Congressmen urge moving NASA’s HQ and its 2,500 employees to Cleveland

If a majority of Ohio’s Congressional delegation gets its way, the NASA Glenn
Research Center next to Cleveland Hopkins International Airport would be the
new home of NASA headquarters. The Trump Administration will have the
final decision (NASA). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Both of Ohio’s U.S. senators and 11 of its 15 Congressional representatives urged in a joint letter yesterday to Vice President J.D. Vance and NASA Director Jared Isaacman to relocate the space agency’s 2,500-employee headquarters to Ohio, specifically to Cleveland, after its Washington DC HQ lease expires in 2028.

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Baker Construction buys Cleveland Cement assets

A transaction that expands the reach of two Ohio-based construction companies —
Baker Construction and Cleveland Cement Contractors — was completed last week
and announced this week (CCC). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

As part of an ongoing effort to expand the company’s presence across the U.S, Baker Construction of Monroe in Southwest Ohio announced this week that it will be purchasing the equipment assets from Cleveland Cement Contractors, a Brooklyn Heights-based full-service concrete contractor.

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Starbucks is next chain to arrive in Ohio City

This single-level building at the corner of Abbey and Gehring avenues in Ohio City’s
Market District will be home to a new Starbucks coffee shop at the near corner. To
the right will be four retail spaces for small businesses. Renovations are under
way (LDA). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

A shift to more chain businesses is under way in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood. In February, NEOtrans was first to report that Chipotle is opening a store on West 25th Street in the neighborhood’s Market District. Now, we’ve confirmed that Starbucks has leased a spot near the West Side Market and across Abbey Avenue from the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority’s (GCRTA) Red Line rail station.

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Hough Bakery plant site gets renewed interest

 

Waiting for a new future is the east end of Wade Park Avenue where it intersects with
Lakeview Road at the border of Cleveland and East Cleveland. That’s where the old
Hough Bakery plant still stands in the background, awaiting a new owner. At right is
the plant’s former employee parking lot where townhomes were approved several
years ago. And just past the house at left is where senior apartments are
planned (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

A Central Ohio developer is proposing a senior affordable housing complex across the street from the long-vacant Hough Bakery plant, which appears to be a part of renewed interest in redeveloping this area. The site, in Cleveland’s Glenville neighborhood is also across the street from East Cleveland’s Circle East District.

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Warner & Swasey redevelopment on precipice of becoming reality

Sitting vacant and rotting since 1985, the former Warner & Swasey factory on
Carnegie Avenue at East 55th Street in Cleveland's Midtown neighborhood
may finally be within months of being revived with affordable housing and
commercial spaces (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

A coalition of developers from throughout the state of Ohio assembled at Cleveland City Hall Friday to discuss the transformation of the abandoned Warner & Swasey building in Midtown Cleveland. A project seven years in the making, representatives from developer Pennrose LLC's Cincinnati office, architect Moody Nolan of Columbus and Midtown Cleveland Inc. sought schematic approval for the adaptive reuse project.

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CSU seeks to redevelop Wolstein Center site

The Bert L. and Iris S. Wolstein Center is a 13,610-seat indoor arena and event center loca-
ted on the Cleveland State University campus in Downtown Cleveland. A recent univer-
sity masterplan proposed demolishing the 34-year-old facility and redeveloping its 10-
acre site as the “Partnership District” (CSU). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Cleveland State University is seeking to redevelop the Wolstein Center arena site in Downtown Cleveland and today issued a request for developers to submit their qualifications to do the job. But the request for qualifications leaves it to developers to decide whether the 34-year-old arena, 2000 Prospect Ave., should stay or go.

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Cleveland’s new hot spot: BVQ District. Here’s why…

A rendering for an early phase in the multi-building Hub 27 development at the north
end of Cleveland’s Clark-Fulton neighborhood. This section, between Interstate 90
and the Red Line, is the BVQ enclave, named after the streets Barber-Vega-Queen
in that area (BDCL). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

There’s an underutilized 50-acre area on Cleveland’s near-West Side dubbed the BVQ District. It is surrounded by Ohio City, Tremont and the La Villa Hispana section of Clark-Fulton. All of those neighborhoods have seen, and continue to see a lot of investment. BVQ has been walled off from that activity by Interstate 90 and the Red Line tracks. But like water overtopping a dam, soon that dam is going to break.

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