Haslam’s Brook Park, Berea developments progress

Starting tonight at a city of Berea Planning Commission meeting, property owner
Haslam Sports Group, developer DiGeronimo Companies and architect AODK Archi-
tecture are seeking a project design-specific rezoning for a Cleveland Browns-themed
mixed-use development (Architecture, Design, & 3D Renderings by AODK Archi-
tecture). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

A small but strategic piece of land that was in the way of the Haslam Sports Group’s (HSG) proposed stadium for its Cleveland Browns football team in suburban Brook Park has sold. Its sale gets it out of the way and into the fold of the overall property transaction for the roofed stadium. And in neighboring Berea, where HSG and its partners plan a Browns-themed mixed-use development, site plans are getting their first airing tonight as part of a rezoning request.

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Cleveland riverside neighborhood opens for tours

The Collins Apartments, at left, are built on a former steel mill site along Carter
Road in the Flats. The new development features 15 townhomes and two multi-
family buildings and are now open to hard-hat tours by prospective tenants.
More developments are rising on Scranton Peninsula across and down
the street (KJP). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

For much of the past 50 years, Scranton Peninsula, across the curving Cuyahoga River from Downtown Cleveland, had become an increasingly desolate place. It saw its two largest industrial employers — Northern Ohio Lumber and Republic Steel’s Upson Nut Division — depart, leaving the 75-acre peninsula scarred and mostly vacant.

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Barons-Greyhound Lease at Brookpark station OK’d

A Barons bus rolls past the old Cuyahoga County Courthouse in Downtown Cleve-
land Barons and Greyhound bus operations will move in the Summer 2025 from
downtown to an unused parking lot at the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit
Authority’s Brookpark Rapid transit station on the city’s far-west side (KJP).
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With the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority’s (GCRTA) board of trustees unanimously approving a lease with Barons Bus Inc. today, the intercity bus carrier and its partner Greyhound have started on a timetable to relocate out of the historic Downtown Cleveland Greyhound station, 1465 Chester Ave.

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Machine Gun Kelly aims for Shooters in Flats

Shooters On The Water restaurant at Cleveland’s Flats West Bank has a new
operator, a company associated with singer and songwriter Machine Gun
Kelly who grew up in Cleveland. The 37-year-old restaurant on the
Cuyahoga River will be renovated but will keep the name as
Shooters (KJP). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

If there was anyone who would be a perfect fit to take over the operation of a restaurant named Shooters, it would be a guy named Machine Gun Kelly. The riverside restaurant will reportedly be the singer and songwriter’s second establishment in Downtown Cleveland’s Flats entertainment district and is due to be renovated and reopened in the summer of 2025.

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Clinic’s next big parking garage reveals growing pains

University Circle in one picture — big, shiny new buildings, more under construction,
traffic and transit. This is the scene at Euclid Avenue and East 105th Street and en-
capsulates the promises and challenges of rapid growth of Cleveland’s “Second
Downtown” which is rivaling its first downtown as the region’s largest em-
ployment hub (KJP). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

The largest structure on the Cleveland Clinic’s Main Campus isn’t the new 1-million-square-foot Neurological Building on Carnegie Avenue. Instead it’s the 1.56-million-square-foot East 89th Street Parking Garage just west of the Neuro Building. And immediately west of that, on the former site of the Cleveland Play House, Clinic officials are reportedly considering another large parking garage that has transit advocacy groups calling for healthier options.

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Bedrock plans Riverfront Rock & Roll Land theater, 17-story hotel in Downtown Cleveland

The near structure and its surrounding public spaces along the Cuyahoga River in
Downtown Cleveland are the subject of a request by developer Bedrock for $40
million in Transformational Mixed Use Development tax credits. It is one of
21 applicants from around the state to seek the “megaprojects” tax credit
(Adjaye Associates). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

The next phase of Bedrock’s Downtown Cleveland Riverfront development is proposed to feature a large, 17-story entertainment complex topped by a hotel. Dubbed Rock and Roll Land, it is the largest of seven Northeast Ohio projects and is seeking the largest award possible in the fourth and final authorized round of the Ohio Department of Development’s Transformation Mixed Use Development (TMUD) tax credits.

