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| Gateway North will offer 351 beds for John Carroll University students atop a Trader Joe’s grocery store at the entrance to the college in University Heights (Ian McDaniel). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
This snowy edition of Progress Pics highlights the multiple developments under construction around the eastern suburbs. In total, several hundred residential units are set to open next year in Cleveland Heights, University Heights, Shaker Heights and Richmond Heights alone.
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| Enjoying outdoor events later the season has become possible in Cleveland due to climate change. Here, the St. Ignatius High School soccer team plays at Cleveland State University’s Krenzler Field on a sunny, mild October day (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Despite the snowy Thanksgiving holiday, Cleveland’s status as a climate refuge got a warm review thanks to new data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). In the last decade, only three U.S. cities’ climates warmed faster than Cleveland’s, according to the new data.
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| Downtown Cleveland’s lakefront looks very different without anything there but green- fields — be it a pro football stadium, a Shoreway bridge across the railroad tracks, or parking lots encroaching on a big city’s waterfront. But this is what it could look like by the early 2030s. The question of what will replace these longtime features will be answered next month (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
One deadline has passed. Another is about to. And a third is coming up. But by the end of the year, Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb’s administration hopes to have a much more coherent vision of Downtown Cleveland lakefront development whose private-sector investment could exceed $1 billion — with a capital B.
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| With additional financial support in place, financing is near to closing for the Depot on Detroit apartments, just west of the West Boulevard-Cudell transit station on Cleve- land’s West Side (City Architecture). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Like any new large new development with multiple sources of public and private financing, Depot on Detroit is taking a long time to get rolling. But at long last, there is a light at the end of the tunnel and it isn’t a train.
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| A lot of construction will be happening here in the coming years. Not only is the 22-story Fenn Tower to be renovated, but the brutalist Science Building at left will be expanded with a new addition facing Euclid Avenue and Fenn Hall redeveloped to add a Bio- medical Discovery Complex. Behind the Science Building is the four-story Fenn Hall (CSU). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Cleveland State University (CSU) today announced the renovation of two of its most historic buildings. Fenn Tower, one of the campus’s most recognizable landmarks, and Fenn Hall, home to many of CSU’s STEM-related teaching and research labs are the focus of more than $100 million of planned investment.
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| In the early 1980s, Jackshaw Chevy had already been in business on East 185th Street for nearly 30 years. Dealership buildings and lots for cars and trucks were on both sides of the street. While the building at left still stands, the one at far right was razed exactly one decade ago (reprinted with permission of EuclidEvolution.blogspot.com). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
For more than 75 years, there was a Chevrolet car dealership at the north end of East 185th Street, where the cities of Cleveland and Euclid meet. And for the last 17 years, there’s been stop-n-go efforts to revitalize those vacant lots with no success. But that could change with a new approach underway.
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| It’s an uncertain time for older office buildings in Downtown Cleveland. The latest to face uncertainty is 800 Superior, which is home to AmTrust Financial Services' operational headquarters and hundreds of employees — but possibly not for long (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
With its lease running out at the end of next year, a major employer in Downtown Cleveland is searching for answers. The questions are — to stay put and aid in the rebirth of a decaying property? To relocate to another downtown building? Or to move to one of many vacant, modern office buildings in the suburbs?
