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| The East Stokes apartment tower will rival the neighboring Artisan apartments as the tallest structure in Cleveland’s University Circle district. The same developer led both projects (SCB). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
There’s good news and there’s uncertain news when it comes to the latest skyscraper planned for Cleveland’s booming cultural district, University Circle, and specifically for the megaproject site called Circle Square.
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| The current Huntington Bank Field on Downtown Cleveland’s lakefront has been home to the Cleveland Browns since 1999. And it may be the home of the Browns for up to two years longer than the team’s ownership had planned (HSG). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
If it seemed like the Cleveland Browns and their owners the Haslam Sports Group (HSG) were a tad generous with their $100 million settlement with the City of Cleveland, now we know why.
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| This 140-year-old building at West 25th Street and Chatham Avenue in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood is best known for its “Greetings from Cleveland” mural. But it will soon have a commercial bakery-kitchen and storefront operated by the owner of Good Company restaurant in Battery Park (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
If you haven’t heard of Good Company restaurant, then that’s the reason why they’re making a move — two actually. And if you have heard of it, you may be glad to learn there’s going to be twice as much of it.
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| This warehouse on Mulberry Avenue on the West Bank of the Flats is planned to be the new home of a growing clothing manufacturer called Found Surface. But the owner of the building is concerned that the city will delay this project as it had delayed a previous one to death. The property is next to the Centennial Lake Link Trail (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
A boarded-up warehouse along the thread of the Centennial Lake Link Trail on Cleveland’s Flats West Bank could soon sew up a growing clothing manufacturer. But the lease signed this week by Cleveland-based Found Surface has an escape clause that allows it to cut and run to its second-choice location in the suburbs.
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| Outlined in red is the approximate location of proposed land purchases for a new SpringHill Suites extended-stay hotel on East 90th Street, just north of Chester Avenue. The Cleveland Clinic campus is seen to the south in the background along with many new apartment buildings nearby (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
A lack of affordable, extended-stay hotel accommodations near the Cleveland Clinic’s Main Campus has prompted a development team to fill that void. But in order to keep long-term stays affordable for families visiting Clinic patients, the hotel will have to be built on more affordable land at the periphery of the Main Campus. In this case — Cleveland’s Hough neighborhood.
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| Today’s settlement appears to seal the fate of the 1999-built Huntington Bank Field on Downtown Cleveland’s lakefront and opens up the entire 50-acre lakefront development to be announced by early next year. It is due to be demolished follow- ing the Cleveland Browns’ 2029 move to a new, enclosed Huntington Bank Field in suburban Brook Park (CBRE). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
A new, enclosed Huntington Bank Field will be built in Brook Park. And the current home of the Cleveland Browns in Downtown Cleveland will be demolished for lakefront redevelopment for which the owners of the Browns will help finance to the tune of $100 million.
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| While the rest of the nation wallows in sour economic news, the job situation in Greater Cleveland looks relatively rosy based on the latest report from one of the world’s largest career search listing Web sites (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Each new national job report and economic indicator this year shows the nation’s economy is slowing down. But it doesn’t seem that way yet here in Greater Cleveland, where new apartment buildings are going up, there’s more traffic on the roads and more new restaurants and stores opening. So why the difference?
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| Parking lots between Huron Road and Prospect Avenue, east of East 4th Street in Down- town Cleveland’s Gateway District were closed off starting this week. If any parking reopens here, it will likely be in new parking garages to support the development of Bedrock Real Estate’s so-called Rock Block site. This view looks north from the front steps of Rocket Arena (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Another parking crater in Downtown Cleveland has succumbed to a new development that promises to attract hundreds of thousands of visitors per year. The latest to disappear is a windswept, 3-acre parking lot in the Gateway District, across Huron Road from Rocket Arena, home to Cleveland Cavaliers basketball and Cleveland Monster hockey games.
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| The Walton Apartments on Clark Avenue in Cleveland’s Clark-Fulton neighborhood is one of two local beneficiaries of the new Cleveland Housing Investment Fund created by a national nonprofit organization (RDL). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
The local affiliate of a national nonprofit organization today announced the first of two financing commitments for the new Cleveland Housing Investment Fund (CHIF). Both commitments are long-planned affordable housing developments that will help address the city’s affordable housing crisis.
