Tower City Center lacks coherent future without more development, rail access

What was can be again, albeit modernized with trains now being manu-
factured for the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority, left, and
Amtrak, right. Tower City Center was built as Cleveland Union Termi-
nal — the city’s local, regional and long-distance passenger rail hub.
If Bedrock wants foot traffic and a vibrant Tower City Center,
restoring that rail hub will do that for them (Methodicle).
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Like many who work in one of the dozen buildings of Downtown Cleveland’s Tower City Center complex, Nora Romanoff parks her car where more than 100 railroad passenger trains a day once pulled into or out of a labyrinth built as Cleveland Union Terminal. Just as rail travelers did from 1930-1977, she rides an escalator up into a grand railroad concourse that was significantly remodeled in 1988-90 to become today’s retail-heavy The Avenue at Tower City.

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Next apartment project at Detroit & Lake planned

At the angular intersection of Lake (foreground) and Detroit avenues,
where the person is walking, is where an eight-unit apartment
building with ground-floor retail is proposed to rise. It is planned
to help restore Detroit’s street presence in this neighborhood (Google).
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The next new apartment building at the intersection of Detroit and Lake avenues in Cleveland’s Detroit-Shoreway neighborhood is already in the works. But it’s planned to be quite a bit smaller than its to-be neighbor across West 75th Street.

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Cleveland Mayor calls Brook Park stadium ‘betrayal’

After yesterday’s comments by the owners of the Cleveland Browns,
 Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb responded (City of Cleveland).
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Yesterday it was the owners of the Cleveland Browns, the Haslam Sports Group (HSG), accusing Cleveland city officials of “misguiding” its residents. Today it was Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb firing a return volley in kind.

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Cleveland, LISC unveil housing investment fund

This is one of several clusters of new homes built in Cleveland's Hough
neighborhood near League Park to address a shortage of quality
housing (Famicos Foundation). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb, Cleveland City Council and the Cleveland office of Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC Cleveland) announced details today of a major new initiative to address the affordable housing crisis facing Cleveland residents.

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Haslams say Cleveland officials misguided residents

The Haslam Sports Group’s proposed Huntington Bank Field in
suburban Brook Park promises to attract lots of year-round events
they say cannot be easily attracted by other facilities in the eastern
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Haslam Sports Group (HSG), owner of the Cleveland Browns, submitted an amended complaint in an existing federal lawsuit against the city of Cleveland which is seeking to keep the Browns from moving to suburban Brook Park. In announcing its filing today, HSG said the city is “misguiding” its residents.

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Where Cleveland’s job-ready sites are assembling

 

The intersection of Grand Avenue and East 70th Street has been a dead-
end economically for decades. But that’s about to change for this
urban prairie. Recently called the Forgotten Triangle, this site is along
the Opportunity Corridor Boulevard seen in the background at
left. East 70th will be vacated and the land-bank lots around here will
be assembled and marketed to job creators (Google).
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Digging through public records can reveal a lot of interesting things sometimes. One of those is where Cleveland’s new Site Readiness for Good Jobs Fund, Cuyahoga Land Bank and the city’s Department of Economic Development (ED) are focusing their efforts to assemble land for new employers.

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State lawmakers want Browns in Brook Park

  

A revised conceptual rendering of the proposed and enclosed Brook Park stadium
plus supportive development to the southeast of the stadium. This view looks
westerly from above Interstate 71 toward Cleveland Hopkins International
Airport beyond (HKS). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Barring a surprise, the last of the big hurdles appears ready to be surpassed for the Cleveland Browns football team's move from downtown to Brook Park. Yes, there's a million other things that can happen or not happen in the next year before financing might close and construction contractors are given the green light. But most of those hinge on events occurring now at committee hearings in our state's capital.

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