June 30, 20222 yr I get all the design criticisms, but just for context here's a view of Superior and E. 105. You can see the intersection in the background and this street view is what it looks like from about 50-100 yards east. I'm just so ecstatic anything is getting built here at all.
June 30, 20222 yr Author Yep. Looking at the same street from the opposite direction, at the East 105th intersection in the distance, in 1949. The only building still standing in the picture below is the bank with the columns. While the design of Famicos' proposed building isn't great, it is density with some mixed use. It's actually more dense than the building that stood previously at the southeast corner, seen at far right.... "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
June 30, 20222 yr 8 minutes ago, KJP said: Yep. Looking at the same street from the opposite direction, at the East 105th intersection in the distance, in 1949. The only building still standing in the picture below is the bank with the columns. While the design of Famicos' proposed building isn't great, it is density with some mixed use. It's actually more dense than the building that stood previously at the southeast corner, seen at far right.... Of course, the original building didn't have a "Back 40" of parking.
June 30, 20222 yr Author 1 hour ago, X said: Of course, the original building didn't have a "Back 40" of parking. Yep, cuz it had a streetcar on Superior and, by this time, a trackless trolley on 105th. "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
June 30, 20222 yr I get all the design criticisms, but just for context here's a view of Superior and E. 105. You can see the intersection in the background and this street view is what it looks like from about 50-100 yards east. I'm just so ecstatic anything is getting built here at all. http://cdn.urbanohio.com/monthly_2022_06/image.png.35056cfdf746f6e1f992a5961d40848d.pngEh. I live in this neighborhood, ride past this everyday. While I’m excited for development I want something worth looking at. Just building to build is a dangerous game. At least remove the columns and bring in to the sidewalk so it’s flush with the other buildings. I don’t think that’s asking for much. Also make the “retail space” have more glass like Glenvillage to seem more inviting. Edit: I see the glass, but it’s being blocked by the columns. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
June 30, 20222 yr There are developers who are at this point holding off on building even on things which have gone through planning commission due to the cost of materials on sites which are “luxury”. Just seeing this potentially get through planning and off the ground at this point in time says something.
July 1, 20222 yr Author This received schematic approval (yes, they skipped conceptual review) including this updated rendering. MetroHealth will have a neighborhood medical facility in this building. "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
July 1, 20222 yr Yay for new medical offices, but this incongruous site layout is a disservice to the community. Grrr... It does an excellent job of making that existing old Cleveland Trust branch look like a loose puzzle piece, and an eyesore at that. What gives with this strikingly insensitive design? 🤮 If only one side of the building will be fairly flush to the sidewalk, why is it the side of the building where it doesn't support a harmonious aesthetic (and pedestrian friendly) relationship with it's closest neighbor? Edited July 1, 20222 yr by ExPatClevGuy
July 1, 20222 yr This received schematic approval (yes, they skipped conceptual review) including this updated rendering. MetroHealth will have a neighborhood medical facility in this building. This looks a lot better but it still is setback but whatever. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
July 1, 20222 yr I just wonder if using other colors is more expensive in cleveland... but I love that the building is going up on that corner...
July 12, 20222 yr Churchill Gateway development (7-10-22) Gold Coast Lofts site Ashbury Point townhomes Ashbury infill
July 12, 20222 yr Author Thank you very much @NorthShore647for getting all of these "current status" photos of so many projects! "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
July 13, 20222 yr Churchill Gateway development (7-10-22) Gold Coast Lofts site Ashbury Point townhomes Ashbury infill Hmmmm those Phase 2 Ashbury townhomes have a different design? Definitely pleasantly surprised.Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
August 5, 20222 yr Krayzie Bone Wants to Build Music Academy in Glenville, Make Cleveland a "Prospering Music City" https://www.clevescene.com/news/krayzie-bone-wants-to-build-music-academy-in-glenville-make-cleveland-a-prospering-music-city-39436951
October 17, 20222 yr I walked by the other day and Churchill Gateway (at least the first phase of it) appears to be topped out and making significant progress. Didn’t end up getting a picture though as there were a couple people standing directly in view.
November 29, 20222 yr Author "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
November 29, 20222 yr I don't think $359k is too much for new construction. I think its a decent deal considering location near University Circle.
