Complete lakefront master plan due in October

After 2029, when Huntington Bank Field closes and stops hosting major events that require
hosting a huge surge of cars, the stadium will be razed and new lakefront uses will replace it.
Those proposed uses could make their first appearance in plans to be released in October
(NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Representatives from the North Coast Waterfront Development Corporation (NCWDC) gave Cleveland city planners an update on the lakefront master plan on Friday. As the process nears completion, the first tangibles of a new public realm are taking shape.

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Filling downtown’s grocery gap

The grand, former Cleveland Trust rotunda at Euclid Avenue and East 9th Street has housed
a Heinen’s grocery store for 11 years. But from the outside it’s difficult to tell what’s inside,
if it’s open or how to get in. Once inside, the floor layouts are difficult for a grocery store
to use and its merchandise unsuitable for an urban clientele, observers say (NEOtrans).
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With the Downtown Cleveland Heinen’s grocery store, 900 Euclid Ave., set to close at the end of this month after 11 years in business, city, county and civic leaders are undertaking a two-pronged response to fill the void in the short- and long-term.

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Two Downtown towers sell for $4.25M – total

Downtown Cleveland’s Ohio Savings Plaza on East 9th Street and its little brother Park Plaza
to the east both sold to the Kassouf family albeit under different corporate identities. And they
sold for bargain price (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Rumors had swirled for weeks but no one was willing to confirm it — until yesterday when the sale of the Ohio Savings Plaza and Park Plaza office buildings hit public records.

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Three big Cleveland developments advance

In University Circle, the $140 million Stokes East Tower will rise 24 stories next to the Wade
Park Lagoon and add to the residential inventory of one of the fastest-growing employment
districts in Ohio (SCB). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. 

Three major Cleveland development projects totaling nearly $300 million in value won financing today from the Port of Cleveland. Together, the trio of projects will add 536 housing units, 121 hotel rooms and more than 23,000 square feet of commercial space.

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NEO fund to boost biz, job sites

Greater Cleveland has gained some major employers in its transition from an economy that was
dependent on manufacturing. But that doesn’t mean it has given up on manufacturing. It does
mean that it needs more tools to attract employers of all kinds and in existing communities
that the region’s labor pool can access (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Once upon a time, Cleveland was the nation’s center of industrial innovation and small, new-start businesses that resulted from it. Perhaps you’ve heard of a few of them — Standard Oil, General Electric Lighting, Sherwin-Williams, TRW, Cleveland-Cliffs, Lincoln Electric, Parker Hannifin to name a few.

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‘The old Master Chrome building is down’

Master Chrome had only months of visible business activity left when this screenshot was
captured in active in June 2019. It was allegedly adding to pollutants to the site that took a
team of people at the state, county and city governments to demolish, clean up and con-
tinue to monitor (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Master Chrome was just a small industry on a small lot. Its structure didn’t even measure 10,000 square feet. The land on which it set was barely more than half an acre.

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GCRTA delays levy decision to September

A Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority bus rolls by St. Ignatius High School bearing
mixed messages. So is the authority’s board, saying transit funding is important but lacks the
immediacy to avoid service cuts (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

The future of the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (GCRTA) didn’t get much clearer at a special board meeting held today. But the transit agency’s trustees did vote unanimously to support a compromise action that could put a sales tax levy on the ballot in May 2027. The board is due to finalize its decision in September.

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