CaptainRon

@KJP do you have any intel regarding the other two floors in that recently renovated Somera Road building? specifically if there are any plans to update either of them, or to provide further buildout services on that 4th floor, instead of whiteboxed? (Are there any remaining possible tenants?) I had heard three or four names being tossed around when the project first took off but after so many work hiatuses, it appeared that talks of interest fizzled out. oh and then there was the year the earth stood still. You appear to be the PoC for all things Cleveland development, that’s for sure! if I’m not using the thread properly someone, anyone feel free to let me know. Knew to this

This is very interesting. Lots of history in those properties. As noted in the article, the building located at 1020 Bolivar was once home of Ohio Bell Company offices, but not until the late 1940’s. It was originally constructed as a 3-level parking garage for the Winton Hotel (1919), and the OH-Bell office conversion saw the addition of the 4th floor, first floor lobby, buildout of the original 2nd and 3rd, and the addition of that Limestone entrance. In fact, when standing on the top deck of the adjacent garage, you can just make out “Winton” in faded paint on the side of 1020, at 3rd story height. Pretty cool stuff. Oddly enough, Somera’s original proposed renderings for that 1020 space called for the addition of two floors and did not look too far off from @NorthShore647’s findings. Granted that never came to be. I wonder if this potential Bolivar apartment project was thought up in part due to their selling of the other OH-Bell building over on Erieview? Speculation is all. Gotta say though that the adjacent parking garages at 1060 and 1124 are both in pretty rough shape; I’d be surprised if 1060 were structurally sound enough for such work. (1124 is the single story garage proposed to be torn down).