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| Things are looking up for Greater Cleveland’s economy as multiple indicators are showing growth for the region. Employment data is the latest to indicate good news (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Greater Cleveland’s workforce and number of employed people have grown to the highest levels since the start of the Great Recession (2009-11), according to preliminary employment data for the region that was released this week.
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| Outlined and shaded in red, the site for a new apartment complex proposed to be called the Union At Cleveland Harbor is between the East 55th Marina in the fore- ground and the Shoreline Apartments just beyond. In the distance is Downtown Cleveland (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Earlier this month, a letter was sent by an Indianapolis-area real estate developer to Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb and City Council notifying them of its desire to develop a lakefront apartment project and their intention to seek Low Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTC) for it.
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| This 85-foot-long stretch of storefront on Clifton Boulevard between West 115th and 116th streets is starting to see new activity following the closure of the Tick Tock Tavern and the removal of its signs, furnishings, equipment and infrastructure. Now it will be renovated into the next stop on its dining journey (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Renovation work is underway for a successor restaurant to the long-running Tick Tock Tavern in Cleveland’s Edgewater neighborhood. And public records reveal the new restaurant concept that will be taking the historic spot onto its next journey.
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| A wintertime aerial view looking southwest from Ridge Road over Ridge Park Square in the western Cleveland suburb of Brooklyn (JLL). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
JLL Capital Markets announced today that it has secured the sale of Ridge Park Square, a rare dual-grocery anchored regional shopping center located northwest of the Interstate 480-Ridge Road interchange in the western Cleveland suburb of Brooklyn.
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| Two new research buildings for the Cleveland Clinic along Cedar Avenue were topped- out yesterday in a ceremony. The new buildings are the result of the Clinic’s collabora- tion with other partners in the realization of a medical innovation district for Cleveland (Cleveland Clinic). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Cleveland Clinic marked a major milestone late yesterday in the construction of two research buildings in the Cleveland Innovation District. A ceremonial beam-lifting event celebrated the placement of the two final steel beams in the skyway bridge that will span East 100th Street, connecting the new facilities.
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| The next four Woodhill Townhomes will be similar in design to the first four, seen here along East 123rd Street in Cleveland’s Little Italy. The next four are due to rise soon a block west on Coltman Road (Knez). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
It has been several years since the first phase of the 17-unit Woodhill Townhomes were built in Cleveland’s Little Italy. But the next phase is finally getting going and will bring a long-planned street presence to both sides of Coltman Road’s north end.
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| Built in 1924 as a new location for a children’s orphanage, the Cleveland Christian Home on Lorain Avenue on Cleveland’s West Side was sold several years ago to The Centers For Families and Children and will be extensively renovated starting by the end of this year (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Construction is getting underway for the $6.8 million renovation of the HOPE Campus, 11401 Lorain Ave., in Cleveland’s Westown neighborhood. If the name of the campus doesn’t sound familiar, it’s because the renovation is part of a transition of the property from its century-long service as the Cleveland Christian Home (CCH).
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| A more economically achievable high-rise mixed-tower at the Circle Square district in Cleveland’s University Circle was presented today at City Planning Commission and won support from the panel (SCB). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Having previously received schematic design approval in October 2024, the East Stokes apartment tower in University Circle showed no signs of slowing down. But when the project never returned to the city planning commission for final approval, speculation about its future began.
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| In the center of this image is the proposed new Huntington Bank Field in Brook Park. Just beyond it is Cleveland Hopkins International Airport with an east-west runway. Its aircraft traffic patterns may force the proposed stadium to trade places with its future stadium village development in the foreground (HKS). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
A law firm representing the Haslam Sports Group was notified by the state’s aviation administrator that a permit application for building the new Huntington Bank Field in suburban Brook Park near Cleveland Hopkins International Airport was denied.
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| Called Canopy, this large multi-family development will be built next to Herman Park in Cleveland’s Gordon Square neighborhood (Dimit). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
The development team for a large apartment project in Cleveland’s Gordon Square neighborhood closed on financing this week. That should allow it to start work on the new development this year. The development also has a name now — Canopy and a Web presence.
