Flats demo OK’d for new amphitheater

The Hope Memorial Bridge — home to the Guardians of Traffic pylons — overlooks the site
of the future Riverfront Amphitheater and the existing warehouse at 401 Stones Levee Rd. in
the Flats (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Developers from Bedrock Cleveland and Rock Entertainment Group (REG) on Friday received approval from the City of Cleveland Planning Commission (CPC) to demolish a warehouse at 401 Stones Levee Rd. in the Flats. The demolition clears the way for the group behind billions in riverfront development to proceed with the next phase of revitalization and activation.

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Westinghouse redevelopment to start

An early conceptual rendering for the redevelopment of the former Westinghouse plant along
the West Shoreway includes many features of the final, approved project including retaining
the façade of the foundry at left for new construction behind and redevelopment of the tower
at right with apartments (AODK). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

A ride along the West Shoreway from Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood to Edgewater Park will soon be a tour of multiple, major residential construction projects within sight of the roadway and more developments just a few blocks south of it. The latest to join the cavalcade of new multifamily housing will be the Westinghouse redevelopment.

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Could it be? Bridgeworks is about to start?

It’s a rendering that’s led almost every article about Bridgeworks, the elusive but promising
mixed-use development proposed at the northeast corner of the Detroit-Superior Bridge and
West 25th Street near downtown. But there is activity swirling about the project, perhaps
 more so now than in years (Geis). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

It looks like it’s finally happening. After more than seven years of project development, multiple redesigns, financing shortfalls, and occasionally dim prospects, demolition, site preparation and construction of Bridgeworks is due to start in the middle of June.

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Lorain Station Historic District gets two wins

A rendering of the exterior improvements planned for the former grocery store that became
the Cuyahoga County Westshore Professional Center. It will now become the West Side
Community Resource Center (GCFB). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

A streetscape grant was approved for the Lorain Station Historic District this week, shortly after construction plans were submitted to the city for repurposing a former grocery store in this district into a West Side Community Resource Center that will provide needed services in a more attractive setting.

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A dozen Cleveland schools are offered for redevelopment

Collinwood High School is easily the largest and perhaps the most iconic of 12 Cleveland
schools to be offered for redevelopment in this latest round. The Collinwood Railroaders
graduated its last senior class last week after more than a century of graduations. Its
next use is unknown (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

The Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) and the City of Cleveland are offering up to buyers and developers 12 school properties for redevelopment, with a few surprises on the list. They include two school buildings built in the last 20 years and several historic, iconic structures.

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Downtown Cleveland: experience drives perception

Want to love Downtown Cleveland more? Spend more time experiencing more of it,
says Downtown Cleveland Inc. (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Downtown Cleveland, Inc. (DCI) says that the biggest thing wrong with the city’s central business district is that not enough people are familiar with it. If more people visited it more often, DCI said people would enjoy it more. And DCI has a survey of perceptions to back up its argument.

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Edgewater, West Blvd grapple with new development

Looking south across a basketball court at Cudell Commons, construction of Marion C. Selzter
Elementary School moves ahead (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Cleveland’s Edgewater, Cudell, and West Boulevard neighborhoods are currently facing a small wave of development, ranging from renovations to new construction. But the path to groundbreaking has been easier for some projects than others.

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AmTrust to put $14M in downtown offices

As previously reported by NEOtrans, AmTrust will split up its office presence
in Greater Cleveland. Its downtown offices will move to the AECOM
Building seen here where it make a large investment to update
and enhance its space (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Even as AmTrust takes steps to divide up its Downtown Cleveland offices into suburban and downtown locations, the financial services company is about to make a major investment into its new downtown offices at the AECOM Building, 1300 E. 9th St., according to plans filed with the city this week.

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Cleveland housing developments get funded, neighborhoods lifted

 With a working title of the Lorain Avenue Redevelopment, a new
building offering affordable housing atop a new office for Ohio City Inc.
will replace the aging, nearly vacant McCafferty Health Center, providing
more housing choices in a neighborhood with high rents (City Architecture).
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Three Cleveland developments won competitive, highly coveted tax credits that will help push each of those new housing projects toward construction. In total, the trio will add 165 affordable residential units. But one of them is actually the construction of 40 new houses that offer an opportunity at home ownership.

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Lakefront apartment complex wins financing

Union at Cleveland Harbor would offer affordable housing along Cleveland’s
Lakefront, near the East 55th Street marina and Gordon Park (RDL).
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Despite having 17 miles of shoreline, developments along Cleveland’s Lake Erie waterfront don’t happen that often due to a lack of developable land. But one got closer to construction today after financing for it was approved by the state, according to a press release.

