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20 hours ago, JFW657 said:
As if anyone would ever walk along Curry Ford anyway.
Odd how some people love the idea of choking thoroughfares and snarling vehicular traffic just to accommodate a couple of dozen bicyclists per day. Probably for similar self image related reasons as those who think Edgewater Dr is the epitome of urban hipness every other part of town should strive to be like.
I'm not sure what this even means? There's numerous restaurants and bars that are lovely to go to and it would be great to do so without driving. Lots of my friends have moved into this area because its become the best combination of "affordable/close to DT/has stuff".
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Was randomly clicking around the property appraiser...
This plaza of the Archery/Jeweler/Cleaner/Cremation was sold for 2.25M last month
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On 10/5/2023 at 9:39 AM, jack said:
The patriarch was in pretty bad shape for years. The developer across the street told me he tried to buy it but the guy did not want the neighborhood gentrified, lol. His kids had a difference of opinion.
I would see the owner in his wheel chair scooting around only using his legs or sitting out front sleeping.
Ha maybe I should have offered to buy it from him before it went to his kids
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On 10/2/2023 at 8:14 AM, nite owℓ said:
Wow, lucky them! $2M seems like a huge get for that area. Even though you lost out on the opportunity, the good news is the homes will most likely be purchased by owner-occupants vs a REIT/institutional investor who will fill it with yet another renter paying overpriced rent to a landlord who doesn't maintain the yard/building properly.
IMO, rezoning single family to multifamily is not appropriate... people buy in certain areas to avoid that. I'm not even in support of ADU's in areas with R-1 zoning because it's like a sneaky way to skirt zoning laws and shoehorn multifamily residences in areas that weren't zoned for that (for various reasons). And it undermines people who abide by the rules to specifically purchase R-2/multifamily lots. Why bother buying R-2 anymore when you can just convert an R-1 into multifamily?? But this is the world we live in now... twist existing city ordinances, laws, etc. to accommodate greedy desires, while disregarding the neighborhood's character. Same goes for the people who buy into HOA communities, but purposefully disregard the rules they agreed to (and later claim HOAs are the devil).
BTW, that last bit wasn't directed at you Andy, I'm just venting as one of the suckers who purchased an R-2 lot before all of this ADU madness started to take off.
You're more of an optimist than I. Over 50% of these single 3000 sqft take up the full lot with the house homes that have been built in the neighborhood since I've moved in have all gone up for resale practically exactly at the 2 year mark.
And yeah, I SWEAR it used to be R-2. Because when I bought on Jersey, one of the pro-cons is that weirdly even though its the closest to Michigan, it was the only R-1 in the neighborhood. But then when I looked it up again last year Page and others were R-1. I started trying to track down the various zoning changes to see if I was crazy, but then I got lazy.
Also, part of the reason I'm so annoyed about it is I did WAY too deep of a dive into the owners. Dude and his wife moved here from New York and worked a govt job and just managed to own basically the entirety of Page St. As @jack mentioned, did not maintain them at all. And then when they passed away they got buried back in New York. Like you lived here for over 40 years but clearly didn't feel like it was home. While its not as bad as Institutional Investor, its not much better.
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I'm beyond saddened by these and I have to drive/walk by them every day. I wanted two of those lots for my forever home (and ideally get them re-re-zoned for townhomes), but with the boom in the past year or two, the kids that inherited those lots from their parents when they passed a few years back were able to get over $2M for the combination of them... now an investor is building 6 more generic homes, so yet more profit with no benefit to locals.
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On 7/26/2023 at 2:21 PM, codypet said:
I didn't see any on the other corners, but the SE corner is supposed to be getting it too.
How in the world is there space on the southeast corner for a mast arm? That is already the most narrow pedestrian unfriendly corner in the city.
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Honestly rebuilding the upper decks is probably needed to keep the events we have for more than the next 5 years or so. We cheaped out last time, and it's catching up.
There's also talk of WWE bringing Royal Rumble in January (the 2nd or 3rd biggest show behind WrestleMania) to either Orlando or Tampa. Past few years its been a stadium show, so assuming it would be at Camping World if it happens. (Coincidentally enough, the last two years have been San Antonio and St Louis. Which are probably the 2 most directly comparable facilities to CWS in regards to football stadium without a tenant but still keeps operating.)
