When the Browns announced the possibility in August of building a dome in Brook Park, they presented a host of splashy renderings. The team’s goal is a ($3 billion to $3.5 billion) project that will include approximately $2 (billion) in private investment.” But Cuyahoga County Executive Chris Ronayne is urging team owners Jimmy and Dee Haslam to take another look at downtown. “You can have everything you would have in Brook Park, but you have it downtown. It synergizes with downtown rather than takes away from it,” he said. “This isn’t Cleveland vs. Brook Park. It’s about downtown. It’s everybody’s downtown.” Destination Cleveland commissioned a new set of renderings at Burke Lakefront Airport, showing a stadium-related development could take up 158 acres on the west side with a 70,000-seat domed stadium, two hotels, 3,000 residential units, extensive retail space, 11,000 parking spaces, a marina and a public park. — Laura |
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Destination Cleveland last month commissioned Vocon architects of Cleveland to create renderings of a new Cleveland Browns stadium on land currently occupied by Burke Lakefront Airport. (Courtesy Vocon architects) |
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Browns at Burke? Destination Cleveland recently commissioned a study that shows what a domed football stadium would look like on the western portion of Burke Lakefront Airport, surrounded by hotels, residential development, retail and parking, Susan Glaser reports. Money for teams: The publicly funded entity that serves as landlord for Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse and Progressive Field is asking Cleveland and Cuyahoga County for $40 million to pay off debts owed to the teams that rent the facilities, Kaitlin Durbin reports. Cleveland officials started discussing ways to cover the city's half of that bill -- $20 million -- on Monday, but City Council members also raised a different question: What if they decline to pay? Bill Burges: Longtime political strategist Bill Burges, who made his mark orchestrating countless successful political campaigns for decades, died Sunday, reports Robert Higgs. Burges, 77, was an expert on Ohio’s communities and people and had a long track record of managing winning campaigns in elections. Today in Ohio: Ohio taxpayers subsidized families’ private school tuition to the tune of $970.7 million after the legislature expanded eligibility to include families of all income levels. We’re talking about the effect on education on Today in Ohio, cleveland.com’s daily half-hour news podcast. |
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Early voting: Tuesday is the last day Ohioans can request absentee ballots to vote in the 2024 election, reports Molly Walsh. The prior deadline had been three days before Election Day. But state lawmakers pushed the deadline back as part of sweeping elections changes last year. Federal lawsuit: Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose is suing the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to obtain records he wants to use to verify the citizenship of Ohio’s registered voters, reports Sabrina Eaton. LaRose asks Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for access to federal databases and search tools, including the Person Centric Query Service, to help the state verify the citizenship of specific registered voters whose citizenship might be the subject of dispute. Moreno lawsuit: Almost 20 years ago, Republican U.S. Senate nominee Bernie Moreno appeared set to take a very different career path: rising through the executive ranks of New England’s largest car dealership chain. But when Moreno accepted an unexpected offer to buy his own car dealership in Northeast Ohio, his former employer sued him in 2005, reports Jeremy Pelzer. The previously unreported litigation, which Moreno contested and ended in a settlement that was later overturned, is one in a series of lawsuits that have come to light over Moreno’s business practices. Crypto: Republican U.S. Senate nominee Bernie Moreno said Monday that he‘s proud to have the support of the cryptocurrency industry, which has dumped tens of millions of dollars into Ohio’s red-hot Senate race so far on his behalf. Moreno said that if elected he would seek to give “regulatory certainty” to Bitcoin and other digital currencies, reports Jeremy Pelzer. |
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Port CEO: Will Friedman, who has been president and CEO of the Port of Cleveland since 2010, is stepping down after he and the board could not reach an agreement on a new contract, reports Megan Sims. Friedman said he is not taking the decision lightly and that he is “incredibly proud” of what the Port has accomplished and contributed to the community. Driver’s ed: After three decades, Lorain High School has resumed driver’s education, allowing students to complete online and in-car instruction during the school day. The program, which is free for students, offers 24 hours of online coursework and eight hours of in-car driving instruction with a certified instructor, all integrated within regular class hours. Heights charter: Cleveland Heights City Council will take the first step toward changing the city’s charter for the first time since it moved to an elected mayor. Council‘s Committee of the Whole will meet at 10 a.m. today in city hall’s executive conference room to discuss a handful of changes that the city’s Charter Review Commission recommended in May, reports Cory Shaffer. Ken Johnson: A judge on Monday rejected former Cleveland City Councilman Kenneth Johnson’s request for an early release from prison, reports Adam Ferrise. Johnson had cited health concerns. |
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Emergency health: Two years after the opening of MetroHealth System Cleveland Heights Behavioral Health Hospital, its services are expanding with the addition of a psychiatric emergency department in Cleveland Heights, reports Julie Washington. Home sales: Eleven Cuyahoga County homes nabbed at least $1.25 million in September, with the top home sale getting $3.8 million, reports Zachary Smith. |
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Police shooting: One suspect was wounded and two other suspects are in police custody after a shootout with Cleveland officers Monday evening in the Brooklyn Centre neighborhood, Cliff Pinckard reports. Fatal shootings: Two people were killed in Akron this weekend, the victims of apparent random shootings, police say. They were among four slain in Summit County in a span of three days, Olivia Mitchell reports. Antisemitic vandalism: Orange police arrested a suspect late Monday night and accused him of spray-painting antisemitic symbols on homes in the village, officials said. Officers apprehended Ryan Kellogg, 37, of Orange, and charged him with menacing by stalking, ethnic intimidation, vandalism, criminal damaging and resisting arrest. Gun trafficking: A Cleveland man is accused of robbing two people secretly working with federal agents during an investigation into gun trafficking in the city, reports Adam Ferrise. Carl Lewis, 27, and a second man pointed guns at two informants working with the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Lewis took the $2,500 the informants brought to buy three guns, court records say. 'Swatting' incident: Police say a “swatting” incident Monday afternoon led to a brief “shelter-in-place” situation at Chardon High School, the site of a 2012 shooting that left three students dead and wounded three others, Cliff Pinckard reports. |
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Ask Lucas: What do you do if you can’t stand your girlfriend’s dog? One option is to kidnap a bunch of groundhogs and set them loose in the backyard, writes Lucas Daprile. Having a small battalion of Punxsutawney Phils should be more than enough to keep her dog focused on the windows and not on micromanaging your relationship. Black Keys: The Black Keys made it back to Ohio for a hometown show on Friday, but it was a strange one for sure — a small, pay-to-play private gig at the Akron Civic Theater sponsored by Stand With Crypto, a non-profit political outreach group that, among other things, grades political candidates based on their support of legislation favored by the cryptocurrency industry, reports Malcolm X Abram. Trick or treat: When will little superheroes and princesses be knocking on your door for Halloween candy? Here’s a guide organized by county with communities listed in alphabetical order. Pop-up: The pop-up Home for the Holidays shop at 17106 Detroit Ave. in Lakewood, next to the Cleveland Vegan, will officially open on Saturday. This year will be the ninth season for the shop, reports Alex Darus. WinterLand: Downtown Cleveland Inc.’s annual WinterLand tree-lighting ceremony is set for Nov. 30 at Public Square, reports Marc Bona. It will include fireworks, live entertainment and holiday lights. Some Like It Hot: “Some Like It Hot” is widely regarded as one of the best movies in the history of cinema. The Broadway musical arrives Nov. 5 at Playhouse Square for a three-week run, reports Joey Morona. |
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