Downtown’s Canal Basin Park design gets early OK

Downtown Cleveland’s Canal Basin Park, as viewed from near the old Superior
Viaduct, shows the newly added boat docks and the planned boardwalk along
the planned boardwalk along the Cuyahoga River. Designs for the park offer
features that are both fun and educational for people of all ages (Merritt
Chase). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Although Cleveland Planning Commission’s Design-Review Committee gave a unanimous thumbs-up today to conceptual plans for downtown’s Canal Basin Park, it wasn’t without some suggestions for improvement. The design team for the 20-acre park, located between turns in the curvaceous Cuyahoga River, will come back to the commission with refined, more detailed schematic designs in the coming months.

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Browns move a step closer to Brook Park

The Cleveland Browns and their majority owner Haslam Sports Group moved a
step closer today to making this rendering of the proposed Brook Park stadium
a reality by exercising an option to buy the 176-acre property (HKS).
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The owners of the Cleveland Browns football team have completed the next part in the process toward building a new enclosed stadium in suburban Brook Park, officially executing a clause in a land purchase agreement to acquire the site. The site at 18300 Snow Rd. in the Cleveland suburb will not only house the new Huntington Bank Field enclosed stadium, but also a planned, adjacent mixed-use development.

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2025 is the year Cleveland returns to the office

Every one of these buildings, from Cleveland’s “Big Four” in the 600-foot-plus club
to the tiniest shop at the edge of downtown, has a story to tell. That story is still
being written. Some added interesting plots last year. Others could take their
turns in 2025. One story that is just starting is the newly built Sherwin-
Williams headquarters tower (The Sherwin-Williams Company).
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For better or worse, for richer or poorer, many of us are about to rediscover our relationship with the office. Some of us never left. Others left and aren’t coming back. But an increasing number of Americans and Greater Clevelanders will be coming back to the office in 2025, for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic caused employers to dabble with remote or hybrid working.

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Haslams respond to Cleveland mayor’s ‘Modell’ letter

Cleveland City Hall, below the wind turbine, and Huntington Bank Field at right,
home of the Cleveland Browns, may be within sight of each other but they are
far apart on any agreement regarding where the professional football team
will play its home games after the 2028 season (Google).
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Ten days ago, NEOtrans broke the story that the city of Cleveland intended to pursue invoking “the Modell Law” against the Cleveland Browns in order to make them keep playing their home games within the city limits — and especially Downtown Cleveland. Today, the Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb sent a letter to the Browns’ owners outlining the terms of how the city intends to do that. And now the Browns’ owners have responded.

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Top Cleveland-area developments of 2024

Beyond the Cleveland Browns stadium debate, the Cleveland Cavaliers, city
of Cleveland, Sherwin-Williams and more pushed projects forward on the lakefront
across Northeast Ohio (HKS). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Development plans and projects picked up the pace in 2024 as inflation got back under control, interest rates stabilized, construction supplies became more readily available and lending became more liquid. But no Greater Cleveland story dominated the news more than a proposed stadium for a certain football team.

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The end of industry on Breakwater

This row of industrial buildings last used by Premium Metals Inc., as seen last August
on the south side of Breakwater Avenue in Cleveland’s Gordon Square neighborhood,
 probably won’t survive long enough to see the spring. They are the last industrial
buildings along Breakwater and are due to be leveled for a large development called
Breakwater Residences (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

In the coming weeks, the last vestiges of industry along a once heavily industrialized street are due to pass into history. What will replace it is the same thing that has replaced industrial uses along the rest of Breakwater Avenue in Cleveland’s redeveloping Gordon Square neighborhood — housing. Lots of housing.

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Ex-Medical Mutual HQ sale amount ‘A great deal’

The former Medical Mutual of Ohio headquarters in Downtown Cleveland sold
earlier this month. But its sale price wasn’t publicized until the deed transfer was
recorded by the county on Christmas eve. The sale included the 10-story Rose
Building and the attached six-story Sloan Building, at left (Google).
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Although the buyer of the former Medical Mutual of Ohio headquarters in Downtown Cleveland publicized earlier this month it had closed on its purchase financing, they declined to reveal the transaction amount at that time. But that amount became public when the deed transfer was filed with the Cuyahoga County Fiscal Officer on Christmas Eve.

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