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Oh I thought it was all one big effort
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Its continuing the work done Pineloch to Grant? It's been under way for probably over a year now
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I'm intrigued to see how having the rental counters on the side of the bridge are going to work. Hopefully there's never more than a person or two at the counter...
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Are they moving? I've bought so many pieces for my house from there!
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Unsure why the hate of pop music. BSB is still touring and crushing. Different eras. There's things to appreciate about both types of music.
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6 hours ago, nite owℓ said:
People even try to sneak into condo parking garages for free parking or sneak in to use restrooms. I really don't miss any of that, some people act like anything goes while downtown and behave like wild animals when you try to correct them.
Paid parking cuts down on a lot of riff raff, sorry but free parking is not the way to go bc the bad apples ruin ot for everyone. Most issues arise from people loitering indefinitely in the on street parking spaces or while parking for free on private lots where there is no enforcement. Downtown residents, myself included, have been complaining about illegally parked cars for years and nothing really gets done bc the issue continued daily/weekly for years in certain hot spots.
1 hour ago, codypet said:I don't recall that happening 10 years ago. Now it seems like you can't even look at someone without them going off. What happened?
I think people trying to sneak in for restrooms is a tale as old as time. But typically if you get caught you just walk away. To @codypet's point, there's now an aggressiveness and entitlement.
Parking is such a delicate issue. I'm all for getting rid of parking. However, much of downtown business is a service economy. Those bartenders need somewhere to park because not exactly any transit available at 4AM when shifts end. A lot already park like a mile away.
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5 hours ago, aent said:
But you're probably twice as likely to encounter a tech issue, because you have twice the landings and takeoffs, and more miles in the air. You're also dependent on the weather being good in an extra location, which seems more likely to be causing a delay, on top of the connecting flight issues. If significant weather is causing the delay somewhere else, they aren't going to have enough equipment and pilots regardless.
In fact, thinking back, at my previous job, they started sending me every other week to California for project implementation and testing for a customer, and I had to buy the ticket then received reimbursement. It eventually got noticed that I was flying Frontier and Spirit all the time, and the others were busy calling me stupid and telling me that I should be using one of the nicer airlines, and also be trying hard to claim all the frequent flier miles as well as an extra benefit. Out of the 6 months I was on that job before I decided to quit, I never once had a missed/cancelled flight, and probably arrived more then 10 minutes late maybe 2 times, and they were all less then an hour late. My coworkers who took their favorite airlines FREQUENTLY arrived a day late due to a missed connection, weather, or some other problem, and I believed they were purposely doing it because they still got paid and got to avoid working due to lost travel days (no actual proof, but my assigned duties were a year ahead of schedule when I left, whereas everyone else was behind schedule). It was actually annoyed me enough that it was one (of many) reason that I quit that job. Needless to say, nobody EVER beat my travel time the entire time I worked there.
There was actually a couple times when I was annoyed towards the end where I called my boss and told him "I'm the only one here, everyone else says they ain't make it for another day or 2 due to flight issues, I'm taking off to explore California till people get here". They were surprisingly ok with me doing that.
There's an old rule among AA frequent fliers from before the US merger. In the winter you connect through DFW, and in the summer you connect through ORD. That's how you avoid the lightning/snow. I take a priority on comfort and service. The legacy carriers give that to me by being an elite status by extra leg room seats and first class upgrades, and I save my miles so that I can sleep and lie flat in pods on 10+ hour international flights. In close to 1000 lifetime flights, I've only had my bag not make it to my destination once (it got there 8am the next day), and I've only been delayed so badly that it impacted me 3 times. I know everyone has horror stories, but travel is fun. And the flight is part of the travel.
8 hours ago, jrs2 said:And I will NEVER take 3 connections to avoid Spirit (I know you weren't being literal). But you paint this rosy picture of connecting flights in practice, and all of the convenient infrastructure they've built to support passengers, and that you choose your connecting hub based on their facilities. Really? Why not just fly direct and avoid all of that instead? Because in practice, it's what I said above; that is the reality of what happens at a major connecting hub, even the large ones with nicer facilities, because it has happened to me and people I know time and again.
