A large property near you may be ripe for a jail

A Cuyahoga County steering committee has supported this basic,
conceptual design of a new jail facility called the Cuyahoga County
Corrections Center. The big question now is where to put it. An request
for proposals was issued yesterday to help answer that question (JCESC).
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It’s definitely an unusual move. Typically, when a government agency needs a property for a new facility, it does an alternatives analysis of all the properties that meet its criteria. It then ranks them according to that criteria and then pursues acquisition of their preferred property or properties. If that doesn’t work out, the agency pursues its second favorite site. And so on.

Not Cuyahoga County. Instead of approaching owners of big, development-ready sites for its sprawling integrated Cuyahoga County Corrections Center (CCCC), the county wants you to come to them.

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Little Italy’s largest townhouse project in a decade

An early rendering of the Woodhill Townhomes accurately shows their
height at four stories with rooftop decks. However, in the final design,
the second-floor balconies on the townhomes are now walk-outs on
all of the fronts and on some of backs. The third-floor balconies are
Juliet balconies, meaning that the doors can be opened but a person
cannot walk out on them. But they can be serenaded by a Little Italy
Romeo. This view looks southerly along Coltman Road (SixMo).
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So far in the 21st century, Little Italy has seen a large townhouse development get built roughly every decade. With past townhouse developments happening in 2001 and again in 2010, Little Italy is overdue for another. One of Northeast Ohio’s largest homebuilders is getting ready to fill that void.

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Latest project may extend West 25th’s density

This is a basic massing of The Pearl to show its potential scale, if it wins
support from the Duck Island Block Club. Architectural details will be
added after this conceptual phase is refined. Overlooking Walworth
Run ravine, The Pearl would offer market-rate apartments above
retail at the intersection of West 25th Street and Columbus
Road. This view looks generally north (Bialosky).
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A frantic pace of development continues in and near Cleveland’s Duck Island enclave, where Tremont meets Ohio City, especially along West 25th Street south of the Market District. The latest entry is Independence-based Realife Real Estate Group’s The Pearl, a seven-story apartment building over parking and a retail space.

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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
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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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