For some reason my ex-TRW HQ demolition story has gone viral. Apparently word got out on some message board or another forum. I figured it was a pretty big story and was initially disappointed that it wasn't getting more clicks. But it's getting them now, moving toward 8,000 views.

Yeah It constantly pops up on my Google Now feed.

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54 minutes ago, MyPhoneDead said:

Yeah It constantly pops up on my Google Now feed.

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Maybe that's what's causing it.

 

On twitter, I saw someone offer an interesting suggestion that the HQ be converted to residential with the glassy atrium turned into a winter garden with a nice restaurant and/or coffee shop with outdoor seating in the summer/fall. The surrounding grounds would be like living in a park, perfect for jogging, cross-country skiing, golf course next door, shopping just up the hill. Seems like a spot for some high-end residential. And that mansion...

1 hour ago, KJP said:

For some reason my ex-TRW HQ demolition story has gone viral. Apparently word got out on some message board or another forum. I figured it was a pretty big story and was initially disappointed that it wasn't getting more clicks. But it's getting them now, moving toward 8,000 views.

 

The teardown is maybe just a sign of CCF's impatience.  Xerox built a beautiful, forested 200+ acre Leesburg center near the CIA in Virginia about 40 years ago when that area was considered far out of town.  They used it for offices and corp. training and in the early 1990s began renting out the excess space for outside events and training.  It was semi-popular for ten years or so, but the fad faded and Xerox dumped it. A dozen or so years later it reopened as an event and meeting center and has been pretty popular as the growing Virginia suburbs growth caught up with it.

 

Maybe, as a result of your exposure, someone with vision and patience will yet buy the old TRW place.

Oh some entity will (eventually) buy it but l doubt they will have the vision or resources to save the forest that surrounds the headquarters building. 

 

I get that it may not translate to the needs for an office in 2023 so it is coming down but those trees... The only way they are not leveled is if some non-profit environmental concern acquires it. And that's probably not going to happen. We're not that lucky.

21 minutes ago, cadmen said:

Oh some entity will (eventually) buy it but l doubt they will have the vision or resources to save the forest that surrounds the headquarters building. 

 

I get that it may not translate to the needs for an office in 2023 so it is coming down but those trees... The only way they are not leveled is if some non-profit environmental concern acquires it. And that's probably not going to happen. We're not that lucky.

 

Could make a nice extension of the Acacia Reservation... and also be a strategic acquisition to position for the absorption of the Mayfield Sand Ridge golf club if that was ever to fold. 

City of Middleburg Heights, Cleveland Clinic, Premier Development Partners Collaborate to Revitalize Local Community

article from 9/7/22 but I don't remember hearing about remodeling the old Middleburg K-mart building into a new CCF Family Health Center.

 

On 3/9/2023 at 11:49 AM, Luke_S said:

 

Could make a nice extension of the Acacia Reservation... and also be a strategic acquisition to position for the absorption of the Mayfield Sand Ridge golf club if that was ever to fold. 

I was thinking about this recently, and I'm viewing it as increasingly likely. It would serve to justify the Acacia purchase, because in a lot of ways, it's a superior plot of land with regards to what the Metroparks cares about. It has far more of Euclid Creek within its bounds, and as others have pointed out, it has a better tree canopy, even after all of the Metroparks planting at Acacia. If Acacia made sense for the Metroparks to purchase, then it's hard to argue that Cleveland Clinic's Lyndhurst campus doesn't make more sense, and given that it would now be effectively expanding an existing reservation, I can't see why they wouldn't be at least interested. 

 

Granted, someone other than the Metroparks buying the land is still probably more likely than not, but there are several interesting tea leaves suggesting the Metroparks are at least interested. For one, it's named on the map in the Metroparks app (as is Notre Dame College). Does that mean anything, no, absolutely not, what gets labeled on their map, seems very random, but it's a small point in that direction. Another interesting tidbit is that their Acacia reservation update plan did include adding a short trail leg (already exists btw) to better connect to Richmond across from the old campus. That isn't particularly notable either, as more trail connections to a major road isn't unusual, but there isn't much else in the area besides Legacy Village. Another interesting tidbit is that there is a proposed trail through this campus in the Cuyahoga County Greeway plan (KR-27 the Acacia Connector). This also doesn't mean too much, but the Metroparks has shown an interest in supporting the Greenways plan, and while not a requirement, the easiest way to ensure infrastructure projects are built the way you want, is to own the land. 

 

Like I said, tea leaves, even adding  all three of those up, they don't amount to much, but the fundamentals of the purchase are solid, I find it hard to believe they haven't at least considered it, and I think they would for the right price. The main building coming down, only seems to improve the property from their perspective, though that could be true for other buyers as well. Anyway, just speculating. 

 

Edit: here's the 2023 Acacia Reservation plan. It seems to heavily imply the possibility of such a purchase. "Protect stream corridors and mature trees on west side of Richmond Road." This is definitely more meaningful than any of the tea leaves above.