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| With additional financial support in place, financing is near to closing for the Depot on Detroit apartments, just west of the West Boulevard-Cudell transit station on Cleve- land’s West Side (City Architecture). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Like any new large new development with multiple sources of public and private financing, Depot on Detroit is taking a long time to get rolling. But at long last, there is a light at the end of the tunnel and it isn’t a train.
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| A lot of construction will be happening here in the coming years. Not only is the 22-story Fenn Tower to be renovated, but the brutalist Science Building at left will be expanded with a new addition facing Euclid Avenue and Fenn Hall redeveloped to add a Bio- medical Discovery Complex. Behind the Science Building is the four-story Fenn Hall (CSU). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Cleveland State University (CSU) today announced the renovation of two of its most historic buildings. Fenn Tower, one of the campus’s most recognizable landmarks, and Fenn Hall, home to many of CSU’s STEM-related teaching and research labs are the focus of more than $100 million of planned investment.
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| In the early 1980s, Jackshaw Chevy had already been in business on East 185th Street for nearly 30 years. Dealership buildings and lots for cars and trucks were on both sides of the street. While the building at left still stands, the one at far right was razed exactly one decade ago (reprinted with permission of EuclidEvolution.blogspot.com). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
For more than 75 years, there was a Chevrolet car dealership at the north end of East 185th Street, where the cities of Cleveland and Euclid meet. And for the last 17 years, there’s been stop-n-go efforts to revitalize those vacant lots with no success. But that could change with a new approach underway.
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| It’s an uncertain time for older office buildings in Downtown Cleveland. The latest to face uncertainty is 800 Superior, which is home to AmTrust Financial Services' operational headquarters and hundreds of employees — but possibly not for long (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
With its lease running out at the end of next year, a major employer in Downtown Cleveland is searching for answers. The questions are — to stay put and aid in the rebirth of a decaying property? To relocate to another downtown building? Or to move to one of many vacant, modern office buildings in the suburbs?
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| Two of six new Victorian-style apartment buildings on East 89th Street designed to mimic historic Cleveland homes (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
In May 2022, NEOtrans broke the news that Timothy L. Tramble, Sr., president and CEO of the St. Luke’s Foundation, planned to build 48 housing units on East 89th Street through his firm We Rise Development LLC.
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| Once the second-tallest building in Downtown Cleveland, Erieview Tower is getting a makeover and a partial conversion to residential and hotel uses that will include a freshening up of its black and dark-green exterior (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
With interior demolition work wrapping up, the Erieview Tower redevelopment team is now getting ready to update the building’s life safety infrastructure and convert the tower’s midsection to residential.
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| A budget crunch at the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority could mean service cuts starting next year, just as the transit agency is about to take possession of its first new trains since the Reagan Administration (contributed photo). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
