City tables UH’s E. 115th demo request

This East 115th Street residential neighborhood in Cleveland’s University Circle will stick around a
little longer but could eventually succumb to the expansion of University Hospitals’ Main Campus
based on feedback from a city design review panel (NEOtrans).
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The historic East 115th Street residential neighborhood in Cleveland’s University Circle may have gotten a stay of execution today thanks to a city design-review panel. But that doesn’t mean people are going to start moving back into any of the homes or apartments soon — if ever.

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Port sets 3 suburban projects in motion

The Allium, a mixed-use redevelopment of the former Southland shopping center in suburban
Middleburg Heights, was awarded $50 million in financing from the Port of Cleveland (Dimit).
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For the first time in a while, the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority Board of Directors today approved financing for three development projects that didn’t include one in the city of Cleveland. Instead, its aid will support new housing, retail, hospitality and job creation in Middleburg Heights, Strongsville and Richmond Heights.

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CWRU gets large gift to support new science, engineering building

The addition of this outdoor terrace to Case Western Reserve University’s new Interdisciplinary
Science and Engineering Building will be one of the most visible features resulting from a large gift
from the Kelvin & Eleanor Smith Foundation (CWRU). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

The Kelvin & Eleanor Smith Foundation has committed $15 million to support Case Western Reserve University’s (CWRU) Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building (ISEB), 10900 Euclid Ave., a new research facility designed to advance collaboration and discovery across disciplines.

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GCRTA wins $20M to rebuild Shaker Hts rail stations

On a snowy Feb. 27, 2015, a Green Line light-rail train gets ready to board passengers at the Green
Road station which is ADA-compliant. So are the Warrensville and Lee stations along Shaker
Boulevard in Shaker Heights (Kevin Goodman). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

In 1990, the federal Americans with Disabilities Act became law. It was civil rights legislation which prescribed that no one could be excluded from a public facility or public transportation because of their physical abilities.

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UH asks city to erase E. 115th Street

Every structure visible in this northward looking view from Cornell Road in University Circle, freom
from the brick Foley Building at left, to 12 houses on East 115th Street including the street, to the
Fayne Apartments at right, are proposed to be removed from this scene in the coming years by
University Hospitals for temporary parking lots (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

University Hospitals will seek a recommendation tomorrow morning from a city design-review committee to demolish 12 historic homes it owns along East 115th Street in Cleveland’s University Circle district. Two neighboring buildings, one with offices and the other with 44 apartments, may also join them soon on the take-down list.

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Erieview Tower financing has officially been completed

Downtown Cleveland’s fifth-tallest building, the 62-year-old Erieview Tower, now has the
resources for major renovations to begin for converting it from offices to mixed-use
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Despite prior declarations by Erieview Tower’s redevelopment team that it was moving forward with its project, an investment bank that was tasked with delivering the financing finally confirmed today its fiscal resources are now in place.

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Clinic’s expanding Emergency Dept. has a big price tag

Cleveland Clinic’s to-be expanded Emergency Department on Cedar Avenue at East
90th Street in Cleveland’s Fairfax neighborhood will push out its parking to nearby blocks
currently occupied by homes. The demolitions will start next week (Cleveland Clinic).
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Way back in the good old days of the early 2000s, $230 million would be enough money to afford building a landmark 50-plus-story skyscraper. Today, with inflation and a very specialized building to construct, that same amount of money will achieve a structure of far less scale.

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Tremont Treehouse apartments to sprout

Built around The Treehouse Pub in Cleveland’s Tremont neighborhood, a new apartment complex
 that borrows on the pub’s name could see construction start by the end of this year (GLSD).
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Sometimes a proposed development in Cleveland sees a flurry of public activity when it’s first announced, then fades into the background for months or even years, then suddenly pops back up again when everything finally comes together for that project.

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Arch at St. Michael is reborn

They don’t make ’em like this anymore. So it would have been a veritable sin to lose this High
Victorian Gothic architectural gem from Cleveland’s landscape. Fortunately, the former Catholic
School has found a new use as senior housing after a $28 million renovation (CHN Housing
Partners). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

In the late 2010s, the former St. Michael School, 3146 Scranton Rd., where Cleveland’s South Tremont neighborhood meets Clark-Fulton, appeared destined for a fall from grace.

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Clinic opens two new research buildings

Construction and even landscaping was completed by July for a pair of new Cleveland Clinic
research buildings along Cedar Avenue in Cleveland’s Fairfax neighborhood. Those buildings
officially opened today (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Cleveland Clinic today celebrated the opening of two new state-of-the-art research buildings, part of the largest research investment in the health system’s 105-year history.

