IMO clearly cropped in images of people is kind of wierd and detracts from instead of adding to the layout images.

IMO clearly cropped in images of people is kind of wierd and detracts from instead of adding to the layout images.

 

I was thinking the same thing. The woman in the forefront of the first picture just looks awful.

Could be a cool space though.

I work in the building for many years and I love the lobby fountains.

 

The upgrade will lead to a new life for the lobby and Public Square.

For whatever it's worth, McDonalds is closing in Tower City on Thursday. Talking to the manager at the store, there is a Wendy's supposedly taking its place.

For whatever it's worth, McDonalds is closing in Tower City on Thursday. Talking to the manager at the store, there is a Wendy's supposedly taking its place.

 

Suggestion: post it here...

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php/topic,26665.0.html

Cuyahoga County weighs updating downtown parking garage

January 06, 2016 UPDATED 18 HOURS AGO

By JAY MILLER

 

Cuyahoga County Council began weighing plans to repair or replace an aging parking garage in the heart of downtown Cleveland.

 

A council work session on Tuesday, Jan. 5, heard details of a $16.6 million plan to renovate the 40-year-old Huntington Park Garage near the Justice Center complex. It also received an estimate of $52 million to $60 million to demolish and replace the 1,100-space garage that serves court employees, attorneys and the general public who have appearances before the courts.

 

MORE:

http://www.crainscleveland.com/article/20160106/NEWS/160109923/cuyahoga-county-weighs-updating-downtown-parking-garage

Cuyahoga County weighs updating downtown parking garage

January 06, 2016 UPDATED 18 HOURS AGO

By JAY MILLER

 

Cuyahoga County Council began weighing plans to repair or replace an aging parking garage in the heart of downtown Cleveland.

 

A council work session on Tuesday, Jan. 5, heard details of a $16.6 million plan to renovate the 40-year-old Huntington Park Garage near the Justice Center complex. It also received an estimate of $52 million to $60 million to demolish and replace the 1,100-space garage that serves court employees, attorneys and the general public who have appearances before the courts.

 

MORE:

http://www.crainscleveland.com/article/20160106/NEWS/160109923/cuyahoga-county-weighs-updating-downtown-parking-garage

Seeing how the County Executive spoke earlier with downtown being cash strapped, I would lean to them approving the renovations, the cost to demolish and even rebuild is just too much higher than the renovation cost to justify it.

More County stuff....

 

Cuyahoga County Council wants to use casino tax funds to provide grants to communities https://t.co/dT1irqYjkY

More County stuff....

 

Cuyahoga County Council wants to use casino tax funds to provide grants to communities https://t.co/dT1irqYjkY

 

I'm undecided on this after reading the article. It seems like they have done some good things already with the money. Why change that?

As harsh as this statement is:

Council President Dan Brady said he agreed with the concept, but he doesn't want to fund "building gazebos and flagpoles that don't make much of a difference.

I think it's correct.

I'm undecided on this after reading the article. It seems like they have done some good things already with the money. Why change that?

As harsh as this statement is:

Council President Dan Brady said he agreed with the concept, but he doesn't want to fund "building gazebos and flagpoles that don't make much of a difference.

I think it's correct.

 

Which is ironic because his wife, Cleveland City Councilwoman Dona Brady, got city funding for a gazebo and flagpole at Halloran Park on West 117th. :)

I'm undecided on this after reading the article. It seems like they have done some good things already with the money. Why change that?

As harsh as this statement is:

Council President Dan Brady said he agreed with the concept, but he doesn't want to fund "building gazebos and flagpoles that don't make much of a difference.

I think it's correct.

 

Which is ironic because his wife, Cleveland City Councilwoman Dona Brady, got city funding for a gazebo and flagpole at Halloran Park on West 117th. :)

 

Well that one "made a difference", apparently.

^or maybe his statement was aimed at her, if she forced him into it!

It's refreshing to hear anyone on council speak out against more park spending.  Maybe corruption is losing its grip on us.

Cuyahoga County expected to award $7.5 million in development loans

By Karen Farkas, cleveland.com

on January 14, 2016 at 11:41 AM, updated January 14, 2016 at 12:29 PM

 

CLEVELAND, Ohio - Cuyahoga County Council is expected to award four economic development loans totaling $7.5 million in an effort to add jobs, rehabilitate existing industrial facilities and revitalize commercial areas, officials said.

 

....Here are the proposed loans:

 

1. $3 million to Victory Midtown LLC

 

2. $2 million to West25d LLC

 

3. $1.5 million to HEC Properties LLC

 

4. $1 million to Kanan Enterprises Inc.

