Crocker Park posts are moved here:

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php/topic,2710.0.html

If it is posted here I guess I missed it... Anyone know what's going on with the building next to the City of Cleveland Ambulance parking at Carnegie and E55th (5601 Carnegie)? A fair number of the boarded windows have been cut out and replaced with plastic. Is this one of the county buildings that is being sold?

Is it the Warner and Swasey Building (cool brick building between E55 and tracks)?  That one is being redone by Hemingway (Geis) for more tech companies and med start ups. 

Yes - it is the W & S building.  I noticed that work as well.

Random question: is the Lincoln building/IMG parking center on the corner of St. Clair and 6th completely empty except for the ground level businesses??  Given its location and the Westin coming in right across the street, I think it's time for a major rehab or.... A new building?? ;P

Random question: is the Lincoln building/IMG parking center on the corner of St. Clair and 6th completely empty except for the ground level businesses??  Given its location and the Westin coming in right across the street, I think it's time for a major rehab or.... A new building?? ;P

When was the last time a large parking structure was torn down for new construction? Parking is easy money.

No, it's not empty. IMG is still in there. I don't remember the occupancy rate, but it was listed in that PD graphic of the 9-12 district.

The Lincoln Building owner has queried architects for years on rehabbing the structure.  Maybe the convention center will be the spark to get him moving.  WRL did a proposal for the facade several years back.

Random question: is the Lincoln building/IMG parking center on the corner of St. Clair and 6th completely empty except for the ground level businesses??  Given its location and the Westin coming in right across the street, I think it's time for a major rehab or.... A new building?? ;P

 

Eh, no, Lincoln Building is NOT empty.  The entire 6th floor is occupied by over 200 people (I work there) and part of the 5th floor is occupied.  Furthermore, four floors of the parking garage are full to the hilt on a daily basis, with a capacity of several hundred cars.  The garage was built in 1920 and is of extremely heavy duty construction.  It was originally named the 'Ninth Garage', later renamed the 'Auditorium Garage' and then in the 1960's renamed 'Lincoln Building'.  I don't think this building is going anywhere in the short term - once the MedMart opens, parking will be a very profitable business. 

The Lincoln Building is the reason I was born.  My mom and dad met there in an office during the 50's.  My dad was from NYC and was stationed in Cleveland (office work for army ordinance) for 2 years (was in ROTC in college).  His plan was to do his duty (had never been to Cleveland in his life and had no ties was so ever to the city) and get the hell out of town pronto.  Ended up living the rest of his life in Cleveland and even became a Browns fan over the Giants and Indians over the Yankees.  Some time you never know where life will lead you.

 

Word has it that office had some pretty wild parties (at least for Cleveland in the 50s) in the bars and hotels around town.  Sounds very Mad Men esque.  Hope they do renovate the building.

Just in case you missed this. It was posted in the Northeast Ohio Regionalism thread....

 

Well a reprieve for now for North Randall. It doesn't mean Thistledown won't pack up and leave in a year or 2.

 

Thistledown owner announces $88 million investment

 

By Rick Armon

Beacon Journal staff writer

 

Published: August 22, 2012 - 11:36 PM

A Thistledown horse track and video slots parlor won’t be coming to the Akron-Canton area anytime soon.

 

Rock Ohio Caesars said Wednesday it will spend $88 million to update and transform the existing thoroughbred track in North Randall into a racino, the industry term for a combined track and slots parlor.

http://www.ohio.com/news/local/thistledown-owner-announces-88-million-investment-1.328971

Developer Dick Pace to take over retail space at Colonial, Euclid arcades in downtown Cleveland

Published: Tuesday, August 28, 2012, 8:00 AM

By Michelle Jarboe McFee, The Plain Dealer The Plain Dealer

 

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A Cleveland developer who built a successful technology incubator in the city's Midtown neighborhood is tackling another tough spot: Downtown retail.

 

Dick Pace will master lease 60,000 square feet of retail at the Colonial and Euclid arcades in Cleveland

 

 

http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2012/08/developer_dick_pace_to_take_ov.html#incart_river_default

This is excellent news! He said all the magic words I hoped to hear. I'm very hopeful we'll soon kiss the horrific signage and Colonial Marketplace branding goodbye.

I agree this could be a game-changer.  Good luck to Dick Pace!

I'm in those arcades a lot, and I think they get more pedestrian traffic than the Euclid-Superior Arcade. I have no data to prove my point, but it just seems that way.

Anyone ever been to the Quincy Market in Boston? I think a cool mix of local food spots having an outpost as well as interesting retailers etc. would not only draw a business crowd but a tourist crowd. Believe it or not there are people sightseeing downtown on any given day... Lol anyways I've always thought of Quincy Market in regards to this project.

I'm in those arcades a lot, and I think they get more pedestrian traffic than the Euclid-Superior Arcade. I have no data to prove my point, but it just seems that way.

