National Acme redevelopment site to expand

Long abandoned and neglected, the former National Acme plant on East 131st Street
at Coit Road is getting demolished and its site cleaned up to make way for a new end
user offering new jobs for Cleveland’s Glenville and Collinwood neighborhoods.
And now it will expand with the addition of a neighboring former Republic
Steel site (Cuyahoga Land Bank). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

The fate of the National Acme plant at 170 E. 131st St., where Cleveland’s Glenville and Collinwood neighborhoods meet, is an all-too common story about the demise of a major employer-turned-abandoned factory. But community leaders today said they hope that the rebirth promised for this neglected, toxic site will also become a common story for Cleveland’s many problematic properties.

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Cavs, Clinic extend partnership at riverfront center

The Cleveland Clinic Global Peak Performance Center is under construction in
Downtown Cleveland as the first phase of Bedrock’s planned massive riverfront
development (Populous). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

The Cleveland Cavaliers pro basketball team and Cleveland Clinic healthcare system have finalized a 25-year extension of their partnership, lengthening the relationship to more than 55 years altogether. That makes it one of the nation’s longest continuous partnerships between a professional sports organization and a healthcare provider.

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Browns may not score enough votes for stadium win

A proposed enclosed stadium for Cleveland Browns football games and other
events may be in trouble based on a potential veto from Gov. Mike DeWine
and a lack of votes to override it in the Ohio General Assembly (HKS).
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Two extra years on the stadium’s current lease could have offered at least a cushion. The lack of that plus a potential gubernatorial veto and a lack of legislative override votes may be the biggest threats to realizing a $3.6 billion sports-entertainment district planned in the Cleveland suburb of Brook Park.

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Construction starts on Shoreway Tower

The Shoreway Tower at right, and the current Shoreway Apartments at left, are shown
here from the north side, overlooking the Shoreway boulevard and Edgewater Park
in Cleveland. Construction is now getting underway on the site (EAO).
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Nope, it’s not an April Fool’s Joke. Construction work is getting underway this week for Cleveland’s next new high-rise residential building. But it’s not rising downtown or in the University Circle area. Instead, crews are assembling equipment, materials, portable toilets, utility relocations and more on a bluff overlooking the Shoreway boulevard and Edgewater Park.

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Federal Building to be closed, agencies moved

The tall building at center, located next to Cleveland City Hall, is the Anthony J.
Celebrezze Federal Building. Reports are emerging that the federal building needs
hundreds of millions of dollars of work, that the building will be closed and its
occupants moved to other privately owned buildings downtown (KJP).
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More than 4,000 federal employees based at Downtown Cleveland’s Anthony J. Celebrezze (AJC) Federal Building, 1240 E. 9th St., are reportedly going to be moved out of the 32-story office tower to privately owned office properties downtown in the next three years, followed by AJC’s closure, according to a spokesperson for Congresswoman Shontel Brown (D-11) who opposes the sudden move.

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Cleveland Amtrak routes surge; but expansion lags

Nearly 50 people prepare to board the westbound Lake Shore Limited at 4 a.m.
March 14 at Cleveland. This train is the nation’s single busiest train as it
links population centers on the East Coast with those in the Midwest (KJP).
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According to the latest data from national passenger railroad Amtrak, America’s most heavily used passenger train passes through Cleveland each night. And it, plus the other Amtrak route through Cleveland, were the two fastest-growing long-distance routes in terms of ridership last year. But getting more ridership or better departure times at Cleveland will be difficult absent new federal policies, said a nonprofit rail advocacy coalition.

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Leaning laundromat of Little Italy demolition due

The 19th-century building at the center with the white siding is visibly leaning to the
left, into Maxi’s Bistro which is owned by the same principal. The leaning building is
due to be demolished but it remains to be seen if plans for developing the property
are imminent (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Italy has its famous Leaning Tower of Pisa. Cleveland has its leaning laundromat of Little Italy. But while Pisa’s was built in 1372 and is in no danger of falling, Cleveland’s 19th-century version is a danger to surrounding buildings and may be demolished soon after five years of consideration.

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