Lakewood developments come into focus

The façade of Westline apartments nears completion on Detroit Ave (Harrison Whittaker).
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In October, NEOtrans’ inaugural Progress Pics article featured exclusive construction photos of Lakewood’s Westline apartments.

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Filling the lakefront void left by the Browns

The North Coast Yard is a pop-up park created on city-owned lakefront land, north of
Huntington Bank Field and next to the Steamship William G. Mather Museum. Al-
though temporary, its recreational uses are are the types of public-space programming
that can be expected in a redevelopment of Downtown Cleveland’s lakefront after
the stadium is demolished (NCWDC). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Among the objectives in redeveloping Downtown Cleveland’s lakefront is to fill the physical and economic void to be left by Huntington Bank Field and their main attraction, the Cleveland Browns. That was one of the insights shared by the chief of the North Coast Waterfront Development Corp. (NCWDC) at yesterday’s Planning Commission meeting.

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Warner & Swasey revival is a go

A building that was left for dead many times over the past four decades displayed a hopeful
message for the first time in a long time last night under a full moon. A timetable for its
recovery was projected onto the long-vacant Warner & Swasey building on Carnegie
Avenue (MidTown Cleveland). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Warner & Swasey co-developers Pennrose and MidTown Cleveland today announced the closing of the last gap in the financing for the $64 million redevelopment of the historic factory, located at 5701 Carnegie Ave. in Cleveland’s MidTown neighborhood.

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Tremont hillside mixed-use vision at risk

As seen from the Interstate 90-Inner Belt bridge, the Tremont hillside land above the
Cuyahoga River includes a flat “shelf” where the dump truck and piles of aggregate
are located. It was the site of a railroad yard for 125 years and is proposed to be re-
developed with mixed uses (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

A potentially massive mixed-use development at the north end of Cleveland’s vibrant Tremont neighborhood, next to the Towpath Trail and overlooking the Cuyahoga River, may be on hold for a while. Instead, if there is a hillside development here, it could be mostly commercial — at least for the foreseeable future.

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Hotel planned for historic grain mill in Flats

As seen from a passing ship, the former Cereal Food Processors/Grain Craft mill sets between
the Cuyahoga River and Merwin Avenue. The brick building is called the Main Mill while the
wooden portion at right is called Elevator A. Behind are the larger concrete silos, called
Elevator C. All will be retrofitted with hotel rooms and ground-floor hotel uses inclu-
ding a restaurant. The metal garage at left will be demolished (NEOtrans).
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Roughly $10.3 million in federal historic tax credits were awarded to a proposed $61.6 million redevelopment of an abandoned 19th-century riverfront flour mill in Cleveland’s Flats into a hotel and supportive uses. And up to $5 million in state historic tax credits may be added by the end of the year.

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Cleveland Council OKs Browns settlement

Downtown Cleveland’s lakefront could look very different in a decade or less, following City
Council’s approval of a settlement that lets the Cleveland Browns leave for suburban Brook
Park and pays for the stadium’s demolition. In a couple of weeks, we may hear what replaces
the stadium and surrounding parking lots (FO). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

With a 13-2 vote tonight, Cleveland City Council authorized a proposed settlement agreement between Mayor Justin Bibb’s administration and the Haslam Sports Group (HSG), owners of the Cleveland Browns football team. The deal involved some last-minute negotiations as it wasn’t even on council’s agenda earlier today.

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Cavs’ practice facility marks start of riverfront transformation

The Cleveland Clinic Global Peak Performance Center will host practice facilities for
the Cleveland Cavaliers (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

In 2021, Detroit-based developer Bedrock first announced its plans to develop a long-neglected portion of the Cuyahoga riverfront with 35 acres of mixed-use development and green space. While the project was originally planned to be completed in phases over two to three decades, company executives now believe they can deliver it within 5-10 years.

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Heights developments reach new heights

Gateway North will offer 351 beds for John Carroll University students atop a Trader Joe’s
grocery store at the entrance to the college in University Heights (Ian McDaniel).
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This snowy edition of Progress Pics highlights the multiple developments under construction around the eastern suburbs. In total, several hundred residential units are set to open next year in Cleveland Heights, University Heights, Shaker Heights and Richmond Heights alone.

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Cleveland among fastest warming cities in USA

Enjoying outdoor events later the season has become possible in Cleveland due to climate change.
Here, the St. Ignatius High School soccer team plays at Cleveland State University’s Krenzler
Field on a sunny, mild October day (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Despite the snowy Thanksgiving holiday, Cleveland’s status as a climate refuge got a warm review thanks to new data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). In the last decade, only three U.S. cities’ climates warmed faster than Cleveland’s, according to the new data.

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Haslam-Cleveland lakefront deal delayed

Downtown Cleveland’s lakefront looks very different without anything there but green-
fields — be it a pro football stadium, a Shoreway bridge across the railroad tracks, or
parking lots encroaching on a big city’s waterfront. But this is what it could look like
by the early 2030s. The question of what will replace these longtime features will
be answered next month (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

One deadline has passed. Another is about to. And a third is coming up. But by the end of the year, Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb’s administration hopes to have a much more coherent vision of Downtown Cleveland lakefront development whose private-sector investment could exceed $1 billion — with a capital B.

