Cleveland is seeing ‘brain gain’ – for a change

Rebuilding regional historic assets like the West Side Market and its
signature clock tower, developing fallow industrial land with urban river-
front housing seen at right, and construction cranes over downtown are
all results from and/or causes of increased net-migration of college-
educated people to Greater Cleveland (Iryna Tkachenko).
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For decades, Greater Cleveland has suffered from the loss of its college-educated citizens primarily to star-studded cities on the East and West Coasts. Now, for a change, this former industrial powerhouse on the North Coast is enjoying a net in-migration of more brain than brawn. And while the region is still seeing net outmigration of those without college degrees, the results are at worst uneven.

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CWRU institute replacing BioEnterprise

 In Cleveland’s booming University Circle, bad news doesn’t hang over a
property for long. The former BioEnterprise building on Cedar Avenue at
the bottom of Fairhill Boulevard, is about to become the new home of the
Human Fusions Institute which was scattered across Case Western Reserve
University’s campus and even across the country. The research institute
will strive to improve human-machine interaction (Google).
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 After announcing last month that it will join others in acquiring BioEnterprise Corp.’s assets, Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) has developed plans to remake a portion of the nonprofit business incubator’s University Circle property into a home for a nascent research effort for improving human-machine interaction. Called the Human Fusions Institute (HFI) and founded in 2019, the national effort based in Cleveland at CWRU to advance socially responsible innovations in prosthetics, robotics and even gaming could see renovation work start later this year.

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It’s a big mystery, project

Along Bradley Road in Cleveland’s Old Brooklyn neighborhood, in a section
that resembles a rural area, there are early indications that something big may
be afoot at the former Wabash Alloys plant site. What that something is
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Mystery guest: will you enter and sign in, please? In borrowing that phrase from the long-running television show What’s My Line, NEOtrans has learned who the guest is and where they want to be. But we haven’t yet learned the “what” in terms of what they intend to bring. But according to permit applications filed last week with the city of Cleveland’s Building Department, it appears to be a very large project.

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The Standard hits the market

Rising to 21 floors, The Standard is one of downtown Cleveland’s many success
stories that resulted from converting  a commercial building to primarily resi-
dential uses. It’s now on the market and may help its current owner, the Weston
Group, free up some capital to move forward with other real estate deals (IPA).
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Not all high-rise office and other commercial buildings in downtown Cleveland convert well to residential uses. And then there’s the historic Standard Building, 99 W. St. Clair Ave., which seemed a natural to become home to hundreds of people in the heart of the city. And now the timing is right for the company which bought and redeveloped The Standard to offer it for sale.

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Big plans for reviving Slavic Village

Two new buildings are shown in this rendering of a redeveloped intersec-
tion of East 55th Street and Broadway Avenue in Cleveland’s Slavic Village
neighborhood. Other buildings are eventually proposed to be renovated
including The Atlas Building from which this view is portrayed. The new
white building at right is proposed to be The Village 55 with apartments
over commercial space. Another new building is planned at far left, on the
opposite side of East 55th. This view looks northeast along Broadway
toward downtown (VEDA). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Two new mixed-use buildings, historic renovations of others, hundreds of mixed-income apartments and retailers that could include a grocery store are envisioned as part of a $60 million to $70 million redevelopment of the North Broadway Corridor in Cleveland’s Slavic Village neighborhood. And that’s just the first phase envisioned by a development team called The Village Partnership comprised of several of Northeast Ohio’s most prolific developers.

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Greyhound station may leave downtown

For 75 years, Greyhound buses have called on this streamline moderne station on
Chester Avenue on the east side of downtown Cleveland. But those days may be
coming to an end soon as the bus company looks to cut costs and serve cheaper,
less centrally located stops (KJP). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Cleveland may soon join the list of medium- and large-sized cities whose central business districts have lost their Greyhound bus stations to less-accessible locations. And that’s of concern to low-income travelers, college students and others trying to save money or avoid the stress of driving while traveling to and from Cleveland’s station at 1465 Chester Ave., downtown.

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Addressing the shortage of for-sale housing

Due to rise as early as this summer, The Equinox on West 48th Street has put
11 for-sale housing units on the market that’s desperate for new inventory. The
site is at the east end of Cleveland’s Detroit-Shoreway neighborhood, near
Ohio City (Payto Architects). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Despite the rise in interest rates, there continues to be strong demand for new housing in Greater Cleveland, especially in hot sub-markets like where Cleveland’s Detroit-Shoreway neighborhood meets Ohio City. In areas like that, homes sell for about 2 percent above the list price and get an accepted offer within nine days of going on the market, according to real estate analytics form Norada Real Estate Investments of California.

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