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^ Agreed. And 7 million is a pretty good amount for renovation.

For reference here was the announced tenant list from a couple years ago: Shake Shack (opening in Garfield building) Cleveland Live! Starbucks Reserve Bar HopCat https://www.clevescene.com/scene-and-heard/archives/2017/02/08/tenants-announced-for-stark-development-nucleus-spoiler-alert-shake-shack We should hear more tenant announcements soon if they plan to break ground in August. Unless the above, plus a half-full office building is enough to secure financing.

^ Interesting article. I desperately hope the Warner and Swasey building is renovated. Here is a snippet from the article. Of course it's deteriorated over the years. The city left the windows open to the elements on purpose. Why?

The gas station at E. 55th and Euclid is going to design review next week for demolition. Current owners are Berush Development partners so I don't expect this to be a grass field for too long. Whenever I poke around the E.55th area on Streetview I'm reminded of the Cobb & Bradley building that was demolished 10 years ago. Hopefully Berush can jumpstart some development near this intersection because I'm sick of looking at the empty lots where large buildings once stood. http://planning.city.cleveland.oh.us/designreview/drcagenda/2019/PDF/EC-Agenda-3-14-19.pdf http://planning.city.cleveland.oh.us/designreview/brd/detailDR.php?ID=3127&CASE=EC 2019-017 Project Information Euclid Corridor Case # EC 2019-017 Address: 5300-05400 Euclid Ave. / 2008 E 55th Street Company: Berush Development Partners, LLC Architect: Tarrify Properties, LLC

Looks like they've been playing SIM city. That it is pretty much all of our dream development.

Wow you're right. I put in the wrong address when I was looking through the demo list and didn't see this. What a shame...

That's good news for now. This one kind of hurts. I love these small brick apartment buildings.

Here are the two houses that the Facebook post says would be demolished and an aerial of the site. It always amazes me how much of Little Italy is just dilapidated rentals. In the aerial nearly every house has a gravel or paved backyard for rental parking. The two houses, especially the one on the right, would look great renovated. But realistically that will never happen.

Looks good from what little is shown.

Demolition for the old bowling alley for a GetGo was tabled at design review. This really needs to be more than just a gas station and convenience store. http://planning.city.cleveland.oh.us/designreview/brd/detailDR.php?ID=3109&CASE=EC 2019-012

Is there a way to disable the embedded twitter posts, like make them a link instead?

The city never got out the demo first mentality.

I guess the current owner was looking to demolish the building. Oops I mean, what an unfortunate accident.

That lot is owned by the Frangos Group. The son took over the company last year. At the time, they said they were looking to do more real estate development, but I wouldn't hold my breath.

The article says the office building will be around 350 feet, about the same height as the Beacon.

Nice angle. It will look even better if nuCLEus gets built.

What a coincidence these renderings came out the weekend before SB 39 goes to the Senate Finance Committee. ? The massing that "leaked" in January had 8 floors of parking and 14 floors each of residential and office. The final renderings are 6 floors of parking and 16 floors of office and residential (not counting retail and amenity levels). That's a better programming mix, IMO. And to put things in perspective, nuCLEus will be roughly the size of Flats East Bank phases 1 and 2 combined.

I'd like this design more if this is what we're shown 5 years ago. The street presence is not nearly as good as the original design. The overall scale is still great. The office building is going to be very large.

The fee on electrics and hybrids is odd. It's higher than the average gas tax amount for regulars combustion cars.

^ Beautiful building. The facade is so intricate. edit: here is a direct link to the high res image http://planning.city.cleveland.oh.us/landmark/arch/buildImages/archID_6build_190.jpg

Pretty sure that's the first of these proposed along Carter. Google maps still doesn't have the new parcel addresses, so it's no surprise it's showing the location wrong. http://www.hortonharper.com/work/carter-road/

Allard posted a lengthy piece about the PD's editorial last week. The lengths people go to apologize for Budish and his administration are odd. https://www.clevescene.com/scene-and-heard/archives/2019/03/04/the-watch-dog-sleeps-clevelandcom-defies-logic-to-defend-armond-budish

I could see the value in a streetscape project through that stretch of Prospect, but pedestrian only makes little sense. The loading docks for the Higbee building are on Prospect. Plus there are a bunch of bus stops that would have to be relocated.

There is no reason a government entity shouldn't have the same ability to control costs as private industry.** Anything else just breeds laziness and inefficiency. But if, as you said, federal funding requires prevailing wage, its a moot discussion. **edit: After thinking about this some more, I'm okay with things like "buy American" clauses in government contracts when there are reasonable alternative for goods or services. So it's not fair to say a government and private entity should be entirely the same. Local labor is one thing I feel they should have more flexibility with.

I don't see a problem with looking at ways to cut costs, in addition to the gas-tax increase.