Sneak peak at Burke lakefront stadium

Conceptual renderings of what a domed stadium built at Burke Lakefront Airport in
Downtown Cleveland could look like were anonymously sent to NEOtrans today.
We published them as soon as we could verify their authenticity with an official
sponsor, This view shows a stadium placed where the airport’s terminal is
currently located (Vocon). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

NEOtrans was among the Greater Cleveland media outlets to anonymously receive renderings of what a Cleveland Browns domed stadium at Burke Lakefront Airport could look like. The renderings, which also show stadium-area development, changes to roadways and parking, were commissioned from Cleveland-based architecture firm Vocon Partners LLC by the convention and tourism bureau Destination Cleveland.

READ MORE

Land Bank gets $5M for affordable homes

New infill homes in Cleveland not only provide quality homes to families in need,
they also help stabilize troubled neighborhoods and keep gentrifying neighborhood
affordable so longtime residents can afford to stay in the communities they’ve
lived in and loved (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Cuyahoga Land Bank has been awarded $4.95 Million from the Ohio Department of Development’s Welcome Home Ohio Program to support affordable housing development in the county. The funds will be used to create new, affordable homes in partnership with Cuyahoga County, CHN Housing Partners and Near West Land Trust.

READ MORE

Cleveland Print Room focuses on new home

A former commercial laundry in several buildings on Lexington Avenue in
Cleveland’s Goodrich-Kirtland Park neighborhood will be the new home
of the Cleveland Print Room. The photography-oriented nonprofit is
joining the spread of arts-based organizations heading east from
downtown (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Increasingly, artist studios and nonprofit arts organizations have been moving eastward from downtown into Cleveland’s Goodrich-Kirtland Park neighborhood and St. Clair-Superior. But few are making as big of an investment as that which the Cleveland Print Room (CPR) plans by acquiring and renovating a former commercial laundry at 4730 Lexington Ave.

READ MORE

Renovation starts on downtown’s Electric Building

Built as The Electric Building, the office building 700 Prospect will return to its original
name but as apartments with a ground-floor sports bar one block from the Gateway
sports and entertainment complex. That conversion led by K&D Group will start
in early November (Ian Meadows). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

With financing closed, construction work will begin in the next couple of weeks on the $40 million rehabilitation and conversion of the historic 700 Prospect Ave. office building into apartments, called The Electric Building. And now the ground-floor has the end user of its lone commercial space identified — Tom’s Watch Bar, a national chain sports bar founded in 2014.

READ MORE

Feds search Sinito’s home; Owner of Millennia, Key Tower, apartments and restaurants

The Waite Hill estate belonging to Frank Sinito and his wife Malisse was searched
today by federal investigators according to the Waite Hill Police Department,
relating to an ongoing matter involving the Department of Housing Urban
Development (Bing). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

\The private home of the owner of some of Cleveland’s most well-known buildings and restaurants was searched today by federal investigators and assisted by local police in an ongoing matter involving the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Frank Sinito and his wife Malisse reside at a mansion at 6736 Eagle Road in Waite Hill, in suburban Lake County.

READ MORE

GCRTA’s new railcars start production

Manufacturing of the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority’s new railcars has
officially started. But production, testing and employee training for them will take be
a couple of years before the public can start riding the new trains, beginning with
service on the Red Line but soon to follow on the Blue and Green lines (Siemens).
CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Manufacturing work has begun this month on the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority’s (GCRTA) new railcars, said members of the authority’s management team overseeing the replacement of its aging railcar fleet. But until enough railcars are delivered, which won’t happen until 2027, the public will still be riding the oldest trains among any transit authority in the nation.

READ MORE

Cleveland Vibrator to be razed for apartments

Just beyond the sign for developer TurnDev is the vacated Cleveland Vibrator building
in the Ohio City neighborhood. It will be razed for a large, two-building apartment
complex for which construction could begin in spring-summer of 2025 (KJP).
CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

In the coming weeks, demolition crews are due to level the fabled Cleveland Vibrator machine shop, 2828 Clinton Ave., in the Hingetown section of Ohio City for a large apartment complex. Site preparations for two new apartment buildings will take place over the winter with construction work to follow, said Jon Pinney, managing partner at the project’s developer TurnDev.

