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9:30 Calendar No. 16-056: 11601 Mayfield Rd. Ward 6 Mamie J. Mitchell 6 Notices University Circle Development Foundation, owner, proposes to erect a 280,256 square foot mixed use retail and 269 dwelling unit residential building, a 126,400 square foot, 360, space parking garage building in a G4 Multi-Family Residential District. The owner appeals for relief from the following sections of the Cleveland Codified Ordinances: 1. Section 337.08 which states that retail use is not permitted in a Multi-Family Residential District. 2. Section 355.04(b) which states that in a ‘G’ Area District the maximum gross floor area of buildings cannot exceed three times the lot area. The permitted maximum gross floor area is 295,338 square feet; 406,656 square feet gross floor area of all buildings is proposed. 3. Section 357.01(a) which states that the front, rear, and side yards are required for all main buildings in residence districts. 4. Section 357.04(a) which states that a front yard equal to 15% of the depth of the lot, not to exceed 30 feet, is required where zero feet are proposed, with the building overhang extending 5 feet into the right of way. 5. Section 357.08(a) which states that a rear yard equal to half the height of the main building is required. The building heights range from 85 to 88 feet therefore a 44 foot rear yard is required and zero are proposed. 6. Section 357.09(b)(2)© which states that an interior side yard equal to one-fourth the height of the building(s) or in this case 22 feet are required and 10.14’ to 11.12’ are proposed. (Filed March 30, 2016) http://planning.city.cleveland.oh.us/bza/cpc.html

2 Towers 505 Units Total 4.62 Total Acres Concierge, Amenities, Restaurant, Retail Live-work Units http://hpaurban.com/portfolio-item/brickhaus-towers/

Cleveland to gain 350 jobs as suburban tenant sets move to downtown Downtown Cleveland’s gain is Lakewood’s loss as New York Life plans to move 350 workers to 200 Public Square from the Lakewood Center North building, 14600 Detroit Ave. Theresa Wolcott, a New York Life spokeswoman, on Friday morning, April 15, confirmed the destination of the firm’s Cleveland operations to the city center in an email to Crain’s Cleveland Business. The year-end departure from five floors of Lakewood Center North triggered its owner disclosing plans Monday, April 11, to convert 11 floors of the 15-story building to apartments from offices. Wolcott said in email, “In this case, our expanding business required higher quality business space. To meet this need and stay in Cleveland, which we are committed to doing, New York Life is moving to new office space in downtown Cleveland. The new space provides the updated work environment we needed for our employees, access to the amenities of downtown Cleveland and room to add jobs in the years ahead.” http://www.crainscleveland.com/article/20160415/NEWS/160419851/cleveland-to-gain-350-jobs-as-suburban-tenant-sets-move-to-downtown

Very sad news. Westlake High School student fractured teen's skull during fight, court records say WESTLAKE, Ohio -- A Westlake High School student is accused of fracturing another student's skull during a fight in a school bathroom, according to court records. DeAndrew Smith, 18, is charged with felonious assault in the Tuesday fight. The 17-year-old victim suffered a fractured skull and a brain bleed after Smith grabbed him by the torso and slammed his head on a concrete floor, according to Rocky River Municipal Court records. http://www.cleveland.com/westlake/index.ssf/2016/04/westlake_high_school_student_f.html#incart_river_home_pop

Skyscraper intrigue swirls downtown Before steel and stone can start reshaping downtown Cleveland’s skyline with new office buildings, the more fundamental building blocks are tenants who will occupy, and pay for, the space. Speculation about new skyscrapers is ramping up thanks to activities by two of downtown Cleveland’s largest corporate citizens: Sherwin-Williams Co., which is working on an acquisition that would make it the world’s biggest coatings company, and Medical Mutual of Ohio. Rico Pietro, a principal at Cushman & Wakefield Cresco brokerage in Independence, believes it makes for additional excitement in the downtown market. “When you add Sherwin-Williams’ potential need with the Medical Mutual requirement, you could have two significant buildings come out of the ground in the next few years,” Pietro said, in addition to the proposed NuCLEus mixed-use project. “Wherever they go, you’ll see additional development in that area.” http://www.crainscleveland.com/article/20160410/NEWS/160409783/skyscraper-intrigue-swirls-downtown