December 6, 20222 yr Author This brick building at 967 E. 105th is next to go. So many demolitions. Sad to see a brick building get taken down. There's not much left here. I remember driving down this busy street in the late 1980s from Bratenahl to Quincy. It was lined with one- and two-story buildings with stores still open in many of them and lots of cars parked along the street. It was slow-going through all of that urbanity, now mostly gone. https://www.google.com/maps/place/967+E+105th+St+Cleveland/@41.5307988,-81.6156581,3a,75y,89.95h,90t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sv8EERpWZvVGix80RljmjIg!2e0!4m2!3m1!1s0x8830fbe338433795:0xc0a65c90c9a84178?sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiimZ7eiuX7AhWRFlkFHSjRBxcQxB16BAgOEAI "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
December 7, 20222 yr This brick building at 967 E. 105th is next to go. So many demolitions. Sad to see a brick building get taken down. There's not much left here. I remember driving down this busy street in the late 1980s from Bratenahl to Quincy. It was lined with one- and two-story buildings with stores still open in many of them and lots of cars parked along the street. It was slow-going through all of that urbanity, now mostly gone. https://www.google.com/maps/place/967+E+105th+St+Cleveland/@41.5307988,-81.6156581,3a,75y,89.95h,90t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sv8EERpWZvVGix80RljmjIg!2e0!4m2!3m1!1s0x8830fbe338433795:0xc0a65c90c9a84178?sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiimZ7eiuX7AhWRFlkFHSjRBxcQxB16BAgOEAI I really don’t like how all these demolitions can just happen so easily on the East Side. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
December 7, 20222 yr 12 hours ago, MyPhoneDead said: I really don’t like how all these demolitions can just happen so easily on the East Side. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Have you not been there?
December 7, 20222 yr Have you not been there?Have I not been on the East side? I live on the East Side. Right off of 105th to be exact where all this demolition is occurring. I just hate seeing such old structures get replaced eventually with newer structures. Some buildings are irreplaceable, they give a neighborhood character and history. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
December 7, 20222 yr 32 minutes ago, MyPhoneDead said: Have I not been on the East side? I live on the East Side. Right off of 105th to be exact where all this demolition is occurring. I just hate seeing such old structures get replaced eventually with newer structures. Some buildings are irreplaceable, they give a neighborhood character and history. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Sorry, I guess I misread your post somehow. I thought you said you didn't know how all those demolitions can occur so easily on the East Side, or something to that effect. Don't know how I read that. But yeah, I agree that it sucks losing so much of the East Side's history or character. It really was the more grand side of town once.
December 11, 20222 yr This received schematic approval (yes, they skipped conceptual review) including this updated rendering. MetroHealth will have a neighborhood medical facility in this building. The brick structure along Churchill has been torn down. Maybe construction is imminent? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
December 11, 20222 yr Also siding has started to go up for The Davis Apartments.Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
January 10, 20232 yr Author Treatment center to vacate St. Mary’s Seminary By Ken Prendergast / January 10, 2023 It’s a place where few women wanted to go. And after their experiences at the Hitchcock Center for Women, many say they never wanted to leave. While each person tends to enter the center facing an abyss wrought by addiction, many leave feeling loved and hopeful. The Hitchock Center hopes their new home will be able to provide at least as much care as the old. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2023/01/10/treatment-center-to-vacate-st-marys-seminary/ "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
January 10, 20232 yr Treatment center to vacate St. Mary’s Seminary By Ken Prendergast / January 10, 2023 It’s a place where few women wanted to go. And after their experiences at the Hitchcock Center for Women, many say they never wanted to leave. While each person tends to enter the center facing an abyss wrought by addiction, many leave feeling loved and hopeful. The Hitchock Center hopes their new home will be able to provide at least as much care as the old. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2023/01/10/treatment-center-to-vacate-st-marys-seminary/I hate the black fences that always get put up around Glenville. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
February 19, 20232 yr Getting closer. It honestly looks good in person. Sent from my Pixel 7 using Tapatalk
March 9, 20232 yr The Davis Apartment Homes (3-9-23) Anecdotally, there are still numerous homes actively being renovated within the couple of blocks to the south.
April 8, 20232 yr Selling so fast at these price points is encouraging. Also I really do love this site plan. Are these best designed townhomes? No. But this very solid DENSE infill. Sent from my Pixel 7 using Tapatalk
April 26, 20232 yr Glenville home prices continue to climb along its southern edge (the border of course being Wade Park Ave). And much of that infill has already occurred to the empty lots / tear downs directly NE of E.115th Street. Edited April 26, 20232 yr by MuRrAy HiLL
April 27, 20232 yr Author I've been seeing construction permits for this over the past few months so I wouldn't be surprised if there's construction already happening. I just haven't been by that site in a long time. "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
April 27, 20232 yr 34 minutes ago, KJP said: I've been seeing construction permits for this over the past few months so I wouldn't be surprised if there's construction already happening. I just haven't been by that site in a long time. I live by here and drive past this site everyday, nothing yet besides the demolition of that green building a few months back. Hearing that there have been permits popping up is encouraging.
