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Cross-posted in the Glenville and Hough threads.... Fairfax, Glenville, Hough developments unveiled By Ken Prendergast / February 27, 2024 The economic development boom in Cleveland’s University Circle continues to be felt in the neighborhoods surrounding this epicenter of the local eds-and-meds jobs sector. Four new apartment development plans were revealed this week as they go on the design review docket at the City Planning Commission. Combined, all four projects could add more than 150 workforce housing units with many more in later phases. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2024/02/27/fairfax-glenville-hough-developments-unveiled/

Cross-posted in the Fairfax and Glenville threads.... Fairfax, Glenville, Hough developments unveiled By Ken Prendergast / February 27, 2024 The economic development boom in Cleveland’s University Circle continues to be felt in the neighborhoods surrounding this epicenter of the local eds-and-meds jobs sector. Four new apartment development plans were revealed this week as they go on the design review docket at the City Planning Commission. Combined, all four projects could add more than 150 workforce housing units with many more in later phases. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2024/02/27/fairfax-glenville-hough-developments-unveiled/

Cross-posted in the Fairfax and Hough threads.... Fairfax, Glenville, Hough developments unveiled By Ken Prendergast / February 27, 2024 The economic development boom in Cleveland’s University Circle continues to be felt in the neighborhoods surrounding this epicenter of the local eds-and-meds jobs sector. Four new apartment development plans were revealed this week as they go on the design review docket at the City Planning Commission. Combined, all four projects could add more than 150 workforce housing units with many more in later phases. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2024/02/27/fairfax-glenville-hough-developments-unveiled/

Where are these sections of tower crane coming from/going to? This was the scene near downtown, south of I-90, between Orange, Broadway and extended East 9th.

BTW, OmniTrax got money to rebuild the Randall Industrial track and the work appears to be underway. There's a work train based out of Von Wilier Yard west of East 55th. https://www.rtands.com/freight/omnitrax-railroad-receives-grant-for-track-rehabilitation/ I wish they could cross the NS mainline at a second location (old Harvard Tower) so OmniTrax could unite their Cleveland operations.

So how about that cool new tower downtown? 🤩

Yes, as was done to all crossings east of there even though most of the track is still there and the line isn't legally abandoned until it reaches the Portage County line -- just past Geauga Lake and Brewster Road -- about 2,500 feet from where I lived from 1978-93.

I was just looking at the tortured ownership history of that line.... Norfolk Southern's Randall Industrial Track has been leased to OmniTrax and previously leased to Cleveland Commercial Railroad. NS got it in 2000 in the NS/CSX takeover of Conrail. From 1976-2000 it was Conrail's Randall Secondary. From 1960-1976 it was the Erie-Lackawanna Mahoning Division First District. From 1883-1960, it was the Erie Railroad Mahoning Division's First Subdivision. From 1872-1883 it was the Cleveland and Mahoning Valley Railroad and from 1856-1872 it was the Cleveland & Mahoning -- with different railroad companies leasing those real-estate owning companies prior to Erie buying the tracks its leased. In 1890, it was the first railroad line into Cleveland that was double-tracked because it was overwhelmed with traffic -- including its ore and coal docks on the old river channel near Whiskey Island. The second track was ripped out east of Randall Yard in 1965 several years after the last intercity passenger train ran on this line. The last commuter train ran on this line on Jan. 14, 1977 -- the weekdays Cleveland-Youngstown run. Freight traffic east of the Carlon plastics plant on Chamberlain Road in Mantua Township was ended in 1980. ICC gave permission to abandon the tracks east of there, plus the tracks from the Cuyahoga drawbridge to the Riverbed ore docks in Cleveland and the Leavittsburg-Youngstown portion in the fall of 1981. Tracks east of Mantua were removed in 1983. The Carlon plant switched to trucks and the last train east of Harper Road in Solon to the Carlon plant was in 1993. I remember when Conrail rebuilt the tracks with new ties and ballast in 1988 and some old-timer quipped "Welp, that line's done for. They'll rip it out in a few years."

