New Bridgeworks design wins support

This new ground-floor façade of the planned Bridgeworks tower at the
west end of the Detroit-Superior Bridge incorporates designs and ma-
terials from the Art Deco-styled Cuyahoga County Engineers garage
that the developers propose to raze for the 15-story tower (Mass/LDA).
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Plans for building an apartment-hotel tower called Bridgeworks at the west end of the Detroit-Superior Bridge appear to be back on track after the development team made some design changes. Those changes allowed the project to win unanimous support yesterday from the Ohio City Design-Review Committee. The same committee last month sent the project back to the drawing board.

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Cleveland Heights, Lakewood projects win OKs

Flaherty & Collins’ Cedar-Lee-Meadowbrook mixed-use development
for Cleveland Heights survived a proposed citizens’ ballot referendum
that would have required the city-owned site to be developed with a park
(F&C/City of Cleveland Hts). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM

Two major development projects in Cleveland’s inner-ring suburbs won thumbs up last night but in two different ways. In Lakewood, City Council gave its unanimous approval to the framework for an agreement with a Columbus-based real estate firm for a proposed $90 million development at the former downtown hospital site.

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Eden offers a rooftop garden respite

A rendering of the new Eden rooftop lounge and sky-club at The
Metropolitan at The 9 in downtown Cleveland (Geis Hospitality).
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Geis Companies announced this week that it plans to open a new sky-club and lounge called Eden May 20 at The Metropolitan at The 9 hotel in downtown Cleveland. Located on the roof of the 1010 Euclid Building, the address is actually accessed through the 12th floor of The 9 complex’s 29-story tower, 2017 E. 9th St., that contains the Autograph Collection-flag hotel and the Residences at The 9 apartments.

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Food biz feasts on East Side expansion

At the northeast corner of East 55th Street and Central Avenue in Cleveland,
plans are coming together for the expansion of a food service manufacturing
plant by repurposing and expanding the former Goodwill Industries building,
later used briefly by the Wahconah Group Inc. (LoopNet).
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A food service business that’s barely two years old has nearly outgrown its 120,000-square-foot building in Cleveland’s Central neighborhood and is already making plans for expansion. Such growth is an increasingly common story for food sector businesses located on the city’s near-East Side, especially from Midtown south to Slavic Village, generally along East 55th Street.

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Old Play House gets May 16 curtain call

 The vacant, former home of the Cleveland Play House in the Fairfax
neighborhood is the subject of a community meeting scheduled to be
held next month. Owner Cleveland Clinic plans to demolish the com-
plex for one or more possible uses that will be discussed at the
meeting (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM

The Cleveland Clinic Foundation and Fairfax Renaissance Development Corp. will host a public meeting to gather community input on what to do with the vacant former home of the Cleveland Play House (CPH), 8500 Euclid Ave. The meeting is part of a larger effort by the community development corporation and the Clinic to refine a multi-billion-dollar construction masterplan for the health system’s Main Campus.

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Near West Side continues to boom

Looking south on West 20th Street from near the Norfolk Southern
railroad tracks, the West 20th Apartments would continue to add to the
growing housing density of the Lincoln Heights section of Cleveland’s
Tremont. The first level along this wing of the building is proposed to be
enclosed parking (GLSD). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM

If it’s Tuesday, then the West Side must be adding another apartment building. With remarkable frequency, Tremont, Ohio City and other near-west-side Cleveland neighborhoods continue to attract new residential developments. And given the current tight state of the local real estate market, that means more apartments. Lots of them.

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Evergreen plants itself in fertile ground

Representing a million-dollar investment, the new home of Evergreen
Podcasts on St. Clair Avenue, just east of downtown, will do more than
support this new technology company. It’s also home to two other new-
start businesses. And the principals hope to turn the neighboring proper-
ties in to a creative hub (KJP). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM

When Michael DeAloia shows off the new home of Evergreen Podcasts, there’s an air of entrepreneurial energy and optimism in the place. Crafted out of the former radio studios and offices of WZZP/WDOK-FM at 2644 St. Clair Ave., the fresh smell of paint and carpet pushed around by the action of people coming and going makes the building feel reinvigorated. That aura extends to the surrounding area on the east side of downtown.

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