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| Want to love Downtown Cleveland more? Spend more time experiencing more of it, says Downtown Cleveland Inc. (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Downtown Cleveland, Inc. (DCI) says that the biggest thing wrong with the city’s central business district is that not enough people are familiar with it. If more people visited it more often, DCI said people would enjoy it more. And DCI has a survey of perceptions to back up its argument.
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| Looking south across a basketball court at Cudell Commons, construction of Marion C. Selzter Elementary School moves ahead (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Cleveland’s Edgewater, Cudell, and West Boulevard neighborhoods are currently facing a small wave of development, ranging from renovations to new construction. But the path to groundbreaking has been easier for some projects than others.
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| As previously reported by NEOtrans, AmTrust will split up its office presence in Greater Cleveland. Its downtown offices will move to the AECOM Building seen here where it make a large investment to update and enhance its space (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Even as AmTrust takes steps to divide up its Downtown Cleveland offices into suburban and downtown locations, the financial services company is about to make a major investment into its new downtown offices at the AECOM Building, 1300 E. 9th St., according to plans filed with the city this week.
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| With a working title of the Lorain Avenue Redevelopment, a new building offering affordable housing atop a new office for Ohio City Inc. will replace the aging, nearly vacant McCafferty Health Center, providing more housing choices in a neighborhood with high rents (City Architecture). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Three Cleveland developments won competitive, highly coveted tax credits that will help push each of those new housing projects toward construction. In total, the trio will add 165 affordable residential units. But one of them is actually the construction of 40 new houses that offer an opportunity at home ownership.
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| Union at Cleveland Harbor would offer affordable housing along Cleveland’s Lakefront, near the East 55th Street marina and Gordon Park (RDL). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Despite having 17 miles of shoreline, developments along Cleveland’s Lake Erie waterfront don’t happen that often due to a lack of developable land. But one got closer to construction today after financing for it was approved by the state, according to a press release.
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| Cuyahoga County’s first lakefront high-rise in over 50 years has risen to more than half of its planned height beside J Roc-developed The Shore- way (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
In March, NEOtrans announced that Cuyahoga County’s first lakefront high-rise in over half a century had begun construction next to Edgewater Park. The apartment tower, branded Naia Noir, will also be the first high-rise constructed in Cleveland’s Detroit-Shoreway neighborhood.
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| Classrooms, offices and a dormitory for the Cleveland Institute of Music as well for Case Western Reserve University students is at 1609 Hazel Dr. in Cleveland’s University Circle. But the southern and, to the right in this September 2022 streetview, western exterior wall panels will have to be replaced due to “defective workmanship” according to a pending legal complaint (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Less than six years old, the Cleveland Institute of Music’s (CIM) new building called 1609 Hazel at its namesake address in Cleveland’s University Circle, has suffered extensive water damage due to alleged poor construction. And the bill for pending repairs just came in — $1.7 million, according to public records filed with the city.