 

MORE:

http://www.cleveland.com/cuyahoga-county/index.ssf/2016/01/cuyahoga_county_expected_to_award_75_million_in_development_loans.html

this article provides a good historical insight to why one community (internet provider) was started, why it eventually split into a for profit and later sold.to M/C parters..  being sold upset a lot of people who think public money was used to benefit the rich,...

 

The former chief information officer at Case Western Reserve University, in Cleveland, is talking about how, more than a decade ago, the city’s economy was in such bad shape in the de-industrialized-Rust Belt era, that Gonick couldn’t find anyone from whom Case Western could procure a super-high-speed Internet connection. Not one incumbent provider was willing to make that kind of investment in the Cleveland market, Gonick says.

 

https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/cleveland-nonprofit-network-investment-community-capital

McLovin, I went looking for the McDonalds in Tower City last week for my morning coffee (80 cents with senior discount) and was told by someone working in Tower City that they got rid of McDonalds because they had a no bid contract.  They want to get other similar eateries in there. He said  a new McDonalds without a no bid contract might come in soon.  Now the lines at Dunkin Donuts in the morning are super long.

 

I HAVE BEEN HEARING ABOUT NUCLEUS FOR ABOUT 14 OR 15 MONTHS NOW, IN THE BEGINNING STARK WAS SAYING HE WANTED PARKING GARAGE

TO BE DONE BY R.N.C THEN LAST YEAR I HEARD LAST SUMMER THEY WERE GOING TO START DEMO THE PARKING LOT, NOW I HEAR THEY ARE GOING

TO WAIT TILL AFTER R.N.C  THEN THEY HAVE A LAWYER FIRM MOVING IN BY 2018? I DO NOT KNOW HOW THEY ARE GOING TO DO SITE WORK AND

BUILD A 19 STORY BUILDING IN LITTLE MORE THAN 2 YEARS I CAN't BELIEVE THEY ARE NOT GOING WITH IT ALREADY IF THEY ARE REALLY GOING WITH

  THIS. I HEAR THERE 1,800  LIST FOR APARTMENTS I JUST DO NOT KNOW WHY NO ONE IS STARTING ANY OF THE NEW BUILDINGS  I BEEN HEARING

ABOUT NUCLEUS, 515 EUCLID , PHASE A FOR WESTON ALL TO GET GOING LATE SUMMER, I HOPE THEY ALL GO PLUS MORE BUT I DO NOT KNOW .   

 

Welcome, and can you please not use all caps? It's like shouting.

GOLF38,

Check out the nuCLEus thread for developing information.

 

In addition, the PNC Tower in Pittsburgh was recently completed and stands at 33 stories (+ 3 level underground parking) and took about 3 1/2 years construction time. While 2 years is ambitious, it's not unrealistic.

 

McLovin, I went looking for the McDonalds in Tower City last week for my morning coffee (80 cents with senior discount) and was told by someone working in Tower City that they got rid of McDonalds because they had a no bid contract.  They want to get other similar eateries in there. He said  a new McDonalds without a no bid contract might come in soon.  Now the lines at Dunkin Donuts in the morning are super long.

Interesting, well that's kind of a bummer because I would have really liked that Wendy's. As I stated earlier I was going off of what the workers told me that they were informed with, guess you can't believe everything. When you say similar eateries are they going to try and attract more national fast food chains?

Summary of #CLE development projects for 2016 and beyond. Plus exciting @DowntownCLE predictions!

http://www.ideastream.org/programs/sound-of-applause/steve-litt-1

 

"This is becoming a different city" -- Steve Litt

A great listen!  Some interesting updates and some unexpected insights from Steven Litt.

We all realize how galvanizing and game-changing RNC 2016 is for Cleveland -

but the look beyond and the plans and possibilities for post-RNC Cleveland are possibly even

more exciting!  Thanks for sharing this, KJP!

17 Photo Renderings of Up-and-Coming Downtown Apartments

http://photos.clevescene.com/17-photo-renderings-of-up-and-coming-downtown-apartments/ …

Let's see how long it takes the Feds to build this....

 

GSA’s 2017 Budget Proposes $1.5 Billion in CRE Investments

$760 Million for New FBI HQs Included in Administration’s Proposed Budget

By Mark Heschmeyer

February 17, 2016

 

...$15.52 million to complete, repair and expand the plaza system at the Carl B. Stokes U.S. Courthouse in Cleveland.

 

http://www.costar.com/News/Article/GSAs-2017-Budget-Proposes-$15-Billion-in-CRE-Investments/179801

*Scene*

 

A dusty labor crew toils away at the base of the Carl B. Stokes Courthouse in year 3051 AD.  The camera zooms out to show a desert-like hellscape where urban Cleveland once stood.  A depleted yet putrid body of multicolored liquid exists where Lake Erie used to be.  This is the outcome of the Trump dynasty's world-spanning reign which began with the 2016 AD presidential election.  Although all civil society, art, culture, and business has been destroyed under the various Trump edicts and wars, this labor crew continues to perform menial work on the Stokes Courthouse and receive automated payment through a glitch in the vast Federal bureaucracy that appropriated funds in 2016. 

