Will a Brook Park stadium hurt efforts to maintain Gateway? Apparently the Cavs think so.

Concern over being able to maintain the facilities at the Gateway sports and entertain-
ment complex in Downtown Cleveland prompted a critical letter apparently sent by
the Rock ntertainment Group to the Greater Cleveland Partnership over the future
viability of the sin tax to maintain these facilities (Rocket Arena).
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Support for the planned domed stadium in Brook Park by the Greater Cleveland Partnership (GCP), announced earlier this week, has ruffled a few feathers. And it’s not just those that were expected to be ruffled — Cuyahoga County and City of Cleveland officials, Downtown Cleveland Inc., and others. Now, it’s the parent company of the Cleveland Cavaliers who say pursuing the stadium at this time is a bad idea.

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Glenville, Hough, Ohio City housing wins big

Wade Park Station is planned as an affordable senior housing development on
Wade Park Avenue in Cleveland’s Glenville neighborhood. It just got a major
boost in the form of 9 percent Low Income Housing Tax Credits (RDL).
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Two new Cleveland housing construction projects and one renovation won coveted, highly competitive 9 percent Low Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTC) from the Ohio Housing Finance Authority (OHFA) today. The awards promise a big financial boost to each of the projects which are located in the Glenville, Hough and Ohio City neighborhoods.

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Polling data shows voters oppose Browns move

Concerns about being able to keep Cleveland’s existing stadiums in a state of good
repair apparently prompted a poll of likely voters to assess their views toward ex-
tending or expanding a Cuyahoga County sin tax. According to the poll results, those
concerns were justified (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

One day after the region’s chamber of commerce announced its support for the construction of an enclosed stadium in Brook Park, a poll of likely voters in Cuyahoga County was leaked to NEOtrans, showing most of those voters opposed the Cleveland Browns leaving downtown for the suburbs. The poll also said that opposition was putting at risk a county sin tax to repair facilities for all of Cleveland’s major sports teams.

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Regional chamber of commerce likes Browns’ move

Huntington Bank Field sets on Downtown Cleveland’s lakefront. But the Greater
Cleveland Partnership says it shouldn’t, and instead should be moved to Brook
Park as a domed stadium (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Downtown Cleveland’s lakefront has had a stadium on it for 91 of the last 93 years. But that should come to an end for the betterment of the lakefront and its replacement stadium, according to the Greater Cleveland Partnership (GCP) — the metro area’s chamber of commerce. GCP also urged the closure of Burke Lakefront Airport.

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Playhouse Square’s ‘Beyond the Stage’ additions

Playhouse Square has announced several additions to Downtown Cleveland’s theater
district that are “beyond the stage.” One of those includes the green kiosk on Play-
house Square Plaza which will host the Something Good Social Kitchen (Google).
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A trio of new eateries in Downtown Cleveland’s theater district was announced today by Playhouse Square officials, along with two others already reported by NEOtrans in recent weeks. But one of the largest “Beyond The Stage” projects, redevelopment of the Greyhound bus station, is still in the works and was teased in the same announcement.

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Cleveland owns its lakefront opportunities

The red lands are properties owned by the city of Cleveland along its Lake Erie waterfront
just east of downtown. The light-blue land at right is another publicly owned piece of land
owned by the state of Ohio. In the foreground is the Forest City Yacht Club that’s been on
city-owned land for nearly a century. Beyond is the 115-year-old Cleveland Public Power’s
Lake Road Power Station. Few of these publicly owned properties are publicly accessible
nor do they represent the highest and best uses of lakefront land (Google).
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One year ago, the City Planning Commission “hired” Cleveland State University’s 17th Street Studios for a Masters of Urban Planning and Development (MUPD) capstone project to look at how to enhance the underutilized light-rail Waterfront Line. One of the findings was that the city of Cleveland literally owned its own ability to boost the rail line and the lakefront overall.

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Memphis & Pearl faces funding gap, has solutions

The Memphis & Pearl development in Cleveland’s downtown Old Brooklyn neighbor-
hood had to be expanded to retain a federal grant for the project while retaining the
historic St. Luke’s Church. But that caused a gap in the project’s funding resources that
backers are now trying to fill (Desmone). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Due to funding policy changes at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) since January, backers of the Memphis & Pearl development in Cleveland’s Old Brooklyn neighborhood have had to scramble to save the project from a suddenly large, $15 million funding gap.

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