Walz Library-Karam Senior Living groundbreaking set

The new Walz Branch of the Cleveland Public Library topped by 51 affordable
apartments by Karam Senior Living will see construction get underway after
a groundbreaking ceremony schedule for June 6 (Bialosky).
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Following up on a story first reported by NEOtrans a month ago, the long-planned Walz Branch of the Cleveland Public Library (CPL) and Karam Senior Living apartments will indeed see construction start in June. In fact, a groundbreaking ceremony is scheduled at 10 a.m. this Friday at the project site, 7910 Detroit Ave., to officially kick off the project.

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Miceli Dairy anticipates doubling its employment

Jonathon Miceli of family-owned Miceli Dairy Products Co., welcomed visitors to the
groundbreaking for an expansion of cold storage facilities at Miceli’s growing plant
on Cleveland’s near-east side as his cousin and company marketing executive Maria
Miceli looks on (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. 

When Miceli Dairy Products, 2721 E. 90th St. in Cleveland, broke ground today for the expansion of its new cold storage facilities, it also teased a follow-on project — a planned new research center plus mozzarella cheese manufacturing plant next to the Opportunity Corridor Boulevard. These additions in the coming years are anticipated to double Miceli’s current employment of 250 people.

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New downtown office tower/data center in the works

A rendering of the proposed Two Cleveland Center, as seen from the north side of St.
Clair Avenue next to the Galleria at Erieview. The new office building/data center was
an idea publicized prematurely (Newmark). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Suggesting the construction of an office building in Downtown Cleveland, which is still recovering from the pandemic, seemed like a strange idea. And it was until the listing for it was pulled from marketing sites shortly after NEOtrans wrote about it. Turns out the proposed Two Cleveland Center was publicized prematurely.

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Lakefront funding survives federal scrutiny

This section of the Shoreway (Route 2) through Downtown Cleveland is to be
reconfigured from an Interstate-like highway (left) into a boulevard with inter-
sections. That will slow traffic to make the area more pedestrian- and bicycle-
friendly and lower the roadway so a land bridge can be built to better connect
the central business district with the lakefront (FO).
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After taking office in January, the Trump Administration began scrutinizing recently awarded federal grants. In response, local, state and federal elected officials from Northeast Ohio scrambled. Their goal was to make sure that federal grants awarded to Greater Cleveland agencies weren’t frozen or, worse, terminated.

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Warner & Swasey conversion funding not there yet

Not much has changed at the long-vacant Warner Swasey factory in the
six years since this streetview was captured. But a lot could change over
the next six months, starting with a demolition of the sawtooth-shaped
factory structures to the left of the company’s brick office building which
will be kept and, if financing closes in November, renovated thereafter into
affordable apartments (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

It’s been a long road for the former Warner & Swasey plant, 5701 Carnegie Ave. in Cleveland’s Midtown neighborhood, to become a useful building again. And while it doesn’t have all of its financial pieces available yet to complete its $52 million puzzle, those last five pieces have been identified and are in the process of being secured.

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St. Vincent hospital demo starts; What’s next?

A lot of structural square footage is getting demolished next to Downtown Cleveland.
So are viable structures with the potential to be converted to new uses. Instead, the
potential will rest with acres of newly vacant land next to downtown that will be-
come a canvas for something new to be designed. Those designs are getting
underway  (czoningservices.com). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Demolition crews got to work this week taking down St. Vincent Charity Medical Center, 2351 E. 22nd St,, where the southeast side of Downtown Cleveland meets the Central neighborhood. But it won’t be the only demolition in this area in the coming years.

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Will a Brook Park stadium hurt efforts to maintain Gateway? Apparently the Cavs think so.

Concern over being able to maintain the facilities at the Gateway sports and entertain-
ment complex in Downtown Cleveland prompted a critical letter apparently sent by
the Rock ntertainment Group to the Greater Cleveland Partnership over the future
viability of the sin tax to maintain these facilities (Rocket Arena).
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Support for the planned domed stadium in Brook Park by the Greater Cleveland Partnership (GCP), announced earlier this week, has ruffled a few feathers. And it’s not just those that were expected to be ruffled — Cuyahoga County and City of Cleveland officials, Downtown Cleveland Inc., and others. Now, it’s the parent company of the Cleveland Cavaliers who say pursuing the stadium at this time is a bad idea.

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Glenville, Hough, Ohio City housing wins big

Wade Park Station is planned as an affordable senior housing development on
Wade Park Avenue in Cleveland’s Glenville neighborhood. It just got a major
boost in the form of 9 percent Low Income Housing Tax Credits (RDL).
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Two new Cleveland housing construction projects and one renovation won coveted, highly competitive 9 percent Low Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTC) from the Ohio Housing Finance Authority (OHFA) today. The awards promise a big financial boost to each of the projects which are located in the Glenville, Hough and Ohio City neighborhoods.

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