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| By the slimmest of margins, the 45 West mixed-use development in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood won approval by the city’s Landmarks Commission. It was one of two projects on the West Side to gain new life today (Vocon). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
A pair of residential projects in the works for several years were brought to today’s Landmarks Commission meeting. And while they differed in size and use, both were an expression of the continued development and investment occuring on Cleveland’s near-West Side.
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| At the top of Superior Road hill in East Cleveland, this large complex of apartments was acquired by a developer who plans to renovate them (Green Bridge Real Estate). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
The 174-unit, 188,000-square-foot Forest Hills Park Apartment Complex, located on 1.479 Acres at 13995 and 14015 Superior Rd., in East Cleveland has transferred ownership yesterday and is due to be renovated, according to a press release.
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| A significant number of Cleveland State University students use and depend on the U-Pass for transit not only to get to classes but to go grocery shopping, go to work and run errands. Without the pass, they faced much higher expenses in trying to get an education and improve their lives (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Cleveland State University (CSU) officials announced today that the school will continue to offer students discounted passes to ride Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (GCRTA) buses and trains. But only those students seeking the discount, called the U-Pass, will be charged for it.
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| The Cleveland Clinic Global Peak Performance Center is the first phase of Bedrock’s Riverfront development in Downtown Cleveland. Combined with the next phase in the development would meet NEOtrans’ definition of a megaproject, becoming the tenth such project in or near Cleveland’s urban core (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Sometimes we’re in the weeds, hyperlocal, self-interested, pre-occupied with our own day-to-day lives. So sometimes it’s hard to appreciate the magnitude of things changing around us unless you step back and take a look at them in totality. NEOtrans did, and wow, there’s a lot of megaprojects to soak up just in Greater Cleveland!
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| One of the most vibrant and, thus, congested enclaves in Cleveland is the Ohio City Market District. West 25th Street through this area hosts cars, trucks, bikes, dozens of on-street parking spaces, and two bus routes that carry more than 1 million riders each. Figuring out how to reduce transit travel time through this gauntlet is the goal of a pending $50 million project (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
As plans for enhancing the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority’s (GCRTA) MetroHealth Line Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) advance, a pinch point in those plans has become the subject of debate.
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| On a small piece of city-owned land at the northeast corner of the Opportunity Corridor Boulevard and East 75th Street, in front of the Orlando Baking Co. plant, will be a 25-foot-high, dual-sided, electronic billboard (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Construction work began last week to erect two large billboards along the Opportunity Corridor Boulevard on Cleveland’s East Side. The billboards are the result of litigation that will allow the demolition of a billboard and a decayed building that supports it, located at West 25th Street and Detroit-Superior Bridge in Cleveland’s Ohio City.
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| This conceptual design for a proposed boutique hotel in Cleveland’s Ohio City neigh- borhood shows wood-timbered columns, framing and flooring above the reinforced concrete first floor and foundation. It was part of the documentation for a construc- tion permit application of the hotel’s foundation and superstructure (DLR). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
In May, real estate developer Dan Whalen left a Landmarks Commission meeting with a design approval in his pocket and a range of possibilities in the back of his mind. Those led him to consider building his latest development, a Marriott Tribute Portfolio boutique hotel, 1950 W 26 St., in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood, with an extensive amount of mass-timber construction.
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| Marquees on the parking lot and Stokes Boulevard sides of University Circle’s latest residential offering introduce prospective tenants to a new way of living that rewards residents for spending more time outside of their apartments (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
If you end up spending little more than sleeping time in an apartment at Skyline On Stokes, you’re probably enjoying the lifestyle offered by University Circle’s latest residential property. And it’s not just because of where the new building is located. It’s also because the amenities inside the building are large, both in scale and in variety.
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| he new plan for the 45 West mixed-use development offers a more commanding presence on Lorain Avenue in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood. But a design- review committee suggested that larger presence at the south end should allow it to reduce the building’s scale at the north end, next to smaller homes (Vocon). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
At 1 a.m. April 10, 2024, a former funeral home dating to 1865 at 4434 Lorain Ave. in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood went up in flames. So too did real estate developer My Place Group’s plans for renovating it as part of a larger mixed-use development called 45 West.
