Port of Cleveland wins record EPA grant

The Cleveland-Europe Express offers competitive transit time advantage for cargo
owners that typically move goods through coastal ports. It is the only container
shipping service on the Great Lakes that handles import and export cargo
(Port of Cleveland). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

The Port of Cleveland was just awarded the largest grant in its history — nearly $95 million from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA). This transformative funding, part of the $3 billion USEPA Clean Ports Program, will position the port as a national leader in sustainable maritime operations and sets the standard for environmental stewardship on the Great Lakes.

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Sneak peek at Burke lakefront stadium

Conceptual renderings of what a domed stadium built at Burke Lakefront Airport in
Downtown Cleveland could look like were anonymously sent to NEOtrans today.
We published them as soon as we could verify their authenticity with an official
sponsor, This view shows a stadium placed where the airport’s terminal is
currently located (Vocon). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

NEOtrans was among the Greater Cleveland media outlets to anonymously receive renderings of what a Cleveland Browns domed stadium at Burke Lakefront Airport could look like. The renderings, which also show stadium-area development, changes to roadways and parking, were commissioned from Cleveland-based architecture firm Vocon Partners LLC by the convention and tourism bureau Destination Cleveland.

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Land Bank gets $5M for affordable homes

New infill homes in Cleveland not only provide quality homes to families in need,
they also help stabilize troubled neighborhoods and keep gentrifying neighborhood
affordable so longtime residents can afford to stay in the communities they’ve
lived in and loved (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Cuyahoga Land Bank has been awarded $4.95 Million from the Ohio Department of Development’s Welcome Home Ohio Program to support affordable housing development in the county. The funds will be used to create new, affordable homes in partnership with Cuyahoga County, CHN Housing Partners and Near West Land Trust.

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Cleveland Print Room focuses on new home

A former commercial laundry in several buildings on Lexington Avenue in
Cleveland’s Goodrich-Kirtland Park neighborhood will be the new home
of the Cleveland Print Room. The photography-oriented nonprofit is
joining the spread of arts-based organizations heading east from
downtown (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Increasingly, artist studios and nonprofit arts organizations have been moving eastward from downtown into Cleveland’s Goodrich-Kirtland Park neighborhood and St. Clair-Superior. But few are making as big of an investment as that which the Cleveland Print Room (CPR) plans by acquiring and renovating a former commercial laundry at 4730 Lexington Ave.

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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).
CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

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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