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| Burke Lakefront Airport could be repurposed into a lakefront recreation area offered with several design options offering differing amenities in different locations on the huge, 400-acre site (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
The City of Cleveland and the North Coast Waterfront Development Corporation (NCWDC) today released plan options and economic impact findings for a recreation-focused, low-density redevelopment concept for Burke Lakefront Airport.
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| Depot on Detroit breaks ground to the west of GCRTA’s West Blvd-Cudell rapid transit station, served by Airport-Downtown-Windermere Red Line trains (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Construction activity on Cleveland’s West Side is ramping up inside the Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) Zone — defined by the city as the land within a quarter mile (about a five-minute walk) of a high-frequency transit station. Developments within the zone are exempt from parking mandates, reducing construction costs and encouraging transit ridership.
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| Some changes are healthy, but the proposed service reductions to Greater Cleveland Re- gional Transit Authority bus and rail routes may hurt some riders while forcing others to walk a little farther to another route (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Last fall, the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (GCRTA) warned that its worsening budget situation would mean some potentially significant service cuts starting this year. But at a GCRTA board meeting today, staff said they are making other budget cuts that would lessen those service reductions.
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| CSA Group’s new head office and labs will relocate to a site along Brecksville Road at Valor Acres in suburban Brecksville. In the background in this rendering is Sherwin- Williams’ new Morikis Global Technology Center (DiGeronimo). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
CSA Group, a global provider of testing, inspection and certification services, announced today that it will relocate and expand its U.S. Head Office to Valor Acres – a mixed-use, lifestyle center in suburban Brecksville.
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| Construction cranes could return over Downtown Cleveland or major renovation projects continue with the renewal of the state’s Transformational Mixed Use Development tax credit (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
A financial incentive originally designed to spur new construction in Downtown Cleveland has instead helped other Ohio downtowns. But with the Transformational Mixed Use Development (TMUD) tax credit program renewed by the Ohio General Assembly, there is a renewed chance for the program to benefit its birthplace.
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| Naia Noir rises above the Shoreway next to Edgewater Park (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
In Cleveland’s Detroit-Shoreway neighborhood, a pair of residential developments featuring modern apartments has begun construction. The projects are each adjacent to an urban park — offering the benefits of urban living with seamless access to outdoor green space.
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| The design of Ironwood Flats was inspired by neighboring, historic houses in Cleveland’s Slavic Village with gables and different colored sections to break up the massing of the building (RDL). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
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| Still standing proudly at the corner of East 9th Street and Euclid Avenue in Downtown Cleveland, 925 Euclid’s prominence got taken down a few notches by being put up for auction alongside auto parts stores, fast food joints and other retail properties (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
When it was built in 1924, 925 Euclid was one of the largest office buildings on the planet and had the largest bank lobby in the world. Now it’s being offered for sale among the likes of auto parts stores, fast food joints and other retail properties whose owners could no longer manage or financially support them.
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| Birthing Beautiful Communities constructs its new facility at Chester Avenue and East 65th Street in Cleveland’s Hough neighborhood (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
In 2022, NEOtrans reported on a wave of Hough construction projects which added a total of nearly 300 homes across four projects (Park Lamont, The Lumos, Addis View Apartments, and Gordon Crossing). Now, a flurry of groundbreakings — both residential and non-residential — are continuing that trend.
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| Avelo Airlines is expanding to Cleveland starting in June with two new routes using Boeing 737-800 aircraft (AveloAir.com). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Shortly after low-fare carriers Frontier Airlines announced service reductions and Spirit Airlines announced it was ceasing its remaining service to Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, a new low-fare airline is stepping in to fill the void with two new routes.
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| The Rockefeller Building has another opportunity for a reprieve from the wrecking ball if a public-private partnership can bring funding and plans together to save the historic downtown structure (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
K&D Group confirmed that it, along with the city and county land banks, are joining forces to acquire and redevelop the historic Rockefeller Building, 614 W. Superior Ave., in Downtown Cleveland. According to those who have been involved in the project, it may be one of the last, best hopes to save the building.