READ MORE

Downtown may shift from football to futbol

A soccer stadium located on the south side of Downtown Cleveland could accommodate
not only two professional teams but also college and high school games. The end result
is that it could make up for as much as half the loss of visits to downtown as generated
by the Cleveland Browns (CSG). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

The rumor mill of Cleveland sports is always turning. And lately it’s been turning out rumors that Cleveland has won the 16th franchise of the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL). Others are dropping hints of this possibility while at the same time managing expectations.

READ MORE

Bibb: Haslams, Browns ‘abandoned’ Cleveland

Although the owners of the Cleveland Browns are expected to announce as earlier as
tomorrow their departure from Downtown Cleveland’s lakefront to suburban Brook
Park, Mayor Justin Bibb said he did all he could to keep them (Cleveland
Browns). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

An obviously exasperated Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb today claimed the owners of the Cleveland Browns football “abandoned” downtown for suburban Brook Park, in a move due to be announced by the team as early as tomorrow. But Cuyahoga County Executive Chris Ronayne said he wasn’t ready to concede defeat yet.

READ MORE

Duck Island adding new townhomes

The planned Burik Luxury Townhomes, next to the Forest City Brewery on
Columbus Road, were announced this week by their developer the Christoff
Group, builder United Custom Homes and realtor Howard Hanna (Howard
Hanna). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Christoff Group isn’t wasting any time in moving forward on a new townhouse development in the Duck Island section of Cleveland’s Tremont neighborhood. Only two months after acquiring just over a quarter of an acre of land, the developer and its realtor are announcing a six-unit collection of large, for-sale homes.

READ MORE

Three sites ID’d for Downtown public toilets

A sample of what a public bathroom for Downtown Cleveland could look like.
Four of these are proposed for three downtown locations (City of Cleveland).
CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Public bathrooms are exactly what many civic and business people say Downtown Cleveland needs. But where they should be located has been a difficult question to answer. It’s one of the reasons why it has taken three years to advance three proposed locations for four of these public potties for consideration to the City Planning Commission’s Design Review Committee this Friday.

READ MORE

Cleveland gets $60M to redo Shoreway as boulevard

This elevated section of the Shoreway highway through Downtown Cleveland may
soon be a memory. Its removal is key to achieving other parts of the city lakefront
redevelopment, and will be funded in part by a $60 million grant from the U.S.
Department of Transportation won today by the city of Cleveland (Google).
CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Although it’s not the full $260 million federal grant that city of Cleveland officials had hoped to get for its lakefront vision, the $59.7 million it won today from U.S. Department of Transportation will knock down the first lakefront domino. Once knocked down, other aspects in the city’s plans can be funded and built.

READ MORE

Edwins leaving Shaker Square for ex-Nighttown

Edwins Restaurant is located on the west side of Shaker Square, across Shaker
Boulevard from the rapid transit station. But the restaurant and its second
location across the square may not be there for much longer (Google).
CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Shaker Square mainstays Edwins Restaurant and Edwins Too on the other side of the square may not be staying put much longer. In fact, they could be headed for the former Nighttown restaurant location in Cleveland Heights to avoid what Edwins’ owner Brandon Chrostowski says is a worsening safety issue at Cleveland’s Shaker Square.

READ MORE

Downtown Lakewood project nears final approval

Architectural plans and other requirements for the Downtown Lakewood redevelopment
are one big step away from approval and putting shovels in the ground in early 2025 at
the former Lakewood Hospital site. The development will have a large public plaza
facing Detroit Avenue, shown here (Dimit). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

To finally repurpose the site of the former Lakewood Hospital, plans for a proposed major development have one more hurdle at the city of Lakewood to clear before crossing the finish line. That last hurdle, City Council, will take up those plans next month. If they’re approved by the end of this year, construction could start by Spring 2025 on the $100-plus million development.

READ MORE

Taylor Tudors in Cleveland Hts. get financed

This is one of several sections of the Taylor Tudors along Taylor Road in Cleveland
Heights. Thanks to their developer winning financing from the Port of Cleveland,
renovations to restore them with apartments over retail could get underway by
year’s end (RDL). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

The Port of Cleveland board on Friday approved issuing up to $15 million in taxable bonds for financing of the $25.6 million Taylor Tudor Plaza Project, part of the first phase of a larger $150 million mixed use neighborhood revitalization of the Taylor Road neighborhood in Cleveland Heights.

