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| Workers and their heavy equipment began taking down the former Cuyahoga County Engineers’ buildings at the west end of the Detroit-Superior Bridge in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Demolition crews started working this week to raze the former Cuyahoga County Engineers’ garage and lab complex at the northeast corner of the Detroit-Superior Bridge and West 25th Street for the long-planned, multi-family Bridgeworks development.
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| Case Western Reserve University of Cleveland led the Northeast Ohio Strengthening Manufacturing for American Resilience through Technology. One place where this new effort could be supported is the university’s new $300 million Interdisciplinary Science & Engineer- ing Building which is nearing completion (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Hundreds of regions competed for a large, prestigious grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) to boost advanced manufacturing. But it was a 70-member coalition from Northeast Ohio that came out on top today.
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| An historic mansion at 3117 Franklin Blvd. is being converted into apartments as part of the Franklin Yards development (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
A neglected building can drag down an entire block, but restoring an obsolete structure can do the exact opposite, creating renewed activity that cascades to nearby businesses. In Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood, a wave of renovation projects could serve as a model for preserving the city’s dwindling stock of historic buildings.
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| The L-shaped Westwood Town Center on Center Ridge Road in suburban Rocky River has a new owner (JLL). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
A popular, well-leased, strip-shopping center in Cleveland’s western suburbs was just sold by a local firm to a larger, national company based in New York City.
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| Too much of Cleveland’s East Side looks like this — rural. From nearly 100,000 residents in the 1960s to fewer than 20,000 today turned this crowded area into an urban prairie. This is East 65th Street at Luther Avenue, where the Hough neighborhood meets St Clair- Superior (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Taken together, Cleveland’s Hough and St. Clair-Superior neighborhoods aren’t that big of area. But its large amount of vacant land weighs heavily on the City of Cleveland.
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| After 2029, when Huntington Bank Field closes and stops hosting major events that require hosting a huge surge of cars, the stadium will be razed and new lakefront uses will replace it. Those proposed uses could make their first appearance in plans to be released in October (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Representatives from the North Coast Waterfront Development Corporation (NCWDC) gave Cleveland city planners an update on the lakefront master plan on Friday. As the process nears completion, the first tangibles of a new public realm are taking shape.
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| The grand, former Cleveland Trust rotunda at Euclid Avenue and East 9th Street has housed a Heinen’s grocery store for 11 years. But from the outside it’s difficult to tell what’s inside, if it’s open or how to get in. Once inside, the floor layouts are difficult for a grocery store to use and its merchandise unsuitable for an urban clientele, observers say (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
With the Downtown Cleveland Heinen’s grocery store, 900 Euclid Ave., set to close at the end of this month after 11 years in business, city, county and civic leaders are undertaking a two-pronged response to fill the void in the short- and long-term.
