Cleveland, Bedrock seek $1 billion for riverfront development

The Kayak Launch Plaza in Bedrock Real Estate’s riverfront development is just one
of many pieces of public infrastructure features the city and the developer are work-
ing together to achieve. A tax-increment financing district is being set up to help
much of that public infrastructure (Adjaye Associates).
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City Planning Commission today voted unanimously to recommend that City Council approve a 45-year, project-specific tax-increment financing (TIF) deal with Bedrock Real Estate to generate $400 million for infrastructure to support Bedrock’s $3.5 billion riverfront development. This would create a second, albeit smaller TIF district downtown to support major waterfront and urban core improvements that could ultimately generate up to $1 billion in public funds for the riverfront.

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CRE industry lauds Bibb’s construction permit overhaul

In looking for more construction cranes over the city, Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb
signed an executive order today to simplify the building permitting process at City
Hall. (x.com @JustinMBibb). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Commercial real estate and construction interests hailed Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb’s signing of an executive order today to simplify and speed up the construction permitting process at City Hall. Bibb was quick to point out that this reform will affect small projects by homeowners as well as downtown skyscrapers. However, it could take up to a year before all of the approved changes are implemented.

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Bridgeworks design evolves again – minus hotel

View of the proposed Bridgeworks development from the corner of West 25th Street
and the Detroit-Superior Bridge with Downtown Cleveland in the background. The
development is planned on the former Cuyahoga County Engineer’s headquarters
(GLSD). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

An ever-changing lending market has caused designs to change again for the proposed Bridgeworks development, 2429 W. Superior in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood. Some things were noticeably different in the plans — no hotel, no retail/restaurants, a big increase in the number of apartments, and a variety of colors and materials in the façade which, at first glance, makes the long building look like five or six structures.

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Cleveland Kitchen wins $10M in tax credits

The East 70s section of Carnegie Avenue in Cleveland has seen a lot of investment in
recent years and more is coming. Cleveland Kitchen expects to increase the number
of jobs threefold at its Midtown Cleveland food hub as a result of $10 million tax
credit financing from the Cleveland Development Advisors (Google).
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Cleveland Development Advisors (CDA) has allocated $10 million in federal New Markets Tax Credits to Cleveland Kitchen, originally Cleveland Kraut, to consolidate and expand its production facility in the Central Kitchen Food Hub. The hub is a food incubator and accelerator on Carnegie Avenue in Cleveland’s Midtown neighborhood.

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Welleon gets an ‘A’ in testing Cleveland’s market

Located in Cleveland’s Gordon Square neighborhood west of downtown, the newly
built, market-rate, mixed-use Welleon is almost fully leased after opening less than
a year ago (Welleon.com). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

It used to be rare to see a newly constructed Cleveland apartment building filling out at rents of more than $2 per square foot and leasing out in less than two years. But those were the old days — “way back” in the 2010s. Today, it’s common to see luxury buildings, even those that are not downtown skyscrapers, rent out in a year or less. But not at the rents Welleon just commanded.

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EPA gives Greater Cleveland $129.4M for five solar arrays, reforestation

After a regional partnership won a large federal grant, five sites in Greater
Cleveland could soon be gaining solar arrays to generate electricity. More
than 60 megawatts of electricity could soon be cleanly generated for the
Cuyahoga County’s new microgrid Cuyahoga Green Energy plus Cleve-
land Public Power and Painesville Muni Electric (EPA-APPA).
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) today awarded $129.4 million in federal funding to the Greater Cleveland area to produce cheaper, more competitive, cleaner electricity locally. The funded work includes constructing five solar arrays in up to five communities, closing a coal-fired power plant in Painesville and supporting reforestation efforts in a community once called the Forest City.