Cleveland apartment plan targets growing empty nester segment K&D Group plans to take a new tack with the apartments at the Halle Building, which the Willoughby-based real estate firm is seeking Ohio State Historic Preservation Tax Credits to help fund. If the $60 million redo of the former department store from office building to mixed-use complex wins the state credits, K&D will install what Doug Price, K&D CEO, describes as “large” suites on the sixth through 11th floors of the building at 1228 Euclid Ave. “This is a different type of rental housing,” Price said. “These are designed for empty nesters who want to sell their house and downsize. But they don’t want a 700-square-foot apartment. They want 1,200 square feet.” The plan calls for 125 units, which includes one-bedrooms with 900 to 1,500 square feet and two-bedrooms of 1,400 to 2,500 square feet. The units also will have large bedrooms and bathrooms, a fireplace and gourmet kitchens. http://www.crainscleveland.com/article/20160408/NEWS/160409800/cleveland-apartment-plan-targets-growing-empty-nester-segment

Millennial Influx Helps Cleveland Shake Rust Belt Reputation Cleveland once held a vital place in America's industrial landscape. John D. Rockefeller kicked off his oil empire there, and the city was an early center for car production and later diversified into other manufacturing sectors. But when American cities began de-industrializing and the American dream became a picket fence in the suburbs, Cleveland struggled with growing blight, and people started leaving in big numbers. "Cleveland is the poster child for white flight out to the suburbs," said Conor Coakley, a broker with CBRE in downtown Cleveland. The 5.4 percent fall off in residents in 2000 actually accelerated in the 2010 census, to 17.1 percent http://www.curbed.com/2016/4/6/11376826/cleveland-downtown-development-housing

AVON, Ohio -- U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown and his wife, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Connie Schultz, are planning to move this fall from their home in suburban Avon to the Mill Creek neighborhood of Cleveland. http://www.cleveland.com/tipoff/index.ssf/2013/07/us_senator_sherrod_browns_move.html

Rumor has it that New York Life will be moving their offices from Lakewood to 200 Public Sq in August. They currently have 300 employees at their Lakewood location. http://www.newyorklife.com/about/subsidiary-listings

Where are you getting these numbers from? ACE Report: Northeast Ohio posts another modest jobs gain http://www.crainscleveland.com/article/20160325/NEWS/160329823/ace-report-northeast-ohio-posts-another-modest-jobs-gain

They're just moving to another location downtown.

ACE Report: Northeast Ohio posts another modest jobs gain The Northeast Ohio workforce gained 682 paychecks in February. A small number, but in a jobs picture on a roller coaster, any gain is better than the alternative. The latest Ahola Crain’s Employment (ACE) Report projects that private-sector employment in the Cleveland-Akron metropolitan region’s private sector grew to 1,164,001 jobs in February from 1,163,319 in January on a seasonally adjusted basis, an increase of 0.06%. http://www.crainscleveland.com/article/20160325/NEWS/160329823/ace-report-northeast-ohio-posts-another-modest-jobs-gain

Greater Cleveland is doing awesome, I forgot. Carry on. Straw man alert! You win, I lose. Meanwhile Greater Cleveland bleeds jobs and people. No straw man there. How is the region bleeding jobs? Employment in Northeast Ohio took a slight dip in January, with a loss of 650 jobs from December to January. That represents a loss of 0.06% of the region’s jobs, according to the Ahola Crain’s Employment (ACE) Report, with the number employed dropping to 1.16 million. That January number, however, is a gain of 1,244 jobs, or 0.11%, from the number of people employed in the region in January 2015. http://www.kleinhenzassociates.com/uncategorized/ace-report-region-loses-650-jobs-in-january-but-year-over-year-employment-is-up-slightly/

Quote from: lafont on February 21, 2016, 02:48:14 PM Is the apartment project planned for 3000 Clinton Avenue caput? The ugly building still stands and a sign only advertises "industrial space." Nope. It's moving forward. Demo should begin in the spring.

So when does this happen? It's been 50 years! Other manufacturing cities have completely transformed in that time. Others are transitioning and growing. Is it wrong to look at more successful examples of growth? There are many. Which other manufacturing cities? Pittsburgh, Detroit, Buffalo and Cleveland are all in the same boat.

Was this for commercial work? I have never heard nor seen a commercial plan review and permit issued that fast. This is for residential.

No, they just had to approve our designer and engineer's site plans for the building permit. We are adding a privacy fence and relocating the driveway. I'm expecting those items to take a month or two to get approved from design review.

I just went thru the process on a complete rehab in Cleveland. It took us three hours to get the plans approved and permit in hand. I'm not sure how long it normally takes for new builds to get approved, but 200 days is ridiculous if true.

