Thursday, May 26, 2022

Seeds & Sprouts XXIV — Masonic reno, Data center grows, E. 89th apts, Uptown fitness

Cross section of the Cleveland Masonic Auditorium at the Chester Avenue
end of the building. Owner Beaty Capital Group continues to make improve-
ments to the property to support its continued offering of TempleLive
Cleveland concerts, shows and events (Bialosky).
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In this article:

  • Masonic Hall renovations enter next phase
  • Downtown’s H5 Data Center to expand
  • East 89th housing units offer classic design
  • Planet Fitness to exercise lease at Uptown

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Monday, May 23, 2022

Guardians suitor, real estate may not happen

Looking west along Sumner Court toward East 9th Street and Progressive
Field where the Cleveland Guardians play. The parking lot at left is one
of the potential sites that could eventually become a spin-off develop-
ment site following the ballpark’s renovations (Google).
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According to sources, there is a reason why NEOtrans first started hearing a lot about Bedrock-HBSE joint development near the Gateway sports complex, and then heard nothing. That void was filled by new activity surrounding Bedrock Real Estate’s interest in the riverfront below Tower City Center instead.

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Friday, May 20, 2022

Bedrock to make Tower City renovations

Bedrock Real Estate is about to make renovations to The Avenue
at Tower City Center to attract new
 tenants to the long-struggling
downtown shopping mall. The renovations will be to tenant
spaces like this one, concourses and common areas (Bedrock).
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Bedrock Real Estate is making small improvements to Tower City Center in effort to attract more retail and other commercial tenants, but a much larger, promised makeover to the downtown Cleveland railroad station-turned-shopping mall has yet to be announced.

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Thursday, May 19, 2022

Sherwin-Williams HQ to refine appearance

A drone’s view of the Sherwin-Williams headquarters construction site at
the end of March in downtown Cleveland. Crews were drilling 26 reinforced
concrete caissons to bedrock 200 feet below to support the weight of the
massive skyscraper. Several of the caisson cans are visible on site as are
blue tanks for removing groundwater. West Superior Avenue is at the bottom
of the image, West 3rd Street at the right, West 6th at the left, and vacated
Frankfort Avenue across the top (Adam Greene).
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At the end of last week’s Cleveland Landmarks Commission meeting, the commission’s Secretary Donald Petit advised members to keep their schedules clear on June 3 for a special meeting with Sherwin-Williams (SHW) regarding its 616-foot-tall headquarters project in downtown Cleveland. That caught the attention of at least a few attendees.

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Wednesday, May 18, 2022

Treo, Edison for sale for different reasons

At the end of this past winter, the Treo apartments on West 25th Street in
Tremont was still a half-year away from completing construction. Despite
work still progressing, the property went on the market to maximize the terms
of its financing (V1drone). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM

Two near-West Side Cleveland multi-family properties hit the market this week but for two very different reasons. In the Lincoln Park section of Tremont, the still-under construction Treo was offered for sale today. Tomorrow, it will be The Edison’s turn to test the waters. The Edison at Gordon Square was built five years ago near Edgewater Park in the Detroit-Shoreway neighborhood.

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Miceli sees need to store more cheese, please

Across Buckeye Road from St. Elizabeth of Hungary Catholic Church are
two buildings owned by the city of Cleveland that Miceli Dairy Products
Co. would like to acquire and renovate for expansion. Miceli’s offices and
production facility are located behind the century-old church at 2721
E. 90th St. (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM

When Miceli Dairy Products Co. turns 100 years old next year, it hopes to open its latest cheese-making expansion in Cleveland’s Lower Buckeye neighborhood, near where Buckeye Road intersects with the new Opportunity Corridor Boulevard.

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Sokolowski’s to be razed for apartments over retail

 This view is looking southeast from the Inner Belt highway bridge across the
Cuyahoga Valley with a terrace built  above University Road and Sokolowski
 Way, formerly West 13th Street, to see downtown Cleveland over the highway.
The stairways drop from the terrace to the Towpath Trail that links the lakefront
to the Cuyahoga Valley National Park, Akron and beyond (GLSD).
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Two local businessmen are seeking to redevelop the former Sokolowski’s University Inn restaurant property, 1201 University Rd., into a six-story luxury apartment and retail building, if the project is approved by the city of Cleveland as designed. The first step in the city’s design-review process began yesterday as a Tremont neighborhood block club saw and gave input to the project’s plans for the first time.

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