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
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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.

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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).
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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.

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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).
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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.

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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).
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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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).
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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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).
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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.

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