 

I agree 100%

Exactly How many arcades are there?  2?  3?  4?  Didn't someone from Canada buy the Colonial Arcade last December?

Depends on what you call an arcade. There's numerous store-lined passages through buildings downtown and even in city neighborhoods.

Exactly How many arcades are there?  2?  3?  4?  Didn't someone from Canada buy the Colonial Arcade last December?

 

The Canadian group bought "The Arcade," which is the big one with the Hyatt between Euclid and Superior. The ones Dick Pace is leasing are the smaller "Euclid" and "Colonial" arcades which run between Euclid and Prospect. Those are the three main ones downtown, but as KJP points out, there are also some older office building passageways that are arcade-like or have even been called arcades at various points (e.g., Bulkley Bldg, old Midland Bank Bldg at Tower City).

I believe the thing that makes a true arcade is that it is a covered over street.  The Old Arcade is East 4th St, for the most part, and the Colonial/Euclid is East 6th St.  Of course, the ROW's were vacated, and the adjacent fronting parcels added into the new structure.

Developer Dick Pace to take over retail space at Colonial, Euclid arcades in downtown Cleveland

Published: Tuesday, August 28, 2012, 8:00 AM

By Michelle Jarboe McFee, The Plain Dealer The Plain Dealer

 

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A Cleveland developer who built a successful technology incubator in the city's Midtown neighborhood is tackling another tough spot: Downtown retail.

 

Dick Pace will master lease 60,000 square feet of retail at the Colonial and Euclid arcades in Cleveland

 

 

http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2012/08/developer_dick_pace_to_take_ov.html#incart_river_default

 

Great news indeed...I go and eat at PJ's Luncheonette in the arcade every now and then, because they have sweet tea and grits that remind me of home... But that building should be put to a higher use than sweet tea and grits, suffice it to say.

I hope/doubt PJ's doesnt get kicked out. They offer good quick food and a low price. And besides, those arcades are about 80% vacant. Its going to be awhile until their space is possibly needed.

I love PJ's. Good cheap food run by mom-n-pop immigrants. Don't stop to read the specials outside the door unless you intend on eating there, because the mom half of the mom-n-pop combo will drag you inside. ;) Love that kind of place.

Expansion of the Nestle plant on West 25th Street. These views are visible only from Barber Avenue above I-90....

 

 

 

Let's keep the discussion focused in one thread, and since a relocation of Key Corp is just speculation right now and not an actual project, I've moved all postings here:

 

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php/topic,4266.msg638908.html#msg638908

More arcade discussion:

 

Arcades lease is a big retail play fit for a resurgent downtown Cleveland: editorial

Published: Monday, September 03, 2012, 8:07 PM

The Plain Dealer Editorial Board

 

As the downtown areas of older, large American cities struggle to regain vibrancy, retail is often the last sector to rebound. And when it does, it rarely resembles the department-store-based shopping experience that an older generation remembers. Those stores long ago moved to the suburbs, then morphed into big boxes and what developers now call power centers.

 

The retail that does seem to work these days -- as Paul Levy of Center City Philadelphia noted earlier this year during the first of the Cleveland Connects community conversations -- often starts out small scale, quirky and locally based. That reflects the reluctance of many national brands or chains to take a chance on neighborhoods that don't yet meet their demographic targets.

 

But it also reflects the changing nature of America's new/old downtowns. Increasingly, they are filled not just with 9-to-5 commuters or out-of-town visitors, but with creative-class professionals who work and live in the heart of the city -- and who like to shop in places that are distinctive and local.

 

www.cleveland.com/opinion/index.ssf/2012/09/a_big_retail_play_fit_for_a_re.html

Not sure where to put this, but interesting discussion on Case campus this Friday:

 

Sep 7: "Cleveland's Downtown Rebound" at CWRU http://cwru-daily.com/news/?p=9643

 

I too could rant about Roldo, Feagler, and Frazier all day, but we should get back to actual development news.

^Agreed; to those who want to discuss the likes of Roldo, etc., please post in http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php/topic,13110.msg639406.html#new

I love PJ's. Good cheap food run by mom-n-pop immigrants. Don't stop to read the specials outside the door unless you intend on eating there, because the mom half of the mom-n-pop combo will drag you inside. ;) Love that kind of place.

 

Absolutely, and it's all good. I heard they're worried about a rent increase, although next door Bobby C the barber said he was told no rent increase, Pace is just going to try and bring in new tenants.

http://www.19actionnews.com/slideshow?widgetid=62556

Anyone  know anything about this building? its the 3rd slide in, looks new. I think i have it pegged just caddy corner from Avenue district on the running track

^East Ohio Gas Company Building I think

^East Ohio Gas Company Building I think

 

Thats right.  Thats that super ugly rendering that K&D put out. 

The interior view is better, which I will post in the thread for that project.