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| Thousands of Cleveland State University students use the university’s U-Pass program each semester for free travel on Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority buses and trains regardless of purpose. Last week, CSU announced it was ending the program. This week, the transit agency and university officials were working on options to provide fare benefits to students (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
One week ago, Cleveland State University (CSU) notified its students that it was ending its U-Pass that provided fee travel on Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (GCRTA) buses and trains. Today, GCRTA announced that conversations were occurring to continue to offer fare discount benefits to thousands of CSU students.
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| The Ohio Department of Transportation will create a SmartLane along a congested stretch of Interstate 90 near Downtown Cleveland, through Dead Man’s Curve. This unofficial rendering looks west toward downtown and the curve. The inner lane at left will be the SmartLane (Methodicle). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
With reconstruction of the Interstates 90/77 Central Interchange in Downtown Cleveland expected to begin next year, the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) has its sights set on the next phase of the massive Innerbelt project — and that next phase may include a technology that’s brand new to Northeast Ohio.
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| Greater Cleveland’s new rapid transit trains are starting to look like trains at the Siemens Mobility factory in Sacramento, CA. These are two halves of a rail car that will be connected to each other at a hinge to create a single “articulated” car. Cleveland will get 60 of these starting next year (GCRTA). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
In two weeks, the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (GCRTA) will likely authorize completion of its 60-car order of new trains to replace the oldest rail transit fleet in the nation. The Cuyahoga County-based transit agency is hurriedly trying to round up the last funding and complete the order before costs rise further.
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| This century-old structure on Euclid Avenue at East 71st Street in Cleveland’s Midtown neighborhood is proposed for demolition to avail a future development site. But the demolition was postponed by the Planning Commission which sought more information. The site is next to a station on the HealthLine bus rapid transit (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Neither Mother Nature, the Cleveland Foundation or the Cleveland Planning Commission have so far been able to demolish a century-old building at Euclid Avenue and East 71st Street in Cleveland’s Midtown neighborhood. The tornado-damaged former showroom and warehouse of the Baker Electric Car Company, 7107-7113 Euclid, is in the crosshairs of a nearly four-acre redevelopment site.
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| Fifty acres of developable Downtown Cleveland lakefront land, lightly shaded and outlined in blue, with another 15 acres set aside for public spaces are the subject of a pending offer to prospective developers. That includes the 22-acre site of Huntington Bank Field where the Cleveland Browns play roughly 10 home games per season until their lease with the city runs out after the 2028 football season (NCWDC). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
While it may be unlikely the existing Huntington Bank Field will remain standing if and when the Cleveland Browns leave it, the head of a nonprofit corporation overseeing lakefront development kept the door open for the National Football League team to return if it chooses. But the clock is running for the Browns’ owners to compete with other prospective lakefront developers to respond to a request for qualifications (RFQ) issued last month.
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| Rather than submit detailed plans for the Cleveland Cosm to the Cleveland Planning Com- mission, the project architect sought feedback from pictures of existing Cosm locations and this rendering of the Detroit Cosm, now under construction at Cadillac Square, adjacent to Campus Martius Park (Rossetti). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Bedrock Real Estate, Cosm and a project architect are already moving forward with plans to build a new immersive entertainment and hospitality venue in Downtown Cleveland known as Cosm Cleveland. And those conceptual plans crossed their first big hurdle today with unanimous support from the City Planning Commission.
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| The Klutch Cannabis store on lower Prospect Avenue in Downtown Cleveland has a sign that used the same style as the original Record Rendezvous sign dating from when the store opened here in the 1940s. The entire 1908-building was renovated for $1.6 million (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
There is a recent surge of retailers opening in Downtown Cleveland due in part to a growing traffic base coming from several sectors. One is the continued strong residential population growth. Another is the increasing number of return-to-office requirements by employers. And the last is the growing number of year-round entertainment options downtown, based on the hours of operation of the new retailers.
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| Cleveland State University has long been a close partner to the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority in many ways, including its sponsorship of the bus rapid transit-light route along Clifton-Lake through Cleveland and its West Shore suburbs. But the financially troubled university has left transit riders at the curb by exiting the U-Pass program (GCRTA). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Cleveland State University (CSU) notified its students this morning by e-mail that it will immediately discontinue its participation in the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority’s (GCRTA or RTA) U-Pass program. This program provided to CSU students vastly discounted monthly GCRTA passes which they could use for other transportation — to work, medical appointments, grocery shopping and more.
