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| In 2022, the first of two 24-story apartment towers at Circle Square in Cleveland’s University Circle was under construction. Today, the second tower next door is just getting underway a few steps from the HealthLine bus rapid transit (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Five regional organizations joined forces today to announce the launch of Cuyahoga TOD, a long-term, collaborative effort to advance transit-oriented development (TOD) in Cuyahoga County communities.
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| Next to the Interstate 90 Inner Belt bridges in Downtown Cleveland, a group of Cornell University urban planning students were given a tour of the site of the proposed Gateway South soccer stadium by Cleveland Soccer Group’s Gina Prodan Kelly, closest to the camera, and CSG CEO Michael Murphy, standing next-closest (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
A group of Cornell University urban planning students came to Cleveland this week with a scholarly objective — learn about potential soccer facilities and suggest how they can link with their surroundings, including public transit. They left with ideas for and discoveries about Cleveland that could result in more than an academic exercise.
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| Judy McGlinchy, left, and Craig Astler presented “monumental” ideas for redeveloping Downtown Cleveland’s North Coast Harbor at a public meeting last week at Merwin’s Wharf in the Flats (Paul Heney). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
With the Cleveland Browns leaving the city for Brook Park in the next few years, plans for what’s next on the lakefront are heating up. Architectural firm MVRDV, based in Rotterdam, Netherlands, is expected to unveil an update of the entire lakefront plans in the next month or two, on behalf of the nonprofit North Coast Waterfront Development Corporation.
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| Many visitors arrive to Cleveland’s Shaker Square on transit vehicles, such as this GCRTA Blue Line train which originated at Tower City in Downtown Cleveland (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
It’s no secret that Cleveland’s complicated and restrictive zoning code stifles new construction, hinders neighborhood walkability, and renders countless existing buildings noncompliant. Yet it remains to be seen how well its emerging Form-Based Code can resolve these issues.
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| Although each of West Park Shopping Center’s three largest retail spaces shown here have the same placeholder signage, in reality only the largest retail space at left is vacant. That will soon change as a new fitness center will occupy it (Onyx Creative). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
A filing submitted to the City of Cleveland today revealed the identity of a new tenant that will fill the largest space at the West Park Shopping Center on Lorain Avenue at West 150th Street.
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| The nation’s largest manufacturer of gasoline-powered automobiles at the start of 20th century was the Winton Motor Carriage Co. on Berea Road north of Madison Avenue in Cleveland’s Cudell neighborhood. Most of the original factory still stands, and now it has a new owner with a plan. Note the test track around the perimeter of the plant (The Motor World-Wikimedia). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
One of Cleveland’s most historic industrial properties is no longer on the to-be-demolished list after it was acquired by a Greater Cleveland-based developer. That property is the four-parcel, 7.3-acre former Winton Motor Carriage Works, 10300-10630 Berea Rd. in Cleveland’s Cudell neighborhood.
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| Reese Consumer Health has signed on as the anchor tenant for the Gateway 55 light- industrial development on East 55th Street in Cleveland’s Slavic Village (Bowen). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Reese Consumer Health, a 120-year-old family-owned, Cleveland-based company that planned to consolidate and expand its facilities earlier this year at a new structure on Woodland Avenue, will instead land at another location.
