City loses another fight against spread of downtown parking lots

On the south side of Sumner Avenue, next to St. Maron Church at left, is a piece of the land
the church’s diocese just acquired to provide parking for the church and to earn revenue
from visitors to the Gateway sports and entertainment complex visible at right (Google).
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An historic church in Downtown Cleveland’s Gateway District won its case before the city’s Board of Zoning Appeals (BZA) today to use a newly purchased property at 1212-1260 Sumner Ave. as a surface parking lot for up to 90 vehicles.

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Cuyahoga gets its $1M brownfield allocation

A week before Christmas, the West Side Market was the site of a press conference in
which it was awarded a $5 million Ohio Historic Preservation Tax Credit to support
renovations totaling more than $71.33 million. Yesterday, it got an Ohio Brownfield
grant to do site work to prepare for those renovations (NEOtrans).
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Although each county in Ohio was limited to $1 million in Ohio Brownfield Remediation grants in this round of funding awards, Cuyahoga County made the most of it despite its voracious appetite for such grants as it repositions its former, massive industrial base in the post-industrial era.

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Cleveland’s proposed Data Center moratorium in a race against time, technology

As more companies embrace artificial intelligence to automate more jobs, more data centers
will appear around the world. The question Cleveland is grappling with as more data center
development plans arrive here is to how to effectively regulate them (NEOtrans).
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It’s a race against time between the City of Cleveland and developers seeking to construct new data centers. On one side is the city which has an outdated zoning code it has been wanting to update for years, with data centers being the latest new land use to add to the mix.

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Data center rejection prompts reaction

A three-building data center campus is planned in Cleveland’s Slavic Village and could
look like this unofficial rendering created by NEOtrans. The developer, Lakeland Equity
Group, said it spend heavily to add electric grid infrastructure to accommodate the
facility (NEOtrans/ChatGPT). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Today’s sudden rejection of a building application for a new $1.6 billion data center in Cleveland’s Slavic Village caught the project’s development team by surprise. But city sources and records revealed the application was rejected because it was incomplete.

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Tremont, Duck Island developments near completion

Two single-family homes designed by AODK are under construction at the Carter Road
Subdivision, where Scranton Peninsula meets Duck Island in Cleveland (Harrison
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Cleveland’s Tremont neighborhood is one of the most desirable in the city — and its tight housing market reflects that. But with a handful of developments now wrapping up, it may be the perfect time for those considering a move to the area.

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Midline redevelopment district announced

Officials gathered today to announce the Midline Priority Investment Area, a major rede-
velopment initiative of Cleveland’s near-East Side, amid the backdrop of old, decayed
industrial sites that will be razed to make way for new jobs and opportunity (NEOtrans).
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Cleveland’s largest industrial redevelopment in its history, dubbed the Midline Priority Investment Area, was announced today as an effort to transform the city’s near-East Side into a job hub and community greenway.

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The Vibe financing OK’d, Fall start ID’d

The six-story Hanover House and the lobby for The Vibe development are seen here
next to the Ohio City Firehouse in Cleveland’s Hingetown enclave (Vocon).
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With financing approved, the developer of Ohio City’s largest new-construction project in four years has an eye toward fall for a groundbreaking date of The Vibe, 2828 Clinton Ave., in Cleveland’s Hingetown enclave.

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