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| A rendering of Cosm Cleveland, across Huron Road from Rocket Arena downtown (Bedrock). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
City Planning Commission today voted unanimously to approve the design of Cosm Cleveland, a shared reality sports entertainment destination planned to fill a large parking crater in Downtown Cleveland’s Gateway District.
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| An aerial, northwest-looking view of the 8400 Lake development once all phases are built out. The site is near Don’s Lighthouse Grille. Lake Avenue is to the lower left and the Norfolk Southern railroad tracks along the lakefront are seen at the top right with an Amtrak passenger train on it (Horton Harper Architects). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
An aerial, northwest-looking view of the 8400 Lake development once all phases are built out. The site is near Don’s Lighthouse Grille. Lake Avenue is to the lower left and the Norfolk Southern railroad tracks along the lakefront are seen at the top right with an Amtrak passenger train on it (Horton Harper Architects). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.
Sometimes it’s good to be the first. Sometimes it’s not. A two-phase, 72-unit apartment development planned at 8400 Lake Ave. in Cleveland’s Detroit-Shoreway neighborhood probably falls somewhere in between the two extremes as it was the first large project to be submitted and approved under the city’s pilot Form-Based Zoning Code.
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| Rendering of the Cleveland Clinic’s “East Garage” proposed at the northeast corner of Carnegie Avenue and East 105th Street. A skywalk pedestrian bridge over East 105th is planned. The Clinic is planning two big garages at its Main Campus that straddles the University Circle and Fairfax neighborhoods of Cleveland. The East Garage will be sought first (Cleveland Clinic). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
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| Built more than 120 years ago by and for the Winton Motor Carriage Co., once the largest maker of gas-powered cars in the world, this vacant manufacturing plant on Berea Road near West 110th Street in Cleveland is due to be demolished for future development (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
A potentially large industrial redevelopment site is about to open up in Cleveland’s Cudell neighborhood, in a historic industrial district where there’s been a decent amount of commercial investment and expansion planning lately.
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| Large apartment buildings like Gateway North at John Carroll University are rising all over the eastern suburbs of Cleveland (Contributed). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
In Northeast Ohio, construction tends to hibernate in the winter months as snow and freezing temperatures take over. But despite winter storms and a record-setting deep freeze, there has been movement on several residential projects throughout the Heights.
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| A single-family infill home by Knez Homes on Bailey Avenue in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
While revitalization efforts since the 1990s have transformed Cleveland’s Ohio City into a vibrant urban destination, the demolition of vacant, abandoned, and fire damaged homes has scarred some blocks with empty lots.
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| After the former Lake Shore Power Station was leveled in 2017 and its site cleaned in the last two years, the 62-acre property outlined in red is now on the market. What happened next will decide the long-term future of one of what may be the most consequential development sites in Greater Cleveland (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
While the 50-acre Downtown Cleveland lakefront redevelopment has most of the attention right now, an even larger lakefront redevelopment site has just hit the market. And its future re-use will influence the fate of the lakefront east of downtown for decades to come.
