I like the smoke stack, think it is soooooooooo Cleveland . In a good way!  :-D

Interesting new video on Battery Park.

 

http://www.batteryparkcleveland.com/bpcvideo.phtml

 

One observation: why so much surface parking at the northwest corner??

 

Im guessing for non-neighborhood people to drive to the market in the powerhouse.

That didn't look like that much parking. I can see why they didn't want parking lining the boulevard (was that West 75th?).

This looks to really be a cool looking area...How awesome would it be it light rail was running down the tracks at the North end!?!

I just took some pictures of the work at BP. Looks like much of the curb work is done.

 

 

 

I imagine there will be more houses here. I just thought the view of downtown from the back decks of the house are spectacular.

When it is time for me to purchase my next house (after the two older kids graduate from high school - 4 years and counting), I might consider moving here.

 

A fascinating preview!! So far I like the distinct coastal flavor of the architecture. And I'm glad they are preserving the powerhouse.

 

p.s. Somebody please alert ODOT that the Shoreway is missing.

I'm not sure what you're saying. The Shoreway was visible early on in the video.

All I can see are the railroad tracks....no sign of the the shoreway, at least not visible on my shoddy, ViewSonic monitor!

wow, very impressive!  I watched the thing like 3 times!  I'm particularly smitten with Battery Park Boulevard...

 

I still think there's an opportunity to incorporate more neighborhood retail into the project...most likely on the boulevard running north/south from the power house, on the ground floor of the large loft building.  I'm reminded of the vacant retail spaces nearby, though, every time I say this, so I guess a great outcome would be seing those spaces filled up to serve the existing and new population.

I heard a nice little story last night.  My wife met a medical resident who had grown up in Mayfield, went to Case and then on to medical school in Toledo. He wanted to go out to San Fran or Chicago to settle.  Growing up, he never really explored Cleveland. As things turned out, he just started at CCF. He said that if he's going to live in this region that he's going to get to know the city. He's closing on a home in Battery Park next week. 

Ran around the site today as part of my training for the Towpath Marathon (http://www.towpathmarathon.net/) and was pleased to see 3 more houses capped off (but not yet inhabitable) and foundations for several more in the ground.  Included in this group are three more in the row in Musky's last picture, as well as the foundations for the block just north of these houses, which will be a different building type.  Site work continues elsewhere and it's getting easier to picture the whole thing materializing!

Drove past the other day on my way to the Lakefront West meeting and noticed that the north walls of the first set of Battery Park Boulevard lofts have gone up.  Exciting!

any photo updates??

not at this juncture...sorry!

Anyone else get this mailing?

 

 

Apparently, you can call and get your very own "muddy boots" tour of the first loft building to rise on Battery Park Avenue.  Progress!

 

 

Hi all,

 

Yes, I received the the invitation for the tour. I don't know why. My partners and I have committed to one of the Chicago style houses. In the office they gave a wall map with sold or reserved pins. So far I haven't notice and increase in the sold pins. Hopefully the opening of the loft style will bring in more interest. Bear hugz to all.

 

Jim S.

 

Yay for you Jim for buying a unit! :clap:

 

Thanks Blinker,

 

The unit won't be ready until April/May. that gives us time to sell two houses, I hope. I was born and raised in the E 45 st. Superior area and have lived in Lake County since 1970. I will be a 1st time west sider at the ripe old age of 62. O well. guess I have to start sometime. ;-)

 

Jim S.

Woo hoo!  Go Jim!

 

By the way, there's a so-so article in the December issue of Properties Magazine (http://www.propertiesmag.com/).  It talks in detail about materials and other specs.  Nice interior photos with the article.

 

I also happen to know that the most recent PR Newswire familiarization tour visited the neighborhood and was impressed with the amount of new construction and access to the lake!

I got this from the Battery Park Sales Team a couple of weeks ago.

 

I wanted to drop you a quick note to let you know that we have floorplans available

 

for our new Gateway Townhomes

 

1,120 – 1,440 sf

 

$184,000 - $199,000

 

Give me a call if you are interested in coming out to take a look!