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| The latest development in Cleveland’s Hough neighborhood looks like it will be Chester 82, seen here at the northwest corner of its namesake streets of Chester Avenue and East 82nd Street (Sullivan Bruck). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
The Port of Cleveland Board of Directors today approved $50 million in bond financing to support two significant development projects — the redevelopment of the historic Park Synagogue in Cleveland Heights and a new apartment community along Chester Avenue in Cleveland’s Hough neighborhood.
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| A major redevelopment of the former Park Synagogue site was approved this week by Cleveland Heights City Council after a shakeup at the top of City Hall’s leadership. With the approval, the first phases of redevelopment of the 75-year-old synagogue can begin (SCA-Ardon Bar-Hama). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
The City of Cleveland Heights has reached an agreement with a local, experienced real estate developer to help finance the redevelopment of the former Park Synagogue and its green space as an arts campus and residential village.
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| Next week, David Robinson will leave the top job at West Park Kamms Neighbor- hood Development for the same job at Old Brooklyn Community Development Corp. (OBCDC). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Making a move from leading one nonprofit community development corporation for another can sometimes make inferences about the place they’re leaving. But in David Robinson’s lateral move, due to start next week, it says more about the place he’s moving to — a place called home.
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| Major infrastructure investments are needed to accommodate sudden, brief surges of heavy traffic up to a dozen times per year on roadways and transit from a planned 67,000-seat stadium in suburban Brook Park. Figuring out how to pay for them in a metropolitan area that hasn’t grown in 60 years is proving to be a difficult task (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Building a 67,000-seat stadium where none has existed before is proving to be a big expense for expanding road and transit systems to accommodate huge surges in traffic on a relatively small number of event days each year. And it is government funding that is being requested to cover that construction expense which has now risen to $122.15 million.
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| Looking west from above Interstate 71 in the Cleveland suburb of Brook Park, the orange- shaded area is the land on which a new Huntington Bank Field, supportive development and parking is planned. Just beyond is Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, set on City of Cleveland-owned land (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
In the latest chapter of the region’s ongoing stadium saga, the City of Cleveland has sued the Ohio Department of Transportation’s (ODOT) Office of Aviation for granting a permit for the construction of a new stadium next to Cleveland Hopkins International Airport.
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| Conceptual plans for the African Town Retail Plaza on Cedar Avenue in Cleveland’s Fairfax neighborhood were approved today by the Design Review Committee of the City Planning Commission (JL Myers). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
With work underway to redevelop the former Cedar Branch YMCA to become African Town Plaza, its developer James Sosan is now looking for his next real estate project. He didn’t have to look far.
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| The westernmost storefront on the left side of The Beacon Apartments tower will be the new Downtown Cleveland home of Dollar Bank. The site is on Euclid Avenue next to The Old Arcade, seen at far left (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Although NEOtrans broke the story of Dollar Bank’s retail location move in Downtown Cleveland back in July, company officials made the news official and more detailed in an announcement yesterday.
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| Atop the Morning Star Apartments on St. Clair Avenue near East 105th Street in Cleve- land’s Glenville neighborhood, high-speed internet equipment was installed to connect more Clevelanders to the Internet (DigitalC). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine and the Ohio Department of Development’s BroadbandOhio office today announced a milestone in the state’s effort to provide affordable high-speed internet across the entire city of Cleveland and help address its digital divide.
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| An updated rendering of the proposed new Huntington Bank Field in the Cleveland suburb of Brook Park (HKS). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
The owners of the Cleveland Browns today announced they’ve assembled another team — the builders of what they’ve touted as Ohio’s first enclosed National Football League stadium. The construction team is due to start construction of the stadium following an early-2026 groundbreaking.
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| The new Sherwin-Williams headquarters tower at right will not be taking company employees who are located on three floors of the 10-story Higbee Building at far left. Instead, Sherwin-Williams is investing a modest amount to improve amenity spaces in common areas of the Higbee Building (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Yesterday, on the same day Sherwin-Williams (SHW) was touting in a press release the move-in dates for its 1.6 million square feet of new research and headquarters facilities, it was also delivering plans to the city of Cleveland for renovations to three floors of downtown’s Higbee Building.
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| The foundry section, at left, of the long-vacant Warner & Swasey factory on Carnegie Avenue near East 55th Street is to be demolished for parking for residents in the to-be-redeveloped, surviving portion of the complex at right (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Four decades after the venerable Warner & Swasey factory in Cleveland’s Midtown neighborhood closed, good things appear to finally be coming together for a rebirth of the 3-acre site.