READ MORE

Clock expires on keeping Browns downtown

The Haslam Sports Group, owner of the Cleveland Browns football team, is expected
by multiple sources to make an announcement by the end of this month that they’ve
decided to go with building a new covered stadium in suburban Brook Park (HKS
Architects). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

It seems that the clock has run out on city of Cleveland and Cuyahoga County leaders on keeping the stadium downtown for the Cleveland Browns football team’s home games. NEOtrans has learned that the Browns’ owners, the Haslam Sports Group, are due to make an announcement soon, possibly by the end of this month, that they will put all their efforts into building a new covered stadium in suburban Brook Park.

READ MORE

Ryan passes away unexpectedly

Erin Ryan, a business development specialist in real estate construction for 20 years,
passed away unexpectedly earlier this week. She worked in construction, a field
 dominated by men, but led young women to follow in her footsteps (Legacy.com).

As family, friends and business associates gather to remember Erin E. Ryan of Fairview Park at her funeral this weekend, many of them are struggling with the loss of someone so full of life and still too young to have left this earth so soon. Erin passed away Oct. 6 from a suspected heart attack, according to two associates of hers. She was only 59.

READ MORE

Fairview Hospital-North final concept presented

A conceptual plan for Fairview Hospital’s North Campus shows the approximate
shape and scale of proposed structures based on programming and space needs,
called a massing. It was presented last night to members of Cleveland’s Kamms
Corners community. The project will be built in phases starting with the new
Cancer Center/Medical Office Building followed by the new parking
garage (Cleveland Clinic). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

After presenting plans for the new North Campus of Fairview Hospital, 18101 Lorain Ave., to Cleveland’s Kamms Corners community, Cleveland Clinic officials and their design team will now submit the project to the city’s design-review process for approval. Proposed timelines for the project were also revealed, showing the Clinic wants to move forward quickly on this major project.

READ MORE

Hopkins Airport’s first terminal project takes off

This innocuous-looking building south of Cleveland Hopkins International Airport’s pas-
senger terminal is where the airport’s nearly $3 billion makeover is about to begin. It will
accommodate offices for architects, engineers and other consultants who will carry out
the terminal modernization (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

If you are heading south from Cleveland Hopkins International Airport on State Route 237, you might be able to catch a brief glimpse of where a nearly $3 billion modernization program for the airport’s terminal is about to begin. But most people probably won’t even notice the building or when the work starts on upgrading its interior.

READ MORE

Sherwin-Williams execs to wait and see on HQ2

Just beyond Downtown Cleveland’s Public Square at the west end of Euclid Avenue
towers the new Sherwin-Williams headquarters. But whether it will have more
company and when probably won’t be known until after all of its employees
 move into it and the new Brecksville research center next year (KJP).
CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

The rumor mill is always churning around Sherwin-Williams’ plans for handling its growing number of employees at its soon-to-open new headquarters in Downtown Cleveland, its new research center in suburban Brecksville and at its other other facilities. But that rumor mill has quieted down in recent months, until now.

READ MORE

Another groundbreaking, in Case you want more

Case Western Reserve University’s new Interdisciplinary Science and
Engineering Building will not turn its back on Martin Luther King Jr. Boule-
vard as have other Case Quad buildings, including Yost Hall that was demo-
lished for this new structure (HGA). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

A second major groundbreaking ceremony is happening later this month in Cleveland, following that of the Cleveland Clinic Global Peak Performance Center. But this one could be a little confusing to those familiar with Case Western Reserve University’s (CWRU) $300 million Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building (ISEB). They may wonder if this project hasn’t already been underway for some time — because it has.

READ MORE 

Downtown Cavs/Clinic facility groundbreaking set

The planned Cleveland Clinic Peak Performance Center is a development project
along the Cuyahoga River in Downtown Cleveland. It is being pursued by Rock
Ventures and its real estate arm Bedrock. Although construction is set to start
in mid-October, site preparation has actually been underway for nearly
a year (Populous). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Final approval is expected tomorrow by the City Planning Commission of designs for the proposed Cleveland Clinic Global Peak Performance Center featuring the Cleveland Cavaliers’ new practice facility and the Clinic’s sports health/wellness programs. But how do we know approval is expected? Because the groundbreaking ceremony for the new center has been set for the week after next.

