Cleveland, Lakewood projects boosted by Port

The Carriage Co., a $51.6 million mixed-use redevelopment of the former Voss
Industries plant in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood, received financial
assistance today from the Port of Cleveland that will help it get renovations
work underway by spring (SA Group). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Three redevelopment projects — two on Cleveland’s west side and one in Lakewood — were awarded financial assistance today by the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority’s board of directors to advance them to construction in the coming weeks. The assistance totaled more than $97 million worth of financing, sales tax savings and bonds.

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Pinecrest bought by North Carolina firm

Looking north from Harvard Road at Interstate 271, the 640,000-square-foot Pinecrest
lifestyle center in Orange draws business primarily from the affluent eastern suburbs
of Greater Cleveland (Tanger). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Tanger, a publicly traded owner and operator of outlet and open-air retail shopping centers, has acquired Pinecrest, a 640,000-square-foot open-air, grocery-anchored, mixed-use center at Harvard Road and Interstate 271 in Greater Cleveland’s eastern suburb of Orange Village.

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UH invests $3M in housing next to League Park

The Gateway66 affordable housing development located on East 66th Street in Cleve-
land’s Hough neighborhood just got a $3 million boost from University Hospitals.
This view is looking north on East 66th at Linwood Avenue. A corner of Historic
League Park is visible at far right (PCI). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Two big actions happened in the past week to support new affordable housing next to Historic League Park in Cleveland’s Hough neighborhood. One was a $3 million investment by University Hospitals in the proposed Gateway66 apartment complex. The other was a building permit application submitted to the city for that project.

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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
(MKSK). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

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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