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Justice Center would have been my first guess. The others probably aren't big enough to anchor a new office building. As for private businesses, who are the major players? We think S-W is looking. Who else?

Agreed some additional detailing would be nice, like brick sills or lintels. The tan is actually brick, so it's thankfully not just a sea of gray cement board. The interaction with the sidewalk is fine. There is plenty of glass from the corner to the first floor entrance. Even the fitness center that's partially below grade has windows. We all love the Gospel Press building, but if we're talking sidewalk presence all you see is an 8 foot brick wall to the Spotted Owl entrance.

Thanks. Good to know.

How have the buses handled the narrow right of way with the Jersey barriers? 24 feet seems very narrow and making it permanent with new curbs sounds like an awful idea. The bollards seem fine. I like that people can follow the current walkway instead of getting funneled to the center, like the Jersey barriers do now.

The Kamm's masterplan looks pretty solid. I'd love to see something like that too. A grocery and food distributor would be a spectacular wasted opportunity. But what leverage does the city have when they can't get TOD on their own landbank properties? See the animal kennel further up the Red Line.

Optima ventures continues it's exit from Cleveland. The AECOM building sold for $39 million to a NJ company. http://www.crainscleveland.com/article/20180610/news/164531/nj-firm-set-acquire-aecom-centre-38m

They'll probably be posted next week for Friday's design review. Could be actual renderings or just rough massing for schematic approval.

Oops thanks for the correction. I got my CDC's confused. :)

Cleveland area might add another with Covia Holdings, after the merger of Fairmount Santrol and Unimin. Their combined revenue should be around $2 billion, which might squeak them onto the bottom of the list. I'd love to see the list with number of local employees. Some of them, like RPM, are holding companies with little local employment. Covia is setting up shop with under 100 employees. The rest are in facilities across the country.

I'm in favor of any collaboration that potentially weakens the Cudell CDC and Brady. edit: As mentioned below, Brady's pet CDC is Westown, not Cudell. I retract the above.

So why didn't the city just buy the building outright instead of bringing in Geis as the middleman? I thought the bond issue approved by council earmarked a large sum for the move.

I don't doubt they would love to have the Rapid lines and something like Tower City connecting it all, but that article was just marketing fluff. "SPONSORED CONTENT BY DOWNTOWN CLEVELAND ALLIANCE"

Nope. Not when the sun is directly over the horizon.

They have hundreds of employees in other subsidiaries across Akron. Though, I don't know if they make sense to consolidate. https://www.firstenergycorp.com/content/fecorp/newsroom/news_articles/firstenergy-extends-lease-at-downtown-akron-headquarters.html

It's hard to tell in the low-res renderings, but they will cut a courtyard through the middle of the building to provide windows for interior apartments.

First Energy? Their downtown headquarters lease goes through 2025. Not sure about their other facilities.

That looks great. I can think about a dozen places I'd like to see this CTRL+C then CTRL+V'ed.

I hope the renovations are significant. I always wished someone would demolish everything but the building itself and wrap it with a 4-6 story mixed use podium. Starting with the awkward plaza setback from PS, then surrounded by John Q's with no windows down W. 3rd and the worst parking garage in all of downtown. Are those reflective windows original or a coating added later on? K&D might be stuck with them.

That's huge news. It would be nice to see real progress on updating the zoning code in our lifetimes.

Here's the rendering for the project. 11 stories, 2 units per floor.

I believe the technical term for that is a shit-ton of construction.

I guess the apartment building on that small lot next the Rapid station hasn't started yet?

K&D plans minor updates to Post Office Plaza (1500 W 3rd) as part of some tenant shuffling/expansion. * S&P Data is moving floors into larger space 46,000 sqft * BrightEdge is moving from Terminal Tower into 14,000 sqft (about double their former space) * New, larger entrance on West 3rd and updated exterior lighting Read more at: http://www.crainscleveland.com/article/20180522/news/162586/post-office-plaza-redo-set

308 units total, with half being 2 or 3 bedroom. 519 parking spaces in the basement and floors 2-5 behind apartments lining the exterior. With an atrium cut into the center to provide windows for interior units on floors 6-9. Interestingly, the first picture highlights the garage at the corner as "future mixed-used". I wonder what's being planned there.

The updated design looks fine, just not as good. It's funny how little details make such a huge difference. Besides the black brick, they also ditched the huge warehouse-style windows, for smaller individual openings.