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| Proposed new signage on the front of the historic New England Building, also called the Guardian Building, on Euclid Avenue will replace that of the current hotelier, a Holiday Inn Express (Mira Development). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
After 26 years in business, Downtown Cleveland’s Holiday Inn Express, 629 Euclid Ave., will close. But its already got a replacement lined up in the form of an AC Hotel by Marriott, according to a developer leading the transformation.
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| A locally based development team pursuing an Ohio City apartment building on West 26th Street has received approval of its conceptual plans from a design- review panel (GLSD). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
A 109-unit market-rate apartment building planned along West 26th Street in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood recently passed its first hurdle. But it has more to come, including a rezoning, vacating an alley, design-review approvals and winning over urban neighbors who expressed fears of the multi-family development.
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| Just east of Downtown Cleveland in the Midtown neighborhood is the new home of Lake Effect Health and affiliated companies that are relocating from suburban Brooklyn. The founder of those companies bought the building last summer and will renovate it to offer health care services from here (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
The closure of St. Vincent Charity Medical Center in 2022 has left a health care void on Cleveland near-east side. While that’s a big void to fill, an entrepreneur from the suburbs wants to start trying. And she’s already planted her flag at the northeast corner of Prospect Avenue and East 36th Street.
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| Looking west down Cedar Road from the front yard of Cleveland Heights High School, firefighters from 17 different communities joined forces Jan. 25 to quickly contain a rapidly spreading fire at the Marquee at Cedar Lee apartments. But it took 20 hours before the fire was completely extinguished (City of Cleveland Heights). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
The developer of the Marquee development has informed Cleveland Heights city officials that it will rebuild the structure that was destroyed by an overnight fire that began Jan. 25. The 139-unit Marquee at Cedar-Lee building fronting Cedar Road in the 13200 block, was still under construction and unoccupied at the time of the fire, which started about 7 p.m.
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| This view is of the main entrance on the south side of the proposed new fieldhouse at Breakthrough Schools’ Woodland Hills Campus. The existing school building is to the right. This entrance to the fieldhouse will allow community activities, such as voting, to occur here and be separated from the classrooms during or after school hours (Marous). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Having affordable, comfortable places for the community to gather for events, sports and even voting can be hard to find in Cleveland’s Kinsman and Woodland Hills neighborhoods. But that could soon change for the better based on plans for a new fieldhouse at Breakthrough Schools’ Woodland Hills Campus, 9201 Crane Ave. Those plans were submitted this week to the city’s Building Department.
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| This three-decade-old corporate headquarters building for Moen was refurbished only several years ago. Community development officials believe it is a marketable property and hopefully will attract new users soon to fill a void in the city’s financial ability to provide public services (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
When the conglomerate parent of faucet and fixture-maker Moen told the world via press release on Jan. 22 that it was consolidating its various brand headquarters to suburban Chicago, it was also notifying all of the Ohio-based economic development organizations about the move for the first time.
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| Looking southeast the proposed District 46 from above the intersection of Lou Groza Boulevard and Front Street, the planned hotel will be at left and overlook a new com- munity athletic field. Apartments over retail/restaurants also overlook the sides of the field. At the field’s south end, a community recreation center will be part of a later phase (AODK). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Although the District 46 mixed-use development in Berea didn’t win a megaproject tax credit yesterday for adding a community recreation center at the development’s south end, it isn’t slowing down the rest of the $155 million project.
