Reposted from another thread is this message from July 2011. Here is:

 

Concluding the panel was Tracey Nichols, director of Economic Development for the City of Cleveland, who outlined in a very energetic way five outstanding city projects and how they were financed. These included the 128,000-sf Midtown Tech Center, a successful spec building meant to keep growing healthcare and tech firms in the city as they outgrew incubators; the Marons’ $44 million Uptown Phase 1 with its 102 apartments and 55,000-sf of retail at University Circle; and First Interstate’s Shoreway Commerce Park on St. Clair, with 450,000-sf on 30 acres close to truck and train transport. Two others were the very popular 668 Euclid Building, with 215 apartments rented within the first month and a 100-person waiting list, and the possible use of the East Ohio Gas building as a residential renovation to help get the Downtown Cleveland Alliance’s Nine Twelve initiative off to a good start.

 

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Mitchell Schneider may add to Cleveland's Shoreway Commerce Park

By JAY MILLER

2:44 pm, August 31, 2011

 

With 70% of the available space occupied at his Shoreway Commerce Park, Mitchell Schneider, president of First Interstate Properties Ltd., is thinking about expanding the business park in Cleveland.

 

Mr. Schneider told Crain's about his plan at the park's ribbon-cutting this morning, marking the substantial build out of a 450,000-square-foot building at East 79th Street and St. Clair Avenue that was a truck plant for the now-defunct White Motor Co.

 

Mr. Schneider said if negotiations with prospective tenants are successful, he will begin construction on a new, one-story, multitenant building for light manufacturing and distribution operations on a 10-acre site adjacent to the former White Motor plant.

 

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http://www.crainscleveland.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20110831/FREE/110839958

Mitchell Schneider may add to Cleveland's Shoreway Commerce Park

By JAY MILLER

2:44 pm, August 31, 2011

 

With 70% of the available space occupied at his Shoreway Commerce Park, Mitchell Schneider, president of First Interstate Properties Ltd., is thinking about expanding the business park in Cleveland.

 

Mr. Schneider told Crain's about his plan at the park's ribbon-cutting this morning, marking the substantial build out of a 450,000-square-foot building at East 79th Street and St. Clair Avenue that was a truck plant for the now-defunct White Motor Co.

 

Mr. Schneider said if negotiations with prospective tenants are successful, he will begin construction on a new, one-story, multitenant building for light manufacturing and distribution operations on a 10-acre site adjacent to the former White Motor plant.

 

READ MORE AT:

http://www.crainscleveland.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20110831/FREE/110839958

This is great news. These kinds of projects help us be competitive with the suburbs. (I'd rather have everyone work together, but since that is unlikely to happen in this Balkanized county, then we have to compete). We need more of these. The demand is there.