Bedrock to make Tower City renovations

Bedrock Real Estate is about to make renovations to The Avenue
at Tower City Center to attract new tenants to the long-struggling
downtown shopping mall. The renovations will be to tenant
spaces like this one, concourses and common areas (Bedrock).
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Bedrock Real Estate is making small improvements to Tower City Center in effort to attract more retail and other commercial tenants, but a much larger, promised makeover to the downtown Cleveland railroad station-turned-shopping mall has yet to be announced.

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Sherwin-Williams HQ to refine appearance

A drone’s view of the Sherwin-Williams headquarters construction site at
the end of March in downtown Cleveland. Crews were drilling 26 reinforced
concrete caissons to bedrock 200 feet below to support the weight of the
massive skyscraper. Several of the caisson cans are visible on site as are
blue tanks for removing groundwater. West Superior Avenue is at the bottom
of the image, West 3rd Street at the right, West 6th at the left, and vacated
Frankfort Avenue across the top (Adam Greene).
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At the end of last week’s Cleveland Landmarks Commission meeting, the commission’s Secretary Donald Petit advised members to keep their schedules clear on June 3 for a special meeting with Sherwin-Williams (SHW) regarding its 616-foot-tall headquarters project in downtown Cleveland. That caught the attention of at least a few attendees.

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Treo, Edison for sale for different reasons

At the end of this past winter, the Treo apartments on West 25th Street in
Tremont was still a half-year away from completing construction. Despite
work still progressing, the property went on the market to maximize the terms
of its financing (V1drone). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM

Two near-West Side Cleveland multi-family properties hit the market this week but for two very different reasons. In the Lincoln Park section of Tremont, the still-under construction Treo was offered for sale today. Tomorrow, it will be The Edison’s turn to test the waters. The Edison at Gordon Square was built five years ago near Edgewater Park in the Detroit-Shoreway neighborhood.

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Miceli sees need to store more cheese, please

Across Buckeye Road from St. Elizabeth of Hungary Catholic Church are
two buildings owned by the city of Cleveland that Miceli Dairy Products
Co. would like to acquire and renovate for expansion. Miceli’s offices and
production facility are located behind the century-old church at 2721
E. 90th St. (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM

When Miceli Dairy Products Co. turns 100 years old next year, it hopes to open its latest cheese-making expansion in Cleveland’s Lower Buckeye neighborhood, near where Buckeye Road intersects with the new Opportunity Corridor Boulevard.

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Sokolowski’s to be razed for apartments over retail

 This view is looking southeast from the Inner Belt highway bridge across the
Cuyahoga Valley with a terrace built  above University Road and Sokolowski
 Way, formerly West 13th Street, to see downtown Cleveland over the highway.
The stairways drop from the terrace to the Towpath Trail that links the lakefront
to the Cuyahoga Valley National Park, Akron and beyond (GLSD).
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Two local businessmen are seeking to redevelop the former Sokolowski’s University Inn restaurant property, 1201 University Rd., into a six-story luxury apartment and retail building, if the project is approved by the city of Cleveland as designed. The first step in the city’s design-review process began yesterday as a Tremont neighborhood block club saw and gave input to the project’s plans for the first time.

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Ohio City RTA station site ideas arrive

An eastbound Red Line train arrives the West 25th-Ohio City station from
the airport. The land to the left, right and above the Red Line tracks and
parallel greenway trail is the subject of a joint station-area development
agreement between the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority and
 MRN Ltd. To the right is the soon-to-open Intro development. This
view is looking generally south from Abbey Avenue (KJP).
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Representatives of a real estate development partnership have been making the rounds of near-west-side neighborhood block clubs to present conceptual ideas and get feedback for developing land next to the West 25th-Ohio City Red Line Station. But those same representatives caution they are still early in the design process so there is no formal plan yet.

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Guardians buy land, but no ballpark village yet

This tree-covered, otherwise unused half-acre piece of land on East 9th
Street was sold recently by the Gateway Economic Development Corp.
to an affiliate of the Cleveland Guardians for future development. At
left is Eagle Avenue which runs between Progressive Field’s scoreboard,
at far left, and the Gateway East Garage which could also sell to the
Guardians by the end of 2023. In the center is the AT&T Building
 (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM

An affiliate of the Cleveland Guardians baseball team has exercised one of two property acquisition options that were offered when the team extended its lease on Jan. 1 to play at Progressive Field for at least another 15 years. The property acquired is a half-acre parcel next to the ballpark and located at the southwest corner of East 9th Street and Bolivar Road.

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