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| Once the second-tallest building in Downtown Cleveland, Erieview Tower is getting a makeover and a partial conversion to residential and hotel uses that will include a freshening up of its black and dark-green exterior (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
With interior demolition work wrapping up, the Erieview Tower redevelopment team is now getting ready to update the building’s life safety infrastructure and convert the tower’s midsection to residential.
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| A budget crunch at the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority could mean service cuts starting next year, just as the transit agency is about to take possession of its first new trains since the Reagan Administration (contributed photo). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
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| A tower crane was being erected in place two weeks ago to build a similarly tall Shoreway Tower apartments. This was the view from Edgewater Park. The Shoreway Apartments, at left, were the result of an going redevelopment of a 19th-century industrial district into a mix of uses, The Shoreway Tower is the next step in that redevelopment (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
For the first time ever, a tower crane has risen along Cleveland’s lakefront near Edgewater Park on the city’s West Side. It marks the spot and the approximate height of a new, luxury apartment tower that will rise next to it over the next 15 months or so.
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| At a sprawling 11 acres in the heart of a Hough neighborhood getting rediscovered, the site of the now-closed Martin Luther King Jr. High School could be one of Cleveland’s largest mixed-use redevelopments. Seen here in 2016, MLK High was still four years away from closure due to declining enrollment (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
While Cleveland is not unique among major cities in having a declining school population, it is proving to be adept at adapting. It is turning what would otherwise be a potential problem of blighted, vacant school buildings and lands that would drag down neighborhoods into redevelopment opportunities that might lift them up.
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| Construction crews shuffle between floors at the Cleveland Clinic’s new Neurological Institute (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
The Cleveland Clinic is pushing closer to completion on a collection of new facilities across three different buildings. On Carnegie Avenue between East 89th and 90th streets, the 1-million-square-foot Neurological Institute has topped out with façade work nearly complete.
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| Renovations will start in about two months to convert the Holiday Inn Express in Down- town Cleveland into the first AC Hotel by Marriott located in the city’s central business district. This entrance on Euclid Avenue will be closed for the duration of the con- struction work (SA Group). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Condominium owners and other tenants of the historic New England Building, 629 Euclid Ave., got word this week that renovations will start soon to convert just over half of the building from a Holiday Inn Express into an AC Hotel by Marriott. This will be the first AC Hotel in Downtown Cleveland.
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| The five-story Warner & Swasey building at left and the eight-story Westinghouse building at right are east- and west-side redevelopment stories that preserve Cleve- land’s historical identity for new roles in the city’s post-industrial future (GLSD, AODK). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
The Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority’s Board of Directors today approved financing actions supporting two of Cleveland’s long-proposed major redevelopment projects. And it also approved a land transfer today to advance the Irishtown Bend Park in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood.
