4 minutes ago, Geowizical said:

Maybe worth mentioning the Superior Midway project in the article @KJP?

 

Done

 

 

7 hours ago, MyPhoneDead said:

The Midway project will turn this stretch into the best and most walkable live work play area in the city.

I hope the Innerbelt plans are not final final - Superior would be a great place for a cap with structures on the bridge to reconnect Superior now separated by the freeway bridge. There are some great buildings to be rehabbed there too and extend the Art District eastward! Look what the 670 cap in the C-Bus High Street Short North did to connect it with Downtown and the convention center: 

11 hours ago, Willo said:

I hope the Innerbelt plans are not final final - Superior would be a great place for a cap with structures on the bridge to reconnect Superior now separated by the freeway bridge. There are some great buildings to be rehabbed there too and extend the Art District eastward! Look what the 670 cap in the C-Bus High Street Short North did to connect it with Downtown and the convention center: 

Amazing example of what we should be planning to do with Superior, Payne, Euclid, and Prospect long term if we ever truly want to connect Downtown with Asiatown, Midtown, and UC. 

 

I went across this bridge often in the 2 years I was down in CBus. Until you posted these photos, my brain had completely forgotten this is actually a bridge. I just got so used to it being a part of the ride down High Street that I now just view it as a normal part of the street. 

2 hours ago, PlanCleveland said:

Amazing example of what we should be planning to do with Superior, Payne, Euclid, and Prospect long term if we ever truly want to connect Downtown with Asiatown, Midtown, and UC. 

 

I went across this bridge often in the 2 years I was down in CBus. Until you posted these photos, my brain had completely forgotten this is actually a bridge. I just got so used to it being a part of the ride down High Street that I now just view it as a normal part of the street. 

 

Literally same reaction just now. I've walked by that building dozens of times without thinking twice.

 

 

Can the bitching about the vast conspiracy by the State against Cleveland.  It's tired.  It's pointless.  It's off topic.

On 3/14/2025 at 5:17 AM, PlanCleveland said:

Amazing example of what we should be planning to do with Superior, Payne, Euclid, and Prospect long term if we ever truly want to connect Downtown with Asiatown, Midtown, and UC. 

 

I went across this bridge often in the 2 years I was down in CBus. Until you posted these photos, my brain had completely forgotten this is actually a bridge. I just got so used to it being a part of the ride down High Street that I now just view it as a normal part of the street. 

Here’s bit of context from a Google search on the High Street cap, so it’s clear that this had nothing to do with state gov’t and was more a local developer and the city working together:

 

“A local developer, Continental Real Estate Companies, expressed interest in investing in the project and signed a memorandum of understanding with the city in 1999. 

The agreement stipulated that if the city secured clear title to the air rights above the highway and obtained necessary permits from ODOT and the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), Continental would lease the platforms and construct the retail buildings.”

 

A longer telling:  https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ipd/project_profiles/oh_cap_union_station.aspx#:~:text=In 1999%2C Continental signed a,agreement for the platforms and

On 3/13/2025 at 9:06 PM, Willo said:

I hope the Innerbelt plans are not final final - Superior would be a great place for a cap with structures on the bridge to reconnect Superior now separated by the freeway bridge. There are some great buildings to be rehabbed there too and extend the Art District eastward! Look what the 670 cap in the C-Bus High Street Short North did to connect it with Downtown and the convention center: 

 

A series of projects to reconstruct Interstates 70/71 in downtown Columbus is currently under construction. The current phases will add a few more caps over 70/71 on the south side of Downtown by 2027

 

The Third Street cap will be the biggest of the three new caps and will stitch German Village and Downtown Columbus back together via Third Street:

 

 

 

As part of this phase of Downtown Ramp Up, smaller caps will also be built on the Fourth Street, Front Street and High Street bridges over 70/71.

The city of Columbus kicked in $25 million toward the caps.

 

Rendering of Front St:

 

 

Rendering of High St:

 

https://www.transportation.ohio.gov/projects/mega-projects/mega-projects/7071

 

Refocusing to Cleveland before this becomes a thread about Columbus projects:

 

E 22nd is the first local bridge redo of the Innerbelt project (Contract group 3) which will help reconnect Central to downtown. Contract groups 4 and 5 will redo the entire trench and every bridge over I-90 (Lakeside, St. Clair, Superior, Payne, Euclid). At the very least, they should redo each bridge like E 22nd with bike/ped infrastructure. But those contract groups are at least a decade away, so plenty of time to advocate for wider bridges and caps with buildings! My thought is that because its going to be a while before the innerbelt project makes its way up to Superior, the midway will already be done by then and since the bike lanes will be in the middle, all the more reason to add buildings off the sidewalks as y'all have suggested. The timing could really work out here if done right.

Saw this Short North photo (hat tip SONO4315) in a C-bus thread and am copying it here as it provides another great vantage point of the nearly seemless I-670 bridge cap (see yellowish columned building on the west side of High Street at center) in attempt keep interest on the opportunities in our forthcoming Innerbelt redo for not only a similar bridge cap enhancing the Superior Midway but on all the innerbelt bridges as mentioned above.