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| Ricardo León today officially became only the second president in the history of the Cuyahoga Land Bank (CBL). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
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| In the coming weeks, work crews will start to appear at the northeast corner of West 25th Street and the Detroit-Superior Bridge near Downtown Cleveland to demolish existing, vacant buildings and begin the construction of Bridgeworks — at least partially at this point (GLSD). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
After four years of going through multiple design iterations, it somehow seems natural that Bridgeworks finally got the OK today from the city to start construction — but only up to the second floor. To build above that, the project’s development team is going to have to come back to the city for design approval of the building’s top five floors. The team pledged it would do so — quickly.
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| Amtrak has a shortage of these bilevel train cars on its western long-distance trains because it cut maintenance staff during the pandemic. Amtrak hasn’t fully reinstated them and has dozens of cars awaiting overhauls and other routine work. So Amtrak is taking the bilevel cars from its Chicago-Cleveland-Washington DC service, seen here, to keep its western trains running. Normally, Amtrak visits Cleveland in the pre-dawn hours except when trains are very late, as was the case here on July 17, 2023 (KJP). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
While Amtrak’s press release about the creation of a direct-but-temporary Chicago-Florida passenger rail service through Cleveland touted it as an achievement, the reality behind it is actually quite different. According to several sources, the direct service is being implemented to rescue Amtrak from its own shortcomings — both internal and external.
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| Workers on Sept. 12 were busily attaching exterior panels to the 11-story Library Lofts development at Circle Square in Cleveland’s University Circle. This week, the first residents are moving in. In the background at right is The Artisan apart- ments, part of Circle Square and the tallest structure in University Circle (KJP). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
With a partial occupancy permit from the city awarded, arriving residents are opening the book on Library Lofts — the latest building to be offered at the Circle Square district of Cleveland’s University Circle. Like a novel with a thick plot, progress on the apartment building-over-public library has taken lots of turns, though it’s not done yet. But this page-turner is almost there. And what a poetic conclusion it may turn out to be.
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| Bridgeworks’ development team hopes this is the last rendering in the design-review process before work crews can descend onto its site in Cleveland’s Ohio City neigh- borhood to prepare it for construction. That will be determined later this week (GLSD). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
It’s been said before — many times; many ways. No, not “Merry Christmas.” But “We hope this is the final design for Bridgeworks.” And the Bridgeworks development team hopes to start site preparations by the end of next month with construction to follow — perhaps by the time chestnuts are roasting on an open fire at Christmas, by the way.
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| A wider rendering of the proposed East Stokes Tower than the one NEOtrans intro- duced three days ago when we broke the story of the latest high-rise slated to be built in Cleveland’s University Circle. The new, mostly residential tower would feature top-floor amenities, lots of ground floor retail and second-floor offices (SCB). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Cleveland’s City Planning Commission today gave unanimous support to the conceptual design of a proposed mixed-use high-rise in the University Circle neighborhood. If the project is able to move swiftly through the design-review process, the proposed 24-story East Stokes Tower at the southeast corner of Chester Avenue and Stokes Boulevard could see construction start as early as spring 2025.
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| Proposed for both sides of Payne Avenue in Cleveland’s Asiatown neighborhood are 120 affordable housing units atop ground-floor commercial and community uses in two buildings. This development concept was proposed by the same architect that was involved the last time a similar development was planned here three years ago (MA Design). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Three years after a development team planned a mixed-use project at the closed Dave’s Market, 3301 Payne Ave., in Cleveland’s Asiatown, some members of that development team are back to invest in that site again. This time, a $42.3 million development is proposed with a more focused approach on affordable housing in two four-story buildings with ground-floor commercial and community uses.
