Cleveland schools to be demolished

Willson Middle School on East 55th Street is among the Cleveland school buildings to be demo-
lished. It was among multiple properties the school district and city had hoped to preserve and
renovate for new uses (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

While Cleveland has been lauded for attracting investors to redevelop closed school buildings, things don’t always go as community officials hope. So unfortunately eight mostly historic school buildings are to be demolished, with three facing imminent demolition.

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Owner of 925 Euclid wins more time

A wide-angle lens makes 925 Euclid appear less dominating than the 1.45-million-square-foot
structure looks in person. The financing needed to return this building to productive use is
also just as imposing (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

With hours to go before a July 30 deadline to settle its debts or lose its property in the wind-up to a potential Nov. 3 auction, the owner of 925 Euclid Ave. won a third option — an extended deadline.

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New asphalt plant planned in Cleveland

Encircled in red, the proposed site for a new asphalt plant is at the south end of Cleveland’s Slavic
Village, next to Interstate 77, Newburgh Heights and Cuyahoga Heights. Downtown Cleveland
is seen in the distance to the north (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Akron-based Kenmore Construction Co. has two big jobs in front of it. One is the multiyear reconstruction of Downtown Cleveland’s Central Interchange on Interstate 90 for $329 million. The other is to build a new asphalt plant for up to $20 million so it can pave the interchange’s new lanes and ramps.

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A $120M opportunity to remake Cleveland

Disappearing under Mother Nature’s blanket is Cleveland’s industrial past, seen here at the for-
mer Cleveland Cooperative Stove Co. on East 67th Street south of Central Avenue. But it's not
turning over to developable land fast enough to benefit residents in a timely manner. That's
where Ohio Brownfield remediation funding comes into play to clear and clean properties so
they can be returned to productive use (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Returning vacant, polluted industrial sites to productive use in Cleveland and other established communities is typically not cost-effective for private investors to tackle. Yet leaving them rotting and fallow is not an option either.

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Cleveland Clinic drone delivery takes off

Cleveland Clinic is the nation’s first health care system to make deliveries of prescription medi-
cations via drone (Courtesy of Cleveland Clinic). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Cleveland Clinic is now delivering certain medications to patients’ homes via drones, marking the start of the first long-term deployment of a prescription drug drone delivery program by a U.S. health system.

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Gordon Square building spree accelerates

At the northeast corner of Detroit Avenue and West 58th Street, a mixed-use building occupied
by the Flight Cleveland wine bar is getting an exterior makeover (Harrison Whittaker).
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As new developments get underway, close to 300 residential units are now under construction around the Gordon Square Arts District — centered on the intersection of Detroit Avenue and West 65th Street in Cleveland’s Detroit-Shoreway neighborhood.

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West Blvd-Cudell TOD advances

Flaherty & Collins’ Depot on Detroit rises on a formerly vacant lot on the north side
of Detroit Avenue in Cleveland's Cudell neighborhood (Harrison Whittaker).
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On Cleveland’s West Side, three Transit-Oriented Developments (TOD) are moving ahead within a 10-minute walk of a single Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (GCRTA) rapid transit station.

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