Ex-Lakewood Hospital site plan due in April

A mixed-use development planned by CASTO is proposed to be built
on the former Lakewood Hospital site with an announcement due
in a few weeks. That development will reportedly be anchored by
the offices for a growing, Lakewood-based health insurance firm.
This is a northward-looking view of a previous plan by CASTO
for the hospital site in the center-left portion of the image (Dimit).
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Lakewood Mayor Meghan George’s office revealed today that an agreement for the redevelopment of the city’s ex-hospital site is being finalized and could be announced in April. There has been significant progress in negotiations with the ex-hospital site developer — so much so that a conceptual plan and development agreement between the city and a developer, CASTO, could be submitted to the public and City Council for review in less than a month.

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Cleveland Vibrator site attracts new buyer

The former Cleveland Vibrator manufacturing plant in the Hingetown
section of Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood is on a path to transfer
to a new ownership group with deep pockets and a desire to develop
the site, probably with multi-family housing and ground-floor retail
(Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM

Ownership of the former Cleveland Vibrator site, one of the few under-developed yet large properties in the booming Hingetown section of Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood, is set to transfer to a new ownership group as early as next month. The group is comprised of multiple heavy hitters in Greater Cleveland’s business community.

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Tremont’s Fairfield facelift

From vacant lot to active corner, J-Roc Development plans this mixed-use
development called Driftwood at the southwest corner of Fairfield Avenue
and West 11th Street in Tremont. Just out of view to the left is the South
Side Restaurant which is expanding and will add more activity to this
neighborhood (EAO). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM

More details are emerging about a proposed new apartment building at 1209 Fairfield Ave. in Tremont, to be called Driftwood. In addition to its inclusion of a ground-floor retail space and a larger lot, the development may be joined nearby by an expansion of the South Side Restaurant.

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Sherwin-Williams HQ mocked-up in Flats

In a corner of Scranton Peninsula in the Flats, workers are building the
new Sherwin-Williams headquarters one piece at a time, testing it and
then dismantling it to learn what construction materials and techniques
they want to use in the new 616-foot-tall tower just west of Public
Square (KJP). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM

If you don’t know what you’re looking for, you could drive right past the new $300+ million Sherwin-Williams (SHW) headquarters tower and not even know it. I mean, who would expect Cleveland’s fourth-tallest skyscraper to suddenly appear out of nowhere at the dank and dusty corner of Scranton and Carter roads on Scranton Peninsula in the Flats?

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The Pine to grow on Flats’ Columbus Rd Peninsula

This collection of three buildings on Columbus Road in the Flats, not
including the one at far-right, is proposed to be redeveloped as The
Pine apartments. Realife Group intends to add three stories to the
brick building at left, replace the grey building in the middle with
a four-story building and add a fourth story to the brick building
with the green awnings. Towering above it is the Red Line rail
bridge (Cresco). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM

Surrounded by the waters of the crooked Cuyahoga River, The Pine may grow on the Cleveland Flats’ Columbus Road Peninsula. The Pine, in this case, is a 45-unit mixed-use development that is nurtured by its proximity to not only the river, but by new parks and boardwalks intended to increase public access to water.

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Local megaprojects win, miss TMUD awards

Dollar-wise, the largest application for a Transformational Mixed
Use Development tax credit was the Centennial at Euclid Avenue
and East 9th Street in downtown Cleveland. It sought and won
the maximum credit — $40 million (Millennia).

Today, the five-member Ohio Tax Credit Authority board awarded $100 million in tax credits to Transformational Mixed Use Developments (TMUD) to 13 applicant projects throughout Ohio. Of the 42 projects statewide and nine from Greater Cleveland that were submitted for credits, four received a total of $53 million in funding.

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Flats apartment project wins BZA nod

Run-down and neglected for years, the former Left Bank Apartments on
the West Bank of the Flats will be renovated into the Apollo Apartments
by a Cleveland-based developer after it received a parking variance
from the city (CPC). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM

A proposed renovation of two historic, decayed buildings in the Flats cleared another hurdle yesterday when Cleveland’s Board of Zoning Appeals (BZA) unanimously approved a variance from having to strictly adhere to parking requirements in the city’s building code.

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