Slavic Village redevelopment plans progress

Details about the first phase of Village 55, represented by the three buildings at right
from a rooftop patio across Broadway Avenue in Cleveland’s Slavic Village, are
becoming clearer as it seeks financing. The project intends to rejuvenate the
intersection of Broadway and East 55th Street (HDG).
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A Cleveland-New York development partnership is seeking financing for a significant remake of the heart of Cleveland’s Slavic Village at Broadway Avenue and East 55th Street. And an application for Low Income House Tax Credits (LIHTC) is bringing more clarity to the partnership’s redevelopment plans that were first revealed publicly by NEOtrans in May 2023.

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Clinic’s megaprojects construction are on time

Construction workers labor atop what will be the Cleveland Clinic’s largest-ever build-
ing — the new Neurological Institute rising on Carnegie Avenue. It is one of several
major building projects underway right now at the Clinic’s Main Campus near Uni-
versity Circle in Cleveland (KJP). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Cleveland Clinic’s three major construction projects at its Main Campus near Cleveland’s University Circle are progressing on or close to schedule, according to a Clinic spokesperson. However, at this point, it appears that any follow-on projects at or near the Main Campus may not be happening for a while, according to two sources familiar with the Clinic’s capital planning.

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Port OKs $170M financing for major projects

The $128 million first phase of Valor Acres, on the site of a former Veterans Admini-
stration hospital in suburban Brecksville, won financing today from the Port of
Cleveland’s board of directors. Up to $93 million in bonds were provided to
help build nearly 437,000 of housing, retail and offices (DiGeronimo).
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The Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority’s board of directors today approved $170 million in bond financing to fuel a series of high-impact projects, including a large redevelopment of land that contained a former Veterans Administration facility, a major manufacturing expansion, and refinancing bonds for a nonprofit school that will free up more resources for more renovations.

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Great Lakes Brewing revisits Scranton Peninsula move

Something similar to this concept for development on Cleveland’s Scranton Peninsula
could again be part of the Great Lakes Brewing Company’s future after abandoning
plans to move to a site in suburban Avon. This vision dates from 2017 when the
microbrewer bought land along the Cuyahoga River for an expanded production
plant and tasting room (Coburn). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

NEOtrans has learned that one of Ohio’s oldest craft brewers is not only seeking to remain in Cleveland but is dusting off old plans to move its production facilities to Scranton Peninsula in Cleveland’s Flats. Sources familiar with the Great Lakes Brewing Company’s (GLBC) plans said that if public assistance can be found to provide enough developable land for the company’s expansion, it will likely relocate there.

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Walton Apts seeks to restore Clark’s walkability

The Walton Apartments, a proposed 52-unit affordable housing development for
seniors, is planned on a vacant lot on Clark Avenue, next to a Rally’s fast-food
restaurant at Fulton Road. City planners said they hoped the project will lead
more although few developments have been economically feasible here in
recent years (RDL). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

A planned affordable senior housing development at 3517 Walton Ave. in Cleveland’s Clark-Fulton neighborhood won universal praise Friday from the City Planning Commission. In fact, the commission considered it a potential game-changer for the neighborhood and especially Clark Avenue which, in this growing La Villa Hispana community, is lined with car-centric land use patterns, making it pedestrian-unfriendly.

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Tremont townhouses on Towpath put on slow path

The proposed Jefferson Hill Townhomes in Cleveland’s Tremont were on a roll
but the City Planning Commission urged the developer to get more feedback
from the neighborhood before coming back them for approval of their plans.
This view looks southerly from the intersection of Jefferson Avenue and
the Towpath Trail (Payto). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

A unique townhouse development, one of the first that would be built directly facing the Towpath Trail, was on a fast path toward design approval and a zoning change. But City Planning Commission members decided that that path was a little too fast for it and urged that the developer and its architect go back and get more input from the neighborhood first.

