March 13, 201411 yr That Elk & Elk rehab is hideous. Exactly what I thought. It looks better in its current state of abandonment.
March 13, 201411 yr Wha-wha?!?! That Elk & Elk rehab can't be for real! That's about as bad as it gets.
March 13, 201411 yr Wha-wha?!?! That Elk & Elk rehab can't be for real! That's about as bad as it gets. yep, across the street from metro, natch, next to the car wash
July 16, 201410 yr I'm going to post this in here. The developer lists it as Tremont, but it's a few roads past the quite liberal southern neighborhood boundaries. I thought I remembered reading about the Metro Lofts, 3307 Scranton Rd, (Great Crash casualty?) but there are four units for sale out of 21 possible currently and reasonably priced. I just happened to run across them while searching for possible homes. http://www.metroloft.com/index.html
July 17, 201410 yr I'm going to post this in here. The developer lists it as Tremont, but it's a few roads past the quite liberal southern neighborhood boundaries. I thought I remembered reading about the Metro Lofts, 3307 Scranton Rd, (Great Crash casualty?) but there are four units for sale out of 21 possible currently and reasonably priced. I just happened to run across them while searching for possible homes. http://www.metroloft.com/index.html Yep, Metro Lofts are in Tremont CDC's planning area. So are we following Lebron from Miami-Ft Lauderdale back to Cleveland? If so, cool. If you need any help, feel free to post in the Cleveland Relocation thread. Thanks! http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=14228.0 "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
July 17, 201410 yr So tying this into other threads, they must have gotten financing that required them to stay rentals for a certain number of years before they could convert to sales? They seem really cute.
August 5, 201410 yr Y'all slippin'. This is already TWO days old. Damn near neolithic.... MetroHealth's ambitious campus makeover may be push West 25th Street needs By JAY MILLER Originally Published: August 03, 2014 4:30 AM Modified: August 04, 2014 4:24 PM The decision to make over MetroHealth Medical Center on Cleveland's West Side may just be the spur that gets the neighborhood surrounding the public hospital to take off. The neighborhood, with West 25th Street as its spine, has been treading water for years. Although it has a sturdy housing stock comprised of homes built in the decades before the recession, the miseries that have beset so many parts of Cleveland — a decline in the public schools, the lure of newer suburban housing and, early on, freeways that chopped up neighborhoods — cost the neighborhood its vitality and led to a fleeing middle class. Now, though, nearby city neighborhoods have rebounded, and city leaders and planners think this area has a chance to be the next Ohio City or Tremont. And, unlike in the past, MetroHealth is turning outward to embrace the neighborhood as it remakes its campus, instead of turning its back, as it had done in the past. READ MORE AT: http://www.crainscleveland.com/article/20140803/SUB1/308039964/metrohealths-ambitious-campus-makeover-may-be-push-west-25th-street "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
October 3, 201410 yr My son's school, Menlo Park Academy, has a contract to buy the Joseph & Feiss property. They plan on converting the building(and surrounding 7 acres) into their new campus. They are in the due diligence phase right now, but if there are no unforeseen problems and the financing goes through, it should be a go.
October 3, 201410 yr My son's school, Menlo Park Academy, has a contract to buy the Joseph & Feiss property. They plan on converting the building(and surrounding 7 acres) into their new campus. They are in the due diligence phase right now, but if there are no unforeseen problems and the financing goes through, it should be a go. You mean this building? If so, that would be FANTASTIC! Does Menlo Park Academy use the entire former St. Mel's school building (it looks L-shaped from the air)? And is Menlo Park Academy still about 370 students? If so that's got to be a REAL TIGHT fit in St. Mel's which, according to my estimates, is only about 25,000 to 30,000 square feet on two floors. The Joseph & Feiss building is about 70,000 to 75,000 square feet on four floors. That's also going to make that area an interesting mix of schools -- with the new Max Hayes High School on West 65th & Walworth, the ever-expanding Urban Community School on West 50th & Lorain, and now possibly Menlo Park Academy off West 53rd and Walworth. "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
October 3, 201410 yr Ironically, four parcels that include the Joseph & Feiss building to the left, the gabled tower and building to the far right and the land in between them totaling 7 acres was acquired by quit claim deed on March 26 of this year by "WALWORTH LOFTS LLC." https://www.dln.com/realestatetransfers/details/id/236738 The tax mailing address for Walworth Lofts is the same P.O. Box for Cleveland Lofts, owned by Doug Perkowski, which has about a dozen properties in Greater Cleveland mostly in the center city of Cleveland such as the Merrill Lofts and the Federal Knitting Mills: http://www.clv-lofts.com/ "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
October 3, 201410 yr Yes, that's the building and site. Menlo uses all of st Mel's and it is very tight. We are at about 350 students now. The goal is to grow to 600 in the new building.
