Cleveland once had 900k people in the city (Solon, Ohio City: big house, safest neighborhood)

[reretarff]

Originally Posted by CCrest182

It probably could be well over a million, maybe even 2 million, if more people lived in New York style buildings and highrises.

That's why we have to stop Cleveland State from building small 2 floor modernized glass boxes downtown, on the same land that a sky scraper once stood. A good city starts with a good downtown.

[reretarff]

Originally Posted by bjimmy24

Cleveland with 900,000 sounds miserable. I think Cleveland's perfect size would be around 500,000-600,000.

That would probably happen, considering people like owning lots of land.

[reretarff]

I think that's it's pretty much impossible for anything close to that to happen anytime soon. We have too many people leaving Cleveland, while at the same time we have people moving as far away from the inner city as possible and building million dollar mansions on 5+ acres of land in the suburbs. We kind of started our own problem in the 1940's and 1950's when we started moving to the suburbs. the only logical thing I think has to happen is having more people from other countries and cities move to Cleveland. But that kind of sounds like the way China is forcing people from the rural areas to move to the cities.

[Cleverfield]

Reretarff really has his finger on the pulse of the nation's trends. You realize reretarff that not everyone wants a McMansion in a mcphony suburb with 5 chemically treated acres of useless land, that's 20 miles away from the city. Several neighborhoods in Cleveland proper are growing, and the millennial generation is moving back to cities and rejecting suburbs all around the country.

[reretarff]

Originally Posted by Cleverfield

Reretarff really has his finger on the pulse of the nation's trends. You realize reretarff that not everyone wants a McMansion in a mcphony suburb with 5 chemically treated acres of useless land, that's 20 miles away from the city. Several neighborhoods in Cleveland proper are growing, and the millennial generation is moving back to cities and rejecting suburbs all around the country.

I was talking about Cleveland. In Cleveland, people are moving to the suburbs rather than the other way around. In Cleveland, there's more space in the inner city than space in the suburbs. It really should be the other way around.

In Solon for example, 10-20 years ago it was mostly forest. Now there's such a lack of space, that million dollar mansions are being built on cul-de-sacs next to the freeway, or along busy roads where one house with 10 acres of land once stood.

In Cleveland, even near downtown near E.55th Street, there are acres of open grass and unused parking lots where buildings once were. We've caused our own problem in Cleveland by abandoning the inner city and building houses in the suburbs. If we leave one, we leave the other one abandoned. The only thing that seems logical is to bring more people to Cleveland like in the 1920's when there were thousands of immigrants coming to Cleveland.

[1watertiger]

Originally Posted by reretarff

I was talking about Cleveland. In Cleveland, people are moving to the suburbs rather than the other way around. In Cleveland, there's more space in the inner city than space in the suburbs. It really should be the other way around.

In Solon for example, 10-20 years ago it was mostly forest. Now there's such a lack of space, that million dollar mansions are being built on cul-de-sacs next to the freeway, or along busy roads where one house with 10 acres of land once stood.

In Cleveland, even near downtown near E.55th Street, there are acres of open grass and unused parking lots where buildings once were. We've caused our own problem in Cleveland by abandoning the inner city and building houses in the suburbs. If we leave one, we leave the other one abandoned. The only thing that seems logical is to bring more people to Cleveland like in the 1920's when there were thousands of immigrants coming to Cleveland.

Cleveland's population DT is growing. Fastest growing in Ohio at around 15k (someone correct me if I'm wrong). And we all know of several inner city neighborhoods that are growing.. The vast majority of the east side will not be fixed for decades if ever. I for 1 think Cleveland will show growth in 2020.. but i think we still have a few more yrs of black-flight to the eastern inner-ring burbs.

[1watertiger]

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[ctownballr27]

If rere didn't have the critical thinking skills of a 4th grader I wouldn't have to post this twice:

Cleveland's inner city is growing faster than its suburbs as young adults flock downtown | cleveland.com

[1watertiger]

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[1watertiger]

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