Cleveland Range will add jobs and expand in Collinwood

 

A venerable Cleveland maker of commercial ovens is expected to add jobs and grow in strength and stature following an agreement with the City of Cleveland.

 

Following the lead of the finance committee, City Council Monday night approved a package of incentives that helped to convince Manitowoc Foodservice of Wisconsin to make Cleveland the headquarters of its oven manufacturing division.

 

That means new offices and more than 100 new jobs at Cleveland Range, which already employs 260 people at a sprawling complex at 1333 East 179th St. in Collinwood.

 

It also insures that a 165-year-old Cleveland manufacturer will survive into a new era. Founded in 1847, Cleveland Range -- a maker of commercial ovens for restaurants, hospitals and universities -- has expanded several times over the past decades and weathered a few ownership changes.

 

http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2012/09/cleveland_range_will_add_jobs.html

Now THAT's awesome! Love reading stories like that.

I also posted it here last night:

 

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php/topic,25255.150.html

 

we should probably decided to avoid multiple thread discussion.

That IS great news. I cannot imagine where they intend on building the 30,000 sq ft addition though. That area is pretty built out.

I cannot imagine where they intend on building the 30,000 sq ft addition though. That area is pretty built out.

Are we talking about the same neighborhood? It's more built up than Avon or Mentor, but there's plenty of empty industrial lots there. Besides, it looks like they've got enough room on the land they've already got.

The article states, "Manitowoc plans to add a 30,000-square-foot headquarters building next to its East 179th Street complex." And Polensek is quoted "Not only do they occupy an entire city block, they are going to expand beyond it." So I am just wondering exactly where can they add 30,000 sq ft.

The article states, "Manitowoc plans to add a 30,000-square-foot headquarters building next to its East 179th Street complex." And Polensek is quoted "Not only do they occupy an entire city block, they are going to expand beyond it." So I am just wondering exactly where can they add 30,000 sq ft.

 

The answer is on this week's Planning Commission agenda....

 

Resolution No. 910-12(Ward 11/Councilmember Polensek): Declaring the intent to vacate a portion of Amsterdam Road N.E. and of a portion of Syracuse Avenue N.E.

 

http://planning.city.cleveland.oh.us/designreview/drcagenda/2012/09202012/index.php

 

EDIT: BTW, does anyone know where this building is.....

Ordinance No. 1263-12(Ward 8/Councilmember J. Johnson): Designating the Switzer Apartment Building as a Cleveland Landmark.

OMT (One More Thing)....

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php/topic,1977.msg641321.html#msg641321

 

The answer is on this week's Planning Commission agenda....

 

Resolution No. 910-12(Ward 11/Councilmember Polensek): Declaring the intent to vacate a portion of Amsterdam Road N.E. and of a portion of Syracuse Avenue N.E.

 

http://planning.city.cleveland.oh.us/designreview/drcagenda/2012/09202012/index.php

 

EDIT: BTW, does anyone know where this building is.....

Ordinance No. 1263-12(Ward 8/Councilmember J. Johnson): Designating the Switzer Apartment Building as a Cleveland Landmark.

 

This Cleveland Landmarks Commission agenda lists the Switzer Apartments at 1285 East 101st St.

 

http://planning.city.cleveland.oh.us/landmark/agenda/2012/02232012/index.php?pageNum_rsImage=2&totalRows_rsImage=66

Thanks.

This Cleveland Landmarks Commission agenda lists the Switzer Apartments at 1285 East 101st St.

 

http://planning.city.cleveland.oh.us/landmark/agenda/2012/02232012/index.php?pageNum_rsImage=2&totalRows_rsImage=66

I Google Street View'ed the address. It looks like there are a bunch of new or recently renovated houses down that street. I'm guessing there was talk of razing the blighted apartment for more new houses and some preservationist threw a fit.

I'm hoping that these jobs are in Downtown Cleveland. http://www.newsnet5.com/dpp/news/local_news/cleveland_metro/resource-management-company-to-open-first-us-office-in-cleveland-eventually-hire-300-people

^they are..see  downtown office development thread.

^they are..see  downtown office development thread.

 

At....

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php/topic,4266.0.html

The article states, "Manitowoc plans to add a 30,000-square-foot headquarters building next to its East 179th Street complex." And Polensek is quoted "Not only do they occupy an entire city block, they are going to expand beyond it." So I am just wondering exactly where can they add 30,000 sq ft.

 

The answer is on this week's Planning Commission agenda....

 

Resolution No. 910-12(Ward 11/Councilmember Polensek): Declaring the intent to vacate a portion of Amsterdam Road N.E. and of a portion of Syracuse Avenue N.E.

 

http://planning.city.cleveland.oh.us/designreview/drcagenda/2012/09202012/index.php

 

EDIT: BTW, does anyone know where this building is.....

Ordinance No. 1263-12(Ward 8/Councilmember J. Johnson): Designating the Switzer Apartment Building as a Cleveland Landmark.

 

 

Thanks