READ MORE

Downtown employers reconsider suburban moves

Gray Media at Reserve Square, left, and AmTrust at 800 Superior both appear to be
reversing directions regarding the decisions on where to locate their downtown
Cleveland offices (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Two large Downtown Cleveland employers may be reversing course regarding their future office locations. One was bound and determined to leave for the suburbs but now its plans are up in the air. And despite the grist coming from the real estate rumor mill, the other employer says it’s not going anywhere — yet.

READ MORE

Cleveland launches affordable housing fund

Creating more housing investment will help address a shortage of quality housing
in Cleveland, where lenders are often reluctant to invest due to neighborhood
instability, discrimination and inequality. So Cleveland is partnering with
KeyBank and the Local Initiatives Support Corp. to change that (KJP).
CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Last evening, a new Cleveland Housing Investment Fund (CHIF) was launched when Cleveland City Council passed legislation that requires the city to provide financing to the new fund. The city’s $18 million commitment leverages $20 million pledged by Cleveland-based KeyBank to boost the development of mixed-income rental housing and home ownership opportunities.

READ MORE

George’s third billboard lands on Opportunity Corridor

To make way for the Irishtown Bend Park, this huge billboard on the blighted building
on which it sets at the southeast corner of West 25th Street and the Detroit-Superior
Bridge will be demolished and replaced by three billboards as a result of a court
settlement. The third and final billboard location has been identified (Google).
CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

A George family-owned billboard that metastasized into three as a result of a 2023 court settlement has found its third and final landing spot in Cleveland. That third billboard site is a piece of a city-owned parcel on the Opportunity Corridor near Quincy Avenue that is unlikely to be developed with any other uses, according to a city official. Title to the land will be transferred to the Georges.

READ MORE

CWRU’s South Residential expansion stops

The first two phases of expanding Case Western Reserve University’s South Residen-
tial Village were completed in time for this Fall Semester. But they now appear to be
be the last phases, A third phase proposed across the street is not being pursued due
to there being a sufficient amount of student housing (William Rawn Associates).
 CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

As Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) approaches its 200th anniversary, just two years away, the growing college has just one megaproject on its syllabus for Cleveland’s University Circle — the $300 million Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building. So CWRU’s bicentennial legacy is to do what it has often done — prudently build when it needs to, not when it wants to. Even so, news of what the university is not building may come as a surprise.

READ MORE

León to lead Cuyahoga Land Bank

Ricardo León today officially became only the second president in the history
of the Cuyahoga Land Bank (CBL). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Ricardo León gained something by losing something. He lost the prefix “Interim” prior to his title of “President” of the Cuyahoga Land Bank, a private, nonprofit government entity whose mission it is to acquire properties, return them to productive use, reduce blight and increase property values in Cuyahoga County.

READ MORE

Bridgeworks can finally build – up to two stories

In the coming weeks, work crews will start to appear at the northeast corner of West
25th Street and the Detroit-Superior Bridge near Downtown Cleveland to demolish
existing, vacant buildings and begin the construction of Bridgeworks — at least
partially at this point (GLSD). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

After four years of going through multiple design iterations, it somehow seems natural that Bridgeworks finally got the OK today from the city to start construction — but only up to the second floor. To build above that, the project’s development team is going to have to come back to the city for design approval of the building’s top five floors. The team pledged it would do so — quickly.

READ MORE

Realities behind Amtrak’s ‘new’ train to Florida

Amtrak has a shortage of these bilevel train cars on its western long-distance trains
because it cut maintenance staff during the pandemic. Amtrak hasn’t fully reinstated
them and has dozens of cars awaiting overhauls and other routine work. So Amtrak
is taking the bilevel cars from its Chicago-Cleveland-Washington DC service, seen
here, to keep its western trains running. Normally, Amtrak visits Cleveland in the
pre-dawn hours except when trains are very late, as was the case here on July 17,
2023 (KJP). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

While Amtrak’s press release about the creation of a direct-but-temporary Chicago-Florida passenger rail service through Cleveland touted it as an achievement, the reality behind it is actually quite different. According to several sources, the direct service is being implemented to rescue Amtrak from its own shortcomings — both internal and external.