 

They are the last existing people, and quite possibly the only hope for humanity.  But at this point, what really constitutes humanity anymore?

 

*End Scene*

You should write comic books! How's your artistry/cartoonist skills?

Does expanding the plaza mean they're going to cap over the rapid tracks there? I'm not sure where else it could be expanded.

Does expanding the plaza mean they're going to cap over the rapid tracks there? I'm not sure where else it could be expanded.

 

That was my assumption as well. I also wonder if that makes it more likely that another building could be built to the west of the courthouse tower? BTW, the courthouse tower contains more than court-related activities. Senator Brown's office was moved from the federal building to the courthouse tower, for example.

Is this for a new development project or just housekeeping? Anyone have any insight what this is about??

 

http://planning.city.cleveland.oh.us/designreview/drcagenda/2016/02192016/index.php

 

City Planning Commission

Agenda for February 19, 2016

 

Ordinance No. 149-16(Beachwood, Highland Hills, Orange, and Warrensville Heights, OH): Authorizing the Director of Economic Development to enter into an amendment to the Master Development Agreement with Chagrin Highlands, Ltd., City Contract No. 40622, to change certain terms of the agreement.

Ordinance No. 155-16(Highland Hills, OH): Designating certain property owned by the City of Cleveland in Chagrin Highlands in the Village of Highland Hills as a municipal utility district and authorizing the Director of Economic Development to enter into a Municipal Utility District Agreement with the Village of Highland Hills for improvement of said property and sharing of income tax proceeds resulting from the development of the property.

Old Brooklyn bank building, a Cleveland landmark, could become restaurant, apartments

 

"Reddy's plans call for commercial space, perhaps starting as banquet hall and evolving into a restaurant, on the first floor. Seven to 11 apartments or corporate suites might fit upstairs as part of the second phase of construction, she said. Steady bookings at the Ariel International Center, her combination events-space-and-office-incubator on East 40th Street, have Reddy looking for other places to host gatherings and house international travelers."

 

http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2016/02/old_brooklyn_bank_building_a_c.html#incart_river_index

Heard from a good source today that the apartments at Erieview Tower are still on and should be starting this summer.  Didn't say how many units, just that it will be several floors in the middle of the building.

Heard from a good source today that the apartments at Erieview Tower are still on and should be starting this summer.  Didn't say how many units, just that it will be several floors in the middle of the building.

 

I forgot all about that. Maybe it's just that I'm surprised they're actually moving forward on the idea.

Will be good to see some lights on in that tower at night! 

 

I will echo another posters sentiments about some architectural lighting on top!

Ironically enough, I was working at Erieview when I realized "with these views, I could definitely live downtown." It will be interesting to see if the mall picks up any additional business from the added residential.

I can confirm they are moving businesses around in erieview and converting to residential. Wife is being moved to a different floor in july

This acquisition may make more credit available for multifamily developments, which will hopefully accelerate delivering these projects to the marketplace...

 

Berkadia Commercial Mortgage, part of Warren Buffett's empire, buys Cleveland firm

http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2016/03/berkadia_commercial_mortgage_p_1.html

Is this for a new development project or just housekeeping? Anyone have any insight what this is about??

 

http://planning.city.cleveland.oh.us/designreview/drcagenda/2016/02192016/index.php

 

City Planning Commission

Agenda for February 19, 2016

 

Ordinance No. 149-16(Beachwood, Highland Hills, Orange, and Warrensville Heights, OH): Authorizing the Director of Economic Development to enter into an amendment to the Master Development Agreement with Chagrin Highlands, Ltd., City Contract No. 40622, to change certain terms of the agreement.

Ordinance No. 155-16(Highland Hills, OH): Designating certain property owned by the City of Cleveland in Chagrin Highlands in the Village of Highland Hills as a municipal utility district and authorizing the Director of Economic Development to enter into a Municipal Utility District Agreement with the Village of Highland Hills for improvement of said property and sharing of income tax proceeds resulting from the development of the property.

 

The following may be related to the above...

 

http://planning.city.cleveland.oh.us/designreview/drcagenda/2016/03182016/index.php

 

Ordinance No. 292-16(Highland Hills, Ohio): Authorizing the Director of Public Works to execute a deed of easement granting to the Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company certain easement rights in property located in Highland Park Cemetery, and declaring that the easement rights granted are not needed for the City's public use.

You asked for world-class signage?? You got at least world-class numbers of signs....