April 27, 20232 yr Author Sometimes I'm energized by what happens in this city and other times the daunting task of rebuilding it makes me sad. For the latter, consider this stretch of East 123rd Street in Glenville, just south of the intersection with Arlington. So here's a guy from Brook Park who owns the 25,000-square-foot building shown first below. He's fixing the building to correct some building code violations. Perhaps this beautiful, old walk-up can be saved. But then there's two more across the street, and there were possibly others here that have already been razed, judging by the many vacant lots. Just imagine what this neighborhood could look like if those buildings were fixed up and some of these cheap, suburban-style houses that are already falling apart could be replaced with townhomes, small apartment blocks and perhaps some larger apartment buildings with a corner store/cafe built up to the sidewalks. This could be a terrific little neighborhood enclave again. Fix up these buildings and add another in the vacant lot at right! A new house was built on the left next to these decaying hulks. What a bustling neighborhood this must've been a century ago! "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
April 27, 20232 yr East 123rd Street is the most heartbreaking street in Cleveland to me. A major WHAT IF maybe the largest what if in the city. I always loved the bones of the neighborhood growing up and it contained some of the most beautiful neighborhood apartments buildings in Cleveland. Look at what happened to 123rd and Saywell avenue alone. HEART WRENCHING. Sent from my Pixel 7 using Tapatalk
April 27, 20232 yr Lost neighborhoods like this are absolutely disturbing to people who care about vibrant streets full of mixed use buildings, classic apartments and old homes with character. What a waste to see them abandoned. I'm just old enough to remember the Doan's Corner neighborhood. In my mind l can still see those huge buildings full of offices, retail and theaters like the Alhambra. Bustling streets. I was just a kid. I didn't know anything but l knew l was seeing something really cool. Our culture is so shortsided. I'm heading back to Morocco this fall to get my fix of old (really old) cities. Nothing like getting lost in a souk, wandering down tight alleys. Now there's a people who appreciate tradition.
April 27, 20232 yr 5 hours ago, MyPhoneDead said: East 123rd Street is the most heartbreaking street in Cleveland to me. A major WHAT IF maybe the largest what if in the city. I always loved the bones of the neighborhood growing up and it contained some of the most beautiful neighborhood apartments buildings in Cleveland. Look at what happened to 123rd and Saywell avenue alone. HEART WRENCHING. Sent from my Pixel 7 using Tapatalk Just a note: my paternal grandparents lived on Saywell a few houses east of E123rd St (the house still stands) untill around 1955. I faintly remember E123rd to have been a busy commercial street with small, active neighborhood businesses. Edited April 27, 20232 yr by urb-a-saurus
April 28, 20232 yr Author Building records now show the first building below, at 903 East 123rd St., is to be condemned. That doesn't always foretell demolition, but in this neighborhood I'm afraid it does. 18 hours ago, KJP said: Sometimes I'm energized by what happens in this city and other times the daunting task of rebuilding it makes me sad. For the latter, consider this stretch of East 123rd Street in Glenville, just south of the intersection with Arlington. So here's a guy from Brook Park who owns the 25,000-square-foot building shown first below. He's fixing the building to correct some building code violations. Perhaps this beautiful, old walk-up can be saved. But then there's two more across the street, and there were possibly others here that have already been razed, judging by the many vacant lots. Just imagine what this neighborhood could look like if those buildings were fixed up and some of these cheap, suburban-style houses that are already falling apart could be replaced with townhomes, small apartment blocks and perhaps some larger apartment buildings with a corner store/cafe built up to the sidewalks. This could be a terrific little neighborhood enclave again. Fix up these buildings and add another in the vacant lot at right! A new house was built on the left next to these decaying hulks. What a bustling neighborhood this must've been a century ago! "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
April 28, 20232 yr Building records now show the first building below, at 903 East 123rd St., is to be condemned. That doesn't always foretell demolition, but in this neighborhood I'm afraid it does. That hurts. Sent from my Pixel 7 using Tapatalk
April 29, 20232 yr From folks I know that grew up on the East side and "escaped," the suburban dream remains alive. They wouldn't dream of living here again. These are Black folks I'm referring to. Sure, some have remained and built, (IMO,) horribly misplaced mcmansions in Hough, the suburban dream in the city, with plenty of room for the car storage. I grew up white flight in the eastern burbs, worked for years personally to overcome it, and I just can't with this crap anymore. Car addiction is destroying this world. Even in highly gentrified Tremont the residents' primary concerns are about accommodating their GD cars and those of the tourists. And Cleveland's industrial history is overwhelmingly what built the car dependency that destroyed it. When you have dense housing like this, old or new it often proves less in demand than anticipated over issues of car storage and access. Many would rather drive an hour each way every day. Maybe people just never wanted to live close to one another. I used to work with an immigrant who related her conversation with a fellow immigrant over the latter's new house out in sprawl-ville: "You know what she told me? She said, "I love it so much! I don't even have to see my neighbors!" Is this what this country is all about?" I said, "Yep."
April 29, 20232 yr Let's keep this thread to actual development news and discussion, and not turn into memory lane, or another place to pontificate upon auto dependency. We have other places on UO for that.
May 7, 20232 yr Just noticed the blue accents on The Davis from Superior... looking sharp, though the rest of the photo is about as gloomy as it gets I realize this is like the fourth photo posted of this infill site, but *damn* these things go up quick... no wonder I rarely notice them being built And still no movement on Gold Coast Lofts.
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