That dude in the Porsche was probably all giddy, thinking you were taking a picture of his car! If he only knew... I'm looking forward to the day when that view of downtown is no longer possible.

Tyler Perry Halts $800 Million Studio Expansion After Seeing OpenAI’s Text-to-Video Debut OpenAI's text-to-video model Sora is already having an impact on the film industry. https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/a/jaelaniturnerwilliams/tyler-perry-stops-studio-expansion-openai

Tremont Treehouse Apartments plans announced By Ken Prendergast / February 26, 2024 A joint venture proposing a four-story apartment building in Cleveland’s Tremont neighborhood called the Treehouse Apartments, first reported by NEOtrans last month, will go before the City Planning Commission’s Design Review Committee to present their plans this Friday. While the project would add dozens of new housing units to the neighborhood to respond to as-yet unsatiated demand, it would also result in the demolition of three 19th-century houses. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2024/02/26/tremont-treehouse-apartments-plans-announced/

Just like the many used car dealerships along Lorain? Some of them have been busted for laundering drug dealers' money. Unless they do get busted, it's very hard to get them redeveloped.

A developer has also wanted to tear down the abandoned Burger King and build a car wash at Detroit and Lake. But that has been pushed back too.

Those townhomes need parking in back and landscaped patios in front. A lot of hard surfaces need to be softened up in that scene.

East 79th station plans -- Cross-posted in the GCRTA thread....

GCRTA’s new East 79th rail station is an Opportunity By Ken Prendergast / February 25, 2024 Planning and design work has advanced far enough on the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority’s (GCRTA) new East 79th Street Blue/Green Line light-rail station to where renderings are being shared publicly. NEOtrans secured a copy of the designs and is publishing them here. But the plans are part of something larger — a growing investment in Cleveland’s Kinsman neighborhood. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2024/02/25/gcrtas-new-east-79th-rail-station-is-an-opportunity/

Aw man, I wanted to break that news along with a new restaurant on West 25th!

Or an at-grade downtown loop.

Downtown’s largest housing project in the works By Ken Prendergast / February 23, 2024 With nearly 900 mixed-income apartments envisioned, a plan to develop the largest single housing development in Downtown Cleveland’s history is reportedly in the works. While it will take multiple phases and many years to build, the partners and the plans for the massive project are coming together. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2024/02/23/downtowns-largest-housing-project-in-the-works/

Yeah, this probably qualifies as one....

We don't need to demonize the suburbs and exurbs. They demonize themselves. I wonder how many people in this audience consider themselves a Christian, yet spewed such hate and venom against this Christian-sponsored development project? https://www.clevescene.com/news/a-christian-nonprofit-wants-to-build-a-small-womens-homeless-shelter-in-munson-township-the-towns-residents-came-out-in-force-to-kill-the-p-43757546

Should this be a bridge for trains or a living room?

BTW, we have a Circle Square thread

Civilization Coffee building is for sale. Not sure yet what this means for Civilization.... https://ahprd1cdn.csgpimgs.com/d2/kTAzB1ZFTcUwJ7F0DzqgnZl1aOGWcy40luh3PXiHJdQ/2366 W 11th St Brochure - 2366 W 11th St.pdf

Seeds & Sprouts 34 – McKinsey moving atop Key, Dunham Tavern adding green infrastructure, Brooklyn Polish hall to host Encompass Health, Nia’s Cafe to open on Kinsman By Ken Prendergast / February 22, 2024 Nia’s Cafe to open on Kinsman Avenue What was once Skateland of Cleveland, later called Oasis In The City and partially renovated two years ago is planned to reopen as Nia’s Café and Retail, 11209 Kinsman Ave., in Cleveland’s Mount Pleasant neighborhood. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2024/02/22/seeds-sprouts-34-mckinsey-moving-atop-key-dunham-tavern-adding-green-infrastructure-brooklyn-polish-hall-to-host-encompass-health-nias-cafe-to-open-on-kinsman/