READ MORE

Library Lofts turning next page at Circle Square

Workers on Sept. 12 were busily attaching exterior panels to the 11-story Library
Lofts development at Circle Square in Cleveland’s University Circle. This week,
the first residents are moving in. In the background at right is The Artisan apart-
ments, part of Circle Square and the tallest structure in University Circle (KJP).
CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

With a partial occupancy permit from the city awarded, arriving residents are opening the book on Library Lofts — the latest building to be offered at the Circle Square district of Cleveland’s University Circle. Like a novel with a thick plot, progress on the apartment building-over-public library has taken lots of turns, though it’s not done yet. But this page-turner is almost there. And what a poetic conclusion it may turn out to be.

READ MORE

Bridgeworks – one more review ’til they’re through?

Bridgeworks’ development team hopes this is the last rendering in the design-review
process before work crews can descend onto its site in Cleveland’s Ohio City neigh-
borhood to prepare it for construction. That will be determined later this
week (GLSD). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

It’s been said before — many times; many ways. No, not “Merry Christmas.” But “We hope this is the final design for Bridgeworks.” And the Bridgeworks development team hopes to start site preparations by the end of next month with construction to follow — perhaps by the time chestnuts are roasting on an open fire at Christmas, by the way.

READ MORE

East Stokes skyscraper concept wins approval

A wider rendering of the proposed East Stokes Tower than the one NEOtrans intro-
duced three days ago when we broke the story of the latest high-rise slated to be
built in Cleveland’s University Circle. The new, mostly residential tower would
feature top-floor amenities, lots of ground floor retail and second-floor
offices (SCB). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Cleveland’s City Planning Commission today gave unanimous support to the conceptual design of a proposed mixed-use high-rise in the University Circle neighborhood. If the project is able to move swiftly through the design-review process, the proposed 24-story East Stokes Tower at the southeast corner of Chester Avenue and Stokes Boulevard could see construction start as early as spring 2025.

READ MORE

Asiatown mixed-use development plan revived

Proposed for both sides of Payne Avenue in Cleveland’s Asiatown neighborhood
are 120 affordable housing units atop ground-floor commercial and community
uses in two buildings. This development concept was proposed by the same
architect that was involved the last time a similar development was planned
 here three years ago (MA Design). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Three years after a development team planned a mixed-use project at the closed Dave’s Market, 3301 Payne Ave., in Cleveland’s Asiatown, some members of that development team are back to invest in that site again. This time, a $42.3 million development is proposed with a more focused approach on affordable housing in two four-story buildings with ground-floor commercial and community uses.

READ MORE

Metroparks, GCRTA to aid soccer stadium project

A pedestrian bridge over the rapid transit tracks and station, leading toward the
proposed new soccer stadium at right, could be aided by actions underway at
the Cleveland Metroparks and the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit
Authority (CSG). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

In two different ways, two Greater Cleveland public-sector organizations are stepping up to support the Cleveland Soccer Group’s (CSG) effort to build a $150 million, 12,500-seat soccer stadium just southeast of Downtown Cleveland. Tomorrow, the Cleveland Metroparks’ board will vote on whether to acquire land for the stadium while the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (GCRTA) is pursuing an amendment to its long-range plan to add a rapid transit station to serve the stadium area.

READ MORE

New skyscraper planned for University Circle

East Stokes, a massive, 24-story apartment tower over ground-floor retail
and several levels of parking, is planned for the next phase of the Circle
Square development in Cleveland’s University Circle (SCB).
CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

The development team for Circle Square, a district bringing more than one million square feet of mixed-use development to market in Cleveland’s booming University Circle, is about to introduce its latest addition to this booming district. And that addition, at the southeast corner of Chester Avenue and Stokes Boulevard, will challenge Circle Square’s The Artisan for the tallest building in Cleveland’s “second downtown.”

READ MORE

Two apartment buildings in Hub 27’s first phase

Pivotal Housing Partners and St. Mary Development Co. plan a pair of five-story
apartment buildings near West 25th Street in Cleveland’s Clark-Fulton neighbor-
hood. This five-story building concept is from one of Pivotal’s other planned
locations, this one in Buffalo, NY, and is similar to a sketch included in its
application for Ohio housing tax credits. A conceptual rendering has yet to
be publicly released (Pivotal). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

A revised plan is moving forward to fill in more of the development gap along West 25th Street between Cleveland’s booming Ohio City neighborhood to the north and the growing La Villa Hispana community to the south. In between is where the latest development, Hub 27, is poised to rise and join other existing, underway and planned developments at the north end of the Clark-Fulton neighborhood.

