West Side Market wins $28 million investment

Storm clouds were brewing over the West Side Market when this picture was taken in
2018 and it wasn’t just the weather. The Ohio City landmark was in major need of
overhaul of its physical structure and its management structure. It’s been getting both
since with more to come (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Cleveland Development Advisors (CDA) and Cleveland Public Market Corporation closed on a $28 million investment package on behalf of West Side Market’s transformation project. The package is the largest ever issued by CDA and will secure the remaining necessary funding for the West Side Market’s $53 million first stage of the project.

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Cleveland is founding city in new pro soccer league

A modular-built soccer stadium can be built quickly and inexpensively to host games and
events by the middle of 2026. And it could be expanded if Cleveland is able to land a
higher division soccer team in the future (CSG). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

A new women’s professional soccer league is due to launch in 2026 and Cleveland was named as one of its 15 founding markets throughout the USA. Launch of WPSL Pro, the newest professional league in the U.S. soccer organizational pyramid, was formally announced today.

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Lakewood church to become church again

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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Row on Garden gets pushed and pulled by city

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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University Circle’s ‘Holy Oil Can’ is up for sale

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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Ohio City Starbucks OK’d by Landmarks panel

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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Here’s the Scoop: Ben & Jerry’s to Playhouse Square

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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