Cleveland riverside neighborhood opens for tours

The Collins Apartments, at left, are built on a former steel mill site along Carter
Road in the Flats. The new development features 15 townhomes and two multi-
family buildings and are now open to hard-hat tours by prospective tenants.
More developments are rising on Scranton Peninsula across and down
the street (KJP). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

For much of the past 50 years, Scranton Peninsula, across the curving Cuyahoga River from Downtown Cleveland, had become an increasingly desolate place. It saw its two largest industrial employers — Northern Ohio Lumber and Republic Steel’s Upson Nut Division — depart, leaving the 75-acre peninsula scarred and mostly vacant.

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Barons-Greyhound Lease at Brookpark station OK’d

A Barons bus rolls past the old Cuyahoga County Courthouse in Downtown Cleve-
land Barons and Greyhound bus operations will move in the Summer 2025 from
downtown to an unused parking lot at the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit
Authority’s Brookpark Rapid transit station on the city’s far-west side (KJP).
CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

With the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority’s (GCRTA) board of trustees unanimously approving a lease with Barons Bus Inc. today, the intercity bus carrier and its partner Greyhound have started on a timetable to relocate out of the historic Downtown Cleveland Greyhound station, 1465 Chester Ave.

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Machine Gun Kelly aims for Shooters in Flats

Shooters On The Water restaurant at Cleveland’s Flats West Bank has a new
operator, a company associated with singer and songwriter Machine Gun
Kelly who grew up in Cleveland. The 37-year-old restaurant on the
Cuyahoga River will be renovated but will keep the name as
Shooters (KJP). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

If there was anyone who would be a perfect fit to take over the operation of a restaurant named Shooters, it would be a guy named Machine Gun Kelly. The riverside restaurant will reportedly be the singer and songwriter’s second establishment in Downtown Cleveland’s Flats entertainment district and is due to be renovated and reopened in the summer of 2025.

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Clinic’s next big parking garage reveals growing pains

University Circle in one picture — big, shiny new buildings, more under construction,
traffic and transit. This is the scene at Euclid Avenue and East 105th Street and en-
capsulates the promises and challenges of rapid growth of Cleveland’s “Second
Downtown” which is rivaling its first downtown as the region’s largest em-
ployment hub (KJP). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

The largest structure on the Cleveland Clinic’s Main Campus isn’t the new 1-million-square-foot Neurological Building on Carnegie Avenue. Instead it’s the 1.56-million-square-foot East 89th Street Parking Garage just west of the Neuro Building. And immediately west of that, on the former site of the Cleveland Play House, Clinic officials are reportedly considering another large parking garage that has transit advocacy groups calling for healthier options.

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Bedrock plans Riverfront Rock & Roll Land theater, 17-story hotel in Downtown Cleveland

The near structure and its surrounding public spaces along the Cuyahoga River in
Downtown Cleveland are the subject of a request by developer Bedrock for $40
million in Transformational Mixed Use Development tax credits. It is one of
21 applicants from around the state to seek the “megaprojects” tax credit
(Adjaye Associates). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

The next phase of Bedrock’s Downtown Cleveland Riverfront development is proposed to feature a large, 17-story entertainment complex topped by a hotel. Dubbed Rock and Roll Land, it is the largest of seven Northeast Ohio projects and is seeking the largest award possible in the fourth and final authorized round of the Ohio Department of Development’s Transformation Mixed Use Development (TMUD) tax credits.

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Port OK’s $171M in financing for major projects

Additional financing was approved today for the $200+ million dollar Cleveland
Clinic Global Peak Performance Center to be built over a restored Eagle Avenue
ramp, extending up from this intersection of West 3rd Street to Downtown Cleve-
land’s Gateway District (Populous). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

The Port of Cleveland today approved the issuance of more than $171 million in bonds and notes for four transformative projects, including the pivotal first new development in Bedrock’s Riverfront project along the Cuyahoga River and a major affordable housing renovation in downtown Cleveland, among other strategic initiatives.

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Go Browns! But where?

An unofficial, conceptual rendering of what Downtown’s Cleveland lakefront
immediately north of the central business district could look like if Huntington
Bank Field were replaced by smaller, productive, everyday uses — and if Burke
Lakefront Airport was closed and replaced by other uses, including possibly a
relocated, all-purpose domed stadium that pushed land-eating parking away
from downtown (Ardoonave). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

One of the most anticipated games in my early Cleveland Browns fandom came three days after Thanksgiving in 1979. The 8-4 Browns faced the hated Steelers at Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh where the Browns had yet to win. The Steelers were going for their fourth Super Bowl in the 1970s and the Browns were trying to get back to their glories of the prior three decades.

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