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Biotech biz plans $12M investment in East Cleveland

The Mickey’s Building on Euclid Avenue in East Cleveland was sold by the
Cuyahoga Land Bank to a Boston-based biotech firm that plans to add more
than 100 jobs to the site. Still in question is whether a proposed ground-
floor café engaged in a legal battle with the land bank will open (RDL).
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One week after the Cuyahoga Land Bank completed a $3.5 million renovation of the Mickey’s building, 12550 Euclid Ave., in East Cleveland, it announced the sale of the building to Verdynt Bio, a Boston-based science facility developer with strong ties to Ohio. Verdynt Bio’s operations partner, SKYLIIT Labs, said it plans to invest more than $12 million into the site to create 100 jobs in a state-of-the-art laboratory and office co-working space.

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West 73rd Apartments site on the market

This 1.78-acre site is surrounded by successful developments but, for whatever reason,
this one has had difficulty in getting shovels in its soil. Multiple developers have tried
and failed to build housing or mixed-use here in recent years. The land is back on the
market again (CBRE). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

In a move that came as a surprise to some members of its own development team, a New York-based developer has decided to sell one of the last-remaining open development sites in Cleveland’s hot Gordon Square neighborhood near Lake Erie. The offering of 1321-1357 W. 73rd St. comes after its owner, Joe Zagelbaum of Brooklyn, NY, went through a year-long process to get plans approved by the city for a 196-unit apartment complex.

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Slavic Village site chosen by a growing business

A couple of clicks from hitting the century mark, this decaying, 98-year-old office-
warehouse building on Broadway Avenue in Cleveland’s Slavic Village is in the
process of being bought by a growing business that’s seeking a long-term home
to keep on growing (KJP). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

A new and growing business is seeking to move from its rented space in Cleveland’s Old Brooklyn neighborhood to put down stakes somewhere. And it found that somewhere in a faded brick building at 5363 Broadway Ave. in Slavic Village.

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Downtown Cleveland’s glimmers of hope

Downtown Cleveland Inc. reported that numerous metrics of office and residential
occupancy, foot traffic and other activities show Cleveland’s central business has
had one of its best months since the depths of the pandemic in 2020. This is the
food truck scene at Perk Park along East 12th Street, between Walnut and
Chester avenues (DCI). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

While it seems like foot traffic is up in Downtown Cleveland since the pandemic four years ago, different organizations that measure the city’s central business district’s economic performance have numbers backing up that perception. And that’s also reflective of increased numbers of workers returning to their offices and more residential conversions and occupancies as well. But those numbers are still far from robust.

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Erieview, Shoreway towers win financing

Redevelopment of the Erieview Tower got a big financial boost today when the Cleve-
land-Cuyahoga County Port Authority authorized up to $55 million in bond for the
$78 million conversion of the 40-story office building to Marriott-branded
luxury apartments (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Today, the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority’s board approved $144 million worth of financing toward development projects with a combined price tag totaling $206.1 million. The projects include one new-construction residential tower near Edgewater Park, one renovated and converted Downtown Cleveland office tower, and a major expansion and renovation of middle school facilities in Shaker Heights.

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Cleveland Port’s bulk terminal gets $5M for rehab

On July 12, two ships were working at the Cleveland Bulk Terminal on Whiskey
Island, just west of Downtown Cleveland. Although different types of aggregates
can be loaded and unloaded here, iron ore is unloaded from larger ships through
a conveyor tunnel to smaller ships and then sent upriver to Cleveland Cliffs’
steel-making facilities. That conveyor has reached the end of its useful and
must be rebuilt (Lance Aerial). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Last month, the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority awarded nearly $1 million for design work to reconstruct the iron ore conveyor system at the Cleveland Bulk Terminal on Whiskey Island. This month, the Port of Cleveland got a big chunk of the funding necessary to carry out the reconstruction work over the next two years.