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Blue, Green lines on track for rapid modernization

A brand-new Van Aken-Warrensville Rapid Station, under construction on Tuttle Road in Shaker
Heights, will feature a heated indoor waiting area and public restrooms (Harrison Whittaker).
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Between new railcars, upgraded stations, rebuilt tracks, and Transit-Oriented Development (TOD), the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority’s (GCRTA) Blue and Green lines are benefitting from hundreds of millions of dollars in investment that could reshape the future of the city’s least-used rail transit lines.

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Millennia plans tech hub, AI center at 925 Euclid

The former Union Trust Bank Building in Downtown Cleveland could become a technology hub
instead of a primarily residential redevelopment if plans by its owner and an emerging develop-
ment team pan out (Gordon Brothers). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

With a court-imposed auction looming two months from now, the owner of the former Union Trust Bank Building, 925 Euclid Ave. in Downtown Cleveland, is trying to organize a dramatic change of plans for the building’s redevelopment that could include significant artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure.

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Airport Ground Transportation Center plans revealed

The new Cleveland Hopkins International Airport’s Ground Transportation Center is seen at left,
on the current site of the Orange Lot. To the right is the airport’s new terminal headhouse, proposed
to be built on the existing site of the Smart Garage (CCG). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Cleveland’s Planning Commission’s Design Review Committee is set to hear and see a presentation Friday on conceptual plans for the Cleveland Hopkins International Airport’s new Ground Transportation Center (GTC). But even for a conceptual plan, it is short on many details that may come later as plans are refined.

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925 Euclid heads to auction

The former Union Trust Bank Building at 925 Euclid Ave. had the world’s largest bank lobby
when it was built in 1924. The future of this lobby and the massive office building surround-
ing it is in doubt as the property is on course to a November auction (CPL).
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A federal judge today rejected giving more time to the owner of a massive office building at 925 Euclid Ave. in Downtown Cleveland to secure financing that would end a foreclosure proceeding against it. With that rejection, the property is about to enter a court-monitored sale process toward a Nov. 3 auction.

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GCRTA’s first new train arrives Cleveland

Wrapped like a present, train No. 401, the first of 54 Siemens Mobility S-200 light-rail cars for the
Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority, arrived this morning at the Port of Cleveland. Here it
will start its life over the coming decades, taking Greater Clevelanders to and from work, school,
sporting events and many other journeys (GCRTA). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Just after sunset Friday, the first new light-rail train acquired by the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (GCRTA) in more than 40 years arrived by freight train at CSX Transportation’s Collinwood Yard. Today, CSX moved Siemens Mobility train No. 401 to the Port of Cleveland for delivery to GCRTA via a newly built transfer track.

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Deutsche Bank tells Millennia: time’s up

Parties involved in pending foreclosure case against the owners of 925 Euclid Ave. in Down-
town Cleveland could decide Monday if an affiliate of Millennia Companies will get more
time to retain and redevelop the 1.45-million-square-foot building (NEOtrans).
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A federal court will likely decide on Monday whether to give the owner of the huge, former Union Trust Bank Building, 925 Euclid Ave. in Downtown Cleveland, more time to resolve a foreclosure action against it. Or the court could instruct the owner, an affiliate of the Millennia Companies, to get in line with other potential bidders to get the property in November.

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Cleveland’s next big manufacturing plant

Construction could begin next year on a 166,000-square-foot light-industrial facility called
Gateway 55 on East 55th Street, just south of the Opportunity Corridor Boulevard in
Cleveland’s Slavic Village (Cresco). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

With tenants in mind and a locally resurgent manufacturing market behind it, the long-proposed Gateway 55 light-industrial development is moving forward in the northern part of Slavic Village on Cleveland’s near-East Side.

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Two Cleveland printers ink merger

Foote Printing’s 55,000-square-foot building on East 55th Street just north of the Opportunity
Corridor turned 100 years old this year and gained a merger partner in Brothers Printing (Google).
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Two family-run, Cleveland-based printers that have been in business for a combined 230 years have decided to unite that experience into a single company.

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Cleveland 7th in US for home appreciation

All homes pictured were built within the past year as part of CHN Housing Partners’ lease-
to-own Parkside Homes development, intended to promote homeownership. Located on
Parkview Avenue in Cleveland’s Buckeye-Shaker neighborhood, the homes replaced a
strip of vacant lots (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

According to a new housing market report by Homes.com, Greater Cleveland home prices continue to rise faster than the national average despite growing inventory. In July, only six of the 40 largest US housing markets saw faster annual sales price growth than Cleveland.

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PNC to move satellite offices downtown

The 35-story PNC Center on East 9th Street and Euclid Avenue in Downtown Cleveland is
about to get more full. Not only are parts of it now up for lease, but PNC will soon relocate
more office workers into the building from satellite locations it leases in Greater
Cleveland (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

When a big company like PNC Bank owns a large, underutilized office property and occupies leased office properties in the same metropolitan area, something’s got to give. The giver is reportedly PNC’s satellite offices. And the receiver is PNC Center in Downtown Cleveland.

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