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[Herb Brannon]

Phillip,
I liken Cleveland and Northeastern Ohio to the Lady GaGa tune entitled,
"Hanging On The Edge Of Glory". It had gone as far down as any city could
go. There was no place to go but up. Then, through better management of the
city, creation of a "Mayor-Manager-Council" form of government for Cuyahoga
County, imprisonment of many former city and county blowhards who were
nothing more than common thieves,  rebuilding of former crime ridden
neighborhoods into livable communities with something more than rectangular
boxes for living spaces, public welfare reform, and many public-private
building projects the city is sitting on the edge of a boom which should
bring Cleveland close to the importance, in the realm of American cities,
it enjoyed in the 1945-1955 era.
Just last Monday the Horseshoe Casino opened, on Public Square, in the
former Higbee Department Store building. Just this past Friday the
Horseshoe took in more money than all but one other casino in the entire
United States. Yes, that's every other U.S. casino except one in Las Vegas.
The average waiting time to get into the gaming floor is about three hours.

To check out the projects under construction in Cleveland, check out this
website:::
:Current Cleveland
Projects<http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=97396>.
Also, be sure to watch the 3minute41second video at the top of the
website before you scroll down through the projects. The video was produced
by the Cleveland Downtown Alliance and is really good.

Derrick,
You mentioned the "three C's" (Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati). Don't
forget that only Cleveland has electrical transportation. My main concern
about the other two Cs is the hold that the far-right politicos have on
them. Cleveland is very much like Pittsburgh politically and socially. The
steel mills even still exist in great numbers in Cleveland.




On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Derrick Brashear <shadow at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Phillip Clark Campbell
> <pcc_sr at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > This is a very impressive resume of the CVSR Mr.Brannon.  It is
> > very much in line with the current Cleveland transit system.  They seem
> > to not only counter trends in other cities where massive cutbacks are
> > the rule but Cleveland and Ohio are growing.  They seem to be
> > systems to emulate.
>
> Cleveland, yes. Ohio? Well, it seems like transit in Ohio is all the 3
> Cs (basically, the places I'd be willing to live)
> and the rest of it is "hey, can we put another road to some new
> suburban development?"
>
> Pittsburgh is supposed to have an intense rivalry with Cleveland (and
> Cincinnati at least in football) but I see them
> as very similar places, places I'd feel at home much like here.
>
> --
> Derrick
>
>
>


-- 
Herb Brannon
In Cuyahoga Valley National Park