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Cleveland’s Public Square gets $750K for improvements

Albeit a beautiful setting, Downtown Cleveland’s Public Square is often
a quiet setting outside of special events. Downtown Cleveland Inc. and LAND
Studio hope to change that by making Public Square more active more often
with new and more frequent programming that includes increased safety
to bring more people out (KJP). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

The work to improve Cleveland’s centuries-old Public Square, a New England-style community commons, is never done. In the latest effort, Downtown Cleveland Inc. will receive $750,000 in funds from the Ohio legislature’s one-time Strategic Community Investment Fund for a more welcoming, engaging and inclusive Public Square for all.

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Downtown dealmaking takes time, new approaches

One of the biggest pending deals in Downtown Cleveland is for the Ohio
Savings Plaza which actually consists of two office towers. This 18-story
building on East 9th Street, which is the larger of the two for-sale buildings,
is proposed to be converted into residential (Google).
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Although the real estate listing for Ohio Savings Plaza, 1801 E. 9th St. and its associated Park Plaza, 1111 Chester Ave., show their transaction status as “under contract,” it’s been that way for many months. It will retain that status for at least two more months. What’s going on behind the scenes reveals the complexities and even creative new ways of pursuing big deals in this market at this time.

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Stockyards nuisance is finally coming down

Southwest of downtown Cleveland in the Stockyards neighborhood, the former
box factory is being cleaned up and demolished after decades of being a neigh-
borhood nuisance, city officials say (Cleveland Building Department).
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By the end of this month, a former box factory turned nuisance at 7275 Wentworth Ave. in Cleveland’s Stockyards neighborhood will be visited by the wrecking ball. But crews are already on site cleaning up the long-vacant building that has been used by vagrants, drug users and dealers and reportedly by the property owner’s affiliate for illegally storing millions of fluorescent light bulbs before and after a suspicious 2018 fire.

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Circle East improvements continue, more due

This occupied home on Brightwood Avenue in East Cleveland was renovated by the
Cuyahoga Land Bank as part of its Circle East redevelopment. Circle East is a 30-
acre district that’s closest to University Circle, one of the largest and fastest-growing
employment hubs in Ohio (CCLRC). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

In a 30-acre area of targeted investment called the Circle East District, located in East Cleveland, the Cuyahoga Land Bank announced it has completed major features of its first phase to revive the neighborhood. The multi-phase $95 million effort led by the Cuyahoga Land Bank to rebuild the neighborhood from the sewers up began two years ago. However, a commercial component to the redevelopment has hit a legal snag.

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Downtown occupancy finally rings at The Bell

A rendering of The Bell as seen from East 9th Street, looking northward. This
former Ohio Bell headquarters office building is now open and leasing has
begun for residents and its commercial spaces, including  a restaurant and
co-working offices (Sandvick). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Despite recent bumps in opening The Bell, the team that converted the former Ohio Bell headquarters into apartments and commercial spaces has hired two Chicago firms to market and manage the property. The announcement comes as the Downtown Cleveland building has received its occupancy permit, effectively declaring the $100-plus-million conversion project as complete.

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Hough renovation secures financing, start date

When renovations are concluded in about 18 months, a modernized building at 9410
Hough Ave. in Cleveland will provide affordable housing near University Circle and
a setting more befitting the mostly positive direction that the Hough neighborhood
 is headed (RDL). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

In a long-planned redevelopment, the renovation of a vacant and vandalized 10-story apartment building at the east end of Cleveland’s Hough neighborhood finally has the green light to start work. That green light came today as $47 million in financing closed for the project and construction is due to start before the end of this month.

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Cleveland’s lakefront has something no other major Great Lakes city has

 In the late 1800s, railroad tracks were the last things you cross before
getting your feet wet in Lake Erie. That was before hundreds of acres of
new lakefront land near Downtown Cleveland was created with landfill. 
Cleveland was one of the few major Great Lakes cities to have a busy
mainline railroad along its lakefront. Today, it is the only one where freight
trains are the dominant user of those lakefront tracks (Shober &
Carqueville, Library of Congress). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

When looking at Chicago’s enviable lakefront, it never had it. Toronto’s did, but not anymore. Same with Milwaukee’s and Hamilton’s but due to different circumstances. Detroit, Buffalo, Toledo and smaller cities like Green Bay and Erie never did. What are we talking about here? A busy mainline freight railroad routed along a major Great Lake city’s downtown waterfront.