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Port OK’s $171M in financing for major projects

Additional financing was approved today for the $200+ million dollar Cleveland
Clinic Global Peak Performance Center to be built over a restored Eagle Avenue
ramp, extending up from this intersection of West 3rd Street to Downtown Cleve-
land’s Gateway District (Populous). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

The Port of Cleveland today approved the issuance of more than $171 million in bonds and notes for four transformative projects, including the pivotal first new development in Bedrock’s Riverfront project along the Cuyahoga River and a major affordable housing renovation in downtown Cleveland, among other strategic initiatives.

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Go Browns! But where?

An unofficial, conceptual rendering of what Downtown’s Cleveland lakefront
immediately north of the central business district could look like if Huntington
Bank Field were replaced by smaller, productive, everyday uses — and if Burke
Lakefront Airport was closed and replaced by other uses, including possibly a
relocated, all-purpose domed stadium that pushed land-eating parking away
from downtown (Ardoonave). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

One of the most anticipated games in my early Cleveland Browns fandom came three days after Thanksgiving in 1979. The 8-4 Browns faced the hated Steelers at Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh where the Browns had yet to win. The Steelers were going for their fourth Super Bowl in the 1970s and the Browns were trying to get back to their glories of the prior three decades.

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What may follow St. Vincent’s demolition?

The greenfield foreground is the fate of the hospital in the background. This was the
St. Vincent Charity Medical Center in 2021 — its last full year of operation. The
hospital ended its in-patient services later the following year. Every structure
visible here except the enclosed walkway at left and the small, one-story
brick building at the end of it will be demolished in early 2025 (Google).
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Turns out there is more to the story that NEOtrans broke over the weekend — that St. Vincent Charity Community Health Center (SVCCHC) main campus, 2351 E. 22nd St., at the west end of Cleveland’s Central neighborhood, will be demolished in the coming months.

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St. Vincent Charity Medical Center to be demolished

Outlined in red is the St. Vincent Charity Medical Center that will be demolished.
The only structure within that outline that won’t be demolished is a small building
on the other side of the near-Downtown Cleveland campus that is not visible from
this angle. A streetview of that building is shown later in this article (Google).
CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

In just three years, St. Vincent Charity Medical Center, 2351 E. 22nd St,, went from planning a major expansion to requesting the demolition of nearly its entire main campus to the southeast of Downtown Cleveland. Plans were submitted to the city’s Building Department on Friday for demolishing all but 18,000 square feet of the 449,338-square-foot campus.

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More changes arriving at Shaker Square

One of Cleveland’s most unique districts is Shaker Square but had worn out over
the years. The commercial district fronting the square and the residential areas
around it are starting to get some long overdue attention (KJP).
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While a large federal grant was awarded to improve existing conditions at Shaker Square in Cleveland, plans to make long-term changes that reenergize the 95-year-old square are advancing. The short- and long-term work on the square is based on the belief that this historic district can and should be a neighborhood gathering spot rather than try to compete as a regional retail draw.

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Browns’ Berea District 46 plans coming into focus

The Haslam Sports Group, majority owner of the Cleveland Browns, plan a 6,500-seat
stadium at the center of its District 46 mixed-use development in suburban Berea. Other
details about the plans were revealed in public records. At left is a proposed hotel with
an apartment building to the right of it. This view looks southeast from the intersection
of Front Street and Lou Groza Boulevard (Architecture, Design, & 3D Renderings
by AODK Architecture). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

In a public record secured by NEOtrans, more details are coming to light about the owner of the Cleveland Browns, the Haslam Sports Group’s (HSG), proposed mixed-use development in suburban Berea. That includes specifications for the features in the new 500,000-square-foot development which will be built around a small, new sports stadium, dubbed a community field.

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Second apartment complex next to Herman Park

In a couple of years, this proposed apartment building could be overlooking
Herman Park in Cleveland’s Gordon Square neighborhood. It is the second
multifamily development proposed next to the park and the latest of many
in the immediate area (Dimit). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Herman Park may be in need of updating, but its presence is enough to attract a second proposed apartment building to rise next to it. Conceptual designs for that building, located at 6400 Herman Ave. in Cleveland’s Gordon Square neighborhood, were approved yesterday by a neighborhood design-review panel and referred to the City Planning Commission’s Design Review Committee.

