Downtown’s Canal Basin Park design gets early OK

Downtown Cleveland’s Canal Basin Park, as viewed from near the old Superior
Viaduct, shows the newly added boat docks and the planned boardwalk along
the planned boardwalk along the Cuyahoga River. Designs for the park offer
features that are both fun and educational for people of all ages (Merritt
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Although Cleveland Planning Commission’s Design-Review Committee gave a unanimous thumbs-up today to conceptual plans for downtown’s Canal Basin Park, it wasn’t without some suggestions for improvement. The design team for the 20-acre park, located between turns in the curvaceous Cuyahoga River, will come back to the commission with refined, more detailed schematic designs in the coming months.

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Browns move a step closer to Brook Park

The Cleveland Browns and their majority owner Haslam Sports Group moved a
step closer today to making this rendering of the proposed Brook Park stadium
a reality by exercising an option to buy the 176-acre property (HKS).
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The owners of the Cleveland Browns football team have completed the next part in the process toward building a new enclosed stadium in suburban Brook Park, officially executing a clause in a land purchase agreement to acquire the site. The site at 18300 Snow Rd. in the Cleveland suburb will not only house the new Huntington Bank Field enclosed stadium, but also a planned, adjacent mixed-use development.

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2025 is the year Cleveland returns to the office

Every one of these buildings, from Cleveland’s “Big Four” in the 600-foot-plus club
to the tiniest shop at the edge of downtown, has a story to tell. That story is still
being written. Some added interesting plots last year. Others could take their
turns in 2025. One story that is just starting is the newly built Sherwin-
Williams headquarters tower (The Sherwin-Williams Company).
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For better or worse, for richer or poorer, many of us are about to rediscover our relationship with the office. Some of us never left. Others left and aren’t coming back. But an increasing number of Americans and Greater Clevelanders will be coming back to the office in 2025, for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic caused employers to dabble with remote or hybrid working.

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