December 11, 201410 yr Meh.... http://planning.city.cleveland.oh.us/designreview/drcagenda/2014/pdf/NW_Meeting_Agenda_12-10-14.pdf Near West Design Review District Agenda (8:30 a.m., Wednesday, December 10th, 2014) Dollar Bank, 3115 West 25th Street 8:30 a.m. 1. NW 2014-023: Commercial Building Demolition © 4323 Clark Avenue Project Representative – Osama Iwais, Property Owner; Susan Eliason, TRW Construction, LLC Proposed demolition of a commercial stores & suites building. 10:15 a.m. 6. NW 2014-028: Family Dollar Store © 6605 Clark Avenue Project Representative – Chuck Colombo, Colombo Enterprises, Inc. Proposed construction of a 9,120 s.f. Family Dollar discount store with 25 parking spaces on the SW corner of the Clark Avenue-West 65th Street intersection. "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
February 20, 201510 yr Follow-up to the above.... http://planning.city.cleveland.oh.us/designreview/drcagenda/2015/pdf/NW_Meeting_Agenda2-25-14.pdf NW 2014-028: Family Dollar Store © 6605 Clark Avenue Project Representative – Chuck Colombo, Colombo Enterprises, Inc. Site plan revisions pursuant to the proposed construction of a 9,120 s.f. Family Dollar discount store with 25 parking spaces on the SW corner of the Clark Avenue-West 65th Street intersection. Case was tabled by the Committee at its December 10th meeting to permit the applicant to re-study the positioning and orientation of the building. "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
March 13, 201510 yr My son's school, Menlo Park Academy, has a contract to buy the Joseph & Feiss property. They plan on converting the building(and surrounding 7 acres) into their new campus. They are in the due diligence phase right now, but if there are no unforeseen problems and the financing goes through, it should be a go. You mean this building? If so, that would be FANTASTIC! Does Menlo Park Academy use the entire former St. Mel's school building (it looks L-shaped from the air)? And is Menlo Park Academy still about 370 students? If so that's got to be a REAL TIGHT fit in St. Mel's which, according to my estimates, is only about 25,000 to 30,000 square feet on two floors. The Joseph & Feiss building is about 70,000 to 75,000 square feet on four floors. That's also going to make that area an interesting mix of schools -- with the new Max Hayes High School on West 65th & Walworth, the ever-expanding Urban Community School on West 50th & Lorain, and now possibly Menlo Park Academy off West 53rd and Walworth. Follow-up..... Menlo Park Academy buys former Joseph & Feiss complex By STAN BULLARD March 13, 2015 2:17 PM Plans are in the works to revive the former Joseph & Feiss complex on Cleveland’s West Side as a campus for a charter school focused on gifted children. Menlo Park Academy of Cleveland is the new owner of the highly vandalized and graffiti stained building. Since 1997, the 1920-vintage garment factory and warehouse has been the subject of two sets of stalled plans by different developers to redo it for residential use. The original suit maker shut the West Side operation that same year. It consolidated its Hugo Boss line to its Brooklyn location, which again is under a closing threatened for April. Fraser Hamilton, a member of Menlo’s board and chair of its facilities commission, said in a phone interview on Friday, March 13, that the brick building will allow the school to increase its enrollment to more than 600. It can’t grow much beyond its present 364 students at its current location at 144000 Triskett Road, the former St. Mel’s school. Menlo serves students from kindergarten through eighth grade. MORE: http://www.crainscleveland.com/article/20150313/FREE/150319908/menlo-park-academy-buys-former-joseph-feiss-complex "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
April 1, 201510 yr This is for the Aragon Ballroom.... Board of Zoning Appeals APRIL 20, 2015 9:30 Calendar No. 15-023: 3179 West 25 Street Ward 14 Brian Cummins 18 Notices Woodland Inc. (aka Ali Farai) proposes to establish use of 16,698 square foot building as a banquet/assembly hall in a C2 Local Retail Business District and a Pedestrian Retail Overlay District (PRO). The owner appeals for relief from the following sections of the Cleveland Codified Ordinances: 1. Section 343.01(b) which states that a banquet hall is not permitted in a Local Retail Business District. 2. Section 343.11(b)(2)(L) which state that a banquet hall is first permitted in a General Retail Business District only if 500 feet away from a residential district per Section 347.12 (a)(1). Proposed use abuts a residential District. 