Haslam email preempts City, County at stadium debate

The question of whether the Cleveland Browns should play home games in suburban
Brook Park, at left, or in Downtown Cleveland, at right, has been put to Greater
Cleveland’s business power brokers (HKS, left; Vocon, right).
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Yesterday morning, Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb, Cuyahoga County Executive Chris Ronayne, Cuyahoga County Council President Pernel Jones Jr., Cleveland City Council President Blaine Griffin arrived at the monthly board meeting of the Greater Cleveland Partnership (GCP). There, they asked the 70-member board of the region’s corporate CEOs and presidents to side with them on where the Cleveland Browns should play their home games after 2028.

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NE Ohio projects get historic wins from tax credits

At 363 feet tall, Rhodes Tower at Cleveland State University is the fourth-tallest
educational-purposed building in the United States. The 53-year-old building
won $5 million in Ohio Historic Preservation Tax Credits as part of a $92
million project redevelop most of the tower with student housing (CSU).
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There were 14 Cuyahoga County historic renovation projects that won a total of $16,267,141 in Ohio Historic Preservation Tax Credits today. Most of those projects would repurpose their 50-plus-year-old buildings for new uses so they can contribute to their communities for at least another 50 years. Some of the buildings are pretty well known.

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Haslams announce Brook Park stadium-area development partner, updated plans

This updated view from above Interstate 71 and looking westerly toward Cleveland
Hopkins International Airport in the background, shows the proposed multi-purpose
roofed stadium in suburban Brook Park and surrounding development. The stadium
is in approximately the same place as before, but the conceptual location, arrange-
ment and scale of mixed-use buildings is different in this view than in previous
 graphics which showed more structures to the south and west of the stadium.
Instead, these are arranged to the south and east closer to EngleRoad/Henry
Ford Boulevard (HKS). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

New details emerged today on the proposed $1.2 billion mixed-use district surrounding the Haslam Sports Group’s (HSG) proposed all-purpose, roofed stadium in the Cleveland suburb of Brook Park. HSG announced that Lincoln Property Company, a global real estate firm, will be the development partner for the Cleveland Browns’ 176-acre mixed-use entertainment district.

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Old Brooklyn structures OK’d for demolition

Three structures identified here are to be demolished plus a fourth, a small house,
partially hidden behind them are to be replaced by a new development called
Memphis & Pearl. St. Luke Church will be preserved and incorporated into
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In the coming months, the busy intersection of Memphis Avenue and Pearl Road in the heart of Cleveland’s Old Brooklyn neighborhood will look very different. The change is due from the City Planning Commission’s approval on Friday of an application to demolish four buildings at that intersection, each of which are historic structures but in varying stages of decay.

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Shoreway Tower has construction in view for 2025

A proposed 13-story residential building overlooking Edgewater Park and the West
Shoreway Boulevard is planned as an addition to the Shoreway Apartments. The
existing apartment building will also be renovated (EAO).
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There’s been lots of progress lately on the development of a proposed 13-story Shoreway Tower overlooking Edgewater Park in Cleveland’s Gordon Square neighborhood. Revising easements for a sewer right of way, transferring properties for a tax-increment financing (TIF) district, and advancing legislation to authorize that TIF could allow construction to start sometime in 2025.

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North Collinwood ‘historic’ modular townhomes OK’d

Final designs for six modular townhomes called Arcade Place
were unanimously approved yesterday by the Cleveland
Planning Commission’s Design Review Committee. They will be
built on a vacant lot on East 156th Street at Arcade Avenue, just
north of the Waterloo Arts District (HEART Design Group).
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Six townhomes may not sound like much, but their builder says they’re an “historic” next step toward increasing the amount of modular housing in Cleveland. City officials and some home builders say more modular homes are needed here to address shortages in quality, affordable housing, fill vacant lots, repopulate the city, increase homeownership in Cleveland and build equity.

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Tick Tock Tavern closing after 75+ years

A familiar sign along Clifton Boulevard in Cleveland’s Edgewater neighborhood
will go dark a week before Christmas. Owner John Tripodis is retiring after more
than 30 years of running the famous West Side restaurant (KJP).
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It’s not often that a restaurant survives more than a few years. Rarer still is the restaurant that lasts nearly eight decades. Tick Tock Tavern, which has been at the same location, 11526 Clifton Blvd., in the Edgewater neighborhood of Cleveland since the year before the last electric streetcars rumbled by in 1948, is set to close its doors forever in just 12 days.

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