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Next steps for Bedrock’s riverfront development

The full build-out of Bedrock’s ambitious $3.5 billion riverfront vision first requires the
foundation of infrastructure, public spaces and the creation of development sites for
the Detroit-based developer and others to construct their residential, hospitality,
office and entertainment buildings (Bedrock-MKSK).
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On Friday, representatives of Bedrock Real Estate will make a presentation to Cleveland’s City Planning Commission about the upcoming steps they will take to ready the site for their ambitious $3.5 billion riverfront development plan. But a majority of those early steps boil down to just one foundational word — infrastructure.

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Cleveland to make prime Ohio City site available

McCafferty Health Center on Lorain Avenue in Ohio City will be made available
to developers to construct affordable housing on the site in a neighborhood with
many expensive houses and apartments. This view is from the alley Fulton
Court behind the health center, near West 44th Street (Google).
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For years, the underutilized McCafferty Health Center at 4242 Lorain Ave. in Cleveland’s booming Ohio City neighborhood has been a topic of interest among real estate developers and community leaders. Today, Cleveland city officials announced they will soon be entertaining proposals for the site’s development.

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Let’s do another one! Cleveland entrepreneurs of color to compete again

In the first Cleveland Equitable Development Initiative, real estate developers of
color competed for financial prizes to support their projects and were mentored
along the way. Everyone who competed gained awards and insights so no one
went home empty-handed (Cleveland Development Advisors).
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After a successful inaugural effort of the Cleveland Equitable Development Initiative (CLE-EDI), the Cleveland Development Advisors (CDA) didn’t waste any time at all in deciding to pursue a second round of competitions for 2024-25. Applications open today for the CLE-EDI which aims to level the playing field for historically excluded real estate developers of color.

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Watterson-Lake development awarded financing

Public financing was awarded by the state for the Watterson-Lake development, a
five-story apartment building over a large ground-floor community-service space
plus a dozen townhomes between West 74th and 75th streets, south of Detroit
Avenue at the Lake Avenue intersection. This evolving design shows the
building expanded up to the corner of Detroit and West 74th (Stantec).
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Key pieces of financing were awarded this week to a significant development planned on the south side of the intersection of Detroit and Lake avenues in Cleveland’s Detroit-Shoreway neighborhood. There, a 136-unit affordable housing project could see construction start by early next year on the site of the former Watterson-Lake Elementary School, 7407 Detroit Ave.

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Haslam’s mini-downtown – at Brook Park or Burke?

City and county officials reportedly are near to announcing a plan to close Burke Lake-
front Airport next to the Downtown Cleveland. The question is, what replaces it? There
are rumors that the owners of the Cleveland Browns are considering it as a site for a
new domed stadium and more than $1 billion worth of supportive development (KJP).
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The Haslam Sports Group plans more than a billion dollars worth of new development surrounding their proposed new domed stadium. But is that necessarily going to be in the Cleveland suburb of Brook Park? With an emerging effort by city officials to close and redevelop Burke Lakefront Airport, look for that site to be offered up as a location for the stadium and supportive development. Rumors are circulating that both could happen.

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Severance Center remake in the works

Entrance to Severance Town Center on Mayfield Road. Just beyond is the vacant
Front Stage Multiplex Theater and several large, vacant retail spaces. Following
the signing of a master development agreement, it’s possible that some or all of
Severance Town Center may be demolished and turned into a mixed-use, pede-
strian-friendly neighborhood of housing, retail and restaurants (Google).
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Severance Town Center is considered by Cleveland Heights Mayor Kahlil Seren as his community’s greatest development opportunity and challenge. That challenge has been taken on by MPACT Collective of Long Island, NY by signing a master developer agreement with Namdar Realty Group which owns much of the underutilized property.

