Downtown project delayed by commissioners’ absence

An aerial view looking northward toward the proposed Apartments
at Bolivar to be located just north of the Erie Street Cemetery and on
the southeast side of downtown’s central business district (Desmone).
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City Planning Commission today was unable to advance a major downtown Cleveland project toward design approval, despite its members enthusiastically supporting an earlier conceptual version of the plan. In recent months, multiple commission meetings had to be ended early before important agenda items could be addressed, resulting in those projects being delayed to a future meeting where the applicants had to sit through another hours-long session.

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City Club Apartments groundbreaking set

A formal groundbreaking ceremony for the 23-story, roughly 250-
foot-tall City Club Apartments in downtown Cleveland is planned
for 11 a.m. Dec. 10. However, there are signs that site preparations
in the 700-block of Euclid Avenue are about to begin (Vocon).
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Among the new Sherwin-Williams (SHW) headquarters, Fairmount Properties’ Fairfax Market/Apartments and the City Club Apartments, where was the betting line on the City Club tower officially breaking ground first? If you bet the last to be the first, you’re a winner.

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Funds sought for Cleveland-Chicago rail development plan

Amtrak’s existing (blue) and proposed (green) routes and stations are
shown here, with a focus on the Cleveland-Chicago transportation cor-
ridor. A group of metropolitan planning organizations in the corridor
led by Greater Cleveland’s Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating
Agency want to address freight and passenger rail traffic congestion
on the busy Norfolk Southern rail line to allow for expansion of both
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Agencies between Cleveland and Chicago have joined forces to request federal funds to identify how best to expand freight and passenger rail services on the busy Norfolk Southern (NS) Corp.-owned rail line that links those metro areas.

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Sherwin-Williams HQ construction starts (PHOTOS)

The roof of the Rockefeller Building, above the 17th floor of John
D. Rockefeller’s classic structure at 614 W. Superior Ave., offers
a front-row seat to the construction of another addition to the
downtown Cleveland skyline — the global headquarters of
Sherwin-Williams (all photos are contributed or by KJP).
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Nov. 29, 2021 may be remembered as the day that construction work began on Sherwin-Williams’ $300-plus-million global headquarters. To others, it may be known as the date when one of downtown Cleveland’s largest “parking craters” died. Even though the official groundbreaking ceremony isn’t scheduled until 5 p.m. Dec. 15 (hopefully with no further delays), it looks like quite a bit of work may be under way by that time.

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County offers large East Cleveland property

Located near East Cleveland’s central business district on Euclid
Avenue is this roughly 4.25-acre property, shaded in blue, owned
by Cuyahoga County that it would like to sell or lease for possible
redevelopment. The site is between the Red Line rail rapid transit’s
Superior Station and stops on the HealthLine bus rapid transit, only
a half-mile from the edge of University Circle (Google).
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Cuyahoga County has issued a request for proposals (RFP) for the disposition of a large piece of land that, if redeveloped, could help commercial activity in East Cleveland’s central business district. The sale or lease and possible redevelopment of the property could leverage off nearby University Circle and adjacent transit lines in providing a desperately needed economic lift to the long-struggling inner-ring suburb, say two advocacy groups.

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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-
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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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