Downtown’s historic Chancery Building to be renewed

The historic Chancery Building, built in 1888 and renovated in 1950, is part of
the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist at Superior Avenue and East 9th Street
in Downtown Cleveland. The cathedral is seen at far left (Google).
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One of Downtown Cleveland’s oldest surviving buildings is about to see a structural renewal that also offer a more uplifting place for hundreds of people to work and visit. The Chancery Building, 1027 Superior Ave., was built in 1888 as a school but later was converted to offices. That use will be confirmed by a $15 million renovation.

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Downtown steam plant to be razed, redeveloped

To the right of the under-construction Cleveland Clinic Global Peak Performance Center is
the old, unused Cleveland Thermal steam heating plant for historic downtown office build-
ings. It is surrounded by Bedrock’s Riverfront development and is due to be demolished
for new uses (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Eight redevelopment project sites won a total of nearly $18 million from the Ohio Department of Development’s Brownfield Program so the sites can be cleaned up and, in some cases, their existing structures are to be demolished. One of those where demolition is planned is the former Cleveland Thermal steam plant, 2274 Canal Rd., in Downtown Cleveland.

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Two new Hough developments sell for $30M

The new Park Lamont apartments are a short walk or bike ride to school or work in
booming University Circle. This property and also-new Lumos apartments were
owned by their developer and, now completed, were sold to a new landlord
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In a $30.6M deal, a national real estate investment firm added 119 newly constructed apartments in Cleveland’s Hough neighborhood to its growing portfolio. New Jersey-based Reynolds Asset Management acquired Park Lamont, 9606 Lamont Ave., and The Lumos, 1866 E. 93rd St. Both are located a short walk or bike ride from jobs and classrooms in booming University Circle.

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I-X Center’s new use revealed

This is why the I-X Center is reportedly going to become a data center — a 25-
megawatt substation located on-site. Data centers are voracious consumers of
electrical power and the I-X Center has access to power (Google).
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According to two sources familiar with the matter, the International Exhibition (I-X) Center next to Cleveland Hopkins International Airport will become a data center. And, according to one of those sources, the end user is likely to be Amazon Web Services.

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Glenville Job-Ready Site more than doubles in size

Along Kirby Avenue, one-fourth of a mile from the interchange of Interstate 90 and
Eddy Road in Cleveland’s Glenville neighborhood, is this 36-acre property that’s being
cleaned up as a new job-ready site (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Too much is never enough. When you’re marketing land to new end-users, you can’t have enough clean, developable land in the urban core. And one of the largest, if not the largest in the city of Cleveland has just been assembled by the Cuyahoga Land Bank. The site is located at 12610 Kirby Ave. in Cleveland’s Glenville neighborhood, bordering on Collinwood.

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Walz Library-Karam Senior Living groundbreaking set

The new Walz Branch of the Cleveland Public Library topped by 51 affordable
apartments by Karam Senior Living will see construction get underway after
a groundbreaking ceremony schedule for June 6 (Bialosky).
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Following up on a story first reported by NEOtrans a month ago, the long-planned Walz Branch of the Cleveland Public Library (CPL) and Karam Senior Living apartments will indeed see construction start in June. In fact, a groundbreaking ceremony is scheduled at 10 a.m. this Friday at the project site, 7910 Detroit Ave., to officially kick off the project.

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Bridgeworks shows new signs of life

At the west end of the Detroit-Superior Bridge, the long-planned Bridgeworks
development site could finally start to see some visible activity in the coming
weeks (GLSD). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

While the development team for the $84 million mixed-use Bridgeworks project in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood is finalizing construction permits with the city, the team decided to take a step that could accelerate the project and get it underway sooner.

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