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They haven't submitted construction permit applications yet but they have submitted a change of use request on Jan. 4. If they can get that without having to go to BZA, they'll submit their construction application. It should take a month or two before Building gets them a permit. If they can get construction supplies and equipment when they want them (a big if), they could get started on construction in the spring. Lots of nitty gritty planning stuff and what-ifs in there, which is why I didn't get into it in the article.

No permit applications have been submitted for anything. There was a Jan. 2 report of fire damage. It was marked by Building & Housing as "routine."

Cleveland’s Carnegie contains a comeback By Ken Prendergast / January 15, 2024 Carnegie Avenue in the 70s of Cleveland’s Midtown neighborhood was a mixed bag of speed, sin, steaks and seafood. And that applies to both the decade and the 10-block stretch of the East 70s along one of the busiest streets linking University Circle and Downtown. But today, the scene is changing quickly as the growth in jobs and residential development in those two hubs is spilling over to the place in between. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2024/01/15/clevelands-carnegie-contains-a-comeback/

I see a bunch of building permits awarded for the East 70th apartments in late 2023, so it sounds like something's happening. Nothing new for Chester 82 except for a lot consolidation.

Question -- is construction work progressing on the East 70th apartments next to the Dealer Tire HQ?

They've already removed the east half of the loop highway. This next removal might also allow the train station complex to be a better economic development engine by not only giving it greater pedestrian connectivity to downtown, but by providing developable land between the station and downtown. More info is available here..... https://www.innerloopnorth.com/

Seeing the same thing happen in the rail freight industry, with safety being secondary to corporate profits. It's scary when hedge fund reps on railroad site tours demand to know why so much time is taken on safety inspections since "stationary train cars cannot generate revenue," I heard one say once.

Getting public input can be helpful in securing federal grants like those that Euclid recently won... https://neo-trans.blog/2023/09/21/cleveland-suburb-wants-to-be-the-next-forest-city/

Can we stay focused? If not, perhaps that's the problem... There are always many more failed attempts at building projects than successful ones, no matter what city you're in. Few of us learn about the failed ones in other cities. Most times I hear about the ones here long after they failed. This one was still fresh (aka newsworthy) so that's why I wrote about it. Who knows, after being at the Alpha campus for 10-20 years and having difficulty attracting talent and/or keeping them in the office like Progressive, perhaps they will reconsider a move downtown. That's what's so awesome about the future -- it's full of surprises, good and bad ones, but always interesting.

And rightly so. The Browns traded 7 picks and gave up $300 million to trade for a player from the team that eliminated them from the playoffs. Like @surfohiosaid...cursed.

This is real short and real simple. The GOP enshrined this in the Ohio Constitution. Do they think their bill banning access to healthcare for LGBT Ohioans will stand up in court?

It's a 30-year plan that was proposed a year ago.

The downtown tower that almost was By Ken Prendergast / January 13, 2024 High construction and financing costs along with a longer move-in timeline doomed an intriguing new Downtown Cleveland headquarters building for a growing tech firm relocating from Mayfield Heights. Those construction market headwinds along with the rise in remote working led to Park Place Technologies finding an existing office campus next to Interstate 271 in Highland Heights near its current offices that fit its needs like a glove. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2024/01/13/the-downtown-tower-that-almost-was/

It is a hope that all will contribute resources of time, talents and treasure.

Cuyahoga Valley Scenic RR to downtown Cleveland to be studied By Ken Prendergast / January 12, 2024 While it’s only 10 miles from the northern terminus of the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad (CVSR) in suburban Independence to Downtown Cleveland, it will take years to get there in the best of circumstances. But that first step in the long journey was taken today when a metropolitan transportation planning organization voted to hire a consultant to conduct a feasibility study of the potential route extension. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2024/01/12/cuyahoga-valley-scenic-rr-to-downtown-cleveland-to-be-studied/

NOACA voted today on hiring a consultant to conduct a study that could impact CUT. A NEOtrans article is posted in the CVSR thread about it.

Yes, yes and yes. But it's in the middle of the night, it's a long layover, and the border crossing is horribly long because no one wants to address any of these shortcomings.

Another factor is that many multi-family homes in Lakewood have been renovated as single-family homes, often reducing the number of residents per structure and raising the value of those structures. To keep this on topic, I find it interesting that the city seems to have few reported problems processing these conversion applications as compared to the commercial development projects.

In that second photo showing the Rose Building, note the surviving house next to it. Sorry to be off-topic, but I couldn't let that one go unnoted.

Getting there.

Brooklyn Centre’s Pearls of development By Ken Prendergast / January 11, 2024 For real estate investor Kostas Almiroudis, rebuilding one historic building on Pearl Road in Cleveland’s Brooklyn Centre wasn’t enough of a labor of love and pain for him. Across a side street, he’s seeking to embark on an even more ambitious project — renovate another mixed-use building, build a new one and construct six townhomes behind them. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2024/01/11/brooklyn-centres-pearls-of-development/

The difference is that, at least in the USA, going to the moon is cheaper than building infrastructure. BTW, the first graphic in my previous post won't work. I just learned GCRTA and Bedrock are going to "remove the roof" over Canal Road. That "roof" was built for Cleveland Union Terminal tracks to enter the station and the train storage yards. But its removal might actually help in building a CVSR track ramp on the current Canal Road ROW to get into Tower City.

In GISguy's last photo, I'm trying to figure which is the Mr Albert's building. Perhaps that long, two-story building had its eastern half razed?

I can't find an old picture of it specifically, but I'll bet it's in general photographs of Lower Prospect. A Sanborn map shows the building whose lobby entrance is at 700 Prospect (building covers addresses from 636-716) was built as the Electric Building in 1900. County property records say it was built in 1899.

@CleveFan You'll have to ask @Geowizical. He knocked it over. 😉