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Bill Call
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Hospital site update

Postby Bill Call » Fri May 26, 2023 3:35 pm

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This is from December last.

Each update is more pitiful than the last.


Richard Baker
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Re: Hospital site update

Postby Richard Baker » Sun May 28, 2023 7:45 pm

They must be jesting, next will be project buildings for low-income rental. I can hardly wait for the artist concept of the concept elevations.

Never mind the minimal retail and office spaces, they are injecting high density rental average of 900 sq foot apartments into a single-family, neighborhood with 233 rental units surrounding a garage. The mixed-use building will be all apartments. Only 7 two-bedroom units for families, since single units are more profitable.

There is a minimum of green space and a public plaza with planter boxes that will be adjacent to the residential apartment building will be partially hidden from the street view which will become a security nightmare for the residents.

Insufficient parking, if only half the apartments have two vehicles, 350 spaces will be required. Discounting the street parking in front of single-family residential homes this leaves only 190 parking spaces for retail and office spaces. The garage will be a commercial parking lot, and those without resident passes will be charged for parking. The excess parking and people that don’t want to pay for parking will flood the adjacent residential streets.

The Lakewood City Council is going to replace a hospital that had 1,800 jobs, requiring taxpayers to subsidize a high-density rental apartment/parking complex that offers minimal space for employment. This is being to smell a lot like elected vested interests, aka the closure of the hospital.


Bill Call
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Re: Hospital site update

Postby Bill Call » Tue May 30, 2023 7:24 am

Richard Baker wrote:They must be jesting, next will be project buildings for low-income rental. I can hardly wait for the artist concept of the concept elevations.

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When Mayor Summers agreed to close the Hospital and transfer $85 million to the Cleveland Clinic and two private foundations we were promised great things.

We were not promised low income housing and a parking garage.


Mark Kindt
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Re: Hospital site update

Postby Mark Kindt » Tue May 30, 2023 8:43 am

Richard Baker wrote:They must be jesting, next will be project buildings for low-income rental. I can hardly wait for the artist concept of the concept elevations.

Never mind the minimal retail and office spaces, they are injecting high density rental average of 900 sq foot apartments into a single-family, neighborhood with 233 rental units surrounding a garage. The mixed-use building will be all apartments. Only 7 two-bedroom units for families, since single units are more profitable.

There is a minimum of green space and a public plaza with planter boxes that will be adjacent to the residential apartment building will be partially hidden from the street view which will become a security nightmare for the residents.

Insufficient parking, if only half the apartments have two vehicles, 350 spaces will be required. Discounting the street parking in front of single-family residential homes this leaves only 190 parking spaces for retail and office spaces. The garage will be a commercial parking lot, and those without resident passes will be charged for parking. The excess parking and people that don’t want to pay for parking will flood the adjacent residential streets.

The Lakewood City Council is going to replace a hospital that had 1,800 jobs, requiring taxpayers to subsidize a high-density rental apartment/parking complex that offers minimal space for employment. This is being to smell a lot like elected vested interests, aka the closure of the hospital.


Do you mean "beginning to smell a lot like elected vested interests".

If the Lakewood Observation Deck stands for anything, it stands for its lengthy, detailed, and documented descriptions and analyses of the all of the epic planning failures associated with the "closing" of Lakewood Hospital. I authored 100s of posts on that topic beginning in 2016 and reviewed 100s of public documents. So did Bill Call.

Not sure there is much more to say on this topic. The Summers Administration and its supporters "redlined' our city in ways that it may never recover from.

All the subsequent planning activities for the City have proven to be absolute dead-ends despite considerable taxpayer funding via tax deferments and/or incremental financing, etc.

Simply put, Lakewood has missed the boat.


Bill Call
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Re: Hospital site update

Postby Bill Call » Wed Aug 23, 2023 2:04 pm

Why should affordable housing be the responsibility of the City of Lakewood


cmager
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Re: Hospital site update

Postby cmager » Wed Aug 23, 2023 3:15 pm

Make Summers live there full time, along with certain city council members and non-profits, Build Lakewood, and Clinic executives and lawyers. They can reap what they sow.



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