Cleveland, OH
Thanksgiving travel at Cleveland airport
CLEVELAND — One of the busiest travel days of the year is the day before Thanksgiving. TSA said earlier this week that between Nov. 17 and Nov. 29, they expect to scan over 30 million passengers in airports across the country.
Destination Cleveland, a nonprofit convention and tourism organization in Cleveland, were greeting people arriving at the Cleveland Hopkins International Airport on Wednesday.
Jen Brasdovich, the public relations manager for Destination Cleveland, expressed that she hopes it made the crazy travel day a little easier.
“Whether you are a Cleveland native who is returning home for Thanksgiving or you’re somebody who hasn’t been here before, we just want to make sure that people have a warm welcome when they land here in Cleveland,” she said.
Brasdovich was at the airport for three hours and said it was busy, but that it came in spurts.
“People are just really excited I think for the holiday season,” she said.
She also explained that the people arriving in Cleveland were there for mixed reasons.
“There’s some people who are from Cleveland who are coming home for the holiday and then we have some people who haven’t been to Cleveland before ever,” she said.
Bill Purpura, a spokesperson for AAA, said that they have over 55 million people traveling for Thanksgiving whether it’s by plane, car or another form of transportation.
Cleveland, OH
Air Quality Alert issued for northeast Ohio
CLEVELAND — The Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency has issued an Air Quality Alert for a large portion of northeast Ohio on Tuesday due to the potential of ground level ozone to reach harmful levels.
The alert is for Ashtabula, Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake, Lorain, Medina, Portage and Summit counties. Air quality is expected to reach “unhealthy for sensitive groups” for the day, with highs approaching 90 in many areas.
The main threat is the ozone gas, which is a lung irritant which can lead to severe respiratory issues. People who are the elderly, young children and teens, the immunocompromised and those with lung issues, such as asthma, are recommended to reduce their time outside during this time.
The American Lung Association recommended these practices to reduce the health effects of air pollution:
- Checking air quality forecasts
- Limiting exercise outdoors when pollution is high
- Using less energy at home, this helps reduce the amount of air pollution by curbing greenhouse gases
- Walk, bike or carpool to reduce car emissions
- Use hand powered or electric lawn equipment rather than fuel powered
To check your air quality forecast, click here. For more information on health risks from air pollution, click here.
Cleveland, OH
Ohio to Spend $169 Million Building Electric Vehicle Charging Stations Near Highways in Next Five Years
Ohio should be an easier state to drive in for Tesla, Rivian and other EV owners by the end of the decade.
That’s the overall goal underlying an announcement of a massive funding package by state electric vehicle advocates Wednesday morning, one that intends to inject hundreds of millions of dollars into bringing Ohio’s lackluster EV charging station stock up to speed.
And the data doesn’t lie.
Just in April, a report from S&P Global Mobility ranked Cleveland well near the bottom of the top 50 U.S. cities for registered owners of electric vehicles, a stat owed to both the high point of entry for said vehicles and, undeniably, the deficit of charging stations across the state.
On Wednesday, in a lecture room at Tri-C’s Advanced Technology Training Center , Grace Gallucci, the director of the Northeast Ohio Area Coordinating Agency, and experts on alternative energy infrastructure spoke promisingly to a packed room about how $169 million in federal grant dollars would be doled out across Ohio in the next five years.
Priorities in that spending money—spread out amongst NOACA, the Sustainable Ohio Public Energy Council and the Ohio Department of Transportation—were made clear: power stations for Ohio EV drivers should be conveniently placed. That is to, one day, have 9 out of 10 Ohioans within a 25-mile radius of an EV charging station.
“We have a pretty extensive alternative fuel corridor network,” Breanna Badanes, a spokesperson for DriveOhio, said. “But it’s clear that there are still plenty of gaps throughout the state, particularly in Southern Ohio, some in Northwestern Ohio. So that’s kind of what we’re here to talk about: planning for these future phases when we can build outside of the alternative fuel corridors, what we still need to prioritize as a state.”
Ohio currently has 1,578 stations in sum, those mostly on private land and relatively close to highways and shopping centers. Many are in areas with higher income levels, an issue of equity speakers on Wednesday said its charging station spending plans to address.
As of June, there a dozen new charging stations planned in the greater Northeast Ohio area, and only one so far in construction, a station west of Akron. A Pilot EV station, funded in part with federal dollars, opened off I-71 in Columbus in December.
These future stations, for which $56 million has been spent thus far, follow guidelines listed by the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure program, which dictates a state must build a station every 50 miles off major transportation corridors and include at least four Fast Chargers of at least 600 kilowatts of combined power.
Katie Zehnder, vice president at HNTB, a transportation infrastructure firm, reminded attendees on Wednesday that Ohio’s push to become more EV-friendly is based on—just like bike lines and crosswalks—the premise that infrastructure creates culture.
The same goes, she said, for encouraging more electric usage at commercial enterprises, such as equipping UPS and DHL trucks with the on-road power they need to make the switch sustainable.
A recent survey of freight riders testing out new electric trucks showed Drive Ohio that driving EVs led to employees taking fewer sick days, less gas engine vibration, and led to “less back issues.”
“Which I was admittedly kind of shocked by at the time,” Zehnder said about the study. “Ride and drives, just exposure to EVs, that’s really the best thing. Because once people get into these vehicles, they really seem to enjoy them.”
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Downtown Cleveland apartment building in foreclosure months after fire
CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) – The Luckman Apartment building, which weeks ago was just the site of a massive fire, is now facing foreclosure.
According to court documents, the owners of the building, Marlin Springs, haven’t been making payments on a large loan since April.
On April 23, 2018, Sphere Apartments, LP, which is owned by Marlin Spring, took out a loan of $35,900,000
A loan company, BSPRT JPM Loan, LLC says Marlin Springs now owes over $30 million in debt.
In April, residents at the Luckman, which is located on East 12th and Chester Avenue, were evacuated due to a trash chute fire.
People were not able to escape because the doors were screwed shut. Firefighters had to break down doors to fight the fire.
The Cleveland Division of Fire then cited the building management for multiple violations.
The fire costs owners about $450,000.
19 News reached out to the Luckman, which has 411 units, to find out what the foreclosure means for residents.
Will they be able to stay in their apartments? Do they need to find a new home? We were told “no comment”.
When 19 News called the owners, Marlin Springs, we were able to leave a message, but have not heard back.
There has not been any information released about who could next own the building.
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