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Friday, March 15, 2024

New design for Cleveland Shoreway tower OK’d

The developer of a planned residential tower overlooking Edgewater Park
redesigned it based on market analysis and a need to control costs. The end
result was a new design that won more praise and support from the Cleve-
land Landmarks Commission. This view looks southeast from above upper
Edgewater Park (EAO). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

A desire to make a proposed residential tower overlooking Cleveland’s Edgewater Park more viable produced a design that won for it more praise from a city review panel. The proposed 13-story Shoreway tower grew from 95 apartments to 112 and shrunk its floorspace from 204,400 square feet to 140,000. In so doing, its grid-like exterior gained an intentionally distorted and sculpted appearance that earned it unanimous praise.

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Thursday, March 14, 2024

Hamilton Brown, Niro to lead St. Clair-Superior CDC

The St. Clair-Superior neighborhood of Cleveland is located near the Lake
Erie shore east of downtown to the Glenville neighborhood. This view looks
 west above St. Clair Avenue from East 60s toward downtown (SCSDC).
CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

A well-known name in Cleveland development circles this week has lost the “interim” prefix to her job title as executive director of the St. Clair Superior Development Corporation (SCSDC) in Cleveland. Not only did Terri Hamilton Brown become the Cleveland neighborhood’s new permanent director, Michael Niro was named chair of the development corporation’s board by unanimous board votes, announced today.

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Wednesday, March 13, 2024

Cleveland’s new Bridgeworks plan takes next steps

In Cleveland’s Hingetown section of Ohio City, Bridgeworks’ new design will
likely make a return to city review boards starting next week with an eye
toward demolition work and possibly construction later this year. The
proposed development would rise at the northeast corner of West
25th Street and the Detroit-Superior Bridge (GLSD).
CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Bridgeworks, a mixed-use development proposed in Cleveland’s Hingetown section of Ohio City and that’s gone through several iterations, will be back in front of city design-review panels this month in the hopes of getting construction started this year. If approvals are granted, demolition of existing buildings at the northeast corner of West 25th Street and the Detroit-Superior Bridge could start in the coming months.

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Streetcar deck of Detroit-Superior Bridge wins $7 million for bike/ped path

Cuyahoga County won $7 million in funds to plan for the reactivation of the
long-closed streetcar subway deck of the Detroit-Superior Veterans Memorial
Bridge over the Cuyahoga River, between Downtown Cleveland and Ohio
City. The subway deck may be permanently reopened for used by pede-
strians and cyclists (KJP). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Cuyahoga County won $7 million in federal funds today for the reactivation of the streetcar deck of Detroit-Superior Veterans Memorial Bridge linking Downtown Cleveland and Ohio City. But instead of bringing back streetcars for the first time in 70 years, the funding would start planning for permanently reopen the deck as a pedestrian-bike path protected from rain, snow and fast-moving cars, trucks and buses on the roadway deck above.

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Tuesday, March 12, 2024

Cleveland, other climate havens win Bloomberg bucks

Cleveland and other Great Lakes cities are considered to be climate havens in an
era of rapid change. Not only is Cleveland’s climate moderating, but its low
property insurance rates and nearly unlimited access to fresh water make
it climate-safe and affordable place to live (ClevelandWater.com).
CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Cleveland was selected today by Bloomberg Philanthropies as one of 25 U.S. cities to join Bloomberg American Sustainable Cities (BASC) and be the recipient of $200 million divided roughly equally among them. BASC is a three-year initiative designed to leverage historic levels of federal funding to incubate and implement transformative local solutions to build low-carbon, resilient, and economically thriving communities.

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Monday, March 11, 2024

Adding ridership generators to the Waterfront Line

This is the Waterfront Line’s Flats East Bank station, viewed from the then-
new Aloft Hotel in 2014. Every station along the Waterfront Line might
need this much density, diversity and mixed uses around them to make the
light-rail line more usable (KJP). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Over the next two months, a Cleveland State University study will identify untapped lands in Downtown Cleveland along the inactive light-rail Waterfront Line and consider how to encourage their development for the benefit of the lakefront and the transit line. The findings could ultimately be incorporated into the city’s lakefront plan which has yet to be finalized.

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Friday, March 8, 2024

Elections board to the ex-Plain Dealer building?

