Food biz feasts on East Side expansion

At the northeast corner of East 55th Street and Central Avenue in Cleveland,
plans are coming together for the expansion of a food service manufacturing
plant by repurposing and expanding the former Goodwill Industries building,
later used briefly by the Wahconah Group Inc. (LoopNet).
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A food service business that’s barely two years old has nearly outgrown its 120,000-square-foot building in Cleveland’s Central neighborhood and is already making plans for expansion. Such growth is an increasingly common story for food sector businesses located on the city’s near-East Side, especially from Midtown south to Slavic Village, generally along East 55th Street.

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Old Play House gets May 16 curtain call

 The vacant, former home of the Cleveland Play House in the Fairfax
neighborhood is the subject of a community meeting scheduled to be
held next month. Owner Cleveland Clinic plans to demolish the com-
plex for one or more possible uses that will be discussed at the
meeting (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM

The Cleveland Clinic Foundation and Fairfax Renaissance Development Corp. will host a public meeting to gather community input on what to do with the vacant former home of the Cleveland Play House (CPH), 8500 Euclid Ave. The meeting is part of a larger effort by the community development corporation and the Clinic to refine a multi-billion-dollar construction masterplan for the health system’s Main Campus.

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Near West Side continues to boom

Looking south on West 20th Street from near the Norfolk Southern
railroad tracks, the West 20th Apartments would continue to add to the
growing housing density of the Lincoln Heights section of Cleveland’s
Tremont. The first level along this wing of the building is proposed to be
enclosed parking (GLSD). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM

If it’s Tuesday, then the West Side must be adding another apartment building. With remarkable frequency, Tremont, Ohio City and other near-west-side Cleveland neighborhoods continue to attract new residential developments. And given the current tight state of the local real estate market, that means more apartments. Lots of them.

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Evergreen plants itself in fertile ground

Representing a million-dollar investment, the new home of Evergreen
Podcasts on St. Clair Avenue, just east of downtown, will do more than
support this new technology company. It’s also home to two other new-
start businesses. And the principals hope to turn the neighboring proper-
ties in to a creative hub (KJP). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM

When Michael DeAloia shows off the new home of Evergreen Podcasts, there’s an air of entrepreneurial energy and optimism in the place. Crafted out of the former radio studios and offices of WZZP/WDOK-FM at 2644 St. Clair Ave., the fresh smell of paint and carpet pushed around by the action of people coming and going makes the building feel reinvigorated. That aura extends to the surrounding area on the east side of downtown.

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New Hough apartment complex for sale

The Axis at Ansel is next to University Circle which was named by USA
Today in 2021 as the “Best Arts District” in the country. The district con-
tinues to be recognized as a prestigious, yet accessible community to live,
 work and play (Colliers). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM

If there’s any building that shows the strength of the housing market in Cleveland’s University Circe, it’s the Axis at Ansel which is now for sale. Despite starting with two strikes against it, the developer hit a leasing home run. And now Signet Real Estate Group of Akron hopes to close out the game by selling the 163-unit apartment building and possibly use the sale proceeds for its next project in the booming area.

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Seeds & Sprouts XXIII — IMG moving, Flats South, Analiza, May Dugan, Mens’ Shelter expanding

IMG Group is reportedly moving from
one for-sale downtown Cleveland property
to another that’s also for sale (Hertz).
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In this article:

• IMG Group reportedly moving nearby
• Flats South redevelopment activity increasing
• Life sciences biz expands at Tyler Village
• May Dugan Center, Men’s Shelter expanding

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Bridgeworks design to be re-refined

This stone-built garage at the west end of the Detroit-Superior Bridge
in Cleveland’s Ohio City is proposed to be demolished to make way
for a 15-story mixed-use high-rise building here. But demolition plans
for the Bridgeworks tower were denied and its developers advised to
incorporate features from the Art Deco-designed garage into the plan
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Development team members of a proposed high rise in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood are going back to the drawing board again. While this redesign may be less significant than the last one, done to bring Bridgeworks’ costs in line with available financing, its impact on the residential-hotel-retail project’s $60+ million budget is not yet known.

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Downtown sites to add retail sports betting

With a view toward the southeast corner of the Jack Cleveland Casino, this
rendering shows what the retail sportsbook in the downtown casino will
look like including video walls, betting windows, theater-style seating
and banquettes (Cupkovic). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM 

After Ohio legalized sports betting last December, several locations in downtown Cleveland are getting ready to compete in offering sportsbook retail venues where customers can place bets on a wide variety of sporting events. And they’re doing it before the Ohio Casino Control Commission has established the ground rules for making applications for up to 40 sportsbook licenses statewide.

