Music Settlement breaks ground on $12M expansion

This rendering illustrates the south façade of the planned Mandel Music House. Its design
was revised to use a lighter color to visually transition between the addition and a historic
home (Perspectus). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

On Friday, The Music Settlement (TMS) held an official groundbreaking for a $12 million expansion of its campus in University Circle. The project will restore and expand the historic Gries House, 1560 Mistletoe Dr., into the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Music House.

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Next TOD project planned on Red Line

The Lorain West Apartments are proposed to be located on its namesake street near the
Lorain-West 65th Red Line rail station. (RDL). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

One by one, the many used-car dealerships along Lorain Avenue on Cleveland’s West Side are going away. For the most part, they are getting replaced with new multifamily housing developments and that’s what’s proposed to happen again.

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St. Luke’s Church begins interior demo at Memphis & Pearl

At Memphis Avenue and Pearl Road, the demolition of two historic commercial buildings could
make way for a mixed-use development featuring 84 apartments over ground-level retail
(Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

At the center of Cleveland’s Old Brooklyn neighborhood, $2.34 million in interior demolition work is set to begin for Memphis & Pearl — a $42.3 million mixed-use development that could add 84 apartments next to retail uses in a renovated St. Luke’s Church.

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Part 2: The Yellow Brick Road of Cleveland’s East Side

A significant research laboratory is planned by the Cleveland Clinic and other partners at the
southeast corner of Opportunity Corridor Boulevard and East 79th Street where a fading
neighborhood stood until recently. At left is the elevated Norfolk Southern railroad, along-
side which the East Side Trail is proposed. This is an unofficial rendering but is based
on conceptual parameters for the project (Google/ChatGPT/NEOtrans).
CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Elton John once sang “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” when his songwriter Bernie Taupin bid adieu to city living in his ambitious, fast life, trading it for the quiet lifestyle of tending to a rural farm. Cleveland is heading in the opposite direction by welcoming the start of a new journey.

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CHEERS project advances to permitting phase

Expansion of Gordon Park into Lake Erie, including the creation of an offshore island, called
the Cleveland Harbor Eastern Embayment Resilience Strategy, or CHEERS project, has
$22.1 million in hand or pending for this multi-decade effort (Cleveland Metroparks).
CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Cleveland Metroparks and the Port of Cleveland announced a major milestone in advancing the Cleveland Harbor Eastern Embayment Resilience Strategy (CHEERS), as U.S. Rep. Shontel Brown, D-11, presented $1.1 million in federal funding to support the next phase of the project.

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Part 1: East Side to host ‘Cleveland’s largest-ever industrial redevelopment’

An unofficial rendering of what the Wellman-Seaver-Morgan Engineering Co. factory at 7000
Central Ave. in Cleveland’s Central neighborhood could look like after a planned $25.7 million
renovation. The plant’s reactivation with a new manufacturer will be announced at a press con-
ference next week (TacoSlayerAerial, ChatGPT). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Parts of Cleveland’s East Side offer scenes right out of a post-apocalyptic action movie. Actually, a pre-apocalyptic action movie — the opening scenes of the 2012 movie The Avengers — was filmed here. Another story will begin here next week when local and state leaders join Mayor Justin Bibb in making what he calls “an historic announcement.”

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More details emerge on Cleveland data center

This is an image of a three-building data center totaling about 300,000 square feet next to an
interstate highway. It is set in a city neighborhood south of a major downtown area. The
image was created, ironically, using artificial intelligence hosted at multiple, massive
data centers (ChatGPT). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

A 150-megawatt, $1.6 billion data center planned for Cleveland’s Slavic Village is in a race to get its plans approved before City Council can pass a moratorium on building more data centers in Cleveland, according to sources familiar with the project.

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