A dozen Cleveland schools are offered for redevelopment

Collinwood High School is easily the largest and perhaps the most iconic of 12 Cleveland
schools to be offered for redevelopment in this latest round. The Collinwood Railroaders
graduated its last senior class last week after more than a century of graduations. Its
next use is unknown (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

The Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) and the City of Cleveland are offering up to buyers and developers 12 school properties for redevelopment, with a few surprises on the list. They include two school buildings built in the last 20 years and several historic, iconic structures.

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Downtown Cleveland: experience drives perception

Want to love Downtown Cleveland more? Spend more time experiencing more of it,
says Downtown Cleveland Inc. (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Downtown Cleveland, Inc. (DCI) says that the biggest thing wrong with the city’s central business district is that not enough people are familiar with it. If more people visited it more often, DCI said people would enjoy it more. And DCI has a survey of perceptions to back up its argument.

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Edgewater, West Blvd grapple with new development

Looking south across a basketball court at Cudell Commons, construction of Marion C. Selzter
Elementary School moves ahead (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Cleveland’s Edgewater, Cudell, and West Boulevard neighborhoods are currently facing a small wave of development, ranging from renovations to new construction. But the path to groundbreaking has been easier for some projects than others.

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AmTrust to put $14M in downtown offices

As previously reported by NEOtrans, AmTrust will split up its office presence
in Greater Cleveland. Its downtown offices will move to the AECOM
Building seen here where it make a large investment to update
and enhance its space (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Even as AmTrust takes steps to divide up its Downtown Cleveland offices into suburban and downtown locations, the financial services company is about to make a major investment into its new downtown offices at the AECOM Building, 1300 E. 9th St., according to plans filed with the city this week.

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Cleveland housing developments get funded, neighborhoods lifted

 With a working title of the Lorain Avenue Redevelopment, a new
building offering affordable housing atop a new office for Ohio City Inc.
will replace the aging, nearly vacant McCafferty Health Center, providing
more housing choices in a neighborhood with high rents (City Architecture).
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Three Cleveland developments won competitive, highly coveted tax credits that will help push each of those new housing projects toward construction. In total, the trio will add 165 affordable residential units. But one of them is actually the construction of 40 new houses that offer an opportunity at home ownership.

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Lakefront apartment complex wins financing

Union at Cleveland Harbor would offer affordable housing along Cleveland’s
Lakefront, near the East 55th Street marina and Gordon Park (RDL).
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Despite having 17 miles of shoreline, developments along Cleveland’s Lake Erie waterfront don’t happen that often due to a lack of developable land. But one got closer to construction today after financing for it was approved by the state, according to a press release.

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Naia Noir tops Detroit-Shoreway developments

Cuyahoga County’s first lakefront high-rise in over 50 years has risen to
more than half of its planned height beside J Roc-developed The Shore-
way (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

In March, NEOtrans announced that Cuyahoga County’s first lakefront high-rise in over half a century had begun construction next to Edgewater Park. The apartment tower, branded Naia Noir, will also be the first high-rise constructed in Cleveland’s Detroit-Shoreway neighborhood.

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