mrclifton88

If you aren't following them on Twitter, do so! They post regular updates of what they have uncovered. It is fascinating. So nice to see a building brought BACK to the way it was!

...is this a hint ?

Exciting tidbit from Twitter!

I feel like the decision was to demo the buildings and use the land as parking for now until the rest of the parcels and design work can be assembled for Irishtown Bend, which is still a ways off. But maybe I imagined that.

This is a random observation but I was driving downtown today and Ontario St. between Public Square and Prospect has to be one of the most unsightly streets downtown... Not one tree, the empty building Bedrock owns is dirty, the May Co. garage is still mostly just awful, plus the west side along the Higbee is nothing but one bus stop after another (Why are there so many concentrated here?) most of which are littered with trash. The Casino itself is a lifeless wall and half the curtains were messily arranged... I hope if it is sold the upkeep will be better. Just my personal rant ? Most of these things could be easily fixed. I just wish that strip could be cleaned up... Anyone else ever notice this?

I sure hope so.... Kluber really just isn’t the same Ace he once was. Hopefully the Tribe can get deeper than last year....

Up thread we thought it was 6 tons. 600 tons is significantly larger. Haha!

Rumor: Shake Shack signed a lease at the corner of E. 6th and Euclid. Assuming nothing is happening to Potbelly’s I am assuming that this is the corner spot in the Garfield Building. No other details.

Its incredible how long its taking the city to proceed or find someone to pay for these bollards... I guess Key nor Huntington Bank are willing to hand out any more money.

Ugh. I truly despise that garage... a huge brick box. This is interesting though, I thought it was built along with the tower. Too bad Phoenix coffee is the ONLY retail tenant in the whole place.

Music-pop culture store FYE to exit Tower City's Avenue "The next big store to close at Avenue Shops at Tower City has been one of its tenants since the former train station reopened as an urban mall in 1990, the FYE music and pop culture products store." http://www.crainscleveland.com/real-estate/music-pop-culture-store-fye-exit-tower-citys-avenue

Absolutely agree^^ There are so many things they could do just on a basic level to make the Casino better... the outside is kind of a mess especially Ontario. Add some trees? Clean up the sidewalk? I think this sale COULD end up being a great thing, if an owner with an attention to detail comes in.

Yes, the Tilted Kilt garage. I believe it is currently under renovation. I believe it is partially covered with scaffolding and there is active work happening simultaneously with the May Co. Building itself. Actually you can see work being done in the photos above.

Side note- does anyone know what exactly they are doing to the parking garage? Renovation wise what is the ultimate product supposed to look like?

I believe they are keeping it on part of the floors. Either the upper or lower floors will retain the frostedM- I can’t remember which now. The balance will be replaced with new windows.

KJP, how far along were they with a new tower? Was there an actual design?

Still seems odd to me. They didn’t even bother to do the corners! If you look at the northwest and southwest corners compared to the other side you’ll see what i mean. I wish they would have left it the way it was. What a mess.

Beautiful set! Great to see people using the WFL

Sorry for starting this in the Lakefront thread... thanks for redirecting here. Right now they’re redoing the plaza- another mess to this project. The concrete was cracking and chunks were falling away so now they are in the process of completely redoing it. I don’t know how that effects the reskinning though, I would think they could do both simultaneously.

Glad to hear this... if they can hold onto the retail and office tenants they’ve already signed but lose the hotel or some height I am absolutely ok with that.

Disappointing. I was just wondering about this the other day. I don’t think IKEA intends to open a NEO store in ANY location personally... maybe I’m wrong.

I have to say... I am getting jealous of the big things Detroit is doing right now...

Great set of photos! The area is maturing, slowly, but improving and coming along nicely. I am interested to see what retail goes into the new Verandas building and what gets put between the Science Center and the RRHOF. From this view of downtown all I see glaring at me is the unfinished Federal Building sticking out like a sore thumb ???

The website has returned, and while the header is from another property, images of Nucleus are there, unchanged... as is the leasing flyer.

Paninis is returning and replacing Winners