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| The East Stokes apartment tower will rival the neighboring Artisan apartments as the tallest structure in Cleveland’s University Circle district. The same developer led both projects (SCB). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
There’s good news and there’s uncertain news when it comes to the latest skyscraper planned for Cleveland’s booming cultural district, University Circle, and specifically for the megaproject site called Circle Square.
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| The current Huntington Bank Field on Downtown Cleveland’s lakefront has been home to the Cleveland Browns since 1999. And it may be the home of the Browns for up to two years longer than the team’s ownership had planned (HSG). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
If it seemed like the Cleveland Browns and their owners the Haslam Sports Group (HSG) were a tad generous with their $100 million settlement with the City of Cleveland, now we know why.
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| This 140-year-old building at West 25th Street and Chatham Avenue in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood is best known for its “Greetings from Cleveland” mural. But it will soon have a commercial bakery-kitchen and storefront operated by the owner of Good Company restaurant in Battery Park (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
If you haven’t heard of Good Company restaurant, then that’s the reason why they’re making a move — two actually. And if you have heard of it, you may be glad to learn there’s going to be twice as much of it.
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| This warehouse on Mulberry Avenue on the West Bank of the Flats is planned to be the new home of a growing clothing manufacturer called Found Surface. But the owner of the building is concerned that the city will delay this project as it had delayed a previous one to death. The property is next to the Centennial Lake Link Trail (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
A boarded-up warehouse along the thread of the Centennial Lake Link Trail on Cleveland’s Flats West Bank could soon sew up a growing clothing manufacturer. But the lease signed this week by Cleveland-based Found Surface has an escape clause that allows it to cut and run to its second-choice location in the suburbs.
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| Outlined in red is the approximate location of proposed land purchases for a new SpringHill Suites extended-stay hotel on East 90th Street, just north of Chester Avenue. The Cleveland Clinic campus is seen to the south in the background along with many new apartment buildings nearby (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
A lack of affordable, extended-stay hotel accommodations near the Cleveland Clinic’s Main Campus has prompted a development team to fill that void. But in order to keep long-term stays affordable for families visiting Clinic patients, the hotel will have to be built on more affordable land at the periphery of the Main Campus. In this case — Cleveland’s Hough neighborhood.
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| Today’s settlement appears to seal the fate of the 1999-built Huntington Bank Field on Downtown Cleveland’s lakefront and opens up the entire 50-acre lakefront development to be announced by early next year. It is due to be demolished follow- ing the Cleveland Browns’ 2029 move to a new, enclosed Huntington Bank Field in suburban Brook Park (CBRE). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
A new, enclosed Huntington Bank Field will be built in Brook Park. And the current home of the Cleveland Browns in Downtown Cleveland will be demolished for lakefront redevelopment for which the owners of the Browns will help finance to the tune of $100 million.
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| While the rest of the nation wallows in sour economic news, the job situation in Greater Cleveland looks relatively rosy based on the latest report from one of the world’s largest career search listing Web sites (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Each new national job report and economic indicator this year shows the nation’s economy is slowing down. But it doesn’t seem that way yet here in Greater Cleveland, where new apartment buildings are going up, there’s more traffic on the roads and more new restaurants and stores opening. So why the difference?
