More student housing near Cleveland State University

Two commercial buildings on Prospect Avenue are due to be trans-
ferred next week to a new ownership group that plans to renovate
each with apartments for students at nearby Cleveland State Uni-
versity (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM 

A group of local investors is seeking to develop two historic commercial buildings near Cleveland State University (CSU) with student housing. However, ground-floor commercial spaces will be retained, including one for an existing tenant, the Cuyahoga County Veterans Service Commission.

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Apartments + Meijer market to break ground Dec. 14

An expansive six-story apartment building with a ground-floor Meijer
grocery store at Cedar Avenue is one of many developments get-ting
underway along and near East 105th Street at the east end of the new
Opportunity Corridor Boulevard. Ground will be broken for this
planned mixed-use building on Dec. 14 (Bialosky).
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One day after Cleveland City Council approved tax incentives for a new apartment building with a Meijer urban-format grocery store on the ground floor, a contractor for the developer applied to the city for permits for that project’s groundbreaking ceremony. The event will be held from 1-2:30 p.m. Dec. 14 at the project site — the southwest corner of East 105th Street and Cedar Avenue.

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Sherwin-Williams sets new HQ groundbreaking date

Sherwin-Williams’ new headquarters tower will be the fourth-tallest
building in downtown Cleveland’s skyline, reaching 36 stories and
616 feet above the corner of West 3rd Street and Superior Avenue.
But the exact site where the golden shovels of a groundbreaking
ceremony will turn shovels of dirt isn't exactly clear. The new
data for that ceremony is -- 5 p.m. Dec. 15, 2021 (Pickard
Chilton). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM

After a last-minute change in plans, Sherwin-Williams (SHW) has set a new date for a groundbreaking ceremony for its new, $300-plus-million global headquarters in downtown Cleveland. The event will instead be held from 5-8 p.m. Dec. 15.

The location appears to be roughly the same location as before — on the parking lot closest to the west side of Public Square. But it’s not easy to tell from the event coordinator’s permit application to the city, submitted today.

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Duck Island apartments, townhouses planned

Proposed by M Panzica Development LLC, the Abbey Avenue
Apartments, left, and Townhomes, seen at right, would fill one
of the  largest undeveloped plots of land in Duck Island. The
enclave is actually part of Tremont but many consider it a tran-
sition rea between Tremont and Ohio City to the west. Either
way, it’s a hot development zone. This is the northeast corner
of the proposed apartment and townhome development 
(GLSD). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM

On one of the largest undeveloped plots of land in the heart of Duck Island’s development hot zone, a locally active real estate developer plans to build a mix of for-rent, market-rate housing styles. The project, called Abbey Avenue Apartments and Townhomes, is proposed for the block bounded by Abbey, Smith Court plus West 19th and 20th streets.

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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
Chilton). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM

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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