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East Stokes skyscraper concept wins approval By Ken Prendergast / September 20, 2024 Cleveland’s City Planning Commission today gave unanimous support to the conceptual design of a proposed mixed-use high-rise in the University Circle neighborhood. If the project is able to move swiftly through the design-review process, the proposed 24-story East Stokes Tower at the southeast corner of Chester Avenue and Stokes Boulevard could see construction start as early as spring 2025. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2024/09/20/east-stokes-skyscraper-concept-wins-approval/

Um, what is that in the last picture?? Why is it there?? 😮

Some still shots from it. Although at some times the video is moving so fast, it's impossible for it not to be blurry.

Cool new soccer stadium video that flies through the Tower City Riverfront development and shows potential additional development around the soccer stadium.

While Sanborn shows that the Cleveland Brewing Co. had buildings on both the SW and NE corners of Ansel/Hough, the bigger structures appear to have been on the NE corner.

Here's a few more pics I took in that area in 2022

Why couldn't Cedar Point (Geauga Lake etc) offer something like this when I was still able to ride rides like this without destroying by back??

Whatever was next to and demolished for the gas station was a big building too. Wonder what it was/looked like?

Asiatown mixed-use development plan revived By Ken Prendergast / September 19, 2024 Three years after a development team planned a mixed-use project at the closed Dave’s Market, 3301 Payne Ave., in Cleveland’s Asiatown, some members of that development team are back to invest in that site again. This time, a $42.3 million development is proposed with a more focused approach on affordable housing in two four-story buildings with ground-floor commercial and community uses. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2024/09/19/asiatown-mixed-use-development-plan-revived/

1. both options on the table right now. No decisions made. 2. due diligence (including enviro view) will likely take 120 days. They have two 60-day options to extend time if needed. A temp site is probably going to be needed no matter what. 3. I don't know anything about the future. I can only speculate. That and 25 cents gets me 15 minutes of metered parking.

Two more renderings, courtesy of Michelle Jarboe. Compare my photo taken last week to the render immediately after it (same location and similar angle)....

Cross-posted from the Cleveland soccer stadium thread...

Metroparks, GCRTA to aid soccer stadium project By Ken Prendergast / September 18, 2024 In two different ways, two Greater Cleveland public-sector organizations are stepping up to support the Cleveland Soccer Group’s (CSG) effort to build a $150 million, 12,500-seat soccer stadium just southeast of Downtown Cleveland. Tomorrow, the Cleveland Metroparks’ board will vote on whether to acquire land for the stadium while the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (GCRTA) is pursuing an amendment to its long-range plan to add a rapid transit station to serve the stadium area. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2024/09/18/metroparks-gcrta-to-aid-soccer-stadium-project/

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This is a bridge project that's been planned for a long time. GCRTA is rebuilding the track and platform bridges (3 bridges) over West 117th including rebuilding the concrete bridge abutments on which the bridges set. Yep, the station platform is actually a bridge over the street.

Yep.

There does appear to be some rumblings about some new projects out there. But as we know, it's a big minefield to get through to reach the finish line.

They have the building stepping down to the east -- toward the heart of University Circle, perhaps to lessen its "suddenness" on the rest of the cultural district. This building will be pretty close to the Wade Lagoon, etc. But I don't think that's been a problem with Artisan. In fact, I like how it stands out. And I would think that if the top of the building did step down, I'd step it down in the opposite direction so that more residents would have more views of the lake and possibly downtown. This way, the top of the new building wouldn't crowd up against Artisan, also preserving the views of its most expensive units. Just my two pennies...

New skyscraper planned for University Circle By Ken Prendergast / September 17, 2024 The development team for Circle Square, a district bringing more than one million square feet of mixed-use development to market in Cleveland’s booming University Circle, is about to introduce its latest addition to this booming district. And that addition, at the southeast corner of Chester Avenue and Stokes Boulevard, will challenge Circle Square’s The Artisan for the tallest building in Cleveland’s “second downtown.” MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2024/09/17/new-skyscraper-planned-for-university-circle/

This is going to be slightly shorter than Artisan by only a few feet, but still be 24 stories tall.

I got it.

This bears watching. On this week's CPC agenda is: FW 2024-025 – Circle Square, East Stokes Block, north portion seeking Conceptual Approval -- new mixed use development If I'm not mistaken, this is where the second residential high-rise is planned. In site master plans, this building was shown to be approximately the same size as The Artisan, a 24-story building. The plans for this site have yet to be posted. The architect is Solomon Cordwell Buenz. They designed a lot of high-rise projects including The Lumen in Cleveland and the Van Aken District high-rises in Shaker Heights.

Two apartment buildings in Hub 27’s first phase By Ken Prendergast / September 17, 2024 A revised plan is moving forward to fill in more of the development gap along West 25th Street between Cleveland’s booming Ohio City neighborhood to the north and the growing La Villa Hispana community to the south. In between is where the latest development, Hub 27, is poised to rise and join other existing, underway and planned developments at the north end of the Clark-Fulton neighborhood. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2024/09/17/two-apartment-buildings-in-hub-27s-first-phase/

A friend of mine took the train to the stadium concert last weekend. Said it was crowded but no problems. Sometimes in life you get on the wrong train. Meanwhile....