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Naia Noir tops Detroit-Shoreway developments

Cuyahoga County’s first lakefront high-rise in over 50 years has risen to
more than half of its planned height beside J Roc-developed The Shore-
way (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

In March, NEOtrans announced that Cuyahoga County’s first lakefront high-rise in over half a century had begun construction next to Edgewater Park. The apartment tower, branded Naia Noir, will also be the first high-rise constructed in Cleveland’s Detroit-Shoreway neighborhood.

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Music Institute dorm starts on bad note

Classrooms, offices and a dormitory for the Cleveland Institute of
Music as well for Case Western Reserve University students is at 1609 Hazel
Dr. in Cleveland’s University Circle. But the southern and, to the right in this
September 2022 streetview, western exterior wall panels will have to be
replaced due to “defective workmanship” according
to a pending legal
complaint (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Less than six years old, the Cleveland Institute of Music’s (CIM) new building called 1609 Hazel at its namesake address in Cleveland’s University Circle, has suffered extensive water damage due to alleged poor construction. And the bill for pending repairs just came in — $1.7 million, according to public records filed with the city.

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Cleveland Trades Council urges data center regulations, not ban

Data centers are growing in number while many office buildings are fading.
In Downtown Cleveland, the Sterling Building on Euclid Avenue has become
a 250,000-square-foot hub for technology, cloud computing and cybersecurity
services (LoopNet). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

As Cleveland considers a moratorium on the addition of new data centers until it can update its zoning code to better address them, and as a statewide ban on larger data centers is pending, the Cleveland Building and Construction Trades Council said it wants the emotion taken out of the debate.

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City loses another fight against spread of downtown parking lots

On the south side of Sumner Avenue, next to St. Maron Church at left, is a piece of the land
the church’s diocese just acquired to provide parking for the church and to earn revenue
from visitors to the Gateway sports and entertainment complex visible at right (Google).
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An historic church in Downtown Cleveland’s Gateway District won its case before the city’s Board of Zoning Appeals (BZA) today to use a newly purchased property at 1212-1260 Sumner Ave. as a surface parking lot for up to 90 vehicles.

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Cuyahoga gets its $1M brownfield allocation

A week before Christmas, the West Side Market was the site of a press conference in
which it was awarded a $5 million Ohio Historic Preservation Tax Credit to support
renovations totaling more than $71.33 million. Yesterday, it got an Ohio Brownfield
grant to do site work to prepare for those renovations (NEOtrans).
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Although each county in Ohio was limited to $1 million in Ohio Brownfield Remediation grants in this round of funding awards, Cuyahoga County made the most of it despite its voracious appetite for such grants as it repositions its former, massive industrial base in the post-industrial era.

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Cleveland’s proposed Data Center moratorium in a race against time, technology

As more companies embrace artificial intelligence to automate more jobs, more data centers
will appear around the world. The question Cleveland is grappling with as more data center
development plans arrive here is to how to effectively regulate them (NEOtrans).
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It’s a race against time between the City of Cleveland and developers seeking to construct new data centers. On one side is the city which has an outdated zoning code it has been wanting to update for years, with data centers being the latest new land use to add to the mix.

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Data center rejection prompts reaction

A three-building data center campus is planned in Cleveland’s Slavic Village and could
look like this unofficial rendering created by NEOtrans. The developer, Lakeland Equity
Group, said it spend heavily to add electric grid infrastructure to accommodate the
facility (NEOtrans/ChatGPT). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Today’s sudden rejection of a building application for a new $1.6 billion data center in Cleveland’s Slavic Village caught the project’s development team by surprise. But city sources and records revealed the application was rejected because it was incomplete.

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Tremont, Duck Island developments near completion

Two single-family homes designed by AODK are under construction at the Carter Road
Subdivision, where Scranton Peninsula meets Duck Island in Cleveland (Harrison
Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Cleveland’s Tremont neighborhood is one of the most desirable in the city — and its tight housing market reflects that. But with a handful of developments now wrapping up, it may be the perfect time for those considering a move to the area.

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Midline redevelopment district announced

Officials gathered today to announce the Midline Priority Investment Area, a major rede-
velopment initiative of Cleveland’s near-East Side, amid the backdrop of old, decayed
industrial sites that will be razed to make way for new jobs and opportunity (NEOtrans).
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Cleveland’s largest industrial redevelopment in its history, dubbed the Midline Priority Investment Area, was announced today as an effort to transform the city’s near-East Side into a job hub and community greenway.

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The Vibe financing OK’d, Fall start ID’d

The six-story Hanover House and the lobby for The Vibe development are seen here
next to the Ohio City Firehouse in Cleveland’s Hingetown enclave (Vocon).
CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

With financing approved, the developer of Ohio City’s largest new-construction project in four years has an eye toward fall for a groundbreaking date of The Vibe, 2828 Clinton Ave., in Cleveland’s Hingetown enclave.

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