 

GOP convention plans include 1,000-plus banners, signs in Cleveland (photos)

By Michelle Jarboe, The Plain Dealer

on March 22, 2016 at 3:27 PM, updated March 22, 2016 at 3:32 PM

 

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Local promoters and GOP-convention organizers plan to blanket downtown Cleveland with signs in July, welcoming delegates, highlighting venues and masking empty retail spaces.

 

The Cleveland City Planning Commission got an early look Friday at how the city will be wrapped and presented to a national - and international - audience.

 

In 2014, Cleveland City Council approved legislation that gave Mayor Frank Jackson's administration the ability to coordinate and enter agreements with the Cleveland 2016 Host Committee, a local nonprofit responsible for organizing, hosting and funding the convention. That legislation mentioned a fast-track review and permitting process for comprehensive convention signs and banners downtown and on major routes into the city.

 

MORE:

http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2016/03/gop_convention_signs_will_blan.html

You asked for world-class signage?? You got at least world-class numbers of signs....

 

GOP convention plans include 1,000-plus banners, signs in Cleveland (photos)

By Michelle Jarboe, The Plain Dealer

on March 22, 2016 at 3:27 PM, updated March 22, 2016 at 3:32 PM

 

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Local promoters and GOP-convention organizers plan to blanket downtown Cleveland with signs in July, welcoming delegates, highlighting venues and masking empty retail spaces.

 

The Cleveland City Planning Commission got an early look Friday at how the city will be wrapped and presented to a national - and international - audience.

 

In 2014, Cleveland City Council approved legislation that gave Mayor Frank Jackson's administration the ability to coordinate and enter agreements with the Cleveland 2016 Host Committee, a local nonprofit responsible for organizing, hosting and funding the convention. That legislation mentioned a fast-track review and permitting process for comprehensive convention signs and banners downtown and on major routes into the city.

 

MORE:

http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2016/03/gop_convention_signs_will_blan.html

 

Yeah, there's many signs for a reason, perhaps....

Instead of covering up the empty storefronts with signs, they should fill them.  This is a great opportunity to bring in some "Pop-up" stores.  It would be a good market test for some national retailers.  And it would add some more life to the street.

 

I agree with that and am sure most of us would as well, but plans would have had to be made a lot more in advance to do anything like that. Some of those storefronts have been abandoned for a long time, don't even have up to code plumbing or electric. Three months is really not enough time to fill every empty space safely and properly.

I agree with that and am sure most of us would as well, but plans would have had to be made a lot more in advance to do anything like that. Some of those storefronts have been abandoned for a long time, don't even have up to code plumbing or electric. Three months is really not enough time to fill every empty space safely and properly.

 

I thought of that too later.  It's a good idea, but there isn't enough time to do it elegantly.  We'd risk Sochi Syndrome.

I agree with the time and infrastructure factors.  But there has to be some spaces in Tower City, The Old Arcade and The Galleria that are close to move in ready. 

I agree with the time and infrastructure factors.  But there has to be some spaces in Tower City, The Old Arcade and The Galleria that are close to move in ready.

 

Why not concentrate Pop-Ups as close to the main heart of the RNC as possible, and depending on how many there are available for the RNC, either concentrate them in the Old Arcade, or Tower City. The Galleria is probably to far away. If there were to be enough Pop-Ups for both TC and the OA, use both, if not use only one of the two.

For the Upper Chester thread...

 

#CLE Councilman Dow changes course, will support land-swap deal for Innova project in Hough: https://t.co/VWOKSuRcp7 via @marknaymik #CRE

$61 million for Cuyahoga County projects in Ohio budget: See the list

http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2016/04/capital_bill_allocates_31_mill.html

Cleveland’s Largest Apartment Communities Delivered in 2015

https://www.cpexecutive.com/post/clevelands-largest-apartment-communities-delivered-in-2015/

Thought there was a  9/12 District thread? If there is I can't find it.  Meanwhile...

 

Something called Masthead Brewing Co. is in the works for the old Superior Title building  at 1261 Superior.  Storefront renovation, outdoor patio and landscaping. Recently Incorporated, don't know who is behind it.

Thought there was a  9/12 District thread? If there is I can't find it.  Meanwhile...

 

Something called Masthead Brewing Co. is in the works for the old Superior Title building  at 1261 Superior.  Storefront renovation, outdoor patio and landscaping. Recently Incorporated, don't know who is behind it.

 

I was just looking at this building yesterday, thinking how cool I think it is. Seems like it would be a great spot for some outdoor dining.

Excellent news for that part of downtown especially with IBM moving into the Eaton executive offices! IIRC, that building was purchased by a local restaurant some time in 2015.

Thought there was a  9/12 District thread? If there is I can't find it.  Meanwhile...

 

 

I thought there was one too. Perhaps it got folded into the Avenue District thread?

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php/topic,2525.0.html