SeaLibrarian

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There are so many arts focused organizations in Cleveland Heights both non-profits and businesses, that it seems like a reasonable idea to have a publicly funded center for the arts. However, I would think such an initiative would need to come out of the city administration, to get on solid footing and gave staying power. The Library's half-hearted attempt to be a landlord/arts incubator isn't a good fit. Especially as the arts and education non-profit organizations in the building have expanded to include a church congregation, which certainly shouldn't be given subsidized public funding in any form including the low rent agreements currently in place.

Noble Station development voted down by CH City Council. Generally in favor of development, but as this was lacking mixed use or market rate apartments, I can see the point of the Noble residents who felt they were getting a second rate development. As we've seen with Severance, bad development is a lot harder to replace with good development than it is to wait and plan good development to start with. https://www.cleveland.com/community/2023/09/noble-station-development-agreement-voted-down-5-2-by-cleveland-heights-city-council.html?outputType=amp And follow-up article with the developer partners TWG and Start Right on what went wrong (any timely effort to get community input or buy-in). https://www.cleveland.com/community/2023/09/cleveland-heights-looks-toward-more-community-buy-in-for-noble-neighborhood.html

By my count, they currently have 14 spaces. The drawing appears to show at least 36, more than doubling the current amount and removing housing all at once. Between this and each business across Taylor down to Superior having their own parking moat, the bigger vision of the Taylor Tudor project for redeveloping the Taylor Commons section is looking more and more necessary.

The article provides links to the emails both Gowdy and Zimmerman sent. Zimmerman says the check was not picked up by any Metroparks employee and is still uncashed at East Cleveland City Hall, with attached pictures he was sent by Mayor King of the uncashed check as proof. It speaks to the incredible dysfunction of East Cleveland government that Mayor King was seemingly aware that the check was in City Hall and not in Metroparks possession as Gowdy and Council had thought based on the finance documents available to them including a sign out sheet supposedly showing "a Metroparks employee" signed for the check. Mayor King should have informed Council of the location of the check and/or Council should have asked Mayor King about the location of the check before sending such an incendiary letter to a potential partner. A long neglected park could have been on the road to recovery, helping to lift the profile of the surrounding neighborhoods, but instead is just another failure in the long list of failures the community has endured.

I wonder about the likelihood of the MLK relocation/removal. The CWRU Master Plan is from 2016 and MLK still exists in the same place between Carnegie and Euclid. There doesn't appear to be any guidance or steps to take in the Master Plan about actually getting this done. I assume the City would have to be consulted and onboard. Could the construction of the ISEB be the point at which MLK changes start being seriously pursued?

If this had existed when we first moved to the area in 2019, it would definitely have made our list before purchasing. Seems like a great option for not-as-young professionals without children. The bark park and pet spa are also pretty intriguing amenities.

It does feel isolated at first glance, but doing some measurements using Google walking directions and it's closer to shops than you might think. (Granted I'm coming from the perspective that anything in 1-1.5 mi is walkable, as I regularly walk 1 mi to Cedar-Lee and 1.5 mi Cedar-Fairmount.) It's just 0.6 mi to the beginning of Larchmere District, and 0.9 mi to Loganberry Books, and 1.2 mi to Shaker Square. When the Meijer in the Innovation District is finished, that will be a 0.9 mi walk. It's also just at 1 mi to Blue Sky Brews in Little Italy. Most of CWRU and University Circle is in the 1-1.5 mi range as well. You've got two RTA rail stops at 0.7 mi each, Cedar-University for the Red line and E 116th St for Blue/Green. Plus Ambler Park right outside your door is pretty great too.

This has the potential to bring some new life to a very dead side of the street. Hoping the first phase gets moving quickly with the historic funding now in place. If I remember right, design is already approved. Side note: If you want to read the article, or anything from Crain's, you can access the site from CCPL's resource page.

You're right my mistake, circled the first thing that popped up on Google before double checking. Fixed below.

Here's where the beauty school is in relation to the site plan. I'm wondering how that section will be used in the final plan.

Timely article says the city was finally able to purchase the vacant beauty school. I could be wrong, but I think that's the last property needed for the expanded area site plan. Making ‘The Cut’ -- Cleveland Heights acquires beauty school for Cedar-Lee-Meadowbrook project - cleveland.com Also some updates about Tudor Taylor in there.

Does anyone know what happened to the South Taylor Place townhomes plan? There seems to have been no movement on it in the last year since the approvals were announced. Is University Heights that much slower than Cleveland Heights to move forward on development projects?