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Great Lakes Brewing Co. looks to the suburbs, againBy Ken Prendergast / June 6, 2025 In the latest episode of “where are they looking now,” Great Lakes Brewing Company (GLBC) reportedly has its eye on a site in suburban Westlake near the Interstate 90-Columbia Road interchange for a new craft beer production facility. But the deal isn’t done and the city of Cleveland reportedly is striving to keep one of Ohio’s largest craft brewers in the city. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2025/06/06/great-lakes-brewing-co-looks-to-the-suburbs-again/

This bomb could actually go into several threads... suburban development, Scranton Peninsula, and this one.

JFK High site to gain new life in Lee-HarvardBy Ken Prendergast / June 6, 2025 The largest redevelopment site in Cleveland’s Lee-Harvard neighborhood now has a development team selected to repurpose it with a vibrant, mixed-use district of housing, neighborhood retail, civic uses and public spaces, according to a community vision crafted last year. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2025/06/06/jfk-high-site-to-gain-new-life-in-lee-harvard/

What an exceptional country we live in...

Just a PR rewrite... Downtown’s historic Chancery Building to be renewedBy Ken Prendergast / June 6, 2025 One of Downtown Cleveland’s oldest surviving buildings is about to see a structural renewal that also offer a more uplifting place for hundreds of people to work and visit. The Chancery Building, 1027 Superior Ave., was built in 1888 as a school but later was converted to offices. That use will be confirmed by a $15 million renovation. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2025/06/06/downtowns-historic-chancery-building-to-be-renewed/

@marty15 probably not. I'm pretty swamped.

Downtown steam plant to be razed, redevelopedBy Ken Prendergast / June 5, 2025 Eight redevelopment project sites won a total of nearly $18 million from the Ohio Department of Development’s Brownfield Program so the sites can be cleaned up and, in some cases, their existing structures are to be demolished. One of those where demolition is planned is the former Cleveland Thermal steam plant, 2274 Canal Rd., in Downtown Cleveland. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2025/06/05/downtown-steam-plant-to-be-razed-redeveloped/

The plan was to take down Cleveland Vibrator in the winter, which they did, and start construction in the spring or summer. So if it isn't happening by Aug. 1, I'll make some inquiries. However, I am surprised to see that no building permits have been submitted for construction. If they were intending to start construction this summer, I would have expected to see one or more applications to be submitted by now considering it takes months for it get processed.

And because of this, Greater Columbus is anticipated to use as much electricity as Manhattan.

Two new Hough developments sell for $30MBy Ken Prendergast / June 4, 2025 In a $30.6M deal, a national real estate investment firm added 119 newly constructed apartments in Cleveland’s Hough neighborhood to its growing portfolio. New Jersey-based Reynolds Asset Management acquired Park Lamont, 9606 Lamont Ave., and The Lumos, 1866 E. 93rd St. Both are located a short walk or bike ride from jobs and classrooms in booming University Circle. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2025/06/04/two-new-hough-developments-sell-for-30m/

Past plans never indicated that this was an issue. I have plans of two proposals. Perhaps someone can remind me tomorrow to look for them, please? I'm trying to figure out why. City Council created a digital folder for this matter online through Legistar back in November of last year. I don't know what if anything (proposed ordinances, summaries, presentations, etc) was put into this folder until early today.

California isn't always ahead of us. The fact that this vote had to take place at all says they aren't...

From what I understand, folks like Polensek are concerned that this would drive I-X Center events to JimmyWorld in Brook Park. I don't agree. The stadium doesn't have the floor space and no event center as large or larger than the Huntington Convention Center downtown is planned there or anywhere else in Greater Cleveland Here's some additional background information..... Executive Summary: https://cityofcleveland.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=14254388&GUID=7517CD43-4622-440E-8E47-B561545F125D&G=2EB18EF1-2C21-4D1D-85C9-B38100AB8FFD Presentation: https://cityofcleveland.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=14255659&GUID=1DB61C2E-BD5A-4498-8E27-1056CDE92882&G=2EB18EF1-2C21-4D1D-85C9-B38100AB8FFD BTW, note that this wasn't suddenly thrust upon council. This file has been on City Council's Legistar website since November 2024 -- eight months.

Alpena looked old. So I looked it up. She's the oldest steamship still operating on the Great Lakes. Launched in 1942. Love the view of the sweeping Cleveland Union Terminal viaduct with downtown behind. too bad GCRTA didn't cooperate with a Red Line train. But still a great shot.

You could probably have some exhibits in the Grand Ballroom, food vendors, etc. The Atrium Ballroom could be where the luxury cars are put with a price to patch, since it would be visible from the street but set off from the rest of the facility to suggest exclusivity.

Event hall - 225,000 SF Grand ballroom - 32,000 SF Atrium ballroom - 20,000 SF

I-X Center’s new use revealedBy Ken Prendergast / June 3, 2025 According to two sources familiar with the matter, the International Exhibition (I-X) Center next to Cleveland Hopkins International Airport will become a data center. And, according to one of those sources, the end user is likely to be Amazon Web Services. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2025/06/03/i-x-centers-new-use-revealed/

Sorry

Glenville Job-Ready Site more than doubles in sizeBy Ken Prendergast / June 3, 2025 Too much is never enough. When you’re marketing land to new end-users, you can’t have enough clean, developable land in the urban core. And one of the largest, if not the largest in the city of Cleveland has just been assembled by the Cuyahoga Land Bank. The site is located at 12610 Kirby Ave. in Cleveland’s Glenville neighborhood, bordering on Collinwood. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2025/06/03/glenville-job-ready-site-more-than-doubles-in-size/

It's not like any governmental body in the United States would give back hundreds of millions of dollars to build a modern, comfortable passenger rail service that would improve our quality of life to try to weaken the national government in power...

Darn, I was hoping to get the article written about this (and CVSR stuff) before anyone noticed.

I can form my own opinions of an article without needing them justified by others. I thought it was a knockout blow.

I had asked the mods to unlock this thread so I could post this piece. I thought this was a knockout blow by Larkin.... clevelandGreater Cleveland business leaders betray most important...Brent Larkin argues that the Greater Cleveland Partnership’s support for the Haslams’ suburban stadium plan is a profound betrayal of Cleveland’s legacy of public-private unity, prompting a justifi...

The councilman for that ward, Kerry McCormack, supports it. If I'm McCormack, I'm telling Slife to go mind his own ward.

Walz Library-Karam Senior Living Groundbreaking setBy Ken Prendergast / June 2, 2025 Following up on a story first reported by NEOtrans a month ago, the long-planned Walz Branch of the Cleveland Public Library (CPL) and Karam Senior Living apartments will indeed see construction start in June. In fact, a groundbreaking ceremony is scheduled at 10 a.m. this Friday at the project site, 7910 Detroit Ave., to officially kick off the project. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2025/06/02/walz-library-karam-senior-living-groundbreaking-set/