 

WE ARE NOW TAKING RESERVATIONS . . .

 

These Gateway townhomes will encompass two small blocks near the southeast end of the site, along w. 73rd.  I went into the Sales Center yesterday and noted that three out of nine for the first block are already reserved.

 

Elsewhere on the site, the first loft/townhome building is moving along and they have excavated two more basements  for single-family homes and poured the foundations.  It looks as if most of the single-family homes along Goodwalt, including the ones under construction, are sold.

 

Thank you MGD,

 

Partner and I drove past the site Saturday, the basement has been dug and the footers poured. The basement walls will hopefully be poured if this damn rain ever stops. ;-) The two models were constructed with with cement blocks and there was leakage. All other units will have poured walls. Our unit will look like the pictures in properties magazine, with extra upgrades to flooring and cabinets, including the bump out with fireplace. Moving in time is still end of April beginning of May. O yes, thereis a great view of downtown from the deck, off the loft. Hope to post pictures as constuction progresses. Bear hugz to all.

 

Jim S.

Woo hoo!  Go Jim!

 

By the way, there's a so-so article in the December issue of Properties Magazine (http://www.propertiesmag.com/).  It talks in detail about materials and other specs.  Nice interior photos with the article.

 

I also happen to know that the most recent PR Newswire familiarization tour visited the neighborhood and was impressed with the amount of new construction and access to the lake!

 

I have a question to ask in regard to the linked article, what is an "urban suburb"? 

 

Is that a way to make people think the suburbs are the only way to live.  Isn't the reason to live in the city, to do and experience things you can't get in the suburbs.  As a former brainwashed suburbanite...who proof reads these articles for content and positive marketing purposes?  Does anyone run these articles, buy the developer, community development representative, city?  Geez!

^^ Not familiar with this pub, but most journalists/editors don't let you proofread an article before it's published.

Verbiage like that led me to tag the article as "so-so."  It's publicity in another venue, so that's good, but I don't get that type of tag-line.  On that note, I received a postcard back around ground-breaking time that had three SUPER generic pictures on it of a place that was clearly NOT Battery Park or anywhere in Cleveland for that matter.  There was a (white) lady smiling in a hammock or something like that, a (white) family in cheesy track suits standing next to a (white) picket fence and a lawn, and a picture of a (white) sandy beach that was nowhere near Edgewater.  I was disgusted!  Why promote what is already a beautiful location with pictures of somewhere else? 

 

 

From the agenda for next weeks Design Review Committee:

 

DRC 07-003: 1200 West 76th Street, Stonewater Residential Condominiums, Adaptive Re-Use (Tax Abatement/Ward 17)

 

This is an industrial building across W. 76th St. from Battery Park, that overlooks the bluff.  It will be interesting to get more details.

 

^I always thought that would be a great re-use!

^Me too, I was surprised it wasn't part of the original project.  Good to see that the development is producing spin-off development.

 

That's huge. And the cool thing is, with our reporter for that area on vacation, I get to cover it (unless my editor gives me something else to do!!).

KJP, if you wait until Friday you can make it a two-fer. ODOT is giving there Innerbelt presentation to the Planning Commision that day as well. And the CSU Law Building renovation will be presented to the public for the first time (of course, UO folk got a sneak peek by me a while back).

From the agenda for next weeks Design Review Committee:

 

DRC 07-003: 1200 West 76th Street, Stonewater Residential Condominiums, Adaptive Re-Use (Tax Abatement/Ward 17)

 

This is an industrial building across W. 76th St. from Battery Park, that overlooks the bluff.  It will be interesting to get more details.

 

 

Is this the building with the green corrugated plastic windows?

^Yes, at least the ones that aren't boarded up or broken.

KJP, if you wait until Friday you can make it a two-fer. ODOT is giving there Innerbelt presentation to the Planning Commision that day as well. And the CSU Law Building renovation will be presented to the public for the first time (of course, UO folk got a sneak peek by me a while back).