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| Overlooking the West Shoreway and Edgewater Park, just west of Downtown Cleveland, the development project formerly known as the Shoreway Tower has been branded Naia Noir (J-Roc, EAO). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
It has a new brand, a Web site, a wait list and a place already cemented in Greater Cleveland’s history. But what Naia Noir doesn’t have are modern competitors. In fact, after scouring our Lake Erie waterfront and Cuyahoga County records, NEOtrans contends that this is the first lakefront residential high-rise built in Cuyahoga County in 53 years.
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| Living at 55 is an affordable senior housing complex planned at the site of where Sterle’s Country House stood for decades. The site is seen here at the northeast corner of East 55th Street and Prosser Avenue on Cleveland’s near-east side (City Architecture). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
After a brief pause, the next chapter for a block of East 55th Street, between Bonna and Prosser avenues, is proposed to begin. That block, in Cleveland’s St. Clair-Superior neighborhood, held Frank Sterle’s Slovenian Country House for 68 years — an icon in Cleveland’s Slovenian and Croatian communities.
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| The St. Agnes Church bell tower on Euclid Avenue once called parishioners to services. Now it is calling residents to the site in the form of a proposed new apartment building. But the bigger draw is Cleveland Clinic’s growing Main Campus, just two blocks to the east (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
A potentially large, mixed-use residential-retail development is in the early stages of planning, to be located just west of the Cleveland Clinic’s Main Campus. The site, 8000 Euclid Ave., notes a familiar, yet neglected city-designed landmark — the former bell tower of St. Agnes Church in the Fairfax neighborhood.
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| University Hospitals’ former customer services center off Northfield and Harvard roads in Highland Hills will be repurposed as a pathology lab in a $68.4 million project (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
The Port of Cleveland Board of Directors today approved two projects designed to strengthen Northeast Ohio’s economy, create jobs, and revitalize strategic properties in the region.
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| A newly renovated Shooters in Cleveland’s Flats is scheduled to reopen March 19 under new ownership (Initiative PR). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Shooters, an iconic Cleveland waterfront restaurant and bar, is scheduled to reopen under new ownership March 18 following a $1 million renovation and reimagining of the longtime establishment on the Flats West Bank, 1148 Main Ave.
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| Proposed for the northwest corner of Cedar Avenue and East 90th Street, Bikur Cholim’s Cleveland Comfort House would be next to Cleveland Clinic’s Main Campus and near University Hospitals’ Cleveland Medical Center (studioTECHNE). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Care by medical staff is only part of the recovery for the sick and the injured. The rest is personal care by loved ones, which is shown to make a big difference in helping patients recover more quickly, said Ari Jaffe, a board member at Bikur Cholim of Cleveland.
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| This highly visible but long-vacant multi-family home on East 105th Street in Glenville, just north of the Veterans Administration Hospital, is about to get some long lost love with a major rehabilitation project (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Today, there were two blessings. One was a ceremonial blessing of a flagship development that’s just getting started in Cleveland’s Glenville neighborhood by new real estate developer Tiffany Hollinger.
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| Plans for demolishing the Wolstein Center arena and replacing it with a 15,000-seat soccer stadium and supportive development in Downtown Cleveland appear to be on hold after the city opted to support a competing plan for a soccer stadium in the Gateway South area (CSU, USL Cleveland). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
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| This rendering shows the proposed reactivation of the Meet Me Here park across from Rocket Arena with the new Cosm venue, now under construction, directly behind. Ontario Street is across the bottom and Huron Road is the intersecting street (REG, MKSK). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE |
Plans for a re-imagining of the “Meet Me Here” park in Downtown Cleveland were fast-tracked by the City of Cleveland planning commission on Friday. The expedited process is now more clear given that developers seek to open it in time for the 10th Anniversary of the Cavaliers’ 2016 National Basketball Association (NBA) Championship.