3. Section 349.04(e) which states that an accessory off-street parking area equal to three times the gross floor area is required and none are provided. 4. Section 357.02 which states that a nonconforming use of a building or premises which has been discontinued shall not thereafter be returned to such nonconforming use. A nonconforming use shall be considered discontinued: (1) When the intent of the owner to discontinue the use is express; or (2) When the use is voluntarily discontinued for six (6) months or more. The intent to voluntarily discontinue a use may be implied from acts or the failure to act, including, but not limited to, the removal of and failure to replace the characteristic equipment and furnishings; or (3) The cessation of business operations for two (2) years or more unless the cessation of business operations was caused by factors out of the control of the business such as the disability or illness of the proprietor or governmental action unrelated to the behavior of the business. 5. Section 352.08 through 352.12 which states that a ten foot wide landscaped transition strip providing 75% year round opacity is required at the rear of the property where it abuts a residential district. 6. Section 343.23(h) which states that in a Pedestrian Retail Overlay District for any nonresidential building or storefront facing a Pedestrian Retail Street Frontage, not less than sixty percent (60%) of the front façade between two and one-half (2 ½) and seven and onehalf (7-1/2) feet in height shall be composed of transparent windows or doors. (Filed February 4, 2015) http://planning.city.cleveland.oh.us/bza/agenda/2015/crr04-20-2015.pdf "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
April 1, 201510 yr ^Safe to say that first photo is from Google Street View, right? I last drove by there less than a month ago and there has already been some significant exterior work done.
April 1, 201510 yr ^Safe to say that first photo is from Google Street View, right? I last drove by there less than a month ago and there has already been some significant exterior work done. Probably. But it's hosted at the CPC. "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
April 3, 201510 yr Apparently there's been some negative comments about the Aragon project in the community. So its important for people to show up at an upcoming public meeting and keep an on news coverage (and those anonymous comments in opposition): http://brian-cummins.blogspot.com/2015/04/historic-aragon-ballroom-project-public.html?m=1 "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
April 3, 201510 yr ^The pushback isn't anonymous, it's from residents in the immediate area and I can hardly blame them for being wary. clevelandskyscrapers.com Cleveland Skyscrapers on Instagram
April 3, 201510 yr Why? What's the problem? I don't know anything about this project except that Councilman Cummins supports it, and he's usually had pretty good judgement. Why don't you like the project MayDay[/member]? EDIT1: Or does anyone have any info about the downsides of this project? Is it the proposed use? The owner? The architect? Something else?? EDIT2: Apparently the concerns are limited to the availability of parking and that the establishment would have a liquor license. Whether you support or oppose the project, or better still have ideas on how to improve it, I hope you'll show up at the public meeting (see my prior message). "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
April 4, 201510 yr The downsides are the occupancy limits (1,200 people), hours of operation, the liquor license (if it's truly a conference/event center, it wouldn't need one as long as events aren't open to the general public), the closest homes are 12 feet from the building, and the planned valet parking sounds great - if it weren't for the fact Lincoln-West and West 25th will be construction zones pretty soon. clevelandskyscrapers.com Cleveland Skyscrapers on Instagram
April 4, 201510 yr I hope you can attend a public meeting. You always have good ideas on how to improve site plans. The alternative of letting this building (vacant for 20 years) continue to rot is equally not viable. "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
April 6, 201510 yr so glad to see the aragon is coming back to life. the render looks great. yeah, as a neighbor i would be wary of the booze permit too. other than that, it wont be holding any more people than it did in its prime, the area just enjoyed a way too long reprieve with their parking.
