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Geis planning another mid sized apartment building - this one on W.20th and Moltke Ct next to the property Knez bought from the APL earlier this year. Not expecting much on the architecture side, mostly because it's Geis, but also because this won't be as visible as their future project on Abbey. And even getting something okay there was like pulling teeth. The project address is the parcel at the corner. I'm just guessing it will include the city land bank owned property right behind it. https://planning.clevelandohio.gov/designreview/brd/detailDR.php?ID=4081&CASE=NW 2022-013 Near West Case # NW 2022-013 Address:2485 West 20th Street Company: Geis Companies Architect: Geis Companies Description: New construction apartment building off of West 25th Street Notes: 18 - 2 bedroom units 30 - 1 bedroom units 37 - studio units 85 total units, 85 parking spaces

Agreed.

I'm sure we can dumb down complex ideas like sexuality and gender to something positive that children can understand without getting into nitty gritty they don't have the foundation upon to discuss anyway. Like the book mentioned above that talks about having two moms or two dads. Otherwise it's like saying we can't teach math to K-3rd grade either because they're too young for calculus. Put into terms that Chazz seems to understand. I'm sure most would agree it's okay to teach children not to judge others for who they are or who they love. But these stupid, overly broad, laws prohibit that kind of discussion.

I love the Huron road concept and hope they focus on that. Leave the nuCLEus site for another developer.

I roll my eyes when developers poor-mouth because it implies they've penciled a project at the bare minimum required to make it worth their while, and any reduction in scale or product mix would make it unviable.

The ever-present poor mouthing from a developer.

It's built up to the sidewalk with ground floor retail. Not sure what exit ramps you're thinking of but I wish they were all mixed use like that!

Seems like it's back on: https://planning.clevelandohio.gov/landmark/agenda/2022/PDF/CLC-03-24-2022-AGENDA.pdf Case 22-031: Little Italy Historic District CWRU South Residential Campus Murray Hill Road New Construction of Student Residences Phase 1 & 2 Ward 6: Griffin Project Representatives: Christopher Panichi, Joanne Brown, CWRU; Sindu Meier, William Rawn Associates

Not sure if Waverly & Oak Phase 2 was discussed before. This is the address mentioned. Demolition and new commercial construction. https://planning.clevelandohio.gov/landmark/agenda/2022/PDF/CLC-03-24-2022-AGENDA.pdf 3. Case 22-026: Gordon Square Historic District (Concept Plan 2/24/22) Waverly & Oak Phase 2 5416 Detroit Avenue New Construction Concept of a Pocket Park/Plaza and Petite Commercial Development Ward 15: Spencer Project Representatives: Justin Strizzi, Developer, Bond Street Group; Gary Ogrocki, Dimit Architects 4. Case 22-027: Gordon Square Historic District (Concept Plan 2/24/22) Waverly & Oak Phase 2 5416 Detroit Avenue Demolition of a Commercial Building Ward 15: Spencer Project Representatives: Justin Strizzi, Developer, Bond Street Group; Gary Ogrocki, Dimit Architects

Good riddance to standard time if it actually passes.

That design looks great. The scale at 4 floors feels better at that corner. The Southside addition is a bit anticlimactic. Basically just replaces the form that was there.

Their final presentation had a brand listed for the glass panels. Though it wouldn't surprise me if they are still experimenting with things like opacity or reflectivity, hence the southern exposure.

Paragraphs in news articles are usually one or two sentences so that rule of thumb is kind of weird. Either way, I removed a bit.

We have a winner: https://www.crainscleveland.com/real-estate/centennial-downtown-cleveland-wins-40-million-tax-credits-transformational-projects

^ Frankfort Ave always looks like that, winter or not. I assume they'll rip it up and repave it since that will be the driveway between the tower and garage.

Nice fuzzy math there.

Nice sleuthing.

I don't know if this is news or nothing at all. The latest Silverhills project entry last week is "initial plan submissions", which you usually see once at the start of a project. I wonder if this went back to the drawing board or just a clerical error. Or maybe they are re-working the project to better tie in with Great Lakes, as KJP wrote about above. https://planning.clevelandohio.gov/designreview/brd/detailDR.php?ID=3902&CASE=DF 2021-027 Date: January 27, 2022 Committee: Staff Action Type: Initial Plan Submission Conditions/Notes:

Southwest corner of West 11th and Fairfield. The lot had plans for an apartment building a few years ago. The parcels changed hands in 2020. I didn't care for the design back then but the site plan was good. Ground floor units that opened to the sidewalk, below grade parking. The scale would have fit in nicely with the neighborhood. https://www.cleveland.com/realestate-news/2017/04/property_owner_plans_75-unit_a.html

Yes, same developer bought the lot across from Southside.

We just got a break this weekend. The nor'easter that hit the new england area missed us completely.

I like the design, apart from the pointless Juliet balconies, which like marty said look like prison bars. It'd look better if they were real balconies.

Also anecdotally, when I lived downtown I liked running in this stretch because it was comparatively a ghost town. The mostly institutional uses meant far less traffic than the rest of downtown. It could easily handle the extra traffic from those passing through. They are also welcome to take I-90 instead. 1. The second innerbelt bridge has opened since the filming of Winter Soldier adding 4 lanes of traffic to bypass downtown. And there are plans to rebuild the remainder of the innerbelt and Dead Man's curve to improve flow. 2. The Main Ave bridge was closed for filming. It would stay open with the current land bridge proposals.

The only additional street traffic will be from cars that currently bypass downtown on the Shoreway. That's a fraction of the total trips as most end up downtown anyway. Lakeside in this stretch is underused and could easily handle the extra traffic. There is already more traffic in other parts of downtown and it works perfectly fine. I do agree though combining Erieside and Shoreway into a single pedestrian friendly boulevard is the better option to provide better connectivity for development around the stadium and for the few bypassing downtown. But that means removing the flyover in the Warehouse District and associated on/off ramps, adding better sidewalks, etc.

I get it's not as flashy, but I consider removing the Shoreway from the W.6 flyover to around E.12th as more important than the land bridge. If the city can leverage the land bridge to bring in funding to redo the Shoreway and Erieside/Marginal Ave, then all the better. Not that I don't love the land bridge concept (I do).