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| Three public hearings are scheduled next week for Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority riders to learn about proposed reductions to bus and rail services due in August (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
The Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (GCRTA) has scheduled public hearings on proposed service reductions to address a financial crunch. But as NEOtrans first reported last month, those cuts will be less than transit agency officials first feared.
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| A new Eagle Avenue ramp between the Gateway District and the Cuyahoga riverfront is well underway (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Along the Cuyahoga riverfront, several components of Bedrock’s $3.5 billion masterplan are taking shape in Downtown Cleveland. Furthest along is the Cleveland Clinic Global Peak Performance Center — home to the future practice facility for the Cleveland Cavaliers NBA team.
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| On the west side of Fulton Road near West 30th Street, a pair of townhomes are planned to fill the front of a deep lot (Contexture Design Studio). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
In Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood, plans to erect two townhomes on a historic stretch of Fulton Road are progressing. The townhomes would fill a gap between two early 20th-century structures where a gravel parking lot currently stands in front of a small single-family home.
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| Of the three proposed buildings in the expansion of the Cleveland Business Park, the building at left would be the first one built specifically for a tenant with whom the developer says it has a deep interest but not yet a signed lease. Cleveland Hopkins International Airport is seen at upper-right next to Interstates 71 and 480 (LBI). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
A proposed light-industrial/warehouse development in Cleveland, off Rocky River Drive near Hopkins International Airport, has advanced quickly toward final approval by the city. Part of the reason why is that a major tenant will anchor the 650,000-square-foot, three-building project and wants to move forward.
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| The 123-year-old landmark Rockefeller Building in Downtown Cleveland hasn’t been treated very well in recent years but its fortunes could be changing for the better very soon (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
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| Top-fuel drag racing could come to the Downtown Cleveland’s lakefront thanks to a new company Shore-to-Roar-to-Shore that responded to a request for qualifications from Mayor Justin Bibb’s administration regarding the reuse of Burke Lakefront Air- port (WikiCommons). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
In response to a recent request for qualifications (RFQ), Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb’s administration has awarded Shore-to-Roar-to-Shore LLC a bid to repurpose the 450-acre, city-owned Burke Lakefront Airport as a drag strip for professional top-fuel dragster and funny-car racing.
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| On Prospect Avenue at East 9th Street in Downtown Cleveland, renovation of the former Medical Mutual headquarters at the Rose Building is currently underway as part of Project Scarlet. (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
As Downtown Cleveland faces a wave of foreclosures and a slowdown in ground-up developments, a collection of major renovation projects are quietly renewing hope for the future of the central business district.