April 14, 201510 yr Sounds intriguing. No graphics yet.... http://planning.city.cleveland.oh.us/designreview/drcagenda/2015/04172015/index.php City Planning Commission Agenda for April 17, 2015 SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS The Dream Village Project Representative: Tony Bango, Stockyard, Clark-Fulton, Brooklyn Centre Community Development Office "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
April 16, 201510 yr Sneak peek: the Aragon Ballroom http://t.co/qJL0AYpP1g @FreshWaterCLE #Cleveland "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
April 29, 201510 yr This is for the Aragon Ballroom.... Board of Zoning Appeals APRIL 20, 2015 9:30 Calendar No. 15-023: 3179 West 25 Street Ward 14 Brian Cummins 18 Notices Woodland Inc. (aka Ali Farai) proposes to establish use of 16,698 square foot building as a banquet/assembly hall in a C2 Local Retail Business District and a Pedestrian Retail Overlay District (PRO). The owner appeals for relief from the following sections of the Cleveland Codified Ordinances: 1. Section 343.01(b) which states that a banquet hall is not permitted in a Local Retail Business District. 2. Section 343.11(b)(2)(L) which state that a banquet hall is first permitted in a General Retail Business District only if 500 feet away from a residential district per Section 347.12 (a)(1). Proposed use abuts a residential District. 3. Section 349.04(e) which states that an accessory off-street parking area equal to three times the gross floor area is required and none are provided. 4. Section 357.02 which states that a nonconforming use of a building or premises which has been discontinued shall not thereafter be returned to such nonconforming use. A nonconforming use shall be considered discontinued: (1) When the intent of the owner to discontinue the use is express; or (2) When the use is voluntarily discontinued for six (6) months or more. The intent to voluntarily discontinue a use may be implied from acts or the failure to act, including, but not limited to, the removal of and failure to replace the characteristic equipment and furnishings; or (3) The cessation of business operations for two (2) years or more unless the cessation of business operations was caused by factors out of the control of the business such as the disability or illness of the proprietor or governmental action unrelated to the behavior of the business. 5. Section 352.08 through 352.12 which states that a ten foot wide landscaped transition strip providing 75% year round opacity is required at the rear of the property where it abuts a residential district. 6. Section 343.23(h) which states that in a Pedestrian Retail Overlay District for any nonresidential building or storefront facing a Pedestrian Retail Street Frontage, not less than sixty percent (60%) of the front façade between two and one-half (2 ½) and seven and onehalf (7-1/2) feet in height shall be composed of transparent windows or doors. (Filed February 4, 2015) http://planning.city.cleveland.oh.us/bza/agenda/2015/crr04-20-2015.pdf POSTPONED FROM APRIL 20, 2015 9:30 Calendar No. 15-023: 3179 West 25 Street Ward 14 Brian Cummins http://planning.city.cleveland.oh.us/bza/agenda/2015/crr05-11-2015.pdf "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
May 28, 201510 yr This building is just over the tracks from Ohio City in Clark-Fulton. A landmark nomination suggests they owner is seeking tax credits to renovate the building for whatever purpose.... http://planning.city.cleveland.oh.us/landmark/agenda/2015/05282015/index.php Cleveland Landmarks Commission AGENDA - May 28, 2015 CLEVELAND LANDMARK NOMINATION 1. Leisy Brewery Bottling Works Building 3506 Vega Avenue "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
May 28, 201510 yr ^ Leisy Brewing Co. building will see beer flow again, under Ohio City contract-brewing plan (photos) http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2015/03/leisy_brewing_co_building_will.html
May 29, 201510 yr This has been covered someplace on UO already. It's the owners of Platform Brewery, they are making a large contract brewing facility where they can brew large batches for expanding microbreweries.