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BofA: Cleveland near top of migration destinations

Cleveland’s second downtown, University Circle, continues to grow and potentially
rival the city’s first downtown, seen in the distance, in terms of jobs and residential
population (Noah Belli). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Greater Cleveland ranked fourth on the list of global financial institution Bank of America’s (BofA) latest rankings of where people are moving. That data shows Americans are continuing a pandemic-induced flight to affordability, without sacrificing amenities, in choosing where they want to live.

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Women Religious Archives Center OK’d for downtown

Construction could start as soon as March 2025 on the Women Religious Archives
Collaborative Heritage Center, to be located on East 22nd Street in Downtown
Cleveland’s Campus District. This will be the first of only four such heritage
centers nationwide (Bostwick). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

As fundraising continues, the nation’s first independent repository for Catholic Sisters’ archival collections could see construction start in March 2025 on the southeast side of Downtown Cleveland. The planned Women Religious Archives Collaborative (WRAC) Heritage Center at 2490 E. 22nd St. will offer public programming, exhibitions, meeting space, and be an important place for research and remembrance due to open in 2026.

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Collinwood grocery store redevelopment sought

The former Dave’s Market in Cleveland’s North Collinwood neighborhood will be
acquired by the city and included with adjacent properties to create a larger redevelop-
ment site that will be re-envisioned with community input, then rezoned and offered
to developers (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Cleveland city officials revealed their intentions today to acquire and redevelop a closed grocery store property, 15900 Lake Shore Blvd., in the North Collinwood neighborhood. Officials requested City Planning Commission approval to start assembling the land, then later rezone it and ultimately offer it to developers through a community-driven request for proposals.

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Skyline on Stokes tops out in University Circle

A “topping-off” ceremony was held last week to celebrate completion of the structural
work for the seven-story Skyline on Stokes apartment building. The three-story town-
homes along Cedar Avenue, seen here at East East 107th Street were almost topped-
out.  Stokes Boulevard is on the other side of the apartment building (KJP).
CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

A new apartment building and row of townhomes called Skyline on Stokes have taken form in Cleveland’s University Circle. The last structural features of the seven-story apartment building, formerly called Stokes West, were added and celebrated last week in a “topping-out ceremony.”

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Financial details of Browns’ Berea development

The Haslam Sports Group, their Cleveland Browns football team and multiple partners
plan this mixed-use development next to the Browns’ headquarters and practice facility
in the Cleveland suburb of Berea. This view looks south on a new Pearl Street from
near Lou Groza Boulevard (Architecture, Design, & 3D Renderings by AODK
Architecture). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

When the Haslam Sports Group, owners of the Cleveland Browns, yesterday announced their plans for a mixed-use development next to the football team’s suburban Berea headquarters, it was the result of a tentative deal with city officials and other project partners. A summary of that deal was since revealed by Berea Mayor Cyril Kleem in a social media post.

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Browns’ Berea ‘District 46’ development revealed

Cleveland Browns announced the redevelopment of their Berea headquarters and
associated development, to be called District 46 at CrossCountry Mortgage Cam-
pus. This view looks southeast from above the intersection of Front Street and
Lou Groza Boulevard to the lower left and Depot Street  at the lower right (HSG).
CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Today, the Haslam Sports Group announced it was teaming up with the Berea City Schools, city of Berea, DiGeronimo Companies and University Hospitals to pursue a long-planned mixed-use district next to the Cleveland Browns headquarters in suburban Berea. Recent estimates are that the new development could cost about $221 million to build.

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Port of Cleveland wins record EPA grant

The Cleveland-Europe Express offers competitive transit time advantage for cargo
owners that typically move goods through coastal ports. It is the only container
shipping service on the Great Lakes that handles import and export cargo
(Port of Cleveland). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

The Port of Cleveland was just awarded the largest grant in its history — nearly $95 million from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA). This transformative funding, part of the $3 billion USEPA Clean Ports Program, will position the port as a national leader in sustainable maritime operations and sets the standard for environmental stewardship on the Great Lakes.

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Sneak peek 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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).
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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.

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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).
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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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).
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.

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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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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).
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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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