UCS’s West 47th remake to include new ballpark

The south end of West 47th Street is due to look very different by this time next year,
featuring Urban Community School’s new Little League Ballpark.But all of West
47th, seen at left in this south-looking rendering, is looking different these days
with more than $11 million worth of capital improvements underway (Kaczmar).
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For leaders of the Urban Community School (UCS), West 47th Street has been a street of dreams. But those dreams are becoming a reality in 2025, with more to come by the end of the year – including a new baseball field of dreams.

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Great Lakes Brewing picks Scranton Peninsula

On Scranton Peninsula, a Great Lakes Brewing Company tasting room and beer garden
was proposed between the Cuyahoga River and Carter Road in 2017. This is a concep-
tual image showing what that could look like and includes a concrete retaining wall
left behind from a former Republic Steel mill complex. But it is not known yet
what the company has in mind for the waterfront site (Coburn).
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There’s still a lot we don’t know about Great Lakes Brewing Company’s (GLBC) vision for Scranton Peninsula in Cleveland. But NEOtrans has learned is that there are once again plans for the independent craft brewery to make a big investment in Cleveland Flats rather than relocate to an exurban site along an interstate highway.

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University Circle tower goes back to drawing board

The conceptual rendering of East Stokes is likely to change but it isn’t publicly
known by how much. Construction costs for the proposed tower came in higher
than expected, forcing the development team to look at ways of cutting costs
and possibly increasing revenues from the planned component of the
Circle (SCB). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Design review of East Stokes, what would be University Circle’s tallest building, was moving along at a rapid clip last fall. Things were moving so quickly that the development team, led by PCP Voyager, anticipated that if City Planning Commission could approve the final plans by Thanksgiving, a spring groundbreaking of 24-story apartment tower might be possible.

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Commission OKs Bedrock’s riverfront masterplan

Proposed uses in Bedrock’s riverfront masterplan, the final version of which was
approved today by the City Planning Commission’s Design Review Committee
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A design review panel of Cleveland’s Planning Commission today approved Bedrock’s final masterplan for its multi-phase, $3.5 billion riverfront development. But while the vote was unanimous, commission members asked some pointed questions about how all of its components would successfully come together.

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Sherwin-Williams HQ opening delayed 7 months

The silver Sherwin-Williams headquarters tower is at center-left in this
Downtown Cleveland skyline sunset view. Work continues on the new
616-foot tower and its pavilion on Public Square, including construc-
tion repairs that will delay the grand opening ceremony by seven
months (Paul J. Heney). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

NEOtrans was first to report several weeks ago that a grand-opening ceremony for Sherwin-Williams’ new headquarters was scheduled for next month despite that a “major hiccup and flaw” in construction of the tower had to be repaired. Now, that ceremony has been pushed back by seven months, according to public records secured by NEOtrans.

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Chipotle expanding to Ohio City

The current site of Soho Chicken + Whiskey in Ohio City’s Market
District will become a new Chipotle Mexican Grill. But fans of Soho
need not despair as the popular establishment will be moving nearby
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When the chains start replacing mom-n-pop businesses in a growing neighborhood, some welcome them as a validation of its success while others reject them as a weakening of a neighborhood’s uniqueness that created that success in the first place. The replacement next year of the popular Soho Chicken + Whiskey with a Chipotle Mexican Grill is the latest example of that shift in Ohio City’s Market District in Cleveland.

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Is DeWine’s stadium tax idea a good bet?

An enclosed Huntington Bank Field in suburban Brook Park could be supported by
a new sports facility and education fund proposed by Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine. But
the fund would be site-agnostic, giving life to those seeking to keep the Cleveland
Browns playing their home games in Downtown Cleveland (HKS).
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Everything from helping to finance a new stadium for the Cleveland Browns to funding sports programs for low-income families could be supported by a new sports facility and education fund sought by Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine in his proposed state budget. But the proposed fund doesn’t pick a stadium site for the Browns, which appears to give Downtown Cleveland site backers more of a win than it does for the owners of the pro football team.

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