READ MORE

Burke Airport closure studies released by city

Burke Lakefront Airport’s proximity to Downtown Cleveland is hailed by some
and cursed by others. It’s a marketing tool to companies seeking to stay, expand
or relocate downtown. Or its 450 acres of underutilized space on a Great Lake
could be repurposed with a variety of other uses ranging from recreation to
residential (KJP). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Two reports laying out the steps for potentially closing Burke Lakefront Airport in Downtown Cleveland were released today by Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb’s Administration. While Bibb said the reports show there are more benefits to closing Burke than costs, he and other city officials caution that no decision has been made to close the airport, so no steps have been started in that direction yet.

READ MORE

Slavic Village redevelopment plans progress

Details about the first phase of Village 55, represented by the three buildings at right
from a rooftop patio across Broadway Avenue in Cleveland’s Slavic Village, are
becoming clearer as it seeks financing. The project intends to rejuvenate the
intersection of Broadway and East 55th Street (HDG).
CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

A Cleveland-New York development partnership is seeking financing for a significant remake of the heart of Cleveland’s Slavic Village at Broadway Avenue and East 55th Street. And an application for Low Income House Tax Credits (LIHTC) is bringing more clarity to the partnership’s redevelopment plans that were first revealed publicly by NEOtrans in May 2023.

READ MORE

Clinic’s megaprojects construction are on time

Construction workers labor atop what will be the Cleveland Clinic’s largest-ever build-
ing — the new Neurological Institute rising on Carnegie Avenue. It is one of several
major building projects underway right now at the Clinic’s Main Campus near Uni-
versity Circle in Cleveland (KJP). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Cleveland Clinic’s three major construction projects at its Main Campus near Cleveland’s University Circle are progressing on or close to schedule, according to a Clinic spokesperson. However, at this point, it appears that any follow-on projects at or near the Main Campus may not be happening for a while, according to two sources familiar with the Clinic’s capital planning.

READ MORE

Port OKs $170M financing for major projects

The $128 million first phase of Valor Acres, on the site of a former Veterans Admini-
stration hospital in suburban Brecksville, won financing today from the Port of
Cleveland’s board of directors. Up to $93 million in bonds were provided to
help build nearly 437,000 of housing, retail and offices (DiGeronimo).
CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

The Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority’s board of directors today approved $170 million in bond financing to fuel a series of high-impact projects, including a large redevelopment of land that contained a former Veterans Administration facility, a major manufacturing expansion, and refinancing bonds for a nonprofit school that will free up more resources for more renovations.

READ MORE

Great Lakes Brewing revisits Scranton Peninsula move

Something similar to this concept for development on Cleveland’s Scranton Peninsula
could again be part of the Great Lakes Brewing Company’s future after abandoning
plans to move to a site in suburban Avon. This vision dates from 2017 when the
microbrewer bought land along the Cuyahoga River for an expanded production
plant and tasting room (Coburn). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

NEOtrans has learned that one of Ohio’s oldest craft brewers is not only seeking to remain in Cleveland but is dusting off old plans to move its production facilities to Scranton Peninsula in Cleveland’s Flats. Sources familiar with the Great Lakes Brewing Company’s (GLBC) plans said that if public assistance can be found to provide enough developable land for the company’s expansion, it will likely relocate there.

READ MORE

Walton Apts seeks to restore Clark’s walkability

The Walton Apartments, a proposed 52-unit affordable housing development for
seniors, is planned on a vacant lot on Clark Avenue, next to a Rally’s fast-food
restaurant at Fulton Road. City planners said they hoped the project will lead
more although few developments have been economically feasible here in
recent years (RDL). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

A planned affordable senior housing development at 3517 Walton Ave. in Cleveland’s Clark-Fulton neighborhood won universal praise Friday from the City Planning Commission. In fact, the commission considered it a potential game-changer for the neighborhood and especially Clark Avenue which, in this growing La Villa Hispana community, is lined with car-centric land use patterns, making it pedestrian-unfriendly.

READ MORE

Tremont townhouses on Towpath put on slow path

The proposed Jefferson Hill Townhomes in Cleveland’s Tremont were on a roll
but the City Planning Commission urged the developer to get more feedback
from the neighborhood before coming back them for approval of their plans.
This view looks southerly from the intersection of Jefferson Avenue and
the Towpath Trail (Payto). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

A unique townhouse development, one of the first that would be built directly facing the Towpath Trail, was on a fast path toward design approval and a zoning change. But City Planning Commission members decided that that path was a little too fast for it and urged that the developer and its architect go back and get more input from the neighborhood first.