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| The highest swimming pool in Cleveland is now open with more than a month to go until Labor Day. And right after Labor Day is when the finishing touches on Skyline 776 are due to be completed (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Fifty weeks ago, NEOtrans got a tour of the Skyline 776 apartment tower just as its first tenants were moving in. But those tenants were moving into a 23-story high-rise that was still under construction and recovering from a sudden transition. Nearly a year later, work is still be done on the building, at 776 Euclid Ave. in Downtown Cleveland. But a lot has been done and there is finally an end-date in sight.
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| Aerial rendering of the soon-to-be-built Euclid Beach Connector Trail. When combined with the existing trails in Euclid Beach and Wildwood parks to the east, or left in this view, the total length of this trail will be about 1 mile long when complete in early 2027 (Cuyahoga County). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
It’s much nicer to consider a new lakefront trail project now in July rather than in January when construction is due to begin. But between now and then, the city of Cleveland, Cuyahoga County and the Cleveland Metroparks will be finalizing agreements for the construction and maintenance of the Euclid Beach Connector Trail.
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| Many people might see two undeveloped rail stations, a highway barrier and an endan- gered stadium. Planners with vision see a canvas on which Downtown Cleveland’s lake- front access and development can be vastly improved to energize this mostly languid part of the urban core (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Greater Clevelanders have often lamented the large number of downtown lakefront redevelopment plans that have come and gone without producing much, if anything — other than more paper. Sadly, so have the large number of plans for a downtown intermodal transportation hub. They’ve sparked as much as a match in a vacuum would.
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| Downtown Cleveland’s Nine-Twelve District is hurting these days. This office building at 1100 Superior Ave. is a emblematic of it. The building is headed to auction next month due to lagging occupancy. But some buildings visible here have even more vacancies but are awaiting conversion to residential — 925 Euclid, Ohio Savings and 800 Superior (LoopNet). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
It’s not a good situation when the two major commercial segments of the market — office and industrial — are both seeing sluggish times in terms of leasing activity. In fact, both sectors in Greater Cleveland saw tenants give back more space to the market than they absorbed due to some large, high-profile departures.
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| Burke Lakefront Airport’s proximity to Downtown Cleveland is both an asset to Cleve- land and, according to a city-commissioned study last year, an opportunity cost preventing the city from enjoying even more benefits from this huge lakefront site. Yet the airport cannot be closed unless other Greater Cleveland reliever airports offer the same or better facilities at Burke (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
While NEOtrans usually doesn’t cover development news in the collar counties around Cuyahoga County, the funded expansion of Lorain County Regional Airport could have a significant impact on the urban core of Greater Cleveland. Specifically, it could provide a runway for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to allow the closure of Burke Lakefront Airport in Downtown Cleveland.
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| Circled in red is the potential location of and facilities for a new multimodal trans- portation center on the Downtown Cleveland lakefront for bus and rail services plus an extended port access roadway. The goal is to advance planning to a 30 percent level of design so that the city will know how much funding will be needed to finalize the design and build it (FO). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Improving access to a re-envisioned Downtown Cleveland lakefront by more than just driving has been a focus of the city’s lakefront master-planning process. But the details on how that could be done so far have been vague and conceptual. That will change as a result of a $960,000 federal grant awarded this week to the city.
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| An early rendering of a redeveloped Westinghouse factory shows several features still in updated plans. The most prominent is the eight-story tower reflecting a sunrise over Downtown Cleveland. Next is the façade of the old foundry which will remain, but this doesn’t show the new foundry building proposed behind it. And in the background is a phase-two development idea that remains to be seen if it is still relevant (AoDK Architects). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
After two years of outward silence, redevelopment of the former Westinghouse plant is showing new signs of life. Those signs are in the form of updated plans for the project which have become public. The vacant Westinghouse plant is located at 1200 W. 58th St. in Cleveland’s Detroit-Shoreway neighborhood.
