Leaning laundromat of Little Italy demolition due

The 19th-century building at the center with the white siding is visibly leaning to the
left, into Maxi’s Bistro which is owned by the same principal. The leaning building is
due to be demolished but it remains to be seen if plans for developing the property
are imminent (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Italy has its famous Leaning Tower of Pisa. Cleveland has its leaning laundromat of Little Italy. But while Pisa’s was built in 1372 and is in no danger of falling, Cleveland’s 19th-century version is a danger to surrounding buildings and may be demolished soon after five years of consideration.

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Bibb: fate of Cleveland Federal Building “concerning”

About 4,000 people are employed at the Anthony J. Celebrezze Federal Building in Down-
town Cleveland. The Trump Administration has proposed to close and/or sell the 59-year-
old building without identifying where the federal services and the employees who
provide them would be located (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Earlier this month, the Trump Administration offered hundreds of federal buildings and properties for sale or other disposition but quickly withdrew the list in the face of national criticism. Now, the General Services Administration is issuing a new, much smaller list of eight federal buildings to be cast off in an “accelerated disposition.”

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Euclid Beach Park arch relocation ready

This 1951 postcard shows the Euclid Beach Park arch from the waning years of the
amusement park’s heyday. The arch is being relocated and preserved in a new pub-
lic park adjacent to this location in Cleveland’s North Collinwood neighborhood
(Cleveland Public Library). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb’s Office of Capital Projects is ready to start work on relocating and rehabilitating a gateway arch from the historic Euclid Beach Park to its planned new home a few feet away. That home is a new greenspace in the 15900 block of Lake Shore Blvd. in Cleveland’s North Collinwood neighborhood, with trees and walkways and the landmark arch spanning the main walkway lined with benches.

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Goodwill to open at Gordon Square Rite Aid site

August 2024 marked the end of the Rite Aid drug store at West 65th Street and
Franklin Boulevard in Cleveland’s Gordon Square neighborhood. But Goodwill
announced last week that it will open a store here this summer (Google).
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On Friday, Ward 15 Councilwoman Jenny Spencer shared on her Facebook page a letter to the community from Goodwill Industries that they will open this summer a store at 6512 Franklin Blvd. in Cleveland’s Gordon Square neighborhood. The location is a former Rite Aid drug store that closed in August 2024.

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North Coast Yard pop-up to activate lakefront

A street-level view of the proposed pop-up park at North Coast Harbor,
next to the Steamship William G. Mather Museum, north of the Great
Lakes Science Center (NWDC). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Like a company offering a free trial period to customers in the hopes of converting them into loyal subscribers, the city of Cleveland and North Coast Waterfront Development Corporation (NCWDC) officials hope to offer residents just that: a free trial period of lakefront activation and a tangible reason to support a permanent, fully-realized reimagining of an underutilized lakefront.

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Tower City Center lacks coherent future without more development, rail access

What was can be again, albeit modernized with trains now being manu-
factured for the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority, left, and
Amtrak, right. Tower City Center was built as Cleveland Union Termi-
nal — the city’s local, regional and long-distance passenger rail hub.
If Bedrock wants foot traffic and a vibrant Tower City Center,
restoring that rail hub will do that for them (Methodicle).
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Like many who work in one of the dozen buildings of Downtown Cleveland’s Tower City Center complex, Nora Romanoff parks her car where more than 100 railroad passenger trains a day once pulled into or out of a labyrinth built as Cleveland Union Terminal. Just as rail travelers did from 1930-1977, she rides an escalator up into a grand railroad concourse that was significantly remodeled in 1988-90 to become today’s retail-heavy The Avenue at Tower City.

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Next apartment project at Detroit & Lake planned

At the angular intersection of Lake (foreground) and Detroit avenues,
where the person is walking, is where an eight-unit apartment
building with ground-floor retail is proposed to rise. It is planned
to help restore Detroit’s street presence in this neighborhood (Google).
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The next new apartment building at the intersection of Detroit and Lake avenues in Cleveland’s Detroit-Shoreway neighborhood is already in the works. But it’s planned to be quite a bit smaller than its to-be neighbor across West 75th Street.

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