 

I have no choice but to wait until Friday. Tuesdays are the drop-dead deadline day for each week's Sun Newspapers. Too bad the PD is going to have this story before I will. But if the PD has the story in its Saturday paper, then I will go ahead and write the story for Sun since Saturday is the PD's lowest circulation paper of the week.

I'm pretty sure that this is an active industrial site. At least they were working when I went by it this past summer.  I wonder if Marous is doing this project.  BP has its most pricey units facing this building. I was wondering how much of a deterrence it would be.

The first Battery Park Avenue loft building now has color!  It looks even nicer than the renderings!

the city needs to step up and fix the tunnel to edgewater.  it is a graffitti plagued nightmare.  there is always broken glass, urine, and beer cans everywhere down there.  a redo like the tunnel at the end of 65th would be ideal.  with the reuse of the industrial building next door, I can't see this not happening. 

 

now if only someone would do something about the crummy warehouses on the other side of battery park, there is quite a bit of expansion space there, once development fills up on the current site.  unfortunately, the buildings are not the kind of thing that developers reuse.  they are of the squat, sprawling cinderblock type.       

now if only someone would do something about the crummy warehouses on the other side of battery park, there is quite a bit of expansion space there, once development fills up on the current site.  unfortunately, the buildings are not the kind of thing that developers reuse.  they are of the squat, sprawling cinderblock type.        

I think those warehouses are presently occupied by businesses.  Correct me if I'm wrong.

some are occupied, many are just random storage.  they are for the most part less than one story, and take up a fairly large footprint of land.  and they are ugly.  beige painted cinderblock, with unkept grounds and rusty chainlink fence around them.  on all but one side, there will be houses within the next few years.  I wouldn't mind seeing them razed.     

Another great article. I really like hearing that Marous owns options on adjacent properties. 

Thanks. I had to get that part in about Marous!

excellent, nice to hear someone has options on that land.  I will try and get some photos of the site, since it is ten minutes from my house.   

the city needs to step up and fix the tunnel to edgewater.  it is a graffitti plagued nightmare.  there is always broken glass, urine, and beer cans everywhere down there.  a redo like the tunnel at the end of 65th would be ideal.  with the reuse of the industrial building next door, I can't see this not happening. 

 

now if only someone would do something about the crummy warehouses on the other side of battery park, there is quite a bit of expansion space there, once development fills up on the current site.  unfortunately, the buildings are not the kind of thing that developers reuse.  they are of the squat, sprawling cinderblock type.        

 

Observation, have YOU done anything to share your feeling with your council person or CDC?

As promised....

 

Here's the site. BTW, Stonwater LLC does not own the building immediately south of it, but it does own the brick-and-concrete constructed walkways connecting to it. They are sealed and will remain so. The site....

 

 

 

An elevation of the building, courtesy of Stonewater LLC showing the seven glassy townhouses added to the top of the building...

 

is there a website?

Not yet. I doubt you'll see one until after Shorey gets the site rezoned to mixed use.

Not yet. I doubt you'll see one until after Shorey gets the site rezoned to mixed use.

 

thanks!

the neighborhood/community meetings I have attended are more about getting cops to drive through more often.  despite having the zone car lounge two blocks away, there are still numerous rough steets.  apparently the cops are too busy practicing their bagpipe routines to be bothered with the kids lighting sofas on fire on holiday weekends. 

 

so no, I haven't brought it up.  but I did just think about it two days ago.  I am thinking aloud, excuse me if it sounds like I am asking someone else to do it.

     

Looks like they are getting ready to start on the gateway townhomes as well as the old powerhouse

 

for the 2/1 design review:

DRC 04-246: West 73 rd Street, Battery Park, Gateway Townhomes & Father Frasceti Avenue, Powerhouse Community Building (Housing/Ward 17) [Applic. Date: 1/23/07]

I just gave that to our reporter for that area (I was covering for him the last two weeks when he was on vacation, hence my article on Stonewater).

I can't find any renderings of the Gateway Townhomes, but based on the site plan, it looks like a logical place to build next.