The former Plain Dealer building on Superior Avenue on the east side of Down-
town Cleveland appears to be the favored landing spot for the Cuyahoga County
Board of Elections (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

While not as controversial or as impactful as the county’s pending moves of its consolidated jail or courthouse facilities, the new site of the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections (BOE) could boost its new surroundings. With up to 200 permanent employees, plus hundreds more at election time and many more visitors for early voting, the positive and negative impacts on the BOE’s new surroundings could be significant.

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Thursday, March 7, 2024

Browns continue to add land in Berea

Either an affiliate of the Cleveland Browns or the city of Berea own all of the
land visible on the right side of Front Street including the former Serpentini
Collision Center until reaching north to Lou Groza Boulevard, marked by the
traffic signal in the distance. Both the Browns and the city also own much of
the land on the other side of the street, including the last house on the left.
In their place, the Browns’ owners plan to construct a large, mixed-use
development (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Property acquisitions in the Cleveland suburb of Berea appear to be nearly wrapped up for a large, mixed-use development featuring an expanded headquarters for the Cleveland Browns and its ownership, the Haslam Sports Group. Only one or two homes need to be acquired to make way for a new headquarters office building, the professional football team’s practice facility, hotel, shops, restaurants and community recreation facilities, first reported by NEOtrans.

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Tuesday, March 5, 2024

Hough health center ready for $19.5M rebuild

Closed and boarded up after a fire nearly three years ago, the Hough Health
Center for Northeast Ohio Neighborhood Health Services Inc. on Hough
Avenue is finally starting to see movement toward reopening and serving
the community again (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM

On May 19, 2021, shortly after the Northeast Ohio Neighborhood Health Services Inc.’s (NEON) Hough Health Center, 8300 Hough Ave., closed for the night and employees went home, an apparent electrical fire sparked. The resulting flames spread throughout the building, causing millions of dollars in damage.

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North Coast Waterfront Development Corp. names its first executive director

Implementing Downtown Cleveland lakefront projects that result from a
final version of this vision will be ultimate goal of newly hired North Coast
Waterfront Development Corp. Executive Director Scott Skinner. But his
 first goal is to start hiring a support staff to help him implement those
projects (FO). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Over the decades, one of the biggest barriers to developing Downtown Cleveland’s lakefront with public and private amenities was the lack of a staff dedicated to that purpose. That barrier began to come down today with the hiring of the first staff-person to lead the new North Coast Waterfront Development Corporation (NCWDC).

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Monday, March 4, 2024

Slavic Village’s Olympia Building to be renovated

Although the Olympia Building at East 55th Street, Broadway and Hamlet
avenues is reported to be in fair condition, it’s actually in much better con-
dition than many other nearby structures in the heart of Cleveland’s Slavic
Village neighborhood. Some of those other building are subject of another
redevelopment effort called The Village 55 to renovate or replace them
(Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Increased interest in reviving historic structures around the mostly intact Broadway-East 55th intersection in Cleveland’s Slavic Village neighborhood has expanded to include the 113-year-old Olympia Building, 3335-3361 E. 55 St. That building will feature renovated apartments over existing storefronts and the preserved lobby for the Olympia’s adjacent movie theater demolished long ago.

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Friday, March 1, 2024

Royal Docks Brewing comes to Cleveland

As seen from the corner of Detroit Avenue and West 28th Street, this rendering
shows the future site of the Royal Docks Brewing Co. in the Hingetown section
of Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood. The brewpub is due to open in
May (Royal Docks). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

In a couple of months, Stark County-based brewpub chain Royal Docks Brewing Company plans to expand to Cleveland by opening a location in Ohio City’s booming Hingetown neighborhood. Ohio City is a community with a half-dozen brewpubs already in operation. But with their planned Royal Docks Tied House + Kitchen, the proprietors are confident they can offer something the others don’t.

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Jones Day’s downtown offices on the move?

Jones Day’s current offices are in the first phase of the North Point complex,
a five-story office building constructed 40 years ago. While the building re-
mains in very good condition, the law firm that was founded in Cleveland
is considering its office location options as it nears the end of its
lease (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Aside from a few rarities like Sherwin-Williams, not many corporate citizens stay in one office building for multiple decades. They are constantly growing or shrinking, their buildings get new owners, their corporate culture changes, or their biggest clients move. Another rarity is Cleveland’s largest law firm, Jones Day, which is entering its fourth decade in the same building, 901 Lakeside Ave., called North Point I.