June 1, 201510 yr "Near future redevelopment"? I don't remember seeing that kind of language used in an agenda listing before.... http://planning.city.cleveland.oh.us/designreview/drcagenda/2015/pdf/NW_Meeting_Agenda5-27-15.pdf Near West Design Review District Agenda (8:30 a.m., Wednesday, May 27th, 2015) Dollar Bank, 3115 West 25th Street 8:30 a.m. 1. NW 2015-012: 3217 W. 25th Street & 2411 Holmden Ave. Demolitions © 3217 W. 25th Street & 2411 Holmden Avenue Project Representatives – Nagi Abdelkarim, Property Owner; Adam Stalder, Stockyard-Clark-Fulton-Brooklyn Centre Community Development Organization Proposed demolition of a 2-story, mixed use building and adjacent single-family residential structure, per City of Cleveland specifications. Remaining land will be cleared, graded and seeded for near future redevelopment. "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
June 1, 201510 yr "Near future redevelopment"? I don't remember seeing that kind of language used in an agenda listing before.... http://planning.city.cleveland.oh.us/designreview/drcagenda/2015/pdf/NW_Meeting_Agenda5-27-15.pdf Near West Design Review District Agenda (8:30 a.m., Wednesday, May 27th, 2015) Dollar Bank, 3115 West 25th Street 8:30 a.m. 1. NW 2015-012: 3217 W. 25th Street & 2411 Holmden Ave. Demolitions © 3217 W. 25th Street & 2411 Holmden Avenue Project Representatives – Nagi Abdelkarim, Property Owner; Adam Stalder, Stockyard-Clark-Fulton-Brooklyn Centre Community Development Organization Proposed demolition of a 2-story, mixed use building and adjacent single-family residential structure, per City of Cleveland specifications. Remaining land will be cleared, graded and seeded for near future redevelopment. Thanks for the heads up. I'm curious about this He has owned the adjacent parcels for at least 10 years. Wonder what he's interested in. One of the adjacent parcels that he owns had a small convenient store in it which closed shortly after the owner was (fatally?) shot in a robbery in 2001/2003. 3217 was also the location of 'Sam's showbar' which I was a strip club.
June 1, 201510 yr Looks like a graphics communications union based in Cincinnati owns the building next door, at 3227 West 25th. Parcels south of that are owned by Nagi Abdelkarim. "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
June 9, 201510 yr To call this project big is too small of a word. There are many graphics (which can be enlarged) at the link below.... http://planning.city.cleveland.oh.us/landmark/agenda/2015/06112015/index.php Cleveland Landmarks Commission CITY HALL - ROOM 514 - 9:00 AM AGENDA - June 11, 2015 CERTIFICATES OF APPROPRIATENESS Photo Gallery 1. Joseph and Feiss Warehouse: Case 15-042 2149-57 West 53rd Street Renovation for Menlo Park Academy More graphics at the following link: http://planning.city.cleveland.oh.us/landmark/agenda/2015/06112015/index.php "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
June 23, 20159 yr While DSDC submitted the application for the west-side project (it serves Stockyards & Brooklyn Centre), it's not in Detroit-Shoreway.... Low-income housing tax credits pave way for two residential projects in Cleveland June 22, 2015 By STAN BULLARD The Detroit Shoreway Community Development Organization and Cleveland Housing Network plan to undertake housing projects in Cleveland after receiving allocations of U.S. low-income housing tax credits administered by the Ohio Housing Finance Agency. Detroit Shoreway and Cleveland Housing Network announced separately on Friday, June 19, that they had received allocations that will allow them to undertake, respectively, a $9 million conversion of the former Lion Knitting Mills Building, on West 25th Street at Meyer Avenue, and to construct an apartment for the elderly dubbed “Heritage Housing” on a site on East 97th Street north of Chester Avenue. Lion Knitting will be converted into 36 loft-style units with affordable rents. The structure dates from 1919 and housed a garment firm that closed in 1990. Detroit Shoreway’s news release noted support from Dr. Akram Boutros, CEO of MetroHealth, and that of other officials as helpful in securing the award. MORE http://www.crainscleveland.com/article/20150622/NEWS/150629969/low-income-housing-tax-credits-pave-way-for-two-residential-projects EDIT: here's the building. It's the largest building still standing in this stretch of West 25th. Hopefully more will spring up soon, especially in the big vacant lot across West 25th... "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
July 1, 20159 yr A small project, but a big victory in having a building renovated rather than demolished. This heavily Latino stretch of Fulton, although low/working-class, is active and populated so more affordable housing is a good thing. The building is the two-story box-shaped structure with white siding... http://planning.city.cleveland.oh.us/designreview/drcagenda/2015/pdf/NWAgenda6-24-15.pdf Near West Design Review District Agenda (8:30 a.m., Wednesday, June 24th, 2015) Dollar Bank, 3115 West 25th Street 8:30 a.m. 1. NW 2015-019: Residential Adaptive Re-Use Project © 3272 Fulton Road Project Representatives – T. Michael Tomsik, RA, LEED AP, Project Architect; Steve Mazzone, Property Owner Proposed adaptive re-use of a vacant 2-story former commercial stores & suites building into a 3-dwelling unit apartment building. Project will save the structure from demolition. "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