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Ohio Capital Budget’s Cuyahoga County projects

Cuyahoga County’s biggest winner dollar-wise in the Ohio capital budget was
the North Coast Connector land bridge. It got a $20 million boost for the $230
million project that could improve linkages between Downtown Cleveland, its
Lake Erie waterfront, a future multimodal transportation hub and possibly a
renovated stadium (FO). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine said he is eager to sign the largest capital budget in the state’s history. This $4.2 billion goody bag of Senators’ and Representatives’ gifts to their constituents was passed yesterday, resulting from a strong economy and robust tax revenues that fed a record budget surplus. In that goody bag are things ranging in size from $2,250 for the Solon Innovation Center to $20 million for Downtown Cleveland’s North Coast Connector land bridge.

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Cleveland, NE Ohio projects win historic tax credits

K&D Group’s renovation of The Electric Building, 700 Prospect Ave. in Downtown
Cleveland, was among 43 winners statewide today in nailing down millions in
Ohio Historic Preservation Tax Credits. This building will be renovated
with apartments (LoopNet). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

From Downtown Cleveland to the suburbs to outlying cities in Northeast Ohio, nearly a dozen planned redevelopments of aging buildings were blessed with historic tax credits from the state. They were among 35 awards totaling more than $68 million to preserve dozens of historic buildings in 12 communities across Ohio.

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Cleveland Metroparks wins $19.5M for East Side trails

Adding more safe pedestrian and bike routes in Cleveland will result from the largest-
ever federal grant awarded to the Cleveland Metroparks. Construction will likely
begin in 2026 on these projects that will add 4 miles of all-purpose trails (KJP).
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Cleveland Metroparks announced it has been awarded a $19.5 million federal grant, the largest ever to be received by organization to construct 4 miles of all-purpose trails on the city’s southeast side into Downtown Cleveland. Construction work on the trail segments is planned to begin in 2026.

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Downtown’s Rose Building to be hotel, apartments

The Rose Building was the headquarters of Medical Mutual insurance company since
the 1940s until it left for suburban Brooklyn. Like many other historic office build-
ings downtown, it will be renovated and repurposed for residential and hotel
uses (file photo). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

In a strategic collaboration that allows Cleveland’s urban gems to shine in a new light, Spark GHC and Cleveland Construction today announce a groundbreaking joint venture. Project Scarlet represents a significant commitment of $100+ million to transform a 400,000-square-foot office space, formerly Medical Mutual’s headquarters, into a dynamic mixed-use development.

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Cleveland-Akron-Canton train route a puzzle

Passenger rail development in the USA is picking up speed. One of the newest rail
services is Florida’s Brightline, linking Miami and Orlando by utilizing existing
rail and highway rights of way and attracting 4,600 riders per day. Here, a
Brightline train pulls up to a new station in Aventura, FL (Google).
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Last week, a bipartisan group of Ohio Congresspersons wrote to Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) Director Jack Marchbanks asking his department to include an Akron-Canton-area station stop in its upcoming passenger rail development plans. Those plans for Northeast Ohio include potential new Amtrak services from Cleveland to Toledo and Detroit, as well as from Cleveland to Columbus, Dayton and Cincinnati (3C&D).

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Big developer moving HQ to Chester in Midtown

CHN Housing Partners will move its growing headquarters and more than 185
jobs into this building on Chester Avenue in Cleveland’s Midtown neighbor-
hood. The building, to be renovated, will allow the company to continue to
grow and give it more visibility on a busier street (Google).
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For more than 20 years, or roughly half of its organizational life, CHN Housing Partners’ headquarters has been in the same location at Cleveland’s Asia Plaza. But with a growing staff and a desire for more growth to increase the supply of affordable housing, it’s taking steps to move to larger, more visible quarters at 3711 Chester Ave. in Cleveland’s Midtown neighborhood.

