First Interstate to renovate UC apartment building

The University East Building is a successfully leased property, located at the south-
east corner of Euclid Avenue and Mayfield Road in University Circle since 1926.
But the property is in need of updating which it will get from new building
manager First Interstate (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

This summer, an aging but well-located building in the heart of Cleveland’s booming University Circle will get a needed refreshing to help it compete with new apartment buildings nearby. The University East Building, 11308-11330 Euclid Ave., will get that attention now that it is under the long-term management of a prominent local real estate developer.

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Depot on Detroit arriving, traffic calming next?

With construction of the Depot on Detroit apartments due to start later this year,
there is renewed interest in realizing a neighborhood plan to redesign streets
in the vicinity of the West Boulevard rapid transit station, seen to the
right of the rendered apartment building (City Architecture).
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In two weeks, the board of the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (GCRTA) is expected to approve the sale of land for a planned apartment building just west of the West Boulevard rapid transit station in Cleveland’s Edgewater-Cudell neighborhood. But that development is renewing interest in a neighborhood plan for redesigning streets next to the station to make the area a more comfortable place to walk and could avail more development sites.

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Erieview Tower financing done, work starts ASAP

Construction work is due to start immediately on converting aging offices in the
61-year-old Erieview Tower to luxury apartments. Following that will be reno-
vations to convert offices to hotel rooms. Twelve floors of offices will be
modernized and a rooftop restaurant and bar will be restored (Google).
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Closing of financing for the $218 million redevelopment of the 38-story Erieview Tower and Galleria redevelopment in Downtown Cleveland was announced today by two advisors to the project. The momentous occasion signals an immediate start for residential construction, although some of the remaining office tenants in the building told NEOtrans that site-prep work is already underway.

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New downtown office expansions, renovations

Downtown Cleveland in July 2024, prior to Oswald Companies putting up its
naming rights sign on the silver Flats East Bank near the center of this image.
Their new and old buildings are both making news at the turn of the new
year (KJP). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

At the start of the new year, employers are expanding, relocating, renovating and otherwise retrofitting their office spaces. Ironically, the current and former Oswald buildings in Downtown Cleveland are the addresses where most of these investments are planned, according to public records. As NEOtrans reported last week, 2025 may be the year that Cleveland returns to the office.

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Downtown’s Canal Basin Park design gets early OK

Downtown Cleveland’s Canal Basin Park, as viewed from near the old Superior
Viaduct, shows the newly added boat docks and the planned boardwalk along
the planned boardwalk along the Cuyahoga River. Designs for the park offer
features that are both fun and educational for people of all ages (Merritt
Chase). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Although Cleveland Planning Commission’s Design-Review Committee gave a unanimous thumbs-up today to conceptual plans for downtown’s Canal Basin Park, it wasn’t without some suggestions for improvement. The design team for the 20-acre park, located between turns in the curvaceous Cuyahoga River, will come back to the commission with refined, more detailed schematic designs in the coming months.

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Browns move a step closer to Brook Park

The Cleveland Browns and their majority owner Haslam Sports Group moved a
step closer today to making this rendering of the proposed Brook Park stadium
a reality by exercising an option to buy the 176-acre property (HKS).
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The owners of the Cleveland Browns football team have completed the next part in the process toward building a new enclosed stadium in suburban Brook Park, officially executing a clause in a land purchase agreement to acquire the site. The site at 18300 Snow Rd. in the Cleveland suburb will not only house the new Huntington Bank Field enclosed stadium, but also a planned, adjacent mixed-use development.

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2025 is the year Cleveland returns to the office

Every one of these buildings, from Cleveland’s “Big Four” in the 600-foot-plus club
to the tiniest shop at the edge of downtown, has a story to tell. That story is still
being written. Some added interesting plots last year. Others could take their
turns in 2025. One story that is just starting is the newly built Sherwin-
Williams headquarters tower (The Sherwin-Williams Company).
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For better or worse, for richer or poorer, many of us are about to rediscover our relationship with the office. Some of us never left. Others left and aren’t coming back. But an increasing number of Americans and Greater Clevelanders will be coming back to the office in 2025, for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic caused employers to dabble with remote or hybrid working.

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