July 1, 20159 yr More details on the Lion Knitting development from a non-copyrighted blog/press release.... http://brian-cummins.blogspot.com/2015/06/new-tax-credit-project-funded-in-clark.html?m=1 DETROIT SHOREWAY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT OFFICE For Immediate Release Contact: Greg Baron [email protected] cell: (216) 409-4801 June 19, 2015 Clark-Fulton, Cleveland, OH - The Detroit Shoreway Community Development Organization (DSCDO) is pleased to announce that the Lofts at Lion Mills project has been awarded Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) funding for 2015 by the Ohio Housing Finance Agency. The project is one of only three projects in Cuyahoga County to receive LIHTC funding for 2015. DSCDO is the only real estate developer in Cleveland, both non-profit and private, to receive LIHTC funding three years in a row. The $9 million project is an adaptive reuse of a mostly vacant commercial structure to create thirty-six (36) loft-style units with affordable rents. Additional amenities include eighteen (18) parking spaces, an elevator, a laundry facility, a community room, and open-concept floor plans. The building was originally constructed for the Lion Knitting Mills in 1919, which produced knitted goods for the military and private labels for 78 years. Due to foreign competition, the company closed down in 1990. The building was later occupied by Kredo Industrial Supply and has since been used primarily for storage. The building is scheduled to be added to the National Register of Historic Places and federal historic tax credits will help finance the rehabilitation. The building is located at the intersection of West 25th Street and Meyer Avenue, two blocks north of MetroHealth Hospital, the largest employer on the West Side of Cleveland with 6,000 jobs, and will support MetroHealths $1.2 billion campus transformation. Other recent investments on West 25th Street $50 million Nestlé ProfessionalNorth America expansion, which retains a Fortune 500 company and its 200 jobs in the community; $1.5 million Aragon Ballroom project which will turn the historic ballroom into a banquet center for weddings and corporate events; $200,000 "W25 Big Gig" project by One Community which will bring high speed fiber optic cable to the West 25th Street/Pearl Road Corridor from Detroit Avenue to State Road (funding for the project is provided by Councilmen Cummins, Cimperman, Brancatelli, and Kelley). Lofts at Lion Mills, 3256 West 25th Street, Cleveland Ohio 44109 The Lofts at Lion Mills is at the southern end of the La Villa Hispana (The Hispanic Village) district which is centered around the West 25th St. & Clark Ave. intersection. The neighborhood has the highest density Latino population in the State of Ohio, and project partners in developing La Villa Hispana include the Hispanic Business Center, the Hispanic Alliance, MetroHealth, the Stockyard, Clark-Fulton & Brooklyn Centre Community Development Office (SCFBC) and others. Mayor Frank Jackson designated the Lofts at Lion Mills project as one of three citywide priority projects recommended to the Ohio Housing Finance Agency for low income housing tax credits. This designation helped the project receive bonus points in scoring. The support of Dr. Akram Boutros, President and Chief Executive Officer of MetroHealth, was also critical to the project receiving funding. Councilman Brian Cummins has played a key role in the development of this project through his leadership and funding in helping DSCDO open a satellite office in July 2010 on Fulton Road to serve the neighborhoods of Stockyards, Clark-Fulton, and Brooklyn Centre. Councilman Cummins and the SCFBC community development office have helped get 300 vacant and abandoned houses demolished in the past 5 years, and another 100 vacant and abandoned houses rehabbed. The Lofts at Lion Mills will help to advance an estimated $100 million in improvements (in addition to MetroHealths campus renewal) currently underway in the neighborhood. Detroit Shoreway Community Development Organization The Gordon Square Arcade Atrium, 6516 Detroit Avenue, Suite 1 Cleveland, OH 44102-3057 (216) 961-4242 ex 224 (216) 961-8830 fax www.detroitshoreway.org - ### - Posted 1 week ago by Brian Cummins "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