READ MORE

Metroparks’ sailing center officially announced

The Patrick S. Parker Community Sailing Center at the East 55th Street Marina in
Cleveland is about to begin construction thanks to the generosity of numerous
Cleveland-area individuals and organizations (Cleveland Metroparks).
CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Cleveland Metroparks today officially revealed plans for the Patrick S. Parker Community Sailing Center, a community center coming to the East 55th Street Marina in Cleveland. The Sailing Center will be the first of its kind along Lake Erie in Ohio, providing unprecedented public access and sailing opportunities to the region.

READ MORE

Samsel Supply to close its doors after 66 years

Samsel Supply Co.’s former properties along Old River Road in Cleveland’s Flats were
recently planned to be redeveloped with a wellness hotel. But the maritime supply
company that thrived within those venerable buildings for decades will be no
more (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

When they sold their properties on Old River Road in Cleveland’s Flats East Bank to a developer nearly three years ago, Samsel family members had declined to answer where they would relocate their commercial supply business, Samsel Supply Company. No one else in local real estate circles seemed to know either. Turns out the reason was a simple one that few had considered — they’re not relocating. They’re closing.

READ MORE

New family clinic coming to Clark-Fulton

On the ground floor at the northwest corner of the Northern Ohio Blanket Mills is the
proposed location for a Neighborhood Family Practice community health center. It is
the third and largest commercial tenant for the former textile factory which opened
this with 60 low-income apartments on the second and third floors (Iryna Tkachenko).
CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Cleveland’s growing demand for affordable health care and having one of the worst infant mortality rates in the country is behind a new clinic planned for Cleveland’s Clark-Fulton neighborhood. Cleveland-based Neighborhood Family Practice (NFP) is proposing to open a community health center in the newly refurbished Northern Ohio Blanket Mills at 3466 St. Rocco Ct.., just off Fulton Road.

READ MORE

Huntington Bank Field name to outlive Browns’ current stadium lease

For the next generation of sports fans, the Cleveland Browns’ home turf will now be
called Huntington Bank Field, even if the team moves into a new stadium in Brook
Park (Cleveland Browns). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

At least we now know what a Brook Park multi-purpose stadium would be called, if the owners of the Cleveland Browns football team decides to build it. While most terms of the naming rights deal were not disclosed by the Haslams Sports Group and their National Football League franchise, we do know that it will outlast the current stadium’s lease which ends after the 2028 football season.

READ MORE

Hough MLK Plaza redevelopment advances

Planning for the redevelopment of MLK Plaza in Cleveland’s Hough neighborhood
is advancing with the application of financing and the creation of renderings for the
first phase of the project (RDL). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

While Northern Real Estate Urban Ventures, LLC (NREUV) is getting ready to break ground this week on its first Cleveland development, it’s already putting together the pieces for its next project here. The redevelopment of MLK Plaza, 9300 Wade Park Ave., in Cleveland’s Hough neighborhood would replace an aging, mixed-use complex with modern, low-income housing over ground-floor programming and common areas.

READ MORE

Officials want Burke Airport on the table for Browns

The Haslam Sports Group, owners of the Cleveland Browns, wants to build a domed
stadium, supportive development and about 20,000 parking spaces in the Cleveland
suburb of Brook Park. But city of Cleveland and Cuyahoga County officials want
the Haslams to build in Downtown Cleveland. Some of those officials want
Burke Lakefront Airport to be considered as a development site (Google).
CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Two key public officials have, in recent days, suggested that Burke Lakefront Airport be closed down and replaced by a new Cleveland Browns Stadium and supportive developments, parking and public spaces. But if such an idea evolves into a serious project, it would also likely require making interim repairs to the existing stadium.

READ MORE

Cleveland offers up prime Ohio City property

McCafferty Health Center on Lorain Avenue in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood, as seen
from the alley Fulton Court behind it (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Cleveland city officials followed through on a promise they made in early July when they announced they would be making the city-owned McCafferty Health Center property, 4242 Lorain Ave., available for redevelopment. Today, they issued a formal invitation to professional real estate development teams to respond to a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) to redevelop the site and address the need for affordable housing in the Ohio City neighborhood.

READ MORE