June 22, 20186 yr Does anyone know the reasoning for the destruction of the Jefferson Avenue Bridge? Thanks! Never mind, it was that fire...
June 22, 20186 yr Does anyone know the reasoning for the destruction of the Jefferson Avenue Bridge? Thanks! Never mind, it was that fire... Reading todays PLain Dealer :-)
June 26, 20186 yr Love this building -- especially it's entryway! http://planning.city.cleveland.oh.us/landmark/agenda/2018/06282018/index.php CONCEPT PLAN Case 18-043 Tremont Historic District Lincoln Park Theater 1207-09 Starkweather Ave. Front Entry Door Michael Caito Payne & Payne Builders "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
June 30, 20186 yr This project at 2319 Scranton Road just started construction (see attached). Currently working on the foundation. These have started going vertical now. Sales are going well, and the developer is buying the next lot south of there for another 3 townhouses. He also is planning a small condo project for the NW corner of Scranton and Willey, an old service station most recently home to a construction company. Sound like the plan is 10 condos, 4 stories tall, underground parking.
July 2, 20186 yr Which development is this?? http://planning.city.cleveland.oh.us/bza/agenda/2018/crr07-09-2018.pdf 9:30 Calendar No. 18-139: 2430-2436 W. 7th Street Ward 3 Kerry McCormack 21 Notices Brian McCreary and Parkhill Associates, owners, propose to consolidate two lots and construct 21 residential units with 21 parking spaces in a B1