Developer to rebuild after Cleveland Hts fire

Looking west down Cedar Road from the front yard of Cleveland Heights High
School, firefighters from 17 different communities joined forces Jan. 25 to
quickly contain a rapidly spreading fire at the Marquee at Cedar Lee apartments.
But it took 20 hours before the fire was completely extinguished (City of
Cleveland Heights). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

The developer of the Marquee development has informed Cleveland Heights city officials that it will rebuild the structure that was destroyed by an overnight fire that began Jan. 25. The 139-unit Marquee at Cedar-Lee building fronting Cedar Road in the 13200 block, was still under construction and unoccupied at the time of the fire, which started about 7 p.m.

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New East-Side fieldhouse due at Breakthrough School

This view is of the main entrance on the south side of the proposed new fieldhouse
at Breakthrough Schools’ Woodland Hills Campus. The existing school building is
to the right. This entrance to the fieldhouse will allow community activities, such
as voting, to occur here and be separated from the classrooms during or after
 school hours (Marous). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Having affordable, comfortable places for the community to gather for events, sports and even voting can be hard to find in Cleveland’s Kinsman and Woodland Hills neighborhoods. But that could soon change for the better based on plans for a new fieldhouse at Breakthrough Schools’ Woodland Hills Campus, 9201 Crane Ave. Those plans were submitted this week to the city’s Building Department.

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Moen move blindsided city, biz development orgs

This three-decade-old corporate headquarters building for Moen was refurbished only
several years ago. Community development officials believe it is a marketable property
and hopefully will attract new users soon to fill a void in the city’s financial ability
to  provide public services (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

When the conglomerate parent of faucet and fixture-maker Moen told the world via press release on Jan. 22 that it was consolidating its various brand headquarters to suburban Chicago, it was also notifying all of the Ohio-based economic development organizations about the move for the first time.

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Hotel announced at Haslam’s District 46 in Berea

Looking southeast the proposed District 46 from above the intersection of Lou Groza
Boulevard and Front Street, the planned hotel will be at left and overlook a new com-
munity athletic field. Apartments over retail/restaurants also overlook the sides of
the field. At the field’s south end, a community recreation center will be part
of a later phase (AODK). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Although the District 46 mixed-use development in Berea didn’t win a megaproject tax credit yesterday for adding a community recreation center at the development’s south end, it isn’t slowing down the rest of the $155 million project.

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Bedrock Riverfront Wins Greater Cleveland’s only TMUD

A conceptual rendering of Bedrock’s Rock and Roll Land hotel-topped entertainment
center at right, overlooking Collision Bend in the Cuyahoga River. Later phases of
the Bedrock’s riverfront development are seen to the left (Adjaye Associates).
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It seems $100 million doesn’t go as far as it used to. At least it didn’t today when the Ohio Tax Credit Authority awarded $100 million in Transformational Mixed Use Development (TMUD) tax credits to just nine projects statewide. Northeast Ohio won two — Greater Cleveland got just one of those. And that was the last of four rounds of TMUDs authorized by the Ohio General Assembly unless some previous awards aren’t used and are made available.

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At best, federal funds for major projects on hold

Redesigning the Shoreway highway through Downtown Cleveland is a major infra-
structure project that recently was awarded millions in federal funds. The fate of that
and other funding to local infrastructure and energy projects may be in doubt due to
a 90-freeze and agency review mandated by the Trump Administration (FO).
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Millions, if not hundreds of millions of federal tax dollars awarded to local infrastructure and energy projects may be at risk from a 90-day funding freeze and review mandated earlier this week by the new Trump Administration. That possibility was raised today at the first board meeting of the year for Greater Cleveland’s metropolitan planning organization (MPO) which distributes federal funds to transportation and air quality programs.

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Cleveland Clinic to lay off 114 employees

The Cleveland Clinic Foundation is laying off employees throughout the global
health care system during rising costs in the healthcare industry (CCF).
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For the first time in years, the Cleveland Clinic Foundation is laying off 114 employees throughout the global health care system. But the number of pending layoffs in the context of the scale of the system is comparatively small and hiring in other departments continues, Clinic officials said today.

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