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Metroparks’ sailing center officially announced

The Patrick S. Parker Community Sailing Center at the East 55th Street Marina in
Cleveland is about to begin construction thanks to the generosity of numerous
Cleveland-area individuals and organizations (Cleveland Metroparks).
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Cleveland Metroparks today officially revealed plans for the Patrick S. Parker Community Sailing Center, a community center coming to the East 55th Street Marina in Cleveland. The Sailing Center will be the first of its kind along Lake Erie in Ohio, providing unprecedented public access and sailing opportunities to the region.

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Samsel Supply to close its doors after 66 years

Samsel Supply Co.’s former properties along Old River Road in Cleveland’s Flats were
recently planned to be redeveloped with a wellness hotel. But the maritime supply
company that thrived within those venerable buildings for decades will be no
more (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

When they sold their properties on Old River Road in Cleveland’s Flats East Bank to a developer nearly three years ago, Samsel family members had declined to answer where they would relocate their commercial supply business, Samsel Supply Company. No one else in local real estate circles seemed to know either. Turns out the reason was a simple one that few had considered — they’re not relocating. They’re closing.

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New family clinic coming to Clark-Fulton

On the ground floor at the northwest corner of the Northern Ohio Blanket Mills is the
proposed location for a Neighborhood Family Practice community health center. It is
the third and largest commercial tenant for the former textile factory which opened
this with 60 low-income apartments on the second and third floors (Iryna Tkachenko).
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Cleveland’s growing demand for affordable health care and having one of the worst infant mortality rates in the country is behind a new clinic planned for Cleveland’s Clark-Fulton neighborhood. Cleveland-based Neighborhood Family Practice (NFP) is proposing to open a community health center in the newly refurbished Northern Ohio Blanket Mills at 3466 St. Rocco Ct.., just off Fulton Road.

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Huntington Bank Field name to outlive Browns’ current stadium lease

For the next generation of sports fans, the Cleveland Browns’ home turf will now be
called Huntington Bank Field, even if the team moves into a new stadium in Brook
Park (Cleveland Browns). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

At least we now know what a Brook Park multi-purpose stadium would be called, if the owners of the Cleveland Browns football team decides to build it. While most terms of the naming rights deal were not disclosed by the Haslams Sports Group and their National Football League franchise, we do know that it will outlast the current stadium’s lease which ends after the 2028 football season.

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Hough MLK Plaza redevelopment advances

Planning for the redevelopment of MLK Plaza in Cleveland’s Hough neighborhood
is advancing with the application of financing and the creation of renderings for the
first phase of the project (RDL). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

While Northern Real Estate Urban Ventures, LLC (NREUV) is getting ready to break ground this week on its first Cleveland development, it’s already putting together the pieces for its next project here. The redevelopment of MLK Plaza, 9300 Wade Park Ave., in Cleveland’s Hough neighborhood would replace an aging, mixed-use complex with modern, low-income housing over ground-floor programming and common areas.

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Officials want Burke Airport on the table for Browns

The Haslam Sports Group, owners of the Cleveland Browns, wants to build a domed
stadium, supportive development and about 20,000 parking spaces in the Cleveland
suburb of Brook Park. But city of Cleveland and Cuyahoga County officials want
the Haslams to build in Downtown Cleveland. Some of those officials want
Burke Lakefront Airport to be considered as a development site (Google).
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Two key public officials have, in recent days, suggested that Burke Lakefront Airport be closed down and replaced by a new Cleveland Browns Stadium and supportive developments, parking and public spaces. But if such an idea evolves into a serious project, it would also likely require making interim repairs to the existing stadium.

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Cleveland offers up prime Ohio City property

McCafferty Health Center on Lorain Avenue in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood, as seen
from the alley Fulton Court behind it (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Cleveland city officials followed through on a promise they made in early July when they announced they would be making the city-owned McCafferty Health Center property, 4242 Lorain Ave., available for redevelopment. Today, they issued a formal invitation to professional real estate development teams to respond to a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) to redevelop the site and address the need for affordable housing in the Ohio City neighborhood.

