38-year-old building wins historic tax credit

Another $100+ million residential development in downtown
Cleveland is due to get underway by spring. The conversion
of the former Ohio Bell headquarters in downtown Cleveland
won the state’s largest historic tax credit, even though the build-
ing was built in 1983. It was one of three Cleveland projects and
among 36 projects statewide to win Ohio historic tax credits (KJP).
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Champagne was flowing in the lobby of 45 Erieview as Ohio Department of Development officials announced the winner of one of the state’s largest historic tax credits — a 38-year-old office building to be converted mostly into high-end housing. The $5 million tax credit may round out the $102 million project’s financing, allowing its sale and redevelopment to move forward.

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City Club Apartments breaks ground for its first Cleveland project

Dignitaries broke ground today for the new 23-story City Club Apart-
ments, 776 Euclid Ave. in downtown Cleveland. But City Club Apart-
ments Chairman and CEO Jonathan Holtzman said it won’t be the Mi-
chigan-based company’s last project in Cleveland. Tossing dirt with
golden shovels were, from left, lead project architect and Vocon Part-
ners LLC Principal Denver Brooker, City Club’s Holtzman, Ward 3
Councilman Kerry McCormack, City Council President-Elect Blaine
Griffin and Downtown Cleveland Alliance President & CEO Michael
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It wasn’t just the sound shovels hitting the dirt at the City Club Apartments’ groundbreaking ceremony today in downtown Cleveland that was heard. It was also the news that the Farmington Hills, MI developer and owner of multi-family and mixed-use properties was just getting started in establishing a presence in Cleveland. But no one overlooked the importance of the latest residential high-rise being added to Cleveland’s main street, least of all the man most responsible for it.

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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
 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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