Renovation starts on downtown’s Electric Building

Built as The Electric Building, the office building 700 Prospect will return to its original
name but as apartments with a ground-floor sports bar one block from the Gateway
sports and entertainment complex. That conversion led by K&D Group will start
in early November (Ian Meadows). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

With financing closed, construction work will begin in the next couple of weeks on the $40 million rehabilitation and conversion of the historic 700 Prospect Ave. office building into apartments, called The Electric Building. And now the ground-floor has the end user of its lone commercial space identified — Tom’s Watch Bar, a national chain sports bar founded in 2014.

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Feds search Sinito’s home; Owner of Millennia, Key Tower, apartments and restaurants

The Waite Hill estate belonging to Frank Sinito and his wife Malisse was searched
today by federal investigators according to the Waite Hill Police Department,
relating to an ongoing matter involving the Department of Housing Urban
Development (Bing). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

\The private home of the owner of some of Cleveland’s most well-known buildings and restaurants was searched today by federal investigators and assisted by local police in an ongoing matter involving the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Frank Sinito and his wife Malisse reside at a mansion at 6736 Eagle Road in Waite Hill, in suburban Lake County.

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GCRTA’s new railcars start production

Manufacturing of the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority’s new railcars has
officially started. But production, testing and employee training for them will take be
a couple of years before the public can start riding the new trains, beginning with
service on the Red Line but soon to follow on the Blue and Green lines (Siemens).
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Manufacturing work has begun this month on the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority’s (GCRTA) new railcars, said members of the authority’s management team overseeing the replacement of its aging railcar fleet. But until enough railcars are delivered, which won’t happen until 2027, the public will still be riding the oldest trains among any transit authority in the nation.

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Cleveland Vibrator to be razed for apartments

Just beyond the sign for developer TurnDev is the vacated Cleveland Vibrator building
in the Ohio City neighborhood. It will be razed for a large, two-building apartment
complex for which construction could begin in spring-summer of 2025 (KJP).
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In the coming weeks, demolition crews are due to level the fabled Cleveland Vibrator machine shop, 2828 Clinton Ave., in the Hingetown section of Ohio City for a large apartment complex. Site preparations for two new apartment buildings will take place over the winter with construction work to follow, said Jon Pinney, managing partner at the project’s developer TurnDev.

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Downtown may shift from football to futbol

A soccer stadium located on the south side of Downtown Cleveland could accommodate
not only two professional teams but also college and high school games. The end result
is that it could make up for as much as half the loss of visits to downtown as generated
by the Cleveland Browns (CSG). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

The rumor mill of Cleveland sports is always turning. And lately it’s been turning out rumors that Cleveland has won the 16th franchise of the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL). Others are dropping hints of this possibility while at the same time managing expectations.

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Bibb: Haslams, Browns ‘abandoned’ Cleveland

Although the owners of the Cleveland Browns are expected to announce as earlier as
tomorrow their departure from Downtown Cleveland’s lakefront to suburban Brook
Park, Mayor Justin Bibb said he did all he could to keep them (Cleveland
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An obviously exasperated Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb today claimed the owners of the Cleveland Browns football “abandoned” downtown for suburban Brook Park, in a move due to be announced by the team as early as tomorrow. But Cuyahoga County Executive Chris Ronayne said he wasn’t ready to concede defeat yet.

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Duck Island adding new townhomes

The planned Burik Luxury Townhomes, next to the Forest City Brewery on
Columbus Road, were announced this week by their developer the Christoff
Group, builder United Custom Homes and realtor Howard Hanna (Howard
Hanna). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Christoff Group isn’t wasting any time in moving forward on a new townhouse development in the Duck Island section of Cleveland’s Tremont neighborhood. Only two months after acquiring just over a quarter of an acre of land, the developer and its realtor are announcing a six-unit collection of large, for-sale homes.

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