beginning to be the point where Cincy and Cleveland are getting to. Both cities have seen a handful of large scale new construction residential buildings in the past year proposed. Something that hasn't really been necessary or supported by the market until now.