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Bedrock hires ‘starchitect’ for Cleveland riverfront

World-renowned architect Sir David Adjaye, left, stands with Cleveland
Mayor Justin Bibb and Bedrock CEO Kofi Bonner at Cleveland City Hall
to announce further progress on Bedrock Real Estate’s plans for redeveloping
 the Cuyahoga River waterfront below Tower City Center (Bedrock).
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More evidence emerged today that the riverfront development of Tower City Center in downtown Cleveland isn’t some distant-future exercise of Bedrock Real Estate and instead is an active development project. That evidence was found in Detroit-based Bedrock hiring world renowned architect Sir David Adjaye OBE.

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Projects, projects, projects…

These are busy times for development teams in Greater Cleveland and
especially in the urban core. These three development projects were
submitted to the city last in one day week for eventual building permits.
They are, from left, The 70 apartments on East 70th Street in Midtown,
the Superior Mixed-Use Development downtown in the 2100 block of
Superior Avenue, and the West 73rd Street Apartments on its namesake
street in the Detroit-Shoreway neighborhood (Grassroots, Google,
Horton Harper). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM  

If it seems like there’s been a sudden increase in real estate development projects in Cleveland lately, you’re not alone. And last week, the city’s Building Department received applications for zoning reviews and eventual building permits of three decent-sized projects — in one day.

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Bedrock’s big riverfront project is active

Although a bit cartoonish, this conceptual imagery of the first phase of
Bedrock’s Tower City riverfront development appears to be higher
priority than previously reported. The roughly 300-foot-tall, 25-story
tower with a heavy emphasis on offices for Rocket Mortgage would
rise across Huron Road from Sherwin-Williams old headquarters
which is also the subject of private acquisition talks. This image was
extracted from a video regarding big urban core projects that are in
the works (GCP). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM

There is increasing evidence that Bedrock Real Estate is advancing more quickly in developing its downtown Cleveland riverfront development vision despite earlier information that it would take a longer-term approach there. There simply is more visible activity happening here compared to a site in the Gateway District where real estate investments were reportedly in planning but now appear on the back burner.

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High-rise planned near Edgewater Park

This is a massing — a simplified representation of a structure to convey
its scale — of a proposed 10-story apartment building overlooking the
West Shoreway and Edgewater Park. It is the third apartment building
seven to 10 stories tall planned in the Edgewater Park area, with more
possibly coming. This and other project plans became a public record
after they were submitted to the city yesterday (EAO).
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A local developer is proposing to build the tallest building between Ohio City and Lakewood’s Gold Coast, within a few steps of Edgewater Park. Yet, at 10 stories tall, the proposed expansion of The Shoreway apartment complex, 1200 W. 76th St., won’t threaten to scrape the sky west of Cleveland’s Battery Park.

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Cleveland Clinic: on your mark, get set, build!

Almost $1.3 billion worth of construction projects that will occur nearly
simultaneously will add more than 1.6 million square feet of new build-
ings and several thousand permanent jobs to the Cleveland Clinic’s main
campus in Cleveland. To achieve that, thousands of construction workers
will be employed over the next few years (BrentwoodMD.gov).
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More, bigger and sooner was the message this week from the Cleveland Clinic about its Main Campus expansion plans. And the sites and timings of those plans got a lot clearer at the Clinic’s inaugural Construction Supplier Diversity and Inclusion Day.

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Cleveland Hts. monastery site remake revealed

These are large duplexes proposed to be built in the interior of a new
Cleveland Heights development called Wellington Mews on the site
of the Carmelite Monastery. Surrounding the eight duplexes will
be 22 single-family townhomes, all incorporating designs and
materials found in historic homes nearby. (KTGY).
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The redevelopment of a former monastery at Lee Road and North Park Boulevard in Cleveland Heights with upscale housing is finally moving forward after sitting on the shelf during the pandemic. Conceptual plans for the project, to be called the Wellington Mews, are scheduled to be presented to Planning Commission at 7 p.m. April 13.

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Another mid-sized Tremont apartment building

Location of a proposed new apartment building on West 11th Street next
to Interstate 490 and Clark Field in Tremont (MyPlaceCuyahoga/KJP).
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Seldom does a Cleveland development site offer such a remote, wooded lot and yet have so many urban amenities nearby. The features of that site, including it being next to a revived Clark Field, are why it is reportedly attracting a mid-size apartment building. Indeed, numerous mid-sized apartment buildings are being proposed for different parts of Cleveland’s Tremont neighborhood.

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Cleveland teams’ major league real estate plans

As seen from near the Cavs’ Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse is Bedrock’s
long-range vision for developing more than 20 acres of land it owns
along the Cuyahoga River, below Tower City Center (Bedrock).
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All three major league sports teams in Cleveland have real estate development plans for downtown Cleveland. They are some of the grandest visions that have been put out there. And while some of those plans have been made public, most remain a secret because they’re still in the process of refining those plans. Some details are unknown because they depend on the resolution of significant infrastructure investments.

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