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Construction permits submitted for The Midtown Collaboration Center. Probably a couple months away from seeing any construction through.

I have a feeling that the 5,000-year-old concept of the human city as a center of commerce, innovation, art and societal advancement will continue unabated. It is a natural social construct.

Channel 3 already says it's arson

Nice presentation concept but there's a few errors. And why no VRE or Amtrak into Virgina or Keystone/Empire Amtrak shown?

Let 'em have it, UrbanOhioans....

Except that there's a bulldozer parked very close to the building. And it's a raging inferno right now.

I noticed that, too. And was d@mn glad to see it!

Technically, this is their Lumen 2. It's a piece of low-hanging fruit they can use to attract more workforce-type residents to Playhouse Square. I'm sure they will be able to provide this residential product for much less money per unit than what it cost to build Lumen, or Lumen 2. So I can see why they turned to this option before considering any more new construction.

Article updated with more information -- including how many apartments are planned. It's more than the typical number of units vis a vis floorspace for a downtown building!

It’s official: Lakewood Center West sells By Ken Prendergast / March 20, 2023 While Lakewood waits on the Downtown Lakewood development, a mostly residential development could come to this inner-ring suburb's former office and current retail district even sooner. According to Lakewood city officials and Cuyahoga County records, a Brooklyn, NY-based developer has acquired the seven-story Lakewood Center West at the northeast corner of Detroit and St. Charles avenues for $2.4 million. The developer told NEOtrans that they envision 60-70 apartments on the upper floors and will retain the ground-floor and basement commercial tenants. MORE https://neo-trans.blog/2023/03/20/its-official-lakewood-center-west-sells/

Public Square in June 1927 with Cleveland Union Terminal and its afterthought tower under construction. Even back then, they were parking cars on the SW quadrant of the square. Doesn't make it right, though...

@Foraker I think you meant Flaherty & Collins.

I guess this could go here. We don't exactly have a street collapse thread.....

Cleveland Hts Cedar Lee Meadowbrook “A done deal” By Ken Prendergast / March 19, 2023 The City of Cleveland Heights and its development partner, Flaherty & Collins Properties, announced the real estate and financial “closing” for the Cedar Lee Meadowbrook project, clearing the way for construction to commence in the coming weeks. It’s the second major project for the Indianapolis-based developer in the eastern inner-ring suburb of Cleveland. MORE https://neo-trans.blog/2023/03/19/cleveland-heights-cedar-lee-meadowbrook-a-done-deal/

@ProspectAve Lake House close a couple of years ago. You'd think it was because of the pandemic. But we knew one of the employees who lives in the building next to ours and he said the owner fell in love and has spent lots of time traveling together. She had no time for the restaurant. Several of us considered buying the restaurant from her, but she never responded to our phone calls. We were going to do an Eastern European restaurant and my wife, who's an amazing cook, was going to be the head chef. But she cooked up several dozen meals for a Ukrainian fundraiser last year and decided being a restaurant chef wasn't for her! From where I live on Clifton (12000 block), within a 15-minute walk, I have three grocery stores, two convenience stores, many restaurants (one is 24-hours), fast-food joints, a many bars, a Starbucks, juice bar, several banks/ATMs, two 24-hour drug stores, a Discount Drug Mart, a second-hand clothing store, a second-hand furniture store, three bus routes (one is 24 hours), three barber shops, a nail salon, two dry cleaners, two fitness centers, a city hall/police station/polling place, an elementary school, a middle school, a high school and a college.

A front-row seat would be the Rock or 55 PS. I'm practically in the nosebleeds!

Not surprising at all

Here's some of the fundamentals behind Chicago's urban core building boom. Sadly, racism seems to be a significant force behind it. https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2023/3/10/23634243/chicago-crime-mayoral-race-white-voters-column-alden-loury Rather than keep moving farther and farther out, white people appear to be leapfrogging the sprawl of black/latino out-migration...

Probably after the hotel is built on the west side of Stokes. Unless they get a joint developer who is ready to go... https://neo-trans.blog/2022/12/24/circle-square-looking-ahead/

Call me crazy, but sometimes you have to click on the article and read it and the photo captions to learn about the subject. 🤔

Half of Bulkley Building to be residential By Ken Prendergast / March 17, 2023 A significant building in downtown Cleveland’s theater district is proposed to undergo a transformation that would convert nearly half of the structure to residential and add a high-profile office tenant. The Bulkley Building, or simply The Bulkley, 1501 Euclid Ave., is not only owned by the Playhouse Square Foundation but is also the current site of the foundation’s offices. MORE https://neo-trans.blog/2023/03/17/half-of-bulkley-building-to-be-residential/

Got a mini-bomb coming..... 💣