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With this park, trash has turned into treasure for all Scott Suttell - Crain's Cleveland Business - June 22, 2021 "A former 25-acre landfill in Cleveland now is a park, thanks to the efforts of Cleveland Metroparks, the Western Reserve Land Conservancy and Old Brooklyn Development Corp. Those organizations on Tuesday, June 22, marked the official opening of Brighton Park in Cleveland's Old Brooklyn neighborhood. ... The park includes a half mile of paved all-purpose trail connecting from Pearl Road and Wildlife Way to the zoo through Brighton Park to West 21st Street. It also boasts a half mile of looped natural surface trail as well as a scenic overlook of Big Creek."

College Road curb replacement in front of the Timashev Family Music Building (6-19-21) Department of Theater, Film, and Media Arts Building Work continues on the Coffey Road Park recreation fields reconfiguration The project also includes a new support building for the rec fields at the SW corner (near the location of the former Coffey Road Sports Center). Frank Stanton Veterinary Spectrum of Care Clinic West Campus Natural Gas Plant West Campus Outpatient Care building and garage Interdisciplinary Research Facility Andelyn Biosciences Commercial-Scale Gene Therapy Manufacturing Facility So many cranes The new Plaza and 15th and High looks great (these photos are from earlier in the month, so they may be a little dated) The lighting is also done very well, making the space feel welcoming at night.

(6-19-21) Signage recently went up outside the 11-story apartment building at the SW corner of State and Belle streets. The building will be known as "One at the Peninsula" The progress is looking great with the Gravity 2.0 crane in the background

(6-19-21) Some additional views of the crane

Kingsdale demolition progress (6-19-21) Arlington Gateway New UA Highschool Lane II Development from earlier in the month

The OhioHealth Performance Center from the last game at Historic Crew Stadium You can just barley see the cup and some of our other hardware on the first floor Some additional photo's from the last Crew game at the fairgrounds People lining up to take a photo with the man that made history here in Columbus, and changed soccer in the US forever. Thanks for 22 years Lamar.

The video board at the end of the last game at Historic Crew Stadium Looks like the bridge should be ready for the opener. Can't wait to bike down!

Grandview Yard expansion (6-19-21) Work is finishing up on The Homes on Pullman Way And the rest of the M/I Homes at Grandview Yard

The Edington at 1580 West 1st (6-19-21) Grandview Heights Highschool renovation and expansion

* Cleveland.com Subscriber Exclusive * Retail development in Cleveland’s Hough neighborhood to be named for famous Black entrepreneur Madam C.J. Walker Eric Heisig - Cleveland.com - June 22, 2021 "The developer behind a new retail project in Cleveland’s Hough neighborhood aims to inject more life into a long-distressed area while nodding to a past Black hero of the United States. The 16,000 square-foot building will sit on a one-acre piece of land at Hough Avenue and Crawford Road. Of that, a quarter of the space will go to a yet-to-be-named credit union, while the rest will be for small shops. Kareem Abdus-Salaam of the Maryland-based real estate and construction firm Structures Unlimited, which is developing the site, also said he wants to have some space be used as an incubator for startups. ... construction should finish by fall 2022 on what he said was an $80 million project." Some additional graphics from the June 18, 29021 Planning Commission Meeting: Here is a view of the lot from Crawford and Hough

Library Park Phase 3 (6-19-21) Digging down for the 13-story 195 E Broad Street mixed use project Vera on Broad / 366 E. Broad Street Apartment Building Renovation and new apartment building at 530 E. Rich St The Edwards Companies PNC building renovation / partial residential conversion The lobby along Broad pictured above is to be demolished and replaced with a partially sunken plaza. I took some pictures of the lobby before the barricades went up around the structure recently. No work had started on the walkways partial demolition, but there's activity related to the PNC building renovation around it.

(6-19-21) The tower from the Gravity 2.0 site in Franklinton And rising into view from East Long near 5th

Normandy Avenue Residences (6-19-21) Infill house at 96 North 5th

Despite no state lease for land, Ginther wants to begin $4M design work on new city sports park Bill Bush - The Dispatch - June 17, 2021 "Two and a half years after announcing it would build a community sports park on state land in connection with a new stadium deal for the Columbus Crew, Mayor Andrew J. Ginther announced Thursday he is proposing $4 million in capital dollars to begin design work. However, the city still has no lease from the Ohio Expo Center & State Fair for land needed for the project, which was originally scheduled to be under construction starting in July ... As Crew players worked out behind a fence, Ginther announced he would propose $4 million for 'design and engineering' work on the sports park, but declined to say whether the size of the expenditure meant that the facility would include an indoor recreation center, as initially proposed." Take the survey at - https://crpdsports.org/communitysportspark/

The street signs telling you to download the Park Columbus app? /s Does the rebate funding for the EV charging stations count?

Cleveland Metroparks’ widening of Lake Avenue sidewalk to improve Edgewater Park access is a great idea, despite shrill pushback Steven Litt - CLveleand.com - June 15, 2021 "Metroparks has held several online meetings about the proposal with residents who live along nine-tenths of a mile of Lake Avenue from West Boulevard to West 117th Street. The agency wants to widen the badly worn concrete and sandstone sidewalk, which varies in width from 3 to 6 feet to an 8- to 10-foot-wide concrete path — big enough to accommodate cyclists and pedestrians. ... Lake Avenue in Lakewood, the suburb west of Cleveland, was wide enough for the city to install striped bike lanes on both sides of the street, in a recent County Greenways project funded by Cuyahoga County. But Lake Avenue narrows in Cleveland, making such lanes impossible. Widening the sidewalk would be the next best solution, according to Metroparks."

The Columbus Crew's new downtown stadium has a name: Lower.com Field Jacob Myers - The Dispatch - June 15, 2021 "It’s unknown for how much Lower.com purchased the stadium naming rights. Most deals range 10-15 years and yield a few million dollars annually, but that figure ranges significantly. Stadium naming rights are normally valued higher than the next biggest commodity a soccer team has to offer: the official jersey sponsor. The Crew is receiving more than $3 million annually from Nationwide for more than six years."

I guess the rumors last week were true (official announcement still at 11:30am today) I actually like "Field" a lot for a soccer stadium. There are only 5 other "Fields" in the MLS (Fire, TFC, Sounders, DC and Minnesota).

Its Official: ‘Never quit:’ Former Cleveland Mayor Dennis Kucinich running for mayor again Robert Higgs - Cleveland.com - June 14, 2021

Hey at least they were able to get them to reduce the size from their initial proposal. Still a strange location regardless.

Agree. I expect Gordon Park will offer that beach. I would definitely spend more time at the Lake if it was only a ~3 mile bike ride to a beach at Gordon Park over the ~9 miles to Edgewater (from The Circle). Things are at least moving in the right direction though for an "Edgewater East" Yes the existing beach there could be extended to the east, at least to the end of the volleyball courts, rather easily it seems.

Stadium name announcement tomorrow?

(6-13-21)

5th and Jefferson (6-13-21) Grosvenor Place Apartments Gallery 7 Townhomes Electric Gardens Site of new gas station at the NW corner of Clark and West 14th

Battery Park Blvd extension (6-13-21) Site of the Battery Park Apartments developed by Avenue Partners Sign for the lot just south of the Battery Park extension to West 70th. For more info on the parcel: https://images1.cityfeet.com/d2/KPimaQmFDKhyBshE5V70fK4D3oyNk0tGIRPi1h1wNtQ/document.pdf