Paint company Valspar moving unit's offices Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Google + (Crain's) — Valspar Corp. plans to move the offices of its house paint division from Wheeling to a building near O'Hare International Airport, where it will expand by roughly two-thirds, to 40,000 square feet. The Minneapolis-based company has signed a long-term lease at 8725 W. Higgins Road in Chicago, where it will move its architectural products division, which makes paints, stains and varnishes for do-it-yourself customers and contractors. The division is scheduled to move in June from a plant at 1191 S. Wheeling Road in the northwest suburbs, where it occupies about 25,000 square feet of office space, said Howard Heckes, a senior vice-president and head of the division. http://www.chicagobusiness.com/realestate/20100201/CRED03/200036928/paint-company-valspar-moving-units-offices

Docket A-49-16 925 Euclid Avenue WARD: 3 (Joe Cimperman) HH Cleveland Huntington, LP C/O Newmark Management, Owner of the Property appeals from an ADJUDICATION ORDER—(special event venue occupant load of 2,120), dated March 07, 2016; appellant appeals for temporary occupancy of the first floor of the 925 Building, stating that the area being proposed for the expanded temporary occupancy is a three-story atrium with a ceiling height of 60’ +/-, which was recently partially upgraded with smoke detection devices in ancillary areas immediately adjacent to the assembly area. The area has neither an automatic sprinkler system nor automatic smoke control system, both of which will be installed at a later date as a part of a multi-million dollar renovation of the entire building. The Appellant is ready and willing to provide any reasonable temporary measures, including a fire watch per the direction of the Fire Marshall, to facilitate the safe operation of the venue when it would exceed the previously approved maximum of 805 persons. http://planning.city.cleveland.oh.us/bza/bbs.html

Denise Zarrella ‏@DZarrella19 26m26 minutes ago This Ohio City home listed at 474,900 sold in less than a week – problem right now is not enough inventory

Townhouses to rise along West Shoreway A more than $10 million townhouse development is taking shape for the Detroit-Shoreway neighborhood of Cleveland near the Shoreway and Lake Erie. This time it’s Breakwater Bluffs, a 24-unit project proposed by an affiliate of Knez Homes, a suburban builder with an increasing appetite for developing new homes in urban Cleveland. The proposed project is at West 58th Street and Breakwater Boulevard, near the well-known Westinghouse curve. Bo Knez, the owner of Knez Homes, said he undertook the project because of the site’s amenities, from being able to walk to the lakefront or local restaurants as well as downtown and marina views. http://www.crainscleveland.com/article/20160313/NEWS/160319941/townhouses-to-rise-along-west-shoreway

Cuyahoga County judges feel left out of talks about relocating Justice Center CLEVELAND, Ohio — Five Cuyahoga County judges want a say in the future of the downtown Justice Center as the county decides whether to reallocate from the 40-year-old building at Ontario Street and Lakeside Avenue. The judges issued an open letter Friday admonishing Cuyahoga County Executive Armond Budish's decision to hire an outside agency to examine the construction of a new justice center without consulting the building's judicial tenants. "It would be advisable, when deciding whether it is feasible to replace the Justice Center, to sit down with the stakeholders to discuss what their primary needs would be for a new complex," the letter says. http://www.cleveland.com/court-justice/index.ssf/2016/03/cuyahoga_county_judges_feel_le.html#incart_m-rpt-1

Plans for grocery store, townhouses ready to move forward according to Cleveland Council member A new grocery store is planned for the intersection of West 117th Street and Clifton Boulevard on the Lakewood border. A city block of old buildings were demolished by crews for the project, which also called for new townhouses. But two years later, a fence sits around a vacant lot. Debate over the future of a city-owned 90-year-old church building held up the project, until developers agreed to save parts of the landmark and use them in the facade of the new buildings. Now, Cleveland City Council member Matt Zone said the project will get back on track soon. http://www.newsnet5.com/news/local-news/cleveland-metro/plans-for-grocery-store-townhouses-ready-to-move-forward-according-to-cleveland-council-member

BREAKWATER BLUFFS TOWNHOMES Project Information Near West Case # NW 2016-006 Address: W. 58th Street & Breakwater Avenue Company: Triban Investment, LLC Architect: Knez Homes, Inc. Description: Proposed construction of a 24-unit, for sale townhome development situated at the NW corner of the W. 58th Street-Breakwater Avenue intersection in the Detroit-Shoreway neighborhood. The project site is directly adjacent to the 400-unit apartment project known as The Edison. http://planning.city.cleveland.oh.us/designreview/brd/detailDR.php?ID=2083&CASE=NW%202016-006