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(Sun. 3-7-21)

The Avian at Thunderbird (Sun. 3-7-21) View from Duck Island A walkthrough of The Avian can be seen on Google Streeview: https://www.google.com/maps/@41.4925462,-81.6977739,3a,75y,304.67h,91.15t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sAF1QipOSPaq4b-tWGFBNh-lJPyNmJUkWe29gJ7H51waW!2e10!3e11!7i8192!8i4096?hl=en

Franklin Circle and The Dexter (Sun. 3-7-21) COhatch Ohio City redevelopment - 2814 Detroit Avenue The Quarter Apartments Hinge Town Homes - 3105 Vine Court The Nikolai Condominiums - 3703 Clinton Avenue Irishtown Bend Demolition

Waterford Bluffs Apartments - 2020 Lorain Avenue (Sun. 3-7-21) West Nineteen Townhomes West 19th Street Bradford Avenue And some miscellaneous completed projects

(Sun. 3-7-21) Views from the Fairmont creamery And the Scranton Peninsula

Cleveland board OKs transformation of former MidTown school into manufacturing hub Eric Heisig - Cleveland.com - Mar. 8, 2021 "A Cleveland board on Monday gave its blessing to plans by a manufacturing-focused nonprofit to use a former school building in the city’s MidTown neighborhood as a hub for startups and to teach students about the field. The Manufacturing Advocacy and Growth Network, also known as MAGNET, plans to use the former Margaret Ireland School as a space it can provide to startups who may not need or have the means to obtain their own factory. The Cleveland Metropolitan School District will also use some of the 80,000 square-foot building as classroom space. The nonprofit will also call the building at East 63rd Street and Chester Avenue its new home, and plans to finish the renovations by summer 2022, President and CEO Ethan Karp said."

The Youtube channel Vanishing Underground has been producing some good videos on high capacity transit in Canada this past year. Recently though they've made a few videos south the border on the Network Evolution of Pittsburgh and now of Cleveland:

Pressure on Walmart to halt outsourcing of its Light Bulb manufacturing jobs gains traction as Bucyrus officials take fight to the top Crawford County Now Staff - Mar. 6, 2021 "On Saturday, in a show of growing public pressure for Walmart to stand up to its supplier, GE-Savant LLC, and demand they keep manufacturing jobs for the retailer’s in-house “Made in America” LED light bulb line in the U.S., labor and environmental groups across the country will continue their third weekend of rallies at Walmart stores nationwide. ... The Walmart brand light bulbs are currently made by IUE-CWA workers in Bucyrus, OH, one of the only residential lighting plants left in the United States, and the decision to offshore the product line to China will result in over 80 layoffs, set to take effect this Saturday."

Home prices are rising faster in cities than in suburbs and rural areas, Redfin finds, and Cleveland is one of the country's hottest markets Scott Suttell - Crain's Cleveland Business - Mar. 4, 2021 "The Redfin real estate brokerage reports the median home-sale prices in urban areas nationwide are up nearly 16% from a year ago — and Cleveland is one of the markets with the biggest increase. The median price for homes in cities rose 15.9% to $292,263 in the four weeks ending Feb. 21, compared with the like period of 2020, Redfin says. Cleveland was No. 3, with the median price up 33.4% to $103,875." Redfin Report: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/home-prices-in-cities-rise-16-surpassing-suburban-and-rural-price-growth-for-the-first-time-since-before-pandemic-301240469.html

Yes there will definitely be more developments of this or greater density in the area soon. It won't feel too alone then. One commissioner who sees the now 25 year old brewery district guidelines as outmoded mentioned that this area of High should have special considerations similar to the Short North. One thing that will definitely make this part of the Brewery District even closer to Short North is when the innerbelt project is finished with its caps over I-70/I-71 at High, Third, and Front. The South High street cap is planed to be green space, but can be used for a commercial building if a developer is interested, creating something similar to the I-670 cap. This will only increase the demand in the area as it is more seamlessly connected to downtown, just as the Short North was over 15 years ago. This phase of the project is years away though, slated for completion sometime in 2026. Regardless, this corridor has enough potential to become Short South as @CMHOhiodubbed it.

Jackie O's (Wed. 3-3-21) Didn't notice this about the Jackie O's plans at first, but the expansion is pretty large (bigger outdoor space than anything downtown that I can think of), taking out ~25 surface parking spots while adding a sidewalk along Lazelle. The Pins Mechanical patio area next-door is often crowded when I ride by, so this will definitely be a popular place when finished.

The proposed 6 story addition to 514-518 S. High St. went up for conceptual review at today's Brewery District Commission meeting. It seemed to have received a generally positive response from the commissioners for its first presentation. They liked that the existing structure is almost entirely preserved and a surface lot is removed while providing close to a 1:1 parking spot to unit ratio for the new development. At least two commissioners preferred a shorter 5 or 4 story building, with one noting a lack of compatibility with the immediate area and the potential of a "monolith" on Pearl and the neighboring historic district. It was suggested that this could be ameliorated by moving the massing closer to High or setting back the upper floors on the eastern face. Again, it's still early in the process, but this project was well enough received that it seems it could get built at or close to the proposed mass it they get the design elements right.