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| When the Cleveland Browns’ lease ends after the 2028 football season, could the second level of Huntington Bank Field be removed and remainder of the facility be converted into a soccer stadium? This is what it could look like (Methodicle). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
In a request for qualifications (RFQ) issued by the city of Cleveland last week for the development of lakefront land, all but 22 acres of it has a city masterplan established for it. That 22-acre exception is the site occupied by Huntington Bank Field which the city is offering up as a blank slate for those with ideas and other wherewithal.
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| Signet Real Estate Group’s proposed Midtown development was rapidly advanced from a conceptual design application to final approval today by the Cleveland Plan- ning Commission’s Design Review Committee. It is just one of projects moving for- ward on the city’s East Side (Vocon). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
In recent weeks, five major residential developments on Cleveland’s East Side are seeing substantial progress that could propel them to construction by the end of the year. And, 12-18 months thereafter, 537 new apartments, many of them with below-market rents, could be ready for residents to move in.
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| Sherwin-Williams' new headquarters tower at the west side of Downtown Cleveland's Public Square awaits a move-in of employees in the coming months from its old headquarters offices nearby. And employees will be moving in at the end of the year from their offices at home where many have worked at least two days a week since the pandemic (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
During and after the COVID-19 pandemic, Sherwin-Williams (SHW) executives allowed the company’s office workers to either work from home, the office or a hybrid mix. That continued during the “Building Our Future” planning and construction of the new Downtown Cleveland headquarters and research center in suburban Brecksville. Until now.
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| A three-building apartment complex is planned by Signet Real Estate Group with one building fronting Euclid Avenue shown here, another on Chester Avenue and a third in between. A driveway to the parking lot and the middle building runs under the Euclid building which will also have a retail space at the far end (Vocon). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
After experiencing success with two other apartment complexes it built in recent years on Cleveland’s East Side, an Akron-based developer is pursuing a third. But each of the three developments by Signet Real Estate Group has used a different design approach,
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| As viewed from West 48th Street, it is clear that construction progress on the Equinox Townhomes stopped months ago based on the condition of the site. The reason is due to legal battles underway regarding the project’s finances (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Eleven townhomes in various states of construction progress have been sitting idle since last fall and are becoming a worry to neighbors, based on social media posts and inquiries to NEOtrans. But based on court filings, further construction progress on the Equinox Townhomes, 1420 W. 48th St., in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood may not happen for months.
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| The 1999-built Huntington Bank Field on Downtown Cleveland’s lakefront could be gone in 2029 or soon thereafter. The city is asking developers who has the best ideas and wherewithal to repurpose or replace it and activate the land around it, right up to the water’s edge (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Huntington Bank Field may not be located on Downtown Cleveland’s lakefront for much longer after a new, enclosed stadium is built in suburban Brook Park. If so, what should replace it? And who should do it? The answer to those questions will be the result of a request for qualifications (RFQ) issued by the city and its partners today.
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| Seen at the Flats East Bank’s boardwalk, the Cleveland Water Taxi’s Harbor Hopper looks like a waterborne school bus from this view along the Cuyahoga River in Downtown Cleveland (GCP Instagram). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
First there was the Holy Moses Water Taxi. Then there’s The eLCee2 Water Taxi, which still operates on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. Next, starting on July 21, the Cleveland Water Taxi’s Harbor Hopper plans to offer daily schedules and intends to serve many more waterfront destinations in the future than its predecessors.
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| Local, state and federal dignitaries braved the hot sun to flip some dirt at the start of the replacement of the East 79th Street Blue/Green Line station. The station is closed during the 14-month-long, $10 million reconstruction project that is intended to boost and be- nefit from the redevelopment of job-producing sites along the Opportunity Corridor (Rep. Shontel Brown). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Sometimes a piece of underutilized infrastructure can be revived to be a part of not only its own rebirth, but that of its surrounding area. And in return, that rebirth helps to justify the existence of the infrastructure in the first place. In this case, the infrastructure is the East 79th Street Blue/Green Line station that was considered for closure a decade ago.
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| It’s not the purchase of a Florida mansion that raised eyebrows among several media outlets but its timing, coming just three days after $600 million of Ohioans’ unclaimed funds were given by state elected officials to the Haslams for their planned new sta- dium in suburban Brook Park (Traded). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Three days after Ohio officials approved $600 million in state funds for the Haslam Sports Group’s new stadium in suburban Cleveland, billionaires Dee and Jimmy Haslam closed on the purchase of a $25 million beachfront mansion in Florida. The two events are either a remarkable coincidence or some tone-deaf scheduling.