July 16, 20159 yr I would love to know more about this. Sounds like a guideplan designed around this academy, and a very creative and comprehensive one. Whatever attracts new, creative populations to our city.... http://planning.city.cleveland.oh.us/designreview/drcagenda/2015/07172015/index.php City Planning Commission Agenda for July 17, 2015 SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS The Dream Neighborhood Presenter: Anthony Bango, Detroit Shoreway CDO If you go to the link for the above graphic -- http://planning.city.cleveland.oh.us/designreview/drcagenda/2015/07172015/image/Dream_Neighborhood_06.jpg -- you can scroll through the rest of the presentation by clicking the right-arrow to the lower-left of the image. The last image in the presentation is image 11. "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
July 17, 20159 yr FYI... Dream Neighborhood aims to weave refugee housing into West Side neighborhoods CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Kat Oberst Ledger and her husband, Art, recall when West 48thStreet teemed with drug dealers and sounds of gunfire peppered the night. Now their street, near the intersection of Cleveland's Stockyards and Clark-Fulton neighborhoods, is quiet at sundown. Empty houses sit, windows boarded, awaiting demolition. A hummingbird sanctuary and gardens have sprung up on vacant lots. During the last decade, the Ledgers say, the neighborhood has improved. It also has emptied out, thanks to foreclosures, abandonment and urban decay. But the Ledgers could be welcoming new neighbors – hailing from places as far-flung as Bhutan, Somalia and Ukraine – over the next few years, http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2015/07/dream_neighborhood_aims_to_wea.html#incart_river_mobileshort "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
July 18, 20159 yr I would love to know more about this. Sounds like a guideplan designed around this academy, and a very creative and comprehensive one. Whatever attracts new, creative populations to our city.... http://planning.city.cleveland.oh.us/designreview/drcagenda/2015/07172015/index.php City Planning Commission Agenda for July 17, 2015 SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS The Dream Neighborhood Presenter: Anthony Bango, Detroit Shoreway CDO If you go to the link for the above graphic -- http://planning.city.cleveland.oh.us/designreview/drcagenda/2015/07172015/image/Dream_Neighborhood_06.jpg -- you can scroll through the rest of the presentation by clicking the right-arrow to the lower-left of the image. The last image in the presentation is image 11. That's awesome!
July 28, 20159 yr Cross-posted in Restaurants, Local Events, & Entertainment thread The Stockyard, Clark-Fulton, and Brooklyn Centre Community Development Office would like to invite you to a Luncheon with Dr. Akram Boutros, CEO of the MetroHealth System. The event will include lunch, a presentation by Dr. Boutros, Q&A, and networking opportunities. The luncheon is a unique opportunity to meet and hear Dr. Boutros speak about his visions for the future of the hospital and our community. For more information, please visit the event posting here.
August 17, 20159 yr "State-of-the art" replaces "antiquated" when new Max Hayes career high school opens Tuesday By Patrick O'Donnell, The Plain Dealer on August 16, 2015 at 6:30 AM, updated August 16, 2015 at 9:46 AM CLEVELAND, Ohio - Kelly Wittman jokes that she should have a golf cart or Segway to move around the new Max Hayes career training high school. The school, after all, is 550 feet from end to end - almost two football fields long and almost all on the ground floor. As principal, Wittman will open the new school Tuesday that skips the three-story design of the old Max Hayes High School for one that avoids the challenges of hauling heavy equipment and supplies up stairs or an elevator. MORE: http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2015/08/state-of-the_art_replaces_anti.html "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
August 17, 20159 yr I saw this in the board of zoning agenda for August 31. The address points to an existing 2-story brick building on Clark. The agenda requests a variance along W 65th and the existing building doesn't stretch anywhere near the interection. So this is clearly new construction. I just hope it isn't some crappy dollar store or auto parts store with a parking lot and rear entrance. The area isn't exactly booming so I am not expecting much. http://planning.city.cleveland.oh.us/bza/agenda/2015/crr08-31-2015.pdf 9:30 Ward 3 Calendar No. 15-172: 6605 Clark Avenue Joe Cimperman 23 Notices MAP Partnership, owner, proposes to erect a new retail store in a C2 Local Retail Business District and a B3 General Industry District. The owner appeals for relief from the following sections of the Cleveland Codified Ordinances: 1. Section 357.07 which states that a 10’ setback is required along Clark Avenue and a 0’ setback is proposed. 2. Section 357.05(a) which states that a 5’ setback along W. 65th Street is required and a 0’ setback is proposed. 3. Section 352.10 which states that a 6 foot wide landscape strip is required along W. 65th St. where the parking abuts the street and 5.97’ is proposed. 4. Section 343.18(d) which states that the maximum width of a driveway shall be 30’ with a curb cut of not more than 60’ ; 37’ and 32’ are proposed on W. 65th St. and Clark Ave. respectively. (filed August 5, 2015)
