Three sites ID’d for Downtown public toilets

A sample of what a public bathroom for Downtown Cleveland could look like.
Four of these are proposed for three downtown locations (City of Cleveland).
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Public bathrooms are exactly what many civic and business people say Downtown Cleveland needs. But where they should be located has been a difficult question to answer. It’s one of the reasons why it has taken three years to advance three proposed locations for four of these public potties for consideration to the City Planning Commission’s Design Review Committee this Friday.

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Cleveland gets $60M to redo Shoreway as boulevard

This elevated section of the Shoreway highway through Downtown Cleveland may
soon be a memory. Its removal is key to achieving other parts of the city lakefront
redevelopment, and will be funded in part by a $60 million grant from the U.S.
Department of Transportation won today by the city of Cleveland (Google).
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Although it’s not the full $260 million federal grant that city of Cleveland officials had hoped to get for its lakefront vision, the $59.7 million it won today from U.S. Department of Transportation will knock down the first lakefront domino. Once knocked down, other aspects in the city’s plans can be funded and built.

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Edwins leaving Shaker Square for ex-Nighttown

Edwins Restaurant is located on the west side of Shaker Square, across Shaker
Boulevard from the rapid transit station. But the restaurant and its second
location across the square may not be there for much longer (Google).
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Shaker Square mainstays Edwins Restaurant and Edwins Too on the other side of the square may not be staying put much longer. In fact, they could be headed for the former Nighttown restaurant location in Cleveland Heights to avoid what Edwins’ owner Brandon Chrostowski says is a worsening safety issue at Cleveland’s Shaker Square.

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Downtown Lakewood project nears final approval

Architectural plans and other requirements for the Downtown Lakewood redevelopment
are one big step away from approval and putting shovels in the ground in early 2025 at
the former Lakewood Hospital site. The development will have a large public plaza
facing Detroit Avenue, shown here (Dimit). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

To finally repurpose the site of the former Lakewood Hospital, plans for a proposed major development have one more hurdle at the city of Lakewood to clear before crossing the finish line. That last hurdle, City Council, will take up those plans next month. If they’re approved by the end of this year, construction could start by Spring 2025 on the $100-plus million development.

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Taylor Tudors in Cleveland Hts. get financed

This is one of several sections of the Taylor Tudors along Taylor Road in Cleveland
Heights. Thanks to their developer winning financing from the Port of Cleveland,
renovations to restore them with apartments over retail could get underway by
year’s end (RDL). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

The Port of Cleveland board on Friday approved issuing up to $15 million in taxable bonds for financing of the $25.6 million Taylor Tudor Plaza Project, part of the first phase of a larger $150 million mixed use neighborhood revitalization of the Taylor Road neighborhood in Cleveland Heights.

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Clock expires on keeping Browns downtown

The Haslam Sports Group, owner of the Cleveland Browns football team, is expected
by multiple sources to make an announcement by the end of this month that they’ve
decided to go with building a new covered stadium in suburban Brook Park (HKS
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It seems that the clock has run out on city of Cleveland and Cuyahoga County leaders on keeping the stadium downtown for the Cleveland Browns football team’s home games. NEOtrans has learned that the Browns’ owners, the Haslam Sports Group, are due to make an announcement soon, possibly by the end of this month, that they will put all their efforts into building a new covered stadium in suburban Brook Park.

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Ryan passes away unexpectedly

Erin Ryan, a business development specialist in real estate construction for 20 years,
passed away unexpectedly earlier this week. She worked in construction, a field
 dominated by men, but led young women to follow in her footsteps (Legacy.com).

As family, friends and business associates gather to remember Erin E. Ryan of Fairview Park at her funeral this weekend, many of them are struggling with the loss of someone so full of life and still too young to have left this earth so soon. Erin passed away Oct. 6 from a suspected heart attack, according to two associates of hers. She was only 59.

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