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‘Lakefront plan’ becoming ‘lakefront project’

A part of the city of Cleveland’s lakefront plan that doesn’t get the attention is just
east of downtown where the Shoreway highway would become a boulevard and
East 18th Street is extended from behind the smokestacks at left, down the bluff
on an S-curve toward the foreground to an intersection with the boulevard.
Also a middle portion of the Municipal Parking Lot near a Waterfront Line
light-rail station could be developed with workforce housing (Google).
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One of the most important pieces of legislation regarding the future of Downtown Cleveland’s lakefront is working its way through Cleveland City Council. The proposed ordinance amendment, if passed at council’s next regular meeting Sept. 9, would codify the desired lakefront land-use features and set the city on a course to implement them. In other words, it would no longer be a lakefront plan, but a lakefront project.

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Hough groundbreaking set for Sept. 5

Redevelopment of a vacant and vandalized 51-year-old apartment building
on Hough Avenue is due to start next week, according to public records. The
project will help continue the Hough neighborhood’s turnaround (Google).
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According to a public record located by NEOtrans, a groundbreaking ceremony is scheduled from 10 a.m. to 12 noon Sept. 5 for the redevelopment of a vacant 10-story apartment building at 9410 Hough Ave. in Cleveland’s resurgent Hough neighborhood. Kristi Halford, a spokesperson for the project’s development partners, confirmed the scheduled event in an e-mail to NEOtrans.

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UH plans Wolstein conference center on Euclid Ave.

Iris S. and the late Bert L. Wolstein provided half of the funding for proposed
University Hospital Health System education and conference center on
Euclid Avenue in Cleveland’s University Circle (levelHEADS).
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In an e-mail sent to all employees today, University Hospital Health System CEO Cliff Megerian announced that the health care provider will seek to build a new 30,000-square-foot conference and education center in Cleveland’s University Circle. The facility will be built on an underutilized green space at 11100 Euclid Ave. in front of an existing parking garage.

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Shaker Square sees $4.5M in updates, more planned

Making improvements to Cleveland’s Shaker Square is essential to keeping it vibrant
and attractive as a commercial and transportation center for sustaining the surrounding
neighborhoods as well. The new owners of the square are working to address deferred
maintenance there and so far have made about $4.6 million worth of repairs and
improvements (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Two years ago this month, Cleveland Neighborhood Progress (CNP) and Burten, Bell, Carr, Inc. (BBC) acquired Cleveland’s historic but faded Shaker Square mixed-use district. Today, the new owners outlined what they considered to be significant work and investment in making capital improvements to the property and carrying out a retail strategy to restore vibrancy to the square.

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Bedrock starts Downtown Riverfront phase one

Site preparation is underway for the first phase of Bedrock’s Downtown Cleveland
Riverfront development. This view is looking north from the Lorain-Carnegie Hope
Memorial Bridge. At left is West 3rd Street and the former CSX railroad right of
way at right. Also visible are two bridges that will be demolished soon — the
Eagle Avenue lift bridge at left and the Stones Levee Road bridge over the
CSX tracks (KJP). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Construction permit applications were filed this week with the city of Cleveland’s Building Department so contractors can start digging and installing foundations for the first phase of Bedrock’s Downtown Riverfront development. That first phase is the Cleveland Clinic/Cleveland Cavaliers Global Peak Performance Center, touted as one of the world’s largest training facilities.

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Last round of megaproject tax credits opens

The fourth and final round of the Transformational Mixed Use Development tax credits
is now available and could help realize large building projects in Ohio’s largest cities
or their nearest suburbs (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Developers looking to transform their Ohio communities can now apply for funding opportunities through the Ohio Department of Development’s Transformational Mixed-Use Development (TMUD) program that awards up to $100 million in tax credits per round.

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The Arch at St. Michael gets underway

A sample of Gothic architecture in Cleveland can be found on Scranton Road at the
old St. Michael School, which is now in the process of being converted into senior
apartments called The Arch at St. Michael. The start of renovations yesterday co-
incided with the 50th anniversary of the funding program that helped make the
renovations possible (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Renovation work for The Arch at St. Michael is a day old. The funding program to pay for the renovations is 50 years old. And the Gothic Revival beauty located in Cleveland’s South Tremont neighborhood that will gain new life from the work is 118 years old. Combined, the milestones involved a lot of celebrating.

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