I actually was being literal. This happens to/from MSY for me decently often. Friends take a direct flight on WN/F9/NK and I'll connect through MIA/CLT/AUS/DFW on the way there, and sometimes through two of them on the way home to get extra miles. Its a chill travel day after a fun weekend. Got nowhere to be.
I just love air travel. I've spent a day just flying to a random city and back just to relax and read a book. Its like sitting by a pool at a resort, but you can do it on a cloudy day.
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On 5/13/2023 at 10:02 AM, aent said:
Just curious, what did Southwest's problems have to do with them doing Point to Point networks? I thought there problems were tech issues.
The short-ish version is that because a WN plane goes... MCO --> BNA --> DEN --> LAS, as soon as the tech issues impacted the MCO-->BNA flight, the subsequent flights get messed up as well. Whereas at a hub airport, they can repurpose another plane and save the last 2 flights.
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20 hours ago, shardoon said:
Add that all up and the passenger counts for 1 passenger is:
MCO 2, Atlanta 4, Paris 2. The real stress on the airport requiring a lot of staff, ie ticketing, TSA, parking, rental car services, etc etc is at MCO and Paris.
What really happened in Atlanta? Me walking off the plane, going to a lounge for 1-2 hours, and then getting on another plane. Someone also moves my bag from plane A to plane B.
Yet, Atlanta logs 4 passengers out of this trip and the real airports that had the most use from me using their facilities were MCO and Paris.
I acknowledge I am coming to this discussion as a frequent flier on a legacy carrier, so my views are skewed compared to most people travelling out of MCO, but I massively disagree with this. From an airport standpoint I care so much more about the hub airports. I can't CONTROL my start and end destinations (well I guess I can by living elsewhere or visiting elsewhere), but I can to some degree control where I connect.
The only "pressure" on MCO I have is parking and the VERY occasional bag check. Otherwise if my flight departs at 10AM, I am leaving my house at 9A, parking in the garage at 920A, walking to TSA/APM to gate until 930A, go to bathroom at 935A, walk up to gate with already boarding plane and enter plane around 940A. I am continuously moving, not taking up any space at the airport.
Whereas at a hub, I am perpetually stopped. I need somewhere to sit. Somewhere to eat. Somewhere to charge phone. Somewhere to get work done. Not to mention the ability to quickly get from gate to gate. I am using so much more of the airport at hubs. And I largely try to choose my connection based off of the facilities. For example, MIA food options are largely crap so I try to avoid there if I know I need to eat during layover.
19 hours ago, jrs2 said:Do these connecting hubs get more federal money than other O&D airports because of their sheer numbers by chance? Is that what this is about? I mean you fly Spirit from LaGuardia to MCO direct but if its Delta, you have to connect. Why? It's BS.
I will happily take 3 connections before I ever fly spirit. Point-to-Point networks have MAJOR downsides as Southwest has shown in the past year. Hubs are the most efficient way to operate a logistic network which is what air travel is (Well arguably, at this point air travel is simply a money-losing front for a bank in the form of miles but that's a different topic).
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27 minutes ago, jrs2 said:
Yeah, since that post I made above, we already flushed that issue out.
My point originally was how a family of 4 in MIA counted as 16 with their overall numbers. I have connected thru DFW and ATL plenty of times, flown to O'Hare, etc., and yes, each of their concourses are a zoo of people. I even posted that notwithstanding inflated numbers, they (ATL) do have 193 gates/parking aprons and O'Hare has 198.
So, no one ever said that they weren't busy, or very busy, rather, that they were inflating their numbers on connecting flights. The Miami Intl example: A family of 4 should at most count as 8, 4 arriving and 4 departing. But instead they count the "return flight" ala 2 flights arriving and 2 flights departing, like it is two trips to and fro with City of Atlanta, for example, being the "destination" when it's not. But what they do instead is that they count ATL's airside gate as the "destination" if this were an O&D analysis. I don't know that I agree with them doing that because it's still the same 4 people in that family of 4 on the same trip where they are forced to connect through Hartsfield (for example). But what they are doing is counting it as two full trips by that same family of 4; but that second "trip" is artificially created by, say, Delta, or American, or United.
Maybe it's fair to do that, but, Orlando to Paris and then Paris to Orlando has now turned into Orlando to ATL, ATL to Paris, Paris to ATL, and ATL to Orlando, or 4 flights. Not sure but it doesn't seem right.
