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| Too much of Cleveland’s East Side looks like this — rural. From nearly 100,000 residents in the 1960s to fewer than 20,000 today turned this crowded area into an urban prairie. This is East 65th Street at Luther Avenue, where the Hough neighborhood meets St Clair- Superior (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Taken together, Cleveland’s Hough and St. Clair-Superior neighborhoods aren’t that big of area. But its large amount of vacant land weighs heavily on the City of Cleveland.
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| After 2029, when Huntington Bank Field closes and stops hosting major events that require hosting a huge surge of cars, the stadium will be razed and new lakefront uses will replace it. Those proposed uses could make their first appearance in plans to be released in October (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Representatives from the North Coast Waterfront Development Corporation (NCWDC) gave Cleveland city planners an update on the lakefront master plan on Friday. As the process nears completion, the first tangibles of a new public realm are taking shape.
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| The grand, former Cleveland Trust rotunda at Euclid Avenue and East 9th Street has housed a Heinen’s grocery store for 11 years. But from the outside it’s difficult to tell what’s inside, if it’s open or how to get in. Once inside, the floor layouts are difficult for a grocery store to use and its merchandise unsuitable for an urban clientele, observers say (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
With the Downtown Cleveland Heinen’s grocery store, 900 Euclid Ave., set to close at the end of this month after 11 years in business, city, county and civic leaders are undertaking a two-pronged response to fill the void in the short- and long-term.
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| Downtown Cleveland’s Ohio Savings Plaza on East 9th Street and its little brother Park Plaza to the east both sold to the Kassouf family albeit under different corporate identities. And they sold for bargain price (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Rumors had swirled for weeks but no one was willing to confirm it — until yesterday when the sale of the Ohio Savings Plaza and Park Plaza office buildings hit public records.
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| In University Circle, the $140 million Stokes East Tower will rise 24 stories next to the Wade Park Lagoon and add to the residential inventory of one of the fastest-growing employment districts in Ohio (SCB). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Three major Cleveland development projects totaling nearly $300 million in value won financing today from the Port of Cleveland. Together, the trio of projects will add 536 housing units, 121 hotel rooms and more than 23,000 square feet of commercial space.
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| Greater Cleveland has gained some major employers in its transition from an economy that was dependent on manufacturing. But that doesn’t mean it has given up on manufacturing. It does mean that it needs more tools to attract employers of all kinds and in existing communities that the region’s labor pool can access (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Once upon a time, Cleveland was the nation’s center of industrial innovation and small, new-start businesses that resulted from it. Perhaps you’ve heard of a few of them — Standard Oil, General Electric Lighting, Sherwin-Williams, TRW, Cleveland-Cliffs, Lincoln Electric, Parker Hannifin to name a few.
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| Master Chrome had only months of visible business activity left when this screenshot was captured in active in June 2019. It was allegedly adding to pollutants to the site that took a team of people at the state, county and city governments to demolish, clean up and con- tinue to monitor (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Master Chrome was just a small industry on a small lot. Its structure didn’t even measure 10,000 square feet. The land on which it set was barely more than half an acre.
