Music Institute dorm starts on bad note

Classrooms, offices and a dormitory for the Cleveland Institute of
Music as well for Case Western Reserve University students is at 1609 Hazel
Dr. in Cleveland’s University Circle. But the southern and, to the right in this
September 2022 streetview, western exterior wall panels will have to be
replaced due to “defective workmanship” according
to a pending legal
complaint (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Less than six years old, the Cleveland Institute of Music’s (CIM) new building called 1609 Hazel at its namesake address in Cleveland’s University Circle, has suffered extensive water damage due to alleged poor construction. And the bill for pending repairs just came in — $1.7 million, according to public records filed with the city.

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Cleveland Trades Council urges data center regulations, not ban

Data centers are growing in number while many office buildings are fading.
In Downtown Cleveland, the Sterling Building on Euclid Avenue has become
a 250,000-square-foot hub for technology, cloud computing and cybersecurity
services (LoopNet). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

As Cleveland considers a moratorium on the addition of new data centers until it can update its zoning code to better address them, and as a statewide ban on larger data centers is pending, the Cleveland Building and Construction Trades Council said it wants the emotion taken out of the debate.

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City loses another fight against spread of downtown parking lots

On the south side of Sumner Avenue, next to St. Maron Church at left, is a piece of the land
the church’s diocese just acquired to provide parking for the church and to earn revenue
from visitors to the Gateway sports and entertainment complex visible at right (Google).
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An historic church in Downtown Cleveland’s Gateway District won its case before the city’s Board of Zoning Appeals (BZA) today to use a newly purchased property at 1212-1260 Sumner Ave. as a surface parking lot for up to 90 vehicles.

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Cuyahoga gets its $1M brownfield allocation

A week before Christmas, the West Side Market was the site of a press conference in
which it was awarded a $5 million Ohio Historic Preservation Tax Credit to support
renovations totaling more than $71.33 million. Yesterday, it got an Ohio Brownfield
grant to do site work to prepare for those renovations (NEOtrans).
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Although each county in Ohio was limited to $1 million in Ohio Brownfield Remediation grants in this round of funding awards, Cuyahoga County made the most of it despite its voracious appetite for such grants as it repositions its former, massive industrial base in the post-industrial era.

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Cleveland’s proposed Data Center moratorium in a race against time, technology

As more companies embrace artificial intelligence to automate more jobs, more data centers
will appear around the world. The question Cleveland is grappling with as more data center
development plans arrive here is to how to effectively regulate them (NEOtrans).
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It’s a race against time between the City of Cleveland and developers seeking to construct new data centers. On one side is the city which has an outdated zoning code it has been wanting to update for years, with data centers being the latest new land use to add to the mix.

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Data center rejection prompts reaction

A three-building data center campus is planned in Cleveland’s Slavic Village and could
look like this unofficial rendering created by NEOtrans. The developer, Lakeland Equity
Group, said it spend heavily to add electric grid infrastructure to accommodate the
facility (NEOtrans/ChatGPT). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Today’s sudden rejection of a building application for a new $1.6 billion data center in Cleveland’s Slavic Village caught the project’s development team by surprise. But city sources and records revealed the application was rejected because it was incomplete.

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Tremont, Duck Island developments near completion

Two single-family homes designed by AODK are under construction at the Carter Road
Subdivision, where Scranton Peninsula meets Duck Island in Cleveland (Harrison
Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Cleveland’s Tremont neighborhood is one of the most desirable in the city — and its tight housing market reflects that. But with a handful of developments now wrapping up, it may be the perfect time for those considering a move to the area.

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