On February 11 the Dirty Dealer editorial page endorsed the prospect of the Eaton Corporation installing itself in a "campus" in the RTA waterfront line "loop" location depicted in the photo above, ie. on the north-east bank of the Cuyahoga and on the Lake Erie side of the CSX tracks.
The DD castigated Mr. Wasserman:
"Adam Wasserman, the ambitious man who has headed the Port Authority for a little more than a year, has not been helpful enough so far."
Maybe Mr. Wasserman has sense enough to see that filling the Cleveland waterfront with panicky piecemeal development is stupid.
The bottom line in the DD endorsement is PANIC - panic that Cleveland is dying and therefore any type of "development" must be accommodated right away.
Desperation: that's what our Cleveland "Urban Planning" really boils down to.
But looking at Eaton's intentions from the vantage point of Ed Hauser and Whiskey Island and Wendy Park, maybe luring Eaton into a willy nilly jump from downtown Cleveland wouldn't be a bad idea. After all, that new shiney Eaton "campus" right down wind from the Cleveland Bulk Terminal would surely raise a real ruckus if the CBT tried to expand with new dusty limestone operations. And the proposal for the CBT to expand and add more limestone (to sell to electric power plants for flue gas desulferization) is still an active proposal.
So CBT wants dusty limestone storage, and Eaton wants a svelt new "campus" - these incompatable agendas demonstrate only one reason why we need a masterplan, and we need to follow it with the public on board.
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