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Ohio City’s largest build site: the Lutheran lot By Ken Prendergast / October 6, 2023 Sooner or later, development pressures will find their way to Lutheran Hospital’s huge surface parking lot on West 25th Street in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood. All around the 5-acre Cleveland Clinic Foundation-owned Lutheran Hospital parking lot, investors have built on or have big plans for just about every available piece of land. Even an unstable hillside across West 25th is being reborn as Irishtown Bend Park. There isn’t much room to grow. So the Cleveland Clinic, Ohio City Inc. and others are trying to get a handle on how best to develop the Lutheran lot someday in the future while making sure Clinic employees still have a place to park. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2023/10/06/ohio-citys-largest-build-site-the-lutheran-lot/

Reading too much. Dan Whalen's most recent comments (July: https://neo-trans.blog/2023/07/21/tmud-round-3-starts-next-week/ ) about phase two was that it was on "a slight hold for a few months." While that was optimistic developer-speak, especially considering how fast things are changing in the lending market, that's the latest insight. I have no other intel or suspicions on the status of phase two.

On the plus side, shipments by rail are up last month, according to the American Association of Railroads. On the downside...

Seeds & Sprouts 33 – Sankofa Village Phase 4 coming, West 48th gets more townhomes, So might Midtown, Intro adding salon By Ken Prendergast / October 5, 2023 Intro gains national beauty salon chain as tenant Salon Lofts, a national beauty salon chain with a dozen locations in Northeast Ohio, will add its first spot in Cleveland when it opens soon at Intro in Ohio City’s Market District. Each location within the chain offers individual suites where professional hair stylists, massage therapists, skin care and nail specialists run their own unique beauty salons. Intro is a nine-story building at the southeast corner of Lorain Avenue and West 25th Street offering apartments over retail, restaurants and office space. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2023/10/05/seeds-sprouts-33-sankofa-village-phase-4-coming-west-48th-gets-more-townhomes-so-might-midtown-intro-adding-salon/

Seeds & Sprouts 33 – Sankofa Village Phase 4 coming, West 48th gets more townhomes, So might Midtown, Intro adding salon By Ken Prendergast / October 5, 2023 Just off West 48th getting more townhomes A wide block between West 48th and West 50th streets and a growing desire for housing between Cleveland’s Ohio City and Gordon Square neighborhoods means developers are trying squeeze in new townhomes wherever the opportunity exists. And a new real estate opportunity emerged today that could bring even more townhouses behind existing, historic homes. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2023/10/05/seeds-sprouts-33-sankofa-village-phase-4-coming-west-48th-gets-more-townhomes-so-might-midtown-intro-adding-salon/

Seeds & Sprouts 33 – Sankofa Village Phase 4 coming, West 48th gets more townhomes, So might Midtown, Intro adding salon By Ken Prendergast / October 5, 2023 One Midtown Luxury Townhomes seeks expansion City Planning Commission recently gave conditional approval to conceptual plans for an expansion of a phased townhouse development that hasn’t visibly progressed in the past five years, despite a number of other developments moving forward in Cleveland’s Midtown neighborhood. But a member of the development team said that pending expansion of the plan will make it possible to move forward with the remainder of the project in a second phase with lower per-unit costs of construction. That could be a key to success in the growing area between downtown and University Circle. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2023/10/05/seeds-sprouts-33-sankofa-village-phase-4-coming-west-48th-gets-more-townhomes-so-might-midtown-intro-adding-salon/

Seeds & Sprouts 33 – Sankofa Village Phase 4 coming, West 48th gets more townhomes, So might Midtown, Intro adding salon By Ken Prendergast / October 5, 2023 Sankofa Village to add its fourth, final phase The Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority (CMHA) and its Sankofa Village development team are making plans to build the fourth and final phase of the village, also called Cedar Redevelopment IV, in Cleveland’s Central neighborhood just east of downtown. This phase will see the addition of 50 mixed-income affordable apartments in five townhome buildings along the east and west sides of a newly constructed East 26th Street linking Community College and Central avenues. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2023/10/05/seeds-sprouts-33-sankofa-village-phase-4-coming-west-48th-gets-more-townhomes-so-might-midtown-intro-adding-salon/

Don't worry. The new trains will fix everything....🤔

Yes

You guyz r nutz

Thanks!

I tweeted this yesterday.... https://x.com/NeotransB/status/1709253857040105846?s=20

I'm with @YABO713. I love Federalist-style homes, original or not. That side porch is great. If I had one critique of the ADU, it's the small windows overlooking the courtyard/pool. Why so small? Make 'em as big as the windows overlooking Wheat.

I'm not going to do an article on this, but I just thought this was a really cool new ADU planed for the intersection of two alleys (West 33rd and Wheat Court) in Ohio City. It's a two-bedroom home over a four-car garage and poolhouse.

Nice job @Pleco. Love the contextual pics. We tend to photograph only the building, not the skyscraper in its natural habitat!

I had heard that too and reported on it. But since then, all I've heard is what Bedrock is proposing to do -- infrastructure/site prep and phase one.

To clarify, Twenty Lake is only a landowner, at least when it comes to the Greyhound site in Cleveland. They hired another Connecticut company to develop the site -- Glimcher Capital Group (not to be confused with the Pittsburgh-based shopping center developer with the almost identical name).

Are you asking me? If so, I don't make predictions but I will share predictions by others who are directly involved in projects. Unfortunately I don't have any intel. That's probably due to the tightness/uncertainty of the financial markets. I've been hearing that Bedrock is still nailing down their financing which is why I was very surprised Bedrock didn't seek a TMUD. But there's always New Markets Tax Credits, TIFs, state funds and county loans....

A masterplan is underway for that area. There will be public input. Then we'll learn what neighbors want. It's not a good idea to guess.

Disagree. We could use more direct flights to more places that 500 miles or more away, we would be a stronger attraction to business. And if we could get to downtowns in Columbus, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Buffalo, Chicago in 1-3 hours by high-speed rail, we would be regional center for a wider variety of businesses. And if we had fast commuter trains and express buses linking downtown and UC with Mentor, Lorain, Medina, Akron and Canton, plus points in between, much more than one-third of available jobs would be closer that a 90-minute one-way transit trip on average. If we did all of that before anyone else between Chicago and the East Coast, I guarantee you Cleveland would be one of the most economically powerful cities in the USA.

That's the work on the bulkheads. Yep, I got a background article for all occasions! https://neo-trans.blog/2023/08/04/bedrock-to-start-riverfront-work/

This was a fun article to research and write, but sad that I had to.... https://neo-trans.blog/2022/10/26/clevelands-first-railroad-is-history/

Why don't we redirect this to the general Ohio City thread? But it will almost certainly need its own thread.