The Adelphi Quarter (Wed. 3-3-21) 750 East Broad apartment building

15th and High "Building B1" (Tues. 3-2-21) Timashev Family Music Building Department of Theater, Film, and Media Arts Building New Starbucks moving into the commercial space in the Optometry Clinic College of Nursing / Newton Hall Addition site prep (Wed. 3-3-21) Site prep for the new Dodd Parking Garage north of the Coroner's Office West campus cranes and the Frank Stanton Veterinary Spectrum of Care Clinic West Campus Natural Gas Plant site prep Woody Hayes Dr. is down to 2 lanes for utility work supporting the new power plant through September West Campus Outpatient Care building and garage Interdisciplinary Research Facility

* cleveland.com Subscriber Exclusive * Smithers cancels plan for new headquarters, R&D facility in downtown Akron Robin Goist - Plain Dealer - Mar. 3, 2021 "In a move attributed to the coronavirus pandemic, Akron-based Smithers has canceled its plan for new downtown headquarters which the city and Summit County were helping fund. The company, which provides science, technology and business testing and consulting services, had planned to build a $16.9 million headquarters and research development facility in part of 47 North Main Street near Ohio 59. ... 'In the meantime, Smithers has initiated a comprehensive search for a new campus to bring our Akron-based employees together in a transformational new home designed for agile operations and growth. The strategic reasons for a new Smithers global operations hub remain unchanged,' the company said."

Columbus begins to implement vision for reducing traffic deaths, injuries in city Bethany Bruner & Mark Ferenchik - The Dispatch - Mar. 2, 2021 "Columbus had 81 traffic deaths in 2020, according to Glenn McEntyre, spokesman for the Department of Public Safety. There were 54 traffic fatalities in 2019 and 50 in 2018, according to the Vision Zero report. So far in 2021, there have been 16 fatal crashes in Columbus, resulting in 18 people being killed. Four people were killed Monday in three separate crashes, including two in a crash involving a wrong-way driver, a pedestrian and a woman who was killed after her vehicle was struck following an unrelated non-injury crash." https://vision-zero-columbus.hub.arcgis.com/

https://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2021/03/02/columbus-crew-sc-launch-inaugural-stadium-kit-inspired-new-crew-stadium

Cleveland, its school district put 19 properties in play, seeking real estate developers' proposals Michelle Jarboe - Crain's CLE Business - Mar. 2, 2021 "A dozen vacant Cleveland schools and seven pieces of surplus land — almost all of them on the East Side — are hitting the market, the subjects of a request for redevelopment plans. The city and the Cleveland Metropolitan School District are jointly seeking proposals from real estate developers interested in remaking the properties, which the district no longer needs. The portfolio includes six historically and architecturally significant buildings, erected between 1903 and 1939, which are protected as city landmarks. A map of the surplus CMSD sites from the cities RFQ: RFPs/RFQs: Adaptive Reuse And Redevelopment Of Surplus CMSD Sites: http://www.city.cleveland.oh.us/node/165891

Mapfre no more: Columbus Crew seeks new naming-rights partner for historic stadium Hayleigh Colombo - Columbus Business First - Mar. 2, 2021 "Mapfre Stadium is no longer the name of Columbus Crew SC’s original stadium off Interstate 71. The Crew is now calling its original stadium, the first soccer-specific stadium in the nation, Historic Crew Stadium – at least until it gets a new naming-rights sponsor. ... The Crew’s deal with Mapfre Insurance, which was inked in 2015, expired at the end of December."

Infill house at 96 North 5th (Sat. 2-27-21) Normandy Avenue Residences

Library Park Phase 3 (Sat. 2-27-21) Library Park Phase 2

Hoster Brewery Complex renovation (2-25-21) The location of the proposed 6 story building

MLK is legitimately lined with free on street parking here. There's also metered parking on Wade Oval and East, and there's 2 free parking lots in the park across 105th, and 3 public garages at the museums. There are 6 apartment buildings 6 stories or taller within half a mile of this area (with more on the way). Plenty of parking and people.

Highland Park, the reimagined City View Center in Garfield Heights, lands first industrial tenant Michelle Jarboe - Crain's CLE Business - Feb. 26, 2021 "Highland Park, the redevelopment of the former City View Center retail site in Garfield Heights, has landed its first new tenant — a growing business that makes packaging machinery for everything from cereal to craft beer. ... Real estate developer Industrial Commercial Properties LLC acquired City View in mid-January, cleaning the slate for a property that spent more than a decade tied up in receivership and litigation. Workers have removed the ornamental facades from long-empty stores, installed exterior LED lighting and repaved the parking lot, where landscaping will fill the driving aisle where shoppers once pulled up to PetSmart, Jo-Ann and OfficeMax."

The Parallel Co. developed apartment building at 88 E. 9th was up for conceptual review at this February's review board meeting. The form/mass of the building was generally accepted by the board, and it should be moving forward. These renderings from yesterday's meeting aren't much different than what was presented in January.