Clinic’s next big parking garage reveals growing pains

University Circle in one picture — big, shiny new buildings, more under construction,
traffic and transit. This is the scene at Euclid Avenue and East 105th Street and en-
capsulates the promises and challenges of rapid growth of Cleveland’s “Second
Downtown” which is rivaling its first downtown as the region’s largest em-
ployment hub (KJP). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

The largest structure on the Cleveland Clinic’s Main Campus isn’t the new 1-million-square-foot Neurological Building on Carnegie Avenue. Instead it’s the 1.56-million-square-foot East 89th Street Parking Garage just west of the Neuro Building. And immediately west of that, on the former site of the Cleveland Play House, Clinic officials are reportedly considering another large parking garage that has transit advocacy groups calling for healthier options.

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Bedrock plans Riverfront Rock & Roll Land theater, 17-story hotel in Downtown Cleveland

The near structure and its surrounding public spaces along the Cuyahoga River in
Downtown Cleveland are the subject of a request by developer Bedrock for $40
million in Transformational Mixed Use Development tax credits. It is one of
21 applicants from around the state to seek the “megaprojects” tax credit
(Adjaye Associates). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

The next phase of Bedrock’s Downtown Cleveland Riverfront development is proposed to feature a large, 17-story entertainment complex topped by a hotel. Dubbed Rock and Roll Land, it is the largest of seven Northeast Ohio projects and is seeking the largest award possible in the fourth and final authorized round of the Ohio Department of Development’s Transformation Mixed Use Development (TMUD) tax credits.

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Port OK’s $171M in financing for major projects

Additional financing was approved today for the $200+ million dollar Cleveland
Clinic Global Peak Performance Center to be built over a restored Eagle Avenue
ramp, extending up from this intersection of West 3rd Street to Downtown Cleve-
land’s Gateway District (Populous). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

The Port of Cleveland today approved the issuance of more than $171 million in bonds and notes for four transformative projects, including the pivotal first new development in Bedrock’s Riverfront project along the Cuyahoga River and a major affordable housing renovation in downtown Cleveland, among other strategic initiatives.

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Go Browns! But where?

An unofficial, conceptual rendering of what Downtown’s Cleveland lakefront
immediately north of the central business district could look like if Huntington
Bank Field were replaced by smaller, productive, everyday uses — and if Burke
Lakefront Airport was closed and replaced by other uses, including possibly a
relocated, all-purpose domed stadium that pushed land-eating parking away
from downtown (Ardoonave). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

One of the most anticipated games in my early Cleveland Browns fandom came three days after Thanksgiving in 1979. The 8-4 Browns faced the hated Steelers at Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh where the Browns had yet to win. The Steelers were going for their fourth Super Bowl in the 1970s and the Browns were trying to get back to their glories of the prior three decades.

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What may follow St. Vincent’s demolition?

The greenfield foreground is the fate of the hospital in the background. This was the
St. Vincent Charity Medical Center in 2021 — its last full year of operation. The
hospital ended its in-patient services later the following year. Every structure
visible here except the enclosed walkway at left and the small, one-story
brick building at the end of it will be demolished in early 2025 (Google).
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Turns out there is more to the story that NEOtrans broke over the weekend — that St. Vincent Charity Community Health Center (SVCCHC) main campus, 2351 E. 22nd St., at the west end of Cleveland’s Central neighborhood, will be demolished in the coming months.

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St. Vincent Charity Medical Center to be demolished

Outlined in red is the St. Vincent Charity Medical Center that will be demolished.
The only structure within that outline that won’t be demolished is a small building
on the other side of the near-Downtown Cleveland campus that is not visible from
this angle. A streetview of that building is shown later in this article (Google).
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In just three years, St. Vincent Charity Medical Center, 2351 E. 22nd St,, went from planning a major expansion to requesting the demolition of nearly its entire main campus to the southeast of Downtown Cleveland. Plans were submitted to the city’s Building Department on Friday for demolishing all but 18,000 square feet of the 449,338-square-foot campus.

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More changes arriving at Shaker Square

One of Cleveland’s most unique districts is Shaker Square but had worn out over
the years. The commercial district fronting the square and the residential areas
around it are starting to get some long overdue attention (KJP).
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While a large federal grant was awarded to improve existing conditions at Shaker Square in Cleveland, plans to make long-term changes that reenergize the 95-year-old square are advancing. The short- and long-term work on the square is based on the belief that this historic district can and should be a neighborhood gathering spot rather than try to compete as a regional retail draw.

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