Samsel Supply to close its doors after 66 years

Samsel Supply Co.’s former properties along Old River Road in Cleveland’s Flats were
recently planned to be redeveloped with a wellness hotel. But the maritime supply
company that thrived within those venerable buildings for decades will be no
more (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

When they sold their properties on Old River Road in Cleveland’s Flats East Bank to a developer nearly three years ago, Samsel family members had declined to answer where they would relocate their commercial supply business, Samsel Supply Company. No one else in local real estate circles seemed to know either. Turns out the reason was a simple one that few had considered — they’re not relocating. They’re closing.

READ MORE

New family clinic coming to Clark-Fulton

On the ground floor at the northwest corner of the Northern Ohio Blanket Mills is the
proposed location for a Neighborhood Family Practice community health center. It is
the third and largest commercial tenant for the former textile factory which opened
this with 60 low-income apartments on the second and third floors (Iryna Tkachenko).
CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Cleveland’s growing demand for affordable health care and having one of the worst infant mortality rates in the country is behind a new clinic planned for Cleveland’s Clark-Fulton neighborhood. Cleveland-based Neighborhood Family Practice (NFP) is proposing to open a community health center in the newly refurbished Northern Ohio Blanket Mills at 3466 St. Rocco Ct.., just off Fulton Road.

READ MORE

Huntington Bank Field name to outlive Browns’ current stadium lease

For the next generation of sports fans, the Cleveland Browns’ home turf will now be
called Huntington Bank Field, even if the team moves into a new stadium in Brook
Park (Cleveland Browns). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

At least we now know what a Brook Park multi-purpose stadium would be called, if the owners of the Cleveland Browns football team decides to build it. While most terms of the naming rights deal were not disclosed by the Haslams Sports Group and their National Football League franchise, we do know that it will outlast the current stadium’s lease which ends after the 2028 football season.

READ MORE

Hough MLK Plaza redevelopment advances

Planning for the redevelopment of MLK Plaza in Cleveland’s Hough neighborhood
is advancing with the application of financing and the creation of renderings for the
first phase of the project (RDL). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

While Northern Real Estate Urban Ventures, LLC (NREUV) is getting ready to break ground this week on its first Cleveland development, it’s already putting together the pieces for its next project here. The redevelopment of MLK Plaza, 9300 Wade Park Ave., in Cleveland’s Hough neighborhood would replace an aging, mixed-use complex with modern, low-income housing over ground-floor programming and common areas.

READ MORE

Officials want Burke Airport on the table for Browns

The Haslam Sports Group, owners of the Cleveland Browns, wants to build a domed
stadium, supportive development and about 20,000 parking spaces in the Cleveland
suburb of Brook Park. But city of Cleveland and Cuyahoga County officials want
the Haslams to build in Downtown Cleveland. Some of those officials want
Burke Lakefront Airport to be considered as a development site (Google).
CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Two key public officials have, in recent days, suggested that Burke Lakefront Airport be closed down and replaced by a new Cleveland Browns Stadium and supportive developments, parking and public spaces. But if such an idea evolves into a serious project, it would also likely require making interim repairs to the existing stadium.

READ MORE

Cleveland offers up prime Ohio City property

McCafferty Health Center on Lorain Avenue in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood, as seen
from the alley Fulton Court behind it (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Cleveland city officials followed through on a promise they made in early July when they announced they would be making the city-owned McCafferty Health Center property, 4242 Lorain Ave., available for redevelopment. Today, they issued a formal invitation to professional real estate development teams to respond to a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) to redevelop the site and address the need for affordable housing in the Ohio City neighborhood.

READ MORE

‘Lakefront plan’ becoming ‘lakefront project’

A part of the city of Cleveland’s lakefront plan that doesn’t get the attention is just
east of downtown where the Shoreway highway would become a boulevard and
East 18th Street is extended from behind the smokestacks at left, down the bluff
on an S-curve toward the foreground to an intersection with the boulevard.
Also a middle portion of the Municipal Parking Lot near a Waterfront Line
light-rail station could be developed with workforce housing (Google).
CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

One of the most important pieces of legislation regarding the future of Downtown Cleveland’s lakefront is working its way through Cleveland City Council. The proposed ordinance amendment, if passed at council’s next regular meeting Sept. 9, would codify the desired lakefront land-use features and set the city on a course to implement them. In other words, it would no longer be a lakefront plan, but a lakefront project.

READ MORE