August 17, 20159 yr I saw this in the board of zoning agenda for August 31. The address points to an existing 2-story brick building on Clark. The agenda requests a variance along W 65th and the existing building doesn't stretch anywhere near the interection. So this is clearly new construction. I just hope it isn't some crappy dollar store or auto parts store with a parking lot and rear entrance. The area isn't exactly booming so I am not expecting much. http://planning.city.cleveland.oh.us/bza/agenda/2015/crr08-31-2015.pdf 9:30 Ward 3 Calendar No. 15-172: 6605 Clark Avenue Joe Cimperman 23 Notices MAP Partnership, owner, proposes to erect a new retail store in a C2 Local Retail Business District and a B3 General Industry District. The owner appeals for relief from the following sections of the Cleveland Codified Ordinances: 1. Section 357.07 which states that a 10’ setback is required along Clark Avenue and a 0’ setback is proposed. 2. Section 357.05(a) which states that a 5’ setback along W. 65th Street is required and a 0’ setback is proposed. 3. Section 352.10 which states that a 6 foot wide landscape strip is required along W. 65th St. where the parking abuts the street and 5.97’ is proposed. 4. Section 343.18(d) which states that the maximum width of a driveway shall be 30’ with a curb cut of not more than 60’ ; 37’ and 32’ are proposed on W. 65th St. and Clark Ave. respectively. (filed August 5, 2015) Yes. http://planning.city.cleveland.oh.us/designreview/brd/detailDR.php?ID=1705&CASE=NW%202014-028 See: http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php/topic,2597.msg745280.html#msg745280 KJP, in your message (that I linked above), you mentioned it was the reputed mobster; I presume the discrepancy in spelling (colombo in the Zoning docket, and Columbo in your article - http://www.americanmafia.com/Feature_Articles_16.html ) is just an error? PS, mods may want to merge this topic with http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php/topic,2597.0.html
August 17, 20159 yr The Dollar Store will be across the street... http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php/topic,2597.msg745280.html#msg745280 Oops, posted too late. BTW could that thread be combined with this one? "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
September 19, 20159 yr the last of the original structures at the 4-way Clark Ave & Fultion Rd intersecton has been down for a while now (Zannoni's). 60s/70s facadomized but original structure A (?) Rally's w drive thru looks to be almost complete. unfortunatley the intersection namesake of the Clark-Fulton neighborhood now is as auto-centric and suburban looking as somewhere out in Macedonia. Big parking lots in front of a Rite Aid, Walgreens, a gas station and now a fast food drive thru. this is what happens without "gentrification." At least (just away from the intersection) Mazzone & sons italian bakery still prospers KJP's article: http://blog.cleveland.com/thesun/2007/07/zannonis_is_moving_west.html
October 7, 20159 yr Interesting sale, especially the name of the company that bought the building and adjoining parking lot. Are they going to market Metro Lofts as a residential building for MetroHealth employees? Med Cleveland LLC lists to a Columbus lawyer named Robert Erlanger.... 3307 SCRANTON RD CLEVELAND Sales Date 9/16/2015 Amount $1,500,000 Buyer MED CLEVELAND LLC Seller METRO LOFTS, LLC Deed type WARRANTY D Land value $51,900 Building value $184,600 Total value $236,500 Parcel 008-16-011 Property Apartments 20 39 units (walk up) 2113 CORNING AVE CLEVELAND Sales Date 9/16/2015 Amount $1,500,000 Buyer MED CLEVELAND LLC Seller METRO LOFTS, INC Deed type WARRANTY D Land value $5,700 Building value $0 Total value $5,700 Parcel 008-16-101 Property Apartments 20 39 units (walk up) "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
October 7, 20159 yr "State-of-the art" replaces "antiquated" when new Max Hayes career high school opens Tuesday By Patrick O'Donnell, The Plain Dealer on August 16, 2015 at 6:30 AM, updated August 16, 2015 at 9:46 AM CLEVELAND, Ohio - Kelly Wittman jokes that she should have a golf cart or Segway to move around the new Max Hayes career training high school. The school, after all, is 550 feet from end to end - almost two football fields long and almost all on the ground floor. As principal, Wittman will open the new school Tuesday that skips the three-story design of the old Max Hayes High School for one that avoids the challenges of hauling heavy equipment and supplies up stairs or an elevator. MORE: http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2015/08/state-of-the_art_replaces_anti.html I'm late but they hit a home run with CSA but struck out with this building.
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