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| Built as a church 103 years ago, this handsome Lakewood building will go back to it roots under a new owner (LoopNet). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Only a decade old, the Lakewood-based King’s Church has acquired its first permanent home by purchasing the former headquarters of the Roundstone Insurance Co. after it relocated to Rocky River last fall. But that former HQ is going back to its originally intended purpose.
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| The darker building at left is the proposed Row on Garden, amid several other phases of development by ALMiCo Group led by its first phase at right, the Flats on Pearl in Cleve- land’s Brooklyn Centre neighborhood (Brandt). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Different departments of the city of Cleveland are stretching a Lakewood-based real estate company, ALMiCO Group, with orders to stop and go on different aspects of its multi-phase development in the city’s Brooklyn Centre Historic District. Caught in this push-pull is a phase called Row on Garden, now planned as an 18-unit apartment building on Garden Ave.
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| In Cleveland’s University Circle, two of that district’s tallest structures stand next to the Wade Lagoon. The district’s tallest structure, The 267-foot-tall Artisan apartments, was topping out in September 2022. But the district’s longtime height champion at 200 feet was the Church In The Circle, built in 1928 as the Epworth-Euclid United Methodist Church (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
When a church has been around for a long time, its name can often change. But for the 97-year-old Church In The Circle, 1919 E. 107th St., its appearance-based nickname has not changed — the “Holy Oil Can.” Nor has its ownership — until now.
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| The left side of this corner of an historic building in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood is where a drive-through for a new Starbucks Cafe is planned. The cars from this drive- through will exit here onto Abbey Avenue. In the background is the Intro development. Out of view to the right is the West Side Market and, behind this camera is the Ohio City Red Line train station Avenue (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
A plan to renovate an historic car dealership with retail uses, including a new Starbucks in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood, was approved today by the city’s Landmarks Commission. But the question of whether a proposed drive-through should remain in the design was referred to the city’s Division of Traffic Engineering to decide.
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| Along Euclid Avenue, to the left or east of Starbucks in the Hanna Building, will be the latest location of Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream. The new parlor will take the entire space between Starbucks and the arched Euclid entrance to the historic building (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
While NEOtrans doesn’t normally devote an entire article to the planned opening of a small retail space, this is a new ice cream parlor in a high-profile location. And, of course, everyone loves ice cream, especially when it’s enjoyed before or after a show at America’s second-largest theater district, Cleveland’s Playhouse Square.
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| This office and warehouse at 8110 Lake Ave. on Cleveland’s west side is near to being acquired by the George Group of Lakewood to apparently remain a commercial use in a neighborhood with lots of residential development (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
A high-profile businessman is near to acquiring a piece of property between Cleveland’s stable Edgewater neighborhood to the west and the fast-growing Gordon Square neighborhood to the east. But despite the number of new residential developments emerging nearby, this commercial site is apparently going to stay commercial — possibly charitable.
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| This proposed sign for Project Scarlet, a renovation and conversion of the former Medical Mutual headquarters into apartments and a hotel, is sought to stir up interest and create buzz about the project (Diamond Signs & Graphics). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Cleveland Landmarks Commission is due to hear a proposal this week for the addition of a visible, unique sign atop an important building in Downtown Cleveland. But while the proposed sign on the Rose Building, 2060 E. 9th St., is touted as a “Temporary construction duration banner” — there is no sign that construction of a planned hotel-apartment conversion is imminent.
