Luxury car biz may park at Great Northern Mall

Closed since the summer of 2020, Ohio’s last full-service Sears store
was purchased recently by Rafih Auto Group for redevelopment as a
luxury car dealership, service center and Ohio headquarters (Google).
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A Canadian luxury auto dealer hopes to consolidate its local dealerships, service center, Ohio offices and hundreds of jobs at a new $60 million development at Great Northern Mall in North Olmsted. While there’s still a few steps to go through before the project is a reality, the dealer has already acquired the property in this western Cleveland suburb necessary to carry it out, according to public records and sources familiar with the project.

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Amazon back in the mix in Slavic Village

For now this west-side facility on Madison Avenue in the Cudell neigh-
borhood is the only Amazon delivery station located in the city of Cleve-
land. That could change in the next year or two as the e-commerce giant
is reportedly rekindling plans for a distribution center in Slavic Village
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Amazon is reportedly pivoting to a new site for a distribution center on the southeast side of the city yet would remain in Slavic Village, according to two sources familiar with the project. The e-commerce giant will apparently be the anchor for a new warehouse development reported exclusively by NEOtrans on a 40-acre site that could grow further if additional properties around the fringes are added to it.

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CWRU brings back South Campus project

View of the planned new dorms, phases one and two of Case Western
Reserve University’s South Residential Campus, as seen from the
intersection of Murray Hill and Adelbert roads (WRA).
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A plan for adding 600 dormitory beds to the housing-constrained Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) campus is back after getting quarantined for two years by the pandemic. Two new dormitory buildings would be built on CWRU’s parking Lot 5, located at the intersection of Murray Hill and Adelbert roads in the South Residential Campus.

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IMG Center hits the market

The IMG Building sits at the southwest corner of East 9th Street and
St. Clair Avenue in downtown Cleveland’s Historic Erieview District.
The property is now for sale to satisfy a foreclosure proceeding
(LoopNet). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM

An aging but mostly full office building in downtown Cleveland has hit the market at the request of its court-appointed receiver. The 57-year-old IMG Building, 1360 E. 9th St., may be approaching the end of its nearly three-year-long foreclosure case in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court.

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Next Ohio City high-rise in the works

Add five or six more stories onto this early rendering of phase two of
Harbor Bay Real Estate Advisors’ Market Square development, sources
said. That’s what the Chicagoland-based developer is reportedly consi-
dering for its next project in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood. The
nine-story phase one called INTRO is at left (HBREA).
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Successful leasing of apartments at the INTRO mixed-use project is reportedly encouraging its developer to pursue a 15- to 16-story high-rise as its next phase of the Market Square development, across the street from the West Side Market. INTRO and its high-rise follow-on phase are part of the Market Square development led by Harbor Bay Real Estate Advisors LLC, based in the Chicago suburb of Northbrook.

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ODOT Inner Belt plan gets city pushback

This map shows major roadway improvements for what’s
called the “Cleveland Contract Group 3” portion of the
Inner Belt highway’s reconstruction in downtown Cleve-
land. This includes the Central Interchange of Interstates
90 and 77 as well as the downtown approaches for I-77,
highway ramps and intersecting streets. The top of the
map is north as well as the downtown approaches for I-77,
highway ramps and intersecting streets. The top of the map
is north (MBI). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM

Yesterday, Cleveland’s City Planning Commission unanimously tabled a request by the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) for consent to construct improvements to the Central Interchange, where Interstate 77 ends and connects with Interstate 90 in downtown Cleveland. The reason given was to have a “deeper conversation” with City Council which ultimately must vote on the consent request about how the project can right the wrongs of the past including using highways to divide minority neighborhoods from downtown.

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Studio West 117 campus plan grows

The largest development being contemplated so far in the Studio West 117
campus is a two-tower, mixed-use property with a health care facility and
LGBTQ+ senior housing at the current site of the closed NTB car repair
shop at Detroit and Coutant avenues in Lakewood. Although this basic
massing shows 190 parking spaces, the developer plans to increase it
to 212 spaces (Larsen). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM

What started out with two significant real estate purchases on either side of West 117th Street in Cleveland and Lakewood by a development partnership has since expanded to seven properties. And what was originally a $75 million vision for renovating the old Phantasy Theater complex called Studio West 117 has grown even further, developing into a multi-faceted LGBTQ+ supportive neighborhood.

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