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Thursday, February 29, 2024

First look: new 3-story restaurant-speakeasy downtown

In the new City Club Apartments’ tower in Downtown Cleveland, J’adore will
be a two-level French restaurant above a cabaret speakeasy called L'Ecrin Vert.
The design of the new establishments became publicly available yes-
terday (Vocon). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM

Although the names and themes were previously announced, designs for a new French-themed restaurant and speakeasy in Downtown Cleveland were made publicly available for the first time yesterday. They show a well-appointed establishment with a construction budget to match. The hospitality offerings are due to open later this year at the new 23-story City Club Apartments, 776 Euclid Ave., to offer Clevelanders more le plaisir.

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Cleveland police SWAT building costs rise

Looking east along a pitted access road to Clark Field next to Cleveland’s
Tremont neighborhood is the former Cleveland animal kennel, at left. It
will be Cleveland’s new SWAT unit facility. It is across the roadway from
an expanding Air Products Inc. Cleveland plant and next to the ramps
onto Interstate 490 (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Plans for converting the city of Cleveland’s former animal shelter at 2690 W. 7th St. near Clark Field into a new administrative and training center for the Cleveland Police Department’s SWAT unit are moving forward. But those building renovation plans are coming at a higher price — about 15 percent higher.

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Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Downtown office tower bucks residential trend

Soon to lose the name “Oswald Centre,” 1100 Superior Ave. in Downtown
Cleveland is going to remain as an office building despite a weak, post-pan-
demic office market. Its new owner is working to retain and attract new
office tenants, rather than convert the 54-year-old tower for residential
or mixed-uses as has been done to other aging office buildings
downtown (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Since actions speak louder than words, the rumors of the 22-story office tower 1100 Superior Ave. turning residential are getting shouted down. The louder message is coming from the building’s owner who is re-signing existing office tenants and attracting new ones, despite recent tenant losses and other hardships. The actions are likely the result of a short-term strategy resulting in another sale, however.

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Tuesday, February 27, 2024

Fairfax, Glenville, Hough developments unveiled

A design concept submitted to the city this week for the Allen Estates at
League Park in Cleveland’s Hough neighborhood. Allen Estates represents
the first phase in the proposed Anchor 66 development masterplan for the
northwest flank of League Park. And it’s just one of four projects surround-
ing University Circle on City Planning Commission’s docket this
week (RDL). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

The economic development boom in Cleveland’s University Circle continues to be felt in the neighborhoods surrounding this epicenter of the local eds-and-meds jobs sector. Four new apartment development plans were revealed this week as they go on the design review docket at the City Planning Commission. Combined, all four projects could add more than 150 workforce housing units with many more in later phases.

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Monday, February 26, 2024

Tremont Treehouse Apartments plans announced

Wrapping around behind The Treehouse Pub and its outdoor patio, the proposed
Tremont Treehouse Apartments would be across Professor Street from
St. John Cantius Church which is shown here as a largely featureless
massing (GLSD). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

A joint venture proposing a four-story apartment building in Cleveland’s Tremont neighborhood called the Treehouse Apartments, first reported by NEOtrans last month, will go before the City Planning Commission’s Design Review Committee to present their plans this Friday. While the project would add dozens of new housing units to the neighborhood to respond to as-yet unsatiated demand, it would also result in the demolition of three 19th-century houses.

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Sunday, February 25, 2024

GCRTA’s new East 79th rail station is an Opportunity

A brightly lit passenger waiting environment at the rebuilt East 79th
Blue/Green Line Rapid station in Cleveland will also create greater
safety and a stronger street presence for the rail station. City and
transit officials said they want this station near the Opportunity
Corridor to help attract more development to the adjacent neigh-
borhood (Bowen). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Planning and design work has advanced far enough on the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority’s (GCRTA) new East 79th Street Blue/Green Line light-rail station to where renderings are being shared publicly. NEOtrans secured a copy of the designs and is publishing them here. But the plans are part of something larger — a growing investment in Cleveland’s Kinsman neighborhood.

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Friday, February 23, 2024

Downtown’s largest housing project in the works

Outlined in green, the 1930s-era Olde Cedar housing projects and the former
Cuyahoga County Juvenile Justice Center are the combined footprint for what
could be Downtown Cleveland’s largest-ever housing development (Google).
CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

With nearly 900 mixed-income apartments envisioned, a plan to develop the largest single housing development in Downtown Cleveland’s history is reportedly in the works. While it will take multiple phases and many years to build, the partners and the plans for the massive project are coming together.

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