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This will be great - adds another bunch of residents and some retail. Design is going to blend into the neighborhood and will look totally normal sitting between the stonebridge and the quarter. Keep building! Plenty more large prominent sites, the continued growth and success of the neighborhood will only increase the chances of affording high-design for the next one.

I would view this as a broker and owner getting some renderings done in hopes of increase buzz and visibility for the property. Hopefully it works and they can attract something, but I wouldn't think of it any differently than an architecture competition proposal.

This looks incredible. Will make a big difference in feel of the place walking down Market Ave towards something instead of a parking lot.

There are only a handful of 30+ acre industrial sites in the whole of Cuyahoga County A NFA letter does not mean the site is clean enough for residential development There is a lot of available residential infill land that would help the neighborhood more than this site

Popular coffeeshop pays local owner to restore historic building, subsidizing 4 micro-retail units for new businesses.

This is a Ten-x auction, not a court-ordered auction, so no guarantees that the sellers will actually sell. There is an enormous amount of property on the Columbus Rd. peninsula that is available. Would be a great development project if you have a very long timeline and an large amount of capital available.

Attracting national chains will help spur additional development in the neighborhood. There are many people who look forward to having familiar options nearby when choosing a place to live. National chains also can pay higher rents, making renovations like this one financially feasible. More people coming to Ohio City will help attract local retail and there is not a shortage of retail space. The building is also adding 4 additional small local storefronts, which would not be feasible without Starbucks rent...

I'd be very surprised, price tag is outrageous ($2.3mm/ac) and it's less than an acre, with single family intermixed. For comparison, the BK site and the W 73rd site are both larger and asking much less.

It looks like the Forest City!

Hingetown has more than 36,000 square feet of retail space available for lease in 7 different buildings right now, and that's just between Franklin, Detroit and inside of w 32nd. Nobody is even attempting to list retail space along the viaduct or in the flats despite the many empty storefronts. Pickleball courts are a nice way of activating the street level until the retail demand is high enough to convert the space.

There are 3 larger and better located development sites listed for less than half of the $/acre: Former BK, W 73rd, 6400 Herman.

This is great, we could use about 35 more of these, all stacked up next to each other wall to wall. This type of density is what makes neighborhoods like Over-the-Rhine or Brooklyn so great.

That parcel might have the highest # of parks and most acres within a short walk of anyplace in the city.

So they could bulldoze it and find a new use instead of paying for more and more upkeep

Why wouldn't CSU also play in Public Hall?

This forum is starting to sound like your average Franklin-Clinton Block Club meeting

Last I heard the Metroparks had yet to find a suitable development partner. Essentially the entire northern half of the Columbus Rd. Peninsula is available right now, it would be a great project for somebody with a lot of cash and a long time horizon.

It repurposes vacant industrial land within the existing built environment. I wouldn't call it sprawl because it's not pushing development further out and it uses existing transportation infrastructure. It's so close to city limits that I wouldn't be surprised if there was a deal to annex the land into the city of Cleveland.

I wouldn't hold my breath... City Council's new CBA, Councilman Starr, and the Weston cold storage TIF debacle have every local developer running for the suburbs.

This looks cool. We should do a similar design except rotate the field 90 degrees and have big glass walls looking out into the lake and back up to the skyline. Connect to the convention center, malls, train stations.

Going to be hard to justify the city spending $3-5mm on a public parking garage in one of the richest areas of town... Might be able to get a developer to build some at McCafferty if you gave the land away and allowed a huge amount of density. Should start with charging for street parking nights and weekends, might be surprising how many spots open up.

There are a whole lot of people in the neighborhood that have opted out of the block club process because of the extreme negativity. The block clubs are not representative of the whole neighborhood, just the loudest and most opposed.

The Cinecraft building will be worth less without the parking provided by the other lot. So the owner wants to sell as a package, otherwise he's left with a big building and no parking. The development will eventually have a garage, but it won't be under the control of the Cinecraft owner and may be entirely reserved by the hospital, residential and retail uses on the new site. Developers likely only want the lot, not the Cinecraft building.

I think that if this version had been presented first and didn't have Geis' name as the architect, people would be excited for it. The development environment is tough getting tougher and my guess is that if they hadn't started on this project years ago, it wouldn't be happening at all. An 132-key hotel and 146 units of workforce housing will be a great addition to the neighborhood. We need more people living and visiting today to keep the momentum, that will create the future environment for more expensive buildings. We don't exactly have a shortage of large, undeveloped, prominent sites around that we can all spend years thinking about.