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Caleb Howard

Google Maps Street View of East End heading West on SR-18.

Goodyear East End: The Akron Terminal of the Future.

The East End has seen some strong improvement over the last decade. A few eateries, some small shops, a theater, and some additional retail space available. We are more interested about what lies behind it:

Google Maps image of Coal Power Plant in Eastlake Ohio.

Coal to Nuclear: Eastlake Power Plant

Cities carry the obligation to provide services to their citizens at cost. Here is the thing about electricity production: it is a "public utility". We do realize that profit is the extraction of value from an economic process.

ArcGIS aerial map showing Cleveland Municipal Stadium and Lake Erie Shores.

Waterfront Line: Re-open and Expand

Square it on the owners to re-lay the track or confiscate the Right-of-Ways. We gave these lands to literal robber barons for pennies on the dollar. The city can get aggressive with their demands, it is not like the rail company will come and rip up anymore track.

Cleveland Metro Bus enroute to University Circle.

Problem with Research: Nobody Cares

Why do we care about people who benefit from people benefiting from the works of literal rail barons?

Farmers Market on Corner of road.

Local Grocers Extinct: Can Co-ops bring them back from the brink?

I recognize that these areas need to access fresh produce and groceries even though I do not have the skills to open one myself. We do have the ability to organize people, and there must be historic family grocers who fell on economic hard times when banks could more easily turn their back to them.

Google Maps image of Cleveland with Walmarts Identified.

Haterade

Can you imagine being so ignorant as to question why making it easier for people to go to a brick and mortar store with more money in their pocket would help the economy?

Google Maps View of Windermere Stokes Station.

Roles of Transportation

Cleveland, please return the subway/tram to downtown and W. 25th. Why not use those buses to improve headways elsewhere and do what makes the most sense for the long-term economic growth and development of downtown.