Cleveland offers more jobs than some Sun Belt powerhouses

Greater Cleveland is creating more jobs than most cities in the
Great Lakes/Midwest region and, indeed, more than in some
Sun Belt economic powerhouses. That is intensifying the de-
mand for more new housing, including these apartment build-
ings being built by Columbus-based Avenue Partners on West
73rd Street in the Battery Park area (Graves Lumber).
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Whether they’re statistics from the U.S. Department of Labor or employment listings at one of the world’s largest jobs Web sites, the data for Greater Cleveland is looking rosy again, for the first time since the global pandemic began in early 2020. Indeed, the number of paychecks being created in this Great Lakes metropolis is exceeding those being created in traditional Sun Belt economic powerhouses like Austin, Charlotte, Orlando and San Diego.

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Sherwin-Williams HQ builders to get an HQ, too

View and location of the 18,000-square-foot Gilman Building next
to the 1-million-square-foot Sherwin-Williams global headquarters.
The Gilman will apparently endure for a couple more years as the
construction offices for the headquarters project after a construc-
tion management firm acquires it in the coming days (Pickard
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With an anticipated sale of the Gilman Building closing this week, Sherwin-Williams’ (SHW) global headquarters development team expects to gain its own HQ of sorts in the form of a construction office over the next two years. But the long-term future of this five-story, modernist-clad Victorian-era building at 1350 W. 3rd St. in downtown Cleveland is uncertain.

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Cleveland lakefront park wins design funds

A conceptual plan for expanding lakefront land farther out into Lake
Erie would not only create more land for lakefront recreation, but it
would also protect Interstate 90 from damage by wave action and
rising lake water levels resulting from climate change (Metroparks).
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While shovel-ready plans for an expanded lakefront park just east of downtown Cleveland could be just 18 months away, don’t expect to be able to use that enlarged park for many more years. That’s especially true for a proposed off-shore park island.

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City Club Apartments tower gets go-ahead

It could be merely a matter of weeks before a groundbreaking
ceremony is held for the 23-story City Club Apartments tower on
Euclid Avenue, just west of East 9th Street and the unrelated City
Club Building (Vocon). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM

With project financing closing today and a construction permit in hand, it may only be a matter of weeks before shovels hit the ground at 776 Euclid Ave. for the new City Club Apartments tower.

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Four regional trail projects advance

Four regional trail projects in Cuyahoga County were advanced in
their planning to either study their feasibility or to develop detailed
engineering and environmental documentation so they can be eligible
for federal construction dollars. A close-up of the the southeast/lower-
right portion of the above map appears at the link below (Metroparks).
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Cleveland Metroparks today announced it was awarded $950,000 by the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) to advance the planning and design of four regional transportation projects that encompass 5.7 miles of trail and bicycle connections on Cleveland’s East Side and in the city of Euclid. Three of the four projects impact Cleveland’s Slavic Village neighborhood and the southeast side of the city.

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BOOMING! More big East Side warehouses coming

Four large development sites on Cleveland’s near-east side, ranging
in size from 11 to 40 acres, are already on the market and/or being
developed for one user or many end-users to capitalize on the locally
and nationally booming warehousing and light-industrial market. All
of the sites are close to major highways and transit lines to ensure
access to shipping routes and the region's workforce (MyPlace/KJP).
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More than 1,000 jobs and hundreds of millions of dollars worth of investment are some of the potential spin-off benefits from multiple large warehousing projects blooming on Cleveland’s East Side — along the Opportunity Corridor and in Slavic Village.

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Sherwin-Williams HQ groundbreaking delayed

An empty Jacobs Lot on Public Square in downtown Cleveland
greeted pedestrians, motorists and homeless people this morning
Instead, there was supposed to be a large tent set up on this lot for
a ground-breaking ceremony to celebrate the official start of con-
struction of Sherwin-Williams’ new global headquarters (KJP).
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Today was to be the day that VIPs and media would record for posterity the official start of construction on Sherwin-Williams’ (SHW) new $300-plus million global headquarters. However, that celebration is going to have to wait for another day.

“Due to scheduling conflicts, the HQ groundbreaking event will not take place today,” said Julie Young, SHW’s vice president of global corporate communications, in an e-mail to NEOtrans. “A new event date has not been finalized.”

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