Cleveland Flats peninsula finally coming back to life

One of the largest vacant tracts of land near Cleveland’s urban core
moved closer to development this week with City Planning Com-
mission’s approval of schematic plans for Silverhills at Thunder-
bird. The project is located on the mostly undeveloped Scranton
Peninsula across the Cuyahoga River from downtown Cleveland.
That huge peninsula, once home to steel production facilities and
lumberyards, sat mostly vacant for 40 years and is finally coming
 back to life (Dimit). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM

Friday was a big day for Scranton Peninsula in Cleveland’s Flats. A new brewpub opened in a repurposed industrial structure next to the Cuyahoga River. City Planning Commission gave conditional approval to plans for a new neighborhood that would add more than 300 housing units to the city’s riverfront. And the commission approved new zoning for a large area of the Flats to support additional development.

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Hough tower to be redeveloped, expanded in $34M project

Vacant for at least a decade, stripped of salvageable items by thieves,
open to the elements and now vines are climbing up the side of the
condemned 10-story apartment building at 9410 Hough Ave. as
seen in this July 2021 view. But that’s not deterring SLSCO Ltd.
from taking on the project and even expanding it to include
a large new community center (Google).
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A major project to redevelop a vacant and blighted 10-story building, as well as to construct a large community center on Hough Avenue on Cleveland’s East Side was revealed by a city official at today’s City Planning Commission meeting. The development is one of many planned or underway in the Hough neighborhood which had long been a poster-child for urban decay in Cleveland.

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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
 (Amtrak Connects US). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM

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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