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| With River Roots’ drink in hand, Chef Michael Symon pours over plans with River Roots co-founder and operations director Tom Gray for River Roots Barrel Co. Whiskey Bar and Brewery, to be located on Columbus Road in Cleveland’s Flats (Instagram @ChefSimon). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Celebrity chef Michael Symon announced he is partnering with a local, new-start whiskey distiller in its planned move to Cleveland’s Flats. NEOtrans reported nearly a year ago that River Roots Barrel Company was making a move to the Columbus Road peninsula along the Cuyahoga River.
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| The northwest corner of Rocky River Drive and Cleveland Parkway, north of Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, is the site of the first planned building in Scannell Pro- perties’ expansion of the Cleveland Business Park. The two houses in the background are not part of the project (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
A major new light-industrial, warehousing, life sciences-type development project planned near Cleveland Hopkins International Airport will be larger and more immediate than first reported last month by NEOtrans. The project appears more immediate because there is a prospective tenant that is already shaping the plan.
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| Signs on Detroit Avenue advertise the under-construction Lakewood Common development (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Last fall, NEOtrans reported that CASTO’s $119 million mixed-use development had begun construction on its first building in Downtown Lakewood. In this week’s installment of Progress Pics, we’re excited to share exclusive construction photos as work advances on the first of five floors.
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| After the Adelbert Gym is renovated and expanded, including this new lobby addition to the front entrance, it will be renamed DiSanto Arena in honor of the DiSanto family’s philanthropic gift to Case Western Reserve University (OSPORTS). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Adelbert Gym, 2128 Adelbert Rd., one of Case Western Reserve University’s (CWRU) most historic buildings, will soon undergo a transformative renovation, made possible primarily by recent contributions totaling $7.9 million from two generous trustees.
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| Master Chrome, a fixture on Cleveland’s near West Side since 1950, is coming down over the next month or two. The state of Ohio may seize the property and ultimately list it for sale so the 0.57-acre property can be returned to productive use (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Fencing went up yesterday around the former site of Master Chrome, a polluted brownfield industry, 5709 Herman Ave., in Cleveland’s Gordon Square neighborhood. And in the next month or two, its vine-covered building is coming down. After that, any contaminated materials and soil will be removed. Then the property’s future will be decided.
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| The for-sale Fridrich Bicycle shop in Cleveland’s Ohio City is actually five structures on three parcels plus four more parcels that are vacant. The entire site is about 1 acre with large warehouses that were added onto the original 19th century buildings along Lorain Avenue (The Acclaimed Realty). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
It’s not unusual when buildings are sold by the owners who built them. But it is very unusual when those buildings are 143 years old.
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| Sports and entertainment are part of the Experience Economy, the fastest- growing sector in the nation and is outpacing spending on material goods by a factor of over 1.5, according to McKinsey & Co. Downtown Cleveland’s Gateway District is the local heart of the Experience Economy, which sees millions of visits per year (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
The Cleveland Guardians Major League Baseball team is seeking $64,795,282 for Progressive Field. The Cleveland Cavaliers National Basketball Association team wants $40,308,811 for Rocket Arena. And the Cleveland Soccer Group is in the running for $19.9 million to build a new soccer stadium, according to the Statehouse News Bureau.
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| Brad Nosan is expanding his real estate reach and experiences by joining Cushman & Wakefield – CRESCO Real Estate in an executive capacity (CRESCO). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
A local real estate developer who has been involved in multiple, well-known projects is going to be getting busier after getting hired as a vice president of Independence-based brokerage and analytics firm Cushman & Wakefield – CRESCO Real Estate.
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| The Browns’ new $2.4 billion stadium and mixed-use destination will repurpose vacant industrial land in Brook Park near Cleve- land Hopkins International Airport by 2029 (HKS, HSG). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
A 68-page master planning document was unceremoniously released last week by the city of Brook Park and Haslam Sports Group (HSG). In it is the most detailed look yet at the key design standards and approach for developing the mixed-use district surrounding the Browns’ new stadium.
