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| American Interiors Cleveland Showroom will relocate to The Carriage Co. in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood from the North Point Tower in Downtown Cleveland (CRESCO). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
A fast-growing American Interiors Cleveland Showroom is relocating from Downtown Cleveland to a larger, more visible location at The Carriage Co., 2168 W. 25th St., a major redevelopment nearing completion at the south end of the Market District.
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| MidTown’s newest mid-rise, The 70th Apartments, fills the site of a demolished warehouse on East 70th Street (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
While Cleveland’s Fairfax neighborhood and overlapping MidTown district have lost much of their historic architecture over the decades, new developments are expanding their housing stock and employment base.
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| A 119-unit apartment building, planned on Random Road in Cleveland’s Little Italy neighborhood, is just beginning its journey through the city’s design-review process. So these early conceptual renderings may be modified in the coming weeks and months (Vocon). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
One of the largest development sites left in Cleveland’s Little Italy neighborhood has a new plan for its reuse and NEOtrans is first to publish images of what the proposed new project could look like. The project would satisfy housing demand from strong job growth in neighboring University Circle.
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| Ferrante Village’s first three homes could soon rise on West 14th Street in Tremont. The houses are currently listed for sale for $1.5 million (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
This week, construction crews broke ground on the first phase of Ferrante Village, a six-home single-family development planned on Tremont’s West 14th Street. It joins a handful of residential projects boosting new construction in the neighborhood — which has quieted since a 107-unit apartment building opened last year at The Park.
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| Nobility Court on Noble Road in Cleveland Heights officially opened today with a ribbon-cutting ceremony led by Mayor Jim Petras (Side Car PR). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Although Greater Cleveland is known as an affordable metro area to live in, the costs of living keep going up — especially for housing and transportation. And that’s where a development like Nobility Court, 2228 Noble Rd. in Cleveland Heights, comes to the rescue.
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| This aerial view rendering shows Cleveland Hopkins International Airport’s two new concourses, replacing the existing three, along with the previously released rendering of the new terminal headhouse and, at lower left, new ground transportation center. This is still a conceptual plan and could change depending on funding, economy and travel market (Corgan). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Cleveland Hopkins International Airport could in the coming years go from its current 46 active departure gates divided among three terminal concourses to 40 gates spread roughly equally among two new concourses. And the rental car facility would be returned to the airport grounds for the first time since 1998.
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| Across Lorain Avenue from the Urban Community School’s Urban Squash Cleveland building, at left, is the Seamus-O Building at East 47th Street in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood. The Seamus-O Building and several additional parcels sold to a company led by local businessman David Ferrante and attorney Adam Rosen (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
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| The historic arch which once adorned the entrance to the Euclid Beach amusement park has been restored and relocated to a new pocket park away from vehicle traffic (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
On the heels of their latest lakefront trail opening, Cuyahoga County and Cleveland Metroparks are already at work on their next trail extension in Cleveland’s Collinwood neighborhood — joining a series of lakefront recreation projects that have already sparked comparisons with Edgewater Park’s transformation of the near-West Side.
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| A peek through the construction fencing around this 1980-built office building on Center Ridge Road in Rocky River reveals a construction trailer and site preparations for the first west-suburban Cleveland location of Akron Children’s Hospital (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Site preparation plus interior and exterior demolition got underway this week for Akron Children’s Hospital’s $30 million renovation and repurposing of the 46-year-old Plaza West office building at 20220 Center Ridge Rd. in suburban Rocky River into an outpatient pediatrics care center.
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| A model home for another 10 to be built on East 67th Street in Cleveland’s St. Clair-Superior neighborhood is already being marketed. The Port of Cleveland is financially supporting the construction of these for-sale, owner-occupied houses (Knez Homes). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
The Port of Cleveland Board of Directors on Thursday approved financial support for two projects that will bring new housing, jobs and investment to two Northeast Ohio communities.
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| In 2022, the first of two 24-story apartment towers at Circle Square in Cleveland’s University Circle was under construction. Today, the second tower next door is just getting underway a few steps from the HealthLine bus rapid transit (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Five regional organizations joined forces today to announce the launch of Cuyahoga TOD, a long-term, collaborative effort to advance transit-oriented development (TOD) in Cuyahoga County communities.
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| Next to the Interstate 90 Inner Belt bridges in Downtown Cleveland, a group of Cornell University urban planning students were given a tour of the site of the proposed Gateway South soccer stadium by Cleveland Soccer Group’s Gina Prodan Kelly, closest to the camera, and CSG CEO Michael Murphy, standing next-closest (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
A group of Cornell University urban planning students came to Cleveland this week with a scholarly objective — learn about potential soccer facilities and suggest how they can link with their surroundings, including public transit. They left with ideas for and discoveries about Cleveland that could result in more than an academic exercise.
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| Judy McGlinchy, left, and Craig Astler presented “monumental” ideas for redeveloping Downtown Cleveland’s North Coast Harbor at a public meeting last week at Merwin’s Wharf in the Flats (Paul Heney). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
With the Cleveland Browns leaving the city for Brook Park in the next few years, plans for what’s next on the lakefront are heating up. Architectural firm MVRDV, based in Rotterdam, Netherlands, is expected to unveil an update of the entire lakefront plans in the next month or two, on behalf of the nonprofit North Coast Waterfront Development Corporation.
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| Many visitors arrive to Cleveland’s Shaker Square on transit vehicles, such as this GCRTA Blue Line train which originated at Tower City in Downtown Cleveland (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
It’s no secret that Cleveland’s complicated and restrictive zoning code stifles new construction, hinders neighborhood walkability, and renders countless existing buildings noncompliant. Yet it remains to be seen how well its emerging Form-Based Code can resolve these issues.
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| Although each of West Park Shopping Center’s three largest retail spaces shown here have the same placeholder signage, in reality only the largest retail space at left is vacant. That will soon change as a new fitness center will occupy it (Onyx Creative). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
A filing submitted to the City of Cleveland today revealed the identity of a new tenant that will fill the largest space at the West Park Shopping Center on Lorain Avenue at West 150th Street.
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| The nation’s largest manufacturer of gasoline-powered automobiles at the start of 20th century was the Winton Motor Carriage Co. on Berea Road north of Madison Avenue in Cleveland’s Cudell neighborhood. Most of the original factory still stands, and now it has a new owner with a plan. Note the test track around the perimeter of the plant (The Motor World-Wikimedia). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
One of Cleveland’s most historic industrial properties is no longer on the to-be-demolished list after it was acquired by a Greater Cleveland-based developer. That property is the four-parcel, 7.3-acre former Winton Motor Carriage Works, 10300-10630 Berea Rd. in Cleveland’s Cudell neighborhood.
