GCRTA’s new East 79th rail station is an Opportunity

A brightly lit passenger waiting environment at the rebuilt East 79th
Blue/Green Line Rapid station in Cleveland will also create greater
safety and a stronger street presence for the rail station. City and
transit officials said they want this station near the Opportunity
Corridor to help attract more development to the adjacent neigh-
borhood (Bowen). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Planning and design work has advanced far enough on the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority’s (GCRTA) new East 79th Street Blue/Green Line light-rail station to where renderings are being shared publicly. NEOtrans secured a copy of the designs and is publishing them here. But the plans are part of something larger — a growing investment in Cleveland’s Kinsman neighborhood.

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Downtown’s largest housing project in the works

Outlined in green, the 1930s-era Olde Cedar housing projects and the former
Cuyahoga County Juvenile Justice Center are the combined footprint for what
could be Downtown Cleveland’s largest-ever housing development (Google).
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With nearly 900 mixed-income apartments envisioned, a plan to develop the largest single housing development in Downtown Cleveland’s history is reportedly in the works. While it will take multiple phases and many years to build, the partners and the plans for the massive project are coming together.

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Seeds & Sprouts 34 - McKinsey moving, Dunham Tavern greening, Encompass opening, Nia’s Cafe Kinsmaning

McKinsey & Co.'s move to near the top of Key Tower in Downtown Cleveland is
the office market in a microcosm. Not only is the consulting firm shrinking
its office footprint, it's making a flight to quality (KJP).
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In this 34th installment of Seeds & Sprouts, we cover McKinsey & Co's planned move to near the top of Key Tower, Dunham Tavern & Gardens adding green infrastructure, Brooklyn Polish American Home to host Encompass Health's first foray into Northern Ohio, and Nia's Cafe & Store plans open on Kinsman Avenue in Mount Pleasant.

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CLE Consulting Firm leaving Downtown for MidTown

Located on the northwest corner of Euclid Avenue and East 71st Street in
Cleveland’s MidTown neighborhood, the vacant Euclid Gallery Building
is reportedly going to be the new headquarters of the CLE Consulting
Firm after the property’s sale closes. A station on the Greater Cleveland
Regional Transit Authority’s HealthLine bus rapid transit is out
front (LoopNet). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

CLE Consulting Firm, a growing provider of business accounting and tax services, has reached a purchase agreement to acquire the Euclid Gallery Building, 7029 Euclid Ave. in Cleveland’s MidTown neighborhood, public records show. The faded masonry building will reportedly be renovated as the new headquarters for the company which also has offices in Akron, Cincinnati, Columbus, Toledo and Atlanta.

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Tremont hillside development plan regains life

This is a massing for two multi-family buildings proposed by J Roc Develop-
ment just downslope from the Towpath Trail in Cleveland’s Tremont neighbor-
hood. This rendering suggests that buildings built to a proposed maximum
height of 60 feet would not block views of downtown from the trail and the
homes south of it. A massing is a mostly featureless box showing the potential
scale of conceptual buildings in a proposed development (J Roc).
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A large, proposed redevelopment of former industrial and railroad lands on a hillside in Cleveland’s Tremont neighborhood is showing renewed signs of life after a court battle was settled in December. That settlement involved land being divvied up so a rezoning can move forward and an asphalt plant can continue to operate. If the land is rezoned by City Council, a mostly residential development can proceed — next to the asphalt plant.

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Cleveland’s Select Medical Fairhill Hospital to see major rehab

The three-story Select Medical Fairhill Hospital will be converted into a
32-bed rehabilitation facility as part of a $12 million renovation project
(Select Medical). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Just uphill from the Cleveland Clinic’s main campus, Select Medical Fairhill Hospital is seeking a significant renovation and partial conversion of its recovery-care hospital to provide rehabilitation services. The fate of this facility was unknown after Select Medical recently closed another facility near Downtown Cleveland.

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State launches All Ohio Future Fund to support new development projects

Up to $750 million is available from the Ohio Department of Development
to help with infrastructure costs to make potential job-producing sites ready
for new development (KJP). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Gov. Mike DeWine, Lt. Gov. Jon Husted and Ohio Department of Development Director Lydia Mihalik yesterday announced $750 million in funding is now available to assist communities with infrastructure costs to create project-ready economic development sites.

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