Groundbreaking for a groundbreaking venue

Officials break ground today for the new Cosm immersive, dome-shaped theater in Down-
town Cleveland’s Gateway District. At left is Huron Road and Rocket Arena. The construc-
tion site was a surface parking lot that has been considered for mixed-use development for
more than a decade (Rock Entertainment). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Cosm, an immersive technology and entertainment venue, officially saw construction start today with a formal groundbreaking ceremony attended by city, county and state officials plus CEOs of major locally based employers like Sherwin-Williams, Cleveland Clinic and Cleveland Cliffs.

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$328M Central Interchange redo starts

Looking northeasterly, the new East 22nd Street overpass of Interstate 90 will provide a more
seamless connection between Downtown Cleveland and the Central neighborhood in the Cam-
pus District. This is part of the six-year rebuild of the 70-year-old Central Interchange with
Interstate 77 and downtown streets (ODOT). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

On the plus side, one of the region’s biggest megaprojects got underway today when officials from the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT), city of Cleveland, Cuyahoga County and others threw spades of dirt in a groundbreaking ceremony for the Interstate 90 Central Interchange Project in Downtown Cleveland.

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A Downtown Cleveland office tower that’s gaining occupancy

Not every office tower in Downtown Cleveland is in distress and hurting for tenants. The
45-story 200 Public Square skyscraper is seeing the fruits of its investments in making
a more attractive property (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Bad news has surrounded the nation’s office market ever since the global pandemic hit in 2020. It doesn’t matter if the property is in the suburbs, the mother city or downtown. Leasing is down, vacancies are up, many buildings are in fiscal distress and remote working has put landlords on the defensive.

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ISEB gives Case Quad a glossy new façade

CWRU’s under-construction Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building is now the
largest structure on Case Quad (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

As Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) approaches completion on its $300 million Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building (ISEB), the new research center is giving its central Case Quad a sleek, modern look.

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Justice Center to be renovated for $150M

The 25-story courthouse tower on Ontario Street in Downtown Cleveland will be renovated
for $150 million according to a new agreement reached today. At left is the Cleveland Divi-
sion of Police headquarters, owned by the county, which may be disposed of or retained de-
pending on a strategic master plan requested in a separate action today (Google).
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Cuyahoga County Executive Chris Ronayne, County Council, and Judge Michael Shaughnessy, the administrative and presiding Judge for the Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court, announced they have reached a tentative agreement on a path forward for capital improvements to county courthouse facilities downtown.

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Former MLK Branch Library in UC to be demo’d for future development

Demolition of the vacated Martin Luther King Jr. Branch Library is due to yield a podium
of  ground-floor retail and structured parking topped by a multi-story hotel, seen in the
city-approved masterplan behind Fenway Manor and the new MLK Library. The
new library is on the first two floors of Library Lofts (City Architecture).
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If the City Planning Commission’s Design Review Committee gives its blessing on Friday, the vacated, former Martin Luther King Jr. Branch of the Cleveland Public Library at 1962 Stokes Blvd. will be coming down. It appears to be a sign of the times in a rapidly growing University Circle.

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Park Apartments’ leasing stirs a phase 2

Schematic design for the planned second phase of The Park apartments on an undeveloped
parcel located between Lamoille and Brevier avenues in Tremont’s Lincoln Heights district
(Horton Harper). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Although The Park apartments, 1851 Brevier Ave. in the Lincoln Heights section of Cleveland’s Tremont neighborhood, hasn’t leased out yet, the response to it has progressed far enough that its developers have decided to pursue a second phase of the project.

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