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I will bet the farm the courthouse will be built as part of the Bedrocks riverfront plan. They are the only ones with enough easily accessed capital to do a build lease back. Which is the only way the courthouse gets built without a tax increase. The County and its bond rating will be financially stretched to the breaking point building the new jail.

Went there several times.Not sure why it closed but it wasn’t hidden it was on a major intersection, within walking distance of The Quarter l & ll, Church and State and the Knitting Mills apartments. They did a great job remodeling the old Bounce nightclub into their space. Hopefully it’s not vacant long.

Too bad they couldn’t partner with the West Side Market, who needs tenants and is a couple of blocks away

Cavs plan new downtown training complex with Cleveland Clinic https://www.crainscleveland.com/sports-recreation/cleveland-cavaliers-cleveland-clinic-plan-downtown-training-facility?utm_source=breaking-news-alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20230921&utm_content=article1-readmore A preliminary massing study shows the proposed Cleveland Clinic Global Peak Performance Center in the Flats, at the southeastern end of Bedrock's sprawling riverfront site.

Cleveland taxpayer dollars at risk? Invoices, payments for Ohio City project raise concerns from city auditors https://www.cleveland.com/metro/2023/09/cleveland-taxpayer-dollars-at-risk-invoices-payments-for-ohio-city-project-raise-concerns-from-city-auditors.html Me thinks there is much more to this story….

Its so funny to see these idyllic images presented to these boards. Currently where the new patio on Church Street is shown, there are three major dumpsters that were displaced when the vibrator company property was sold and padlocked by the new owner. Where are they going? Also there is usually a stack of wood pallets outside the garage door. Above the garage door is a giant silo (not shown) that holds the spent grain from the brewing production. Every 2 or 3 days an open bed semi pulls up and the spent grains are poured in - this is also where saucy trucks pull up all day long loading pallets of beer for distribution. None of this is very conducive to enjoying a beer on the patio. The only way I see this being possible is if Saucy is moving production to a new facility. Was there any discussion of that?

The Landmark Commission and its sub committees have totally lost their way and no longer function to the benefit of the citizens it was created to serve. It has become another bureaucratic road block in the way of progress that only serves the whim of whoever is on the committee at the time. It's beyond fixing and needs to be abolished.

Haslams planning to renovate, not replace, FirstEnergy Stadium When it comes to FirstEnergy Stadium, Cleveland Browns owners Jimmy and Dee Haslam said they're looking for a makeover, not a do-over. Speaking to local reporters at the NFL owners meetings in Phoenix, the Haslams said the Browns are leaning toward renovating the stadium as part of a larger plan to develop the lakefront. The stadium's 30-year lease expires at the end of 2028 and there have been reports that the Haslams preferred replacing FirstEnergy with a domed stadium further inland. "Cleveland would benefit tremendously from the development of the waterfront," Jimmy Haslam said on Monday, March 27. "Having the stadium down there seems to be in everybody's best interest. So we're committed to redoing the stadium. In all likelihood, it's not going to have a dome, but it'll be a substantial remodel of the existing facility and we're probably three, four, five years away from that happening." https://www.crainscleveland.com/sports-business/browns-owner-jimmy-haslam-aims-renovate-firstenergy-stadium

The site plan is great. I live in this neighborhood and feel so sorry for any developer or resident for that matter who wants to build new or renovate. This part of OC is filled is self appointed urban planning experts who feel they have the right to dictate what someone can do with their property. Eventually if they keep getting their way investment will stop here and the whole city will suffer as a result.

The AG complex in Brooklyn was built as a massive warehouse and light manufacturing space not office space. When AG moved their main distribution center to Arkansas to be closer to Walmart HQ the buildings became available and all AG workers were moved from Cleveland (78th street and other locations). At the time it was considered a big upgrade from the decrepit 78th Street Studios complex. Just an aside - when I worked there in 2000 there were 3,400 workers on site. The remaining Cleveland workers, now with offices in Westlake, total around 300.

The Uptown development was created for and by CWRU. They hold a master lease on the majority of retail spaces making them the largest “tenant”. Any switch over in occupancy does not really effect MRN that much. CWRU though it’s affiliation with CIA leases the majority of the apartments there. Basically whoever buys the complex gets a guaranteed FIve Star partner in CWRU. If retail proves unsustainable there the spaces will be switched to more office/lab space ie Corner Alley conversion to the Harrington Discovery Institute.

Here’s a view from above

According to the article the Besch lease at Key is for 30 years

Great article by Michelle at Crains. So Bensch won’t be anchoring a new office tower and Stark is still in control of the Nucleus property looking to develop something there.

Very surprised one of the Huts is going to be a bar since they were presented to the public/neighborhood as artist live/work spaces. Church ave has become a traffic nightmare with the C&S parking garage, constant moving trucks of people moving in and out, and Saucy using the street as their loading dock. Adding a bar to the mix will add to the mess and I’m sure invoke the wrath of the residents.