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| he lakefront east of downtown and the harbor north of it are all connected to the Port’s Cleveland Harbor Eastern Embayment Resilience Strategy (CHEERS). Dredging of the harbor to keep it open for shipping is deposited at the northeast corner of Burke Lakefront Airport, seen at left. A dredging barge is visible just left of center (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
With federal permitting dragging on to allow the Port of Cleveland to build on offshore island east of downtown, the Port board yesterday awarded a $4 million contract so the port could continue to deposit sediment from the Cleveland harbor and Cuyahoga River at the northeast corner of Burke Lakefront Airport until 2029.
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| During a topping-off ceremony on July 8, crews set into place the last piece of struc- tural steel (painted white) for the new Cleveland Clinic Global Peak Performance Center for the first phase of Bedrock Real Estate’s Riverfront Cleveland develop- ment. More projects on the riverfront and elsewhere downtown could be aided by increased public incentives in the two-year state budget passed on June 30 (Bedrock). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
When sifting through the many development incentives in the state’s newly passed two-year budget, it becomes clear that a lot of Cleveland urban core projects are going to be eligible for them and potentially benefit from them. But, as we saw from a state program to aid megaprojects, a program will only benefit a region if there are projects and their sponsors in that region who will apply for them.
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| Proposed for the southwest corner of Lorain Avenue and West 38th Street, the Noble Market Biergarten involves renovating an existing building while adding a greenhouse and patio for a year-round beer garden. The project’s backers say it will be the first such beer garden in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood (Horton Harper). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
A long-vacant gas station and underutilized historic building at the southwest corner of Lorain Avenue and West 38th Street is proposed to become a near-west-side expansion for Noble Beast Brewing Co. But this wouldn’t be another brewpub in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood. Instead, if realized, it would be the neighborhood’s first year-round beer garden.
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| Redevelopment of the Lakewood Hospital site by CASTO of Columbus will be called Lakewood Common. It was awarded financing today by the Port of Cleveland to get that project underway (Dimit). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
The Port of Cleveland board of directors today approved bonds for five major development projects in four communities across the region — Berea, Cleveland, Lakewood and Richmond Heights. The total investment from the developments in these communities total more than $405 million.
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| Eleven years after it closed and less than a year before it was demolished, General Electric’s Pitney Glass Works on East 152nd Street in Cleveland stood silent in July 2022 as a powerful reminder of America’s industrial prowess. Now cleared, the site was named as the city’s preferred location for the construction of a modular home factory (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
A 22-acre site at 1133-1175 East 152nd Street in Cleveland’s Collinwood neighborhood was selected by city officials as the future home of a new factory for manufacturing affordable, modular homes. Now, the city has to decide which of four candidate companies it will offer the site to build its factory.
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| In a rendering that’s been circulating publicly for months, showing the planned, enclosed Huntington Bank Field in Brook Park, closer inspection reveals that a Cosm venue was planned for the mixed-use district adjacent to it. Cosm was con- sidering it seriously enough to allow its logo to be used in this official rendering. But Cosm ended up locating in Downtown Cleveland (HKS). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
This could be a battle to watch in the coming years — a battle of the billionaires and their venues for Northeast Ohio’s entertainment dollars. And in the latest round, the win goes to Dan Gilbert, David Blitzer and Downtown Cleveland for securing the fifth US location of Cosm, an immersive technology sports and entertainment attraction. But it almost went to suburban Brook Park.
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| Based on preliminary site plans secured by NEOtrans, the external design of the Dallas Cosm is comparable to what is planned for Downtown Cleveland. The site plan revealed by NEOtrans several weeks ago suggests that this will be the north- west corner of Cleveland’s Cosm, surrounded by new parking facilities and future development (Cosm). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Cosm, Bedrock, and Rock Entertainment Group (REG) announced today that Cosm, a leading immersive technology, media and entertainment company, will anchor Bedrock’s mixed-use Rock Block development in Downtown Cleveland’s Gateway District. NEOtrans was first to report on this pending development three weeks ago when site-preparation plans were submitted to the city.