I supposed that's reasonable. But also that's industry standard of how its counted.
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On 5/5/2023 at 12:35 PM, jrs2 said:
that is utterly ridiculous. Then DFW, O'Hare, and Hartsfield aren't as busy as they say they are, and haven't been all these years.
23 hours ago, jrs2 said:if you do the math, and use March as representative of any other month, and divide total passengers for March by 25% (since Delta takes up more than 74% of the total air traffic), and multiply that number by 12, they have around 25M non-Delta passengers. How many Delta O&D flights might there be? There can't possibly be that many.
I think you might be going too far in this concept. Yes MCO is more O&D heavy than the major airports. That affects us as locals because of parking, TSA, etc. However, saying that DFW/ORD/ATL aren't busy is silly. The concourses and restaurants and other things are primarily what I think about when talking about a given airport, not its landside facilities. Every one of those connections is a person occupying space in the terminal.
ATL is the 8th biggest metro in the US, roughly the same size as Miami, Philly, DC. PLUS, they are the *ONLY* option for miles and miles and miles. DC has BWI. MIA has FLL. If you live within 100 miles, you're probably driving to Atlanta to arrive/depart from. There are plenty of people getting off in ATL as a final destination on an MCO-ATL-PIT flight.
5 minutes ago, shardoon said:Just want to make a comment about OIA parking. I'm on their website and it lists that all parking garages are full. It's early May, it it's obviously not a holiday time. In fact, it should be one of the more quite times, but obviously it isn't for OIA. They are currently expanding those extra 4 gates and plans are starting to role for architects for phase 2. Since OIA does not have a stand alone rental car facility like many airports are moving towards, we lose a lot of garage space to rental cars. When is the earliest that we can expect immediate contruction on more garage parking in the C terminal. It would seem like the garages would be self sufficient to pay for themselves at close to 20 bucks a day. Why not start garage expansion now? We need it.
Definitely need more garages, and I'm constantly confounded by how they are perpetually full. I've heard that people using Turo are actually eating up a lot of garage spaces but have no way of confirming.
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I wanted to meet up but it never happen. Regret.
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The only way that's happening is if UA tries to make a play for the southeast. The small domestic carriers aren't international (I'm not counting carribean/latam), so they offer nothing to the alliances. Same way RyanAir or WestJet aren't part of alliances.
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5 hours ago, Gtothree2748 said:
Why oh WHY can't there even be HALF of a journalistic bone at Bungalower?!!?!
Saying that they were told in December 2022 that there would be no need for a Change of Use if they stayed within set square footage on the bottom floor of the building and that they have records of their dealings with the City that supports their claim
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ALL THIS DOES IS LEAVE ME WITH NUMEROUS QUESTIONS!
- Did they show these records in support of their claim to Bungalower?
- Were they able to be verified as not manipulated? (eg presumably emails with mail headers)
- Assuming both of those are true, reach back out to the city for comment
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Do we know why? I saw the signs going up last week but I haven't bothered walking/driving that way to find out.
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3 hours ago, jrs2 said:
Try doing this for a minute: judge them as if they were still in Amway Arena and Amway Center in all its glory didn’t exist. Not looking too good there, huh.
You mentioned trades where former Magic players are flourishing elsewhere. Now why is that a recurring theme with this franchise?
Again, I said past 15 years. They absolutely had bad luck/bad moves in the 00s with Hill/McGrady/Francis.
Those former players are flourishing because they are in a spot where they can be the 3rd option and teams aren't scheming around stopping them. Because that's all they are. There's nothing wrong with being the 25th-50th best players in the league. That's incredible. But its not a recipe for a championship.
Magic were never beating the Lakers in that series. I understand the hype after beating the Cavs, but they were a perfect matchup for the Cavs who were built to beat Boston.
From 1984-2014, only 8 teams won the NBA title, If you go to current, only 12 have, and 4 of those (Mavs, Cavs, Raptors, Bucks) only have 1. Potential is the name of the game in the NBA. If you're not an unquestioned top 8 team in the league, then you should be knocking it down and rebuilding. Magic are in a perfect spot for the rest of this decade.
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Hourglass District
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Yes. If you choose to live as part of the sprawl, then you lose convenience.