Skyline 776 tower fills while under construction

While construction continues on Skyline 776 on Euclid Avenue in Downtown Cleveland,
the building’s lease-up is underway and is already more than 40 percent leased. This photo
was taken Aug. 7, the day after tornadoes  and severe thunderstorms raked Northeast Ohio
and tore off several panels from the top of the tower’s façade (KJP).
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When you first walk into the lobby of the Skyline 776 tower, 776 Euclid Ave., you realize you’re not in your usual Downtown Cleveland apartment high-rise anymore. Of the 11 downtown apartment buildings of 20 stories or more that preceded it, each has varying degrees of luxury or lack of same. And most tried to either highlight the architectural era in which they were built, or simply present the most modern appearances possible.

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Land Bank President Frangos dies unexpectedly

Gus Frangos spoke in 2017 before the City Club of Cleveland on the Cuyahoga Land
Bank’s first eight years  of existence, as it increasingly became more active in
repurposing blighted land. Frangos led the land bank from its inception
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One day after the Cuyahoga Land Bank won its largest score of Ohio Brownfield Program grants to repurpose blighted, long-fallow properties, land bank President and General Counsel Gus Frangos suddenly passed away.

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County officials urge Haslams to keep Browns downtown

City-owned Cleveland Browns Stadium has been the venue for the National Football
League team’s home games since 1999. And after the team’s lease expires following
the 2028 football season, city and now Cuyahoga County officials want the team to
play there for another 30 years following a $1 billion renovation (Iryna Tkachenko).
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Two Cuyahoga County leaders sent a letter today to Cleveland Browns owners Jimmy and Dee Haslam urging the football team to keep playing at the stadium on the Downtown Cleveland lakefront rather than build a new domed stadium in suburban Brook Park. County Executive Chris Ronayne and Cuyahoga County Council President Pernel Jones Jr. said the Haslams’ Brook Park plan “does not make fiscal sense.”

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Cuyahoga County cleans up with brownfield bucks

In Downtown Cleveland, Bedrock’s Riverfront Development is planned on the Tower
City Center side of the Cuyahoga River. But the riverfront land has historically been
used for industrial purposes for nearly two centuries and needs to be cleaned up before
new construction can begin. Cuyahoga Land Bank won $10 million to help make
that happen (Adjaye Associates). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

The Cuyahoga County Land Reutilization Corp., known simply as the Cuyahoga Land Bank, has secured multiple funding awards from the Ohio Department of Development’s Brownfield Remediation Program for demolishing more than 1,100 structures, mostly blighted single-family homes in Cleveland and East Cleveland. But there are also multiple funding awards it got for cleaning up polluted industrial sites so they can be redeveloped for new housing and jobs.

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Greyhound/Barons station may move to Brookpark rapid

The Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority’s Brookpark Rapid Station in
suburban Brook Park could soon host a Greyhound and Barons intercity bus
station, too. Negotiations are underway for an agreement among the
transportation providers to make that a reality (Tom Horsman).
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The Cleveland Browns aren’t the only one considering a move from Downtown Cleveland to suburban Brook Park. Now, it’s Greyhound/Barons intercity bus services that could move to the west-side suburb near Cleveland International Hopkins Airport.

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15 women investors back Cleveland’s NWSL bid

Fifteen Cleveland-area businesswomen have joined forces to financially support the
Cleveland Soccer Group’s bid for a National Women’s Soccer League expansion
team. The investors are a who’s-who of Cleveland-area women business
leaders (CSG). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Cleveland Soccer Group (CSG), which submitted a bid for Cleveland to be awarded a National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) expansion team, announced today that it is being backed by a group of 15 local, influential businesswomen as investors. However, the money they have raised thus far has not be publicly disclosed. If successful, this would be Ohio’s first women’s professional soccer team.

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Haslams reveal Brook Park domed stadium plans

The Haslam Sports Group released this and other renderings today in officially announcing
the proposed venue for Cleveland Browns’ home games in suburban Brook Park (HKS
Architects). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

One day after NEOtrans broke the news that the Cleveland Browns’ home games would likely be moved from Downtown Cleveland to a proposed domed stadium in suburban Brook Park (and why), the football team’s owner Haslam Sports Group has outlined what that could look like. However, the Haslams stopped short of saying it was a done deal despite their obvious enthusiasm about the Brook Park stadium-development.

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