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Ownership stake in The Bell to be auctioned off

The former Ohio Bell headquarters, now The Bell mixed-use redevelopment, has
an ownership interest up for grabs at an auction scheduled with Maltz Auctions
on July 12 (KJP). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

With a certificate of occupancy in hand and leasing to start in two weeks, The Bell, 45 E. 9th St. in Downtown Cleveland, will be the subject of an online auction scheduled for next month. The auction is intended to make available a portion of the interest in a general partnership that owns the office-turned-residential building.

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Ferry Cap & Set Screw razed for new development

Demolition equipment sits atop large piles of debris left from the former Ferry
Cap & Set Screw Company on Scranton Road in Cleveland’s Tremont neigh-
borhood. WXZ Development leveled the building to create a 5-acre mixed-
use development site (KJP). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Another big, old vacant factory in Cleveland has been knocked down. But this five-story factory, the former Ferry Cap & Set Screw Co., 2151 Scranton Rd. in Tremont, was recently the subject of a redevelopment plan. Its demolition by the owner/developer and the lack of a submitted plan for the site’s reuse is an intriguing turn of events.

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Port finances Cleveland, Mayfield apartments & more

The Gates Mills Villa Apartments in the Eastgate area of Mayfield Heights
will be renovated for $48 million thanks to financing arranged and approved
 today by the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority (Google).
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Two major, multi-family residential projects, one in Cleveland and the other in Mayfield Heights, got their financing packages approved today by the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority. About $47 million in revenue bonds were approved for the two projects which represent a combined investment of $65 million.

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Mortgage spat puts downtown building on market

The four-story office building 1020 Bolivar next to Downtown Cleveland’s Erie
Street Cemetery and the under-construction Ten60 Bolivar apartments has hit the
market after a receiver was approved by a court to oversee the property’s sale to
help resolve a foreclosure (Newmark). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

In a weak office market, another office property has been listed for sale. But this time, a Downtown Cleveland property is hitting the market because Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court Judge Cassandra Collier-Williams ordered it to, so as to resolve a foreclosure complaint.

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Medical warehouse wins pitch competition

Cleveland-based BridgePort Group, a supply chain consultant, plans a 250,000-
square-foot, temperature-controlled warehouse for the medical and pharmaceutical
industries along Cleveland’s Opportunity Corridor at East 93rd Street. Its vision
won it first prize in the inaugural Cleveland Equitable Development Initiative
competition (BridgePort). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

An ambitious and innovative plan to construct a high-tech cold storage facility for medical and pharmaceutical uses along the Opportunity Corridor Boulevard has secured the top prize in the first Cleveland Equitable Development Initiative (CLE-EDI) real estate developer pitch competition. The competition was spearheaded by Cleveland Development Advisors and Cleveland Neighborhood Progress.

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Northern Ohio Blanket Mills ready for next role

In this northward-looking view, the Northern Ohio Blanket Mills is fully
redeveloped. However, some last-minute refinements are being provided
to the site and new commercial tenants are being accommodated. The
brick street across the image is St. Rocco’s Court with Fulton Road and
the Lin Omni Square on the left. West 33rd Street is to the extreme
right (Dimit). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

For more than 15 years, the landmark Northern Ohio Blanket Mills, 3160 W. 33rd St., sat empty and decaying. But this summer, following a $30 million renovation, residential and commercial tenants are moving into the 19th-century factory in Cleveland’s Clark-Fulton neighborhood that was once the country’s largest manufacturer of woolen horse blankets and carriage robes.

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Miceli Dairy plans $128M expansion, 250 new jobs

Miceli Dairy Products Co. facilities are due to expand in a three-phase development.
This view looks south on East 90th Street at the company’s offices and plant in Cleve-
land’s Buckeye-Woodhill neighborhood. The first phase of expansion will be just
beyond these buildings and include new warehousing and transportation
facilities (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Cleveland’s booming food industry on the city’s East Side continues to boom. The next explosive expansion could more than double the size of Miceli Dairy Products Co., 2721 E. 90th St., in Cleveland’s Buckeye-Woodhill neighborhood. The company, which turned 100 years old last year, is planning an investment of about $128 million divided among three phases of expansion that promises up to 250 new jobs.

