CWRU brings back South Campus project

View of the planned new dorms, phases one and two of Case Western
Reserve University’s South Residential Campus, as seen from the
intersection of Murray Hill and Adelbert roads (WRA).
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A plan for adding 600 dormitory beds to the housing-constrained Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) campus is back after getting quarantined for two years by the pandemic. Two new dormitory buildings would be built on CWRU’s parking Lot 5, located at the intersection of Murray Hill and Adelbert roads in the South Residential Campus.

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IMG Center hits the market

The IMG Building sits at the southwest corner of East 9th Street and
St. Clair Avenue in downtown Cleveland’s Historic Erieview District.
The property is now for sale to satisfy a foreclosure proceeding
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An aging but mostly full office building in downtown Cleveland has hit the market at the request of its court-appointed receiver. The 57-year-old IMG Building, 1360 E. 9th St., may be approaching the end of its nearly three-year-long foreclosure case in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court.

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Next Ohio City high-rise in the works

Add five or six more stories onto this early rendering of phase two of
Harbor Bay Real Estate Advisors’ Market Square development, sources
said. That’s what the Chicagoland-based developer is reportedly consi-
dering for its next project in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood. The
nine-story phase one called INTRO is at left (HBREA).
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Successful leasing of apartments at the INTRO mixed-use project is reportedly encouraging its developer to pursue a 15- to 16-story high-rise as its next phase of the Market Square development, across the street from the West Side Market. INTRO and its high-rise follow-on phase are part of the Market Square development led by Harbor Bay Real Estate Advisors LLC, based in the Chicago suburb of Northbrook.

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ODOT Inner Belt plan gets city pushback

This map shows major roadway improvements for what’s
called the “Cleveland Contract Group 3” portion of the
Inner Belt highway’s reconstruction in downtown Cleve-
land. This includes the Central Interchange of Interstates
90 and 77 as well as the downtown approaches for I-77,
highway ramps and intersecting streets. The top of the
map is north as well as the downtown approaches for I-77,
highway ramps and intersecting streets. The top of the map
is north (MBI). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM

Yesterday, Cleveland’s City Planning Commission unanimously tabled a request by the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) for consent to construct improvements to the Central Interchange, where Interstate 77 ends and connects with Interstate 90 in downtown Cleveland. The reason given was to have a “deeper conversation” with City Council which ultimately must vote on the consent request about how the project can right the wrongs of the past including using highways to divide minority neighborhoods from downtown.

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Studio West 117 campus plan grows

The largest development being contemplated so far in the Studio West 117
campus is a two-tower, mixed-use property with a health care facility and
LGBTQ+ senior housing at the current site of the closed NTB car repair
shop at Detroit and Coutant avenues in Lakewood. Although this basic
massing shows 190 parking spaces, the developer plans to increase it
to 212 spaces (Larsen). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM

What started out with two significant real estate purchases on either side of West 117th Street in Cleveland and Lakewood by a development partnership has since expanded to seven properties. And what was originally a $75 million vision for renovating the old Phantasy Theater complex called Studio West 117 has grown even further, developing into a multi-faceted LGBTQ+ supportive neighborhood.

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Library Lofts construction starts

In the foreground, construction has started on the 11-story Library
Lofts — the second building to be built in the Circle Square deve-
lopment in Cleveland’s University Circle. This view is looking
north from 10555 Euclid Ave. In the background is the first
building in Circle Square to see construction — the 24-
story Artisan apartments, 10600 Chester Ave. (KJP).
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Two months before its official groundbreaking is scheduled to be held, construction work has started on the next new building in Cleveland that’s big enough to put another tower crane in the sky over booming University Circle.

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Bridgeworks revised, spring start sought

A revised plan for Bridgeworks at the west end of the Detroit-Superior
Bridge at West 25th Street was submitted to the city for approval. A
slightly shorter and wider building along with additional demo-
litions of the former Cuyahoga County Engineer structures
could close the project’s financing gap (Mass/LDA).
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Developers hope to start construction in spring of a high-rise in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood despite missing out on a so-called megaprojects tax credit from the state earlier this month. The optimism is the result of a redesign of plans for Bridgeworks that would reduce the cost of the project by reducing the height of the building by 24 feet, virtually eliminating renovation costs while reshaping a proposed parking garage.

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