Italy has its famous Leaning Tower of Pisa. Cleveland has its leaning laundromat of Little Italy. But while Pisa’s was built in 1372 and is in no danger of falling, Cleveland’s 19th-century version is a danger to surrounding buildings and may be demolished soon after five years of consideration.
Thursday, March 27, 2025
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
Bibb: fate of Cleveland Federal Building “concerning”
Earlier this month, the Trump Administration offered hundreds of federal buildings and properties for sale or other disposition but quickly withdrew the list in the face of national criticism. Now, the General Services Administration is issuing a new, much smaller list of eight federal buildings to be cast off in an “accelerated disposition.”
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
Euclid Beach Park arch relocation ready
Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb’s Office of Capital Projects is ready to start work on relocating and rehabilitating a gateway arch from the historic Euclid Beach Park to its planned new home a few feet away. That home is a new greenspace in the 15900 block of Lake Shore Blvd. in Cleveland’s North Collinwood neighborhood, with trees and walkways and the landmark arch spanning the main walkway lined with benches.
Monday, March 24, 2025
Goodwill to open at Gordon Square Rite Aid site
On Friday, Ward 15 Councilwoman Jenny Spencer shared on her Facebook page a letter to the community from Goodwill Industries that they will open this summer a store at 6512 Franklin Blvd. in Cleveland’s Gordon Square neighborhood. The location is a former Rite Aid drug store that closed in August 2024.
Friday, March 21, 2025
North Coast Yard pop-up to activate lakefront
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A street-level view of the proposed pop-up park at North Coast Harbor, next to the Steamship William G. Mather Museum, north of the Great Lakes Science Center (NWDC). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Like a company offering a free trial period to customers in the hopes of converting them into loyal subscribers, the city of Cleveland and North Coast Waterfront Development Corporation (NCWDC) officials hope to offer residents just that: a free trial period of lakefront activation and a tangible reason to support a permanent, fully-realized reimagining of an underutilized lakefront.
Tower City Center lacks coherent future without more development, rail access
Like many who work in one of the dozen buildings of Downtown Cleveland’s Tower City Center complex, Nora Romanoff parks her car where more than 100 railroad passenger trains a day once pulled into or out of a labyrinth built as Cleveland Union Terminal. Just as rail travelers did from 1930-1977, she rides an escalator up into a grand railroad concourse that was significantly remodeled in 1988-90 to become today’s retail-heavy The Avenue at Tower City.
Thursday, March 20, 2025
Next apartment project at Detroit & Lake planned
The next new apartment building at the intersection of Detroit and Lake avenues in Cleveland’s Detroit-Shoreway neighborhood is already in the works. But it’s planned to be quite a bit smaller than its to-be neighbor across West 75th Street.