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I wish all downtown Cleveland streets were the width of Rockwell/Frankfort. SHW HQ is going to fill that vista.

Bam!

By request, here it is......

By request, here's a new thread for a project that looks like it's going forward. First, some background... And an article from today.... Seeds & Sprouts XXVII – downtown Apts groundbreaking due, Factory to be Artist studios, Urgent Care tosses Pizza Hut By Ken Prendergast / February 23, 2023 Groundbreaking due for downtown apartments The first sign of progress that’s visible on the landscape for The Apartments At Bolivar is expected to appear in mid-March when a groundbreaking for the large, planned apartment complex is due to be held, according to sources familiar with the project. But the first actual sign of construction activity must first begin with a demolition to help clear the way for site preparation and construction of this development in downtown Cleveland’s Gateway District. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2023/02/23/seeds-sprouts-xxvii-downtown-apts-groundbreaking-due-factory-to-be-artist-studios-urgent-care-tosses-pizza-hut/

Only seven stories (it's in the article 🙂 ). If a tower crane is needed, it would be for the 50,000-square-foot footprint of the building and not the height. Although if this was Nashville, there would be one.

It's still open but not for long

Seeds & Sprouts XXVII – downtown Apts groundbreaking due, Factory to be Artist studios, Urgent Care tosses Pizza Hut By Ken Prendergast / February 23, 2023 Urgent Care Center to toss Pizza Hut Cleveland’s City Planning Commission last week approved the demolition of a Pizza Hut restaurant that has been at the southeast corner of West 117th Street and Detroit Avenue since 1987. Before that it was a Shell gas station which in 1970 replaced the ornate, Spanish-style Granada Theater that closed the year before. The next chapter for that busy street corner will likely be an Urgent Care Center if the commission approves a final design for it in the coming weeks. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2023/02/23/seeds-sprouts-xxvii-downtown-apts-groundbreaking-due-factory-to-be-artist-studios-urgent-care-tosses-pizza-hut/

Seeds & Sprouts XXVII – downtown Apts groundbreaking due, Factory to be Artist studios, Urgent Care tosses Pizza Hut By Ken Prendergast / February 23, 2023 East 45th factory to be artist studios While one historic factory on East 45th Street was recently approved for demolition, another historic factory is getting a new lease on life from new owners with a new vision for the property in Cleveland’s Asiatown neighborhood. Belden Street Partners LLC is redeveloping The Belden Building at 1623 E. 45th with studios for “heavy makers” in Cleveland’s artist community — those who work with heavy machinery — who can’t find suitable space in existing art galleries. The partners are Dan Bush, owner of 78th Street Studios in the Detroit-Shoreway neighborhood, and Stephanie Hronek, who is moving her motorcycle restoration business to the old factory. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2023/02/23/seeds-sprouts-xxvii-downtown-apts-groundbreaking-due-factory-to-be-artist-studios-urgent-care-tosses-pizza-hut/

Seeds & Sprouts XXVII – downtown Apts groundbreaking due, Factory to be Artist studios, Urgent Care tosses Pizza Hut By Ken Prendergast / February 23, 2023 Groundbreaking due for downtown apartments The first sign of progress that’s visible on the landscape for The Apartments At Bolivar is expected to appear in mid-March when a groundbreaking for the large, planned apartment complex is due to be held, according to sources familiar with the project. But the first actual sign of construction activity must first begin with a demolition to help clear the way for site preparation and construction of this development in downtown Cleveland’s Gateway District. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2023/02/23/seeds-sprouts-xxvii-downtown-apts-groundbreaking-due-factory-to-be-artist-studios-urgent-care-tosses-pizza-hut/

The property at the northeast corner has a pending purchase agreement.

They can work around it.

Monday and Wednesdays are no for me due to kid-related reasons.

They were still there a month or two ago

Interesting that Bloomberg is covering it. But why is a "savior" needed? Cleveland Looks to an Unlikely Savior: a Long-Neglected River An ambitious project promises to transform the Cuyahoga riverfront with a mixed-use development designed by David Adjaye. But the city’s industrial past still haunts the area. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-22/cleveland-s-cuyahoga-riverfront-awaits-its-transformation?srnd=premium&utm

I support nationalizing the infrastructure, particularly the rights of way. Too many shippers and towns are captive to one railroad company. And when that railroad decides it doesn't want to maintain that infrastructure anymore because it doesn't make enough money to satisfy their Wall Street overlords (yes, some profitable infrastructure has been abandoned because it doesn't make *enough* profit), that infrastructure is often gone. In no other mode of transportation is infrastructure supposed to be a profit center. Nationalizing infrastructure would offer many benefits including more rail access, more competition, lower shipping costs, preservation of lighter density rail lines and externalizing infrastructure costs on to the public which is where it should be. Several costs are no longer valid including the need to charge enough to attain a profit margin plus insurance costs as well as interest because the government enjoys a lower interest rate on long-term capital debt structures.

For an anti-big government guy, you sure are looking the other way on this. This is every bit of a big-government shotgun blast that affects more than just the 2100 block of Superior Avenue. This affects every major city in Ohio that is trying to become habitable again, and move away from the kind of truck-friendly urbanism the Georges espouse.

I wouldn't expect move-ins until a year from now. The Lumen was topped out Jan. 8, 2020. Move-ins didn't start until seven months later. Granted that was a bigger building and the pandemic slowed down their completion schedule. But the City Club probably isn't going to be topped out until sometime this summer. Then add another six months or so for the first move-ins.

With the Lumen, they opened leasing right before the pandemic-induced economic shutdown. I was lucky to get in for a tour on March 4, 2020 right before the shutdown. The first move-ins came later that summer, roughly four months later IIRC. The Lumen was completely topped out and all of the glass curtainwall was installed by the time leasing started. We're a long way from that at City Club.

About three years too late

Because he is funded by the George family. The George family owns property in the Superior Arts District.

Bad move. Instead, force freight trains to be shorter. Check out the law proposed by Arizona.

Do we have evidence of a crane foundation for the parking garage? If not, those crane pieces are likely for the next jump of the crane that's building the tower.