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Apartments arriving ‘soon’ at RTA station

With additional financial support in place, financing is near to closing for the Depot on
Detroit apartments, just west of the West Boulevard-Cudell transit station on Cleve-
land’s West Side (City Architecture). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Like any new large new development with multiple sources of public and private financing, Depot on Detroit is taking a long time to get rolling. But at long last, there is a light at the end of the tunnel and it isn’t a train.

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CSU Fenn Tower, Hall renovations to start

A lot of construction will be happening here in the coming years. Not only is the 22-story
Fenn Tower to be renovated, but the brutalist Science Building at left will be expanded
with a new addition facing Euclid Avenue and Fenn Hall redeveloped to add a Bio-
medical Discovery Complex. Behind the Science Building is the four-story
Fenn Hall (CSU). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Cleveland State University (CSU) today announced the renovation of two of its most historic buildings. Fenn Tower, one of the campus’s most recognizable landmarks, and Fenn Hall, home to many of CSU’s STEM-related teaching and research labs are the focus of more than $100 million of planned investment.

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E. 185th car dealership site reboot in works

In the early 1980s, Jackshaw Chevy had already been in business on East 185th Street for
nearly 30 years. Dealership buildings and lots for cars and trucks were on both sides of
the street. While the building at left still stands, the one at far right was razed exactly
one decade ago (reprinted with permission of EuclidEvolution.blogspot.com).
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For more than 75 years, there was a Chevrolet car dealership at the north end of East 185th Street, where the cities of Cleveland and Euclid meet. And for the last 17 years, there’s been stop-n-go efforts to revitalize those vacant lots with no success. But that could change with a new approach underway.

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Downtown Cleveland may lose HQ

It’s an uncertain time for older office buildings in Downtown Cleveland. The latest to
 face uncertainty is 800 Superior, which is home to AmTrust Financial Services'
operational headquarters and hundreds of employees — but possibly
not for long (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

With its lease running out at the end of next year, a major employer in Downtown Cleveland is searching for answers. The questions are — to stay put and aid in the rebirth of a decaying property? To relocate to another downtown building? Or to move to one of many vacant, modern office buildings in the suburbs?

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East 89th rises amidst Fairfax’s renaissance

Two of six new Victorian-style apartment buildings on East 89th Street designed
to mimic historic Cleveland homes (Harrison Whittaker).
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In May 2022, NEOtrans broke the news that Timothy L. Tramble, Sr., president and CEO of the St. Luke’s Foundation, planned to build 48 housing units on East 89th Street through his firm We Rise Development LLC.

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Erieview Tower residential advances

Once the second-tallest building in Downtown Cleveland, Erieview Tower is getting
a makeover and a partial conversion to residential and hotel uses that will include a
freshening up of its black and dark-green exterior (Google).
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With interior demolition work wrapping up, the Erieview Tower redevelopment team is now getting ready to update the building’s life safety infrastructure and convert the tower’s midsection to residential.

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Cleveland RTA riders face big service cuts

   

A budget crunch at the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority could mean
service cuts starting next year, just as the transit agency is about to take possession
 of its first new trains since the Reagan Administration (contributed photo).
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Due to higher operating costs, especially in healthcare for its employees, the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (GCRTA) plans to make significant cuts to bus and rail services in 2026, cutting a lifeline to jobs, education and medical services.

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Progress Pics: the Shoreway Tower

A tower crane was being erected in place two weeks ago to build a similarly tall Shoreway
Tower apartments. This was the view from Edgewater Park. The Shoreway Apartments, at
left, were the result of an going redevelopment of a 19th-century industrial district into a
mix of uses, The Shoreway Tower is the next step in that redevelopment (NEOtrans).
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For the first time ever, a tower crane has risen along Cleveland’s lakefront near Edgewater Park on the city’s West Side. It marks the spot and the approximate height of a new, luxury apartment tower that will rise next to it over the next 15 months or so.

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Report: Cleveland ranks 2nd in USA in redeveloping closed schools

At a sprawling 11 acres in the heart of a Hough neighborhood getting rediscovered, the site
of the now-closed Martin Luther King Jr. High School could be one of Cleveland’s largest
mixed-use redevelopments. Seen here in 2016, MLK High was still four years away from
closure due to declining enrollment (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

While Cleveland is not unique among major cities in having a declining school population, it is proving to be adept at adapting. It is turning what would otherwise be a potential problem of blighted, vacant school buildings and lands that would drag down neighborhoods into redevelopment opportunities that might lift them up.

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Progress Pics: Cleveland Clinic advances on largest-ever building

Construction crews shuffle between floors at the Cleveland Clinic’s new Neurological
Institute (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

The Cleveland Clinic is pushing closer to completion on a collection of new facilities across three different buildings. On Carnegie Avenue between East 89th and 90th streets, the 1-million-square-foot Neurological Institute has topped out with façade work nearly complete.

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