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Sherwin-Williams outlines new HQ parking plan

With its West 3rd Street façade looking nearly finished today, the parking garage at
Sherwin-Williams’ new headquarters had been a subject of debate inside and out of
the company. This week, company officials outlined its headquarters parking plan
which will have an effect on Downtown Cleveland’s parking situation and
future developments (KJP). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

This week, Sherwin-Williams released a parking plan for workers at its new Downtown Cleveland headquarters that is due to open sometime in mid-2025. The parking plan was provided to the nearly 3,500 headquarters employees to answer their commuting questions, although the impacts of the plan will effect other workers, residents and visitors in the western part of downtown.

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St. Theodosius Cathedral begins its long recovery

To stabilize St. Theodosius Cathedral following its May 28 fire, the landmark
onion-shaped dome was removed from the top of the structure (Phil Bowman).
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Plans for shoring up the structure of St. Theodosius Cathedral, 733 Starkweather Ave., in Cleveland’s Tremont neighborhood, to prevent its collapse following last week’s devastating fire were submitted to the city. The plans included close-up photographs of the extensive damage caused by the accidental May 28 fire. The photos were filed with the city today and published here by NEOtrans.

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Cleveland seeks one big grant for lakefront connector, Shoreway Blvd, multimodal station

 Looking east from West 3rd Street, there are multiple barriers between Downtown
Cleveland’s central business district, at right, and the Lake Erie waterfront, to the
left. They include the Shoreway highway, visible above the trees, and the access
ramps to it are in the foreground. Most of these features are due to go away if
the city is able to secure federal funds to afford it (Google).
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In one of the largest single federal grant requests ever by the city of Cleveland, Mayor Justin Bibb’s administration is seeking $268 million from the federal government to tackle four main lakefront improvement projects simultaneously. The projects, which include reconfiguring the Shoreway highway into a boulevard with intersections, have the backing of the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT), Cuyahoga County and others.

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State lawmakers support some stadium funding

Due to its higher cost and smaller host city, constructing a new multi-purpose
stadium in the Cleveland suburb of Brook Park may depend more so on state
funding than a rebuild of Cleveland Browns Stadium on downtown’s lakefront.
And it appears that at least some state funding is forthcoming, source said
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A new multi-purpose stadium sought by the owners of the Cleveland Browns in suburban Brook Park appears to be growing legs thanks to a willingness by state lawmakers to fund a significant portion of the stadium’s construction costs. The biggest questions at this time are how much state funding may be forthcoming and will it make a big enough dent in the public sector side of the financial equation.

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Hough’s Rainey Institute to be civic incubator

The Eleanor Rainey Institute on East 55th Street in Cleveland is proposed to
become a co-working space and business/civic incubator run by the Cliquepoint
Data Foundation. The building at the corner of East 55th  and Dibble Avenue is
due to be renovated and expanded with a large addition put on the back of the
structure (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

For 120 years, a settlement house at 1523 E. 55th St. has served the philanthropic needs of Cleveland’s Hough neighborhood. Following a planned $2 million structural renovation and expansion by the Cliquepoint Data Foundation, it will continue to serve the community albeit in a different capacity.

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St. Ignatius High breaks ground on DiSanto Hall

Construction officially got underway yesterday on a $40 million renovation and
construction project at St. Ignatius High School, next to its Wasmer Field. The
renovated library and added classrooms, locker rooms, offices and more
(Perspectus). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Shovels hit the soil yesterday at St. Ignatius High School in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood in a groundbreaking ceremony for a renovated and expanded academic building to be called DiSanto Hall. The building, when complete in the Fall 2025, is being named for the project’s largest donor Fred DiSanto and his wife Brittan.

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Downtown’s 800 Superior for sale, big tenant leaving

Through its owners rep, National General Insurance announced today that it will not
seek a renewal of its office lease with an Allstate affiliate that owns the 23-story 800
Superior building. Allstate owns National General and is putting the building up for
sale. It's the latest shake-up of the office market in Downtown Cleveland and
nationwide in the wake of the pandemic that introduced many to remote
working (CBRE Cleveland). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Today, CBRE Cleveland announced that is listing the 23-story 800 Superior office tower in Downtown Cleveland for sale and said one of the property's largest tenants, National General Insurance likely will not renew its lease at the building when it expires in two years. Meanwhile a spokesman for insurer AmTrust Financial, which is the building's other large tenant, said it intends to stay at the building. Both companies have naming rights on the building.

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North Coast Harbor getting $5M makeover

Crowds gather at North Coast Harbor on Labor Day weekend in 2022 to watch the
Cleveland National Air Show. Work is underway to upgrade the accessibility,
safety and aesthetics of North Coast Harbor with an eye toward completion
by May 2025 (KJP). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

North Coast Harbor is set for an upgrade, with a $4.99 million investment that is a result of Mayor Justin Bibb’s Reimagining Downtown Cleveland Plan. This comprehensive project aims to create a more safe, equitable and enjoyable waterfront experience for all visitors.

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Platform Brewery property is on tap

The former Platform Brewery production facility and warehouse at Fulton Road and
Vega Avenue is for sale. It is one of several properties in the immediate area that are in
play for possible redevelopment (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

The latest in a series of properties at the northwest end of Cleveland’s Clark-Fulton neighborhood is in play for possible redevelopment. The former Platform Brewery, 3506 Vega Ave., hit the market today after the microbrewer ceased operations in February following its acquisition in 2019 by Anheuser-Busch.

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All GCRTA Blue Line stations in Shaker Heights to be rebuilt

This is what all of the single-level stations along the light-rail Blue Line in
Shaker Heights will soon look like, thanks to a federal grant awarded today.
Like the Farnsleigh station seen here, all will have new trackside platforms,
tactile edges, waiting areas and ramps to mini-high platforms so wheelchair
passengers and those unable to climb steps can board trains (KJP).
CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

The Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (GCRTA) needed $16 million from the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) to rebuild eight of its stations in Shaker Heights along the light-rail Blue Line. Not only did GCRTA get the full $16 million, it got the money it needed on the first try. That’s a big win considering the FTA received nearly $1.1 billion in requests nationwide for the $343 million in stations funding available this year.

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Greater Cleveland housing market among USA’s tightest

Houses for sale in Greater Cleveland have been harder to find for a while, but
that tightness in the market has become notable on a national scale, pushing
Greater Cleveland to near the top in real estate rankings that show it truly
is a seller’s market (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Spring time is the busiest time of the year for home shopping. That’s when most prospective buyers are out looking for new places to live and, under normal circumstances, it’s when most homeowners list their properties for sale. But these are not normal times in the housing market, especially in Greater Cleveland.

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Why aren’t the Browns buying this key piece of land?

Shown in white, FirstEnergy’s narrow strip of land is only about 100 feet wide but
extends about 1,400 feet into the center of the Brook Park site, shown in red, the
Haslam Sports Group apparently desires for a possible new domed stadium. On
that land is an active, high-voltage electrical transmission line that feeds a nearby
Ford engine plant. A football stadium cannot be built here until that utility right
of way is addressed. In the background is Cleveland Hopkins International Air-
port with Snow Road at lower left and Interstate 71 at lower right (Google).
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On Cuyahoga County real estate parcel maps, a narrow strip of land owned by FirstEnergy knifes into the heart of a Brook Park site the owner of the Cleveland Browns football team reportedly wants for a possible new domed stadium. Despite its prominence on the map, no one in Cleveland media apparently has asked its owner if it has any agreements with anyone for its potential sale — until now.

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