Gateway parking lots are closed – forever?

Parking lots between Huron Road and Prospect Avenue, east of East 4th Street in Down-
town Cleveland’s Gateway District were closed off starting this week. If any parking
reopens here, it will likely be in new parking garages to support the development of
Bedrock Real Estate’s so-called Rock Block site. This view looks north from the front
steps of Rocket Arena (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Another parking crater in Downtown Cleveland has succumbed to a new development that promises to attract hundreds of thousands of visitors per year. The latest to disappear is a windswept, 3-acre parking lot in the Gateway District, across Huron Road from Rocket Arena, home to Cleveland Cavaliers basketball and Cleveland Monster hockey games.

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Two Cleveland housing developments to benefit from new funding program

The Walton Apartments on Clark Avenue in Cleveland’s Clark-Fulton neighborhood is
one of two local beneficiaries of the new Cleveland Housing Investment Fund created
by a national nonprofit organization (RDL). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

The local affiliate of a national nonprofit organization today announced the first of two financing commitments for the new Cleveland Housing Investment Fund (CHIF). Both commitments are long-planned affordable housing developments that will help address the city’s affordable housing crisis.

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Chester 82 joins Park Synagogue in Port funding

The latest development in Cleveland’s Hough neighborhood looks like it will be Chester
82, seen here at the northwest corner of its namesake streets of Chester Avenue and East
82nd Street (Sullivan Bruck). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

The Port of Cleveland Board of Directors today approved $50 million in bond financing to support two significant development projects — the redevelopment of the historic Park Synagogue in Cleveland Heights and a new apartment community along Chester Avenue in Cleveland’s Hough neighborhood.

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Park Synagogue redevelopment OK’d

A major redevelopment of the former Park Synagogue site was approved this week by
Cleveland Heights City Council after a shakeup at the top of City Hall’s leadership.
With the approval, the first phases of redevelopment of the 75-year-old synagogue
can begin (SCA-Ardon Bar-Hama). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

The City of Cleveland Heights has reached an agreement with a local, experienced real estate developer to help finance the redevelopment of the former Park Synagogue and its green space as an arts campus and residential village.

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West-side CDCs make changes at the top

Next week, David Robinson will leave the top job at West Park Kamms Neighbor-
hood Development for the same job at Old Brooklyn Community Development
Corp. (OBCDC). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Making a move from leading one nonprofit community development corporation for another can sometimes make inferences about the place they’re leaving. But in David Robinson’s lateral move, due to start next week, it says more about the place he’s moving to — a place called home.

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Brook Park stadium public infrastructure costs rise to $122 million

Major infrastructure investments are needed to accommodate sudden, brief surges of heavy
traffic up to a dozen times per year on roadways and transit from a planned 67,000-seat
stadium in suburban Brook Park. Figuring out how to pay for them in a metropolitan
area that hasn’t grown in 60 years is proving to be a difficult task (Google).
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Building a 67,000-seat stadium where none has existed before is proving to be a big expense for expanding road and transit systems to accommodate huge surges in traffic on a relatively small number of event days each year. And it is government funding that is being requested to cover that construction expense which has now risen to $122.15 million.

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Cleveland sues ODOT for Browns stadium ruling

Looking west from above Interstate 71 in the Cleveland suburb of Brook Park, the orange-
shaded area is the land on which a new Huntington Bank Field, supportive development
and parking is planned. Just beyond is Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, set on
City of Cleveland-owned land (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

In the latest chapter of the region’s ongoing stadium saga, the City of Cleveland has sued the Ohio Department of Transportation’s (ODOT) Office of Aviation for granting a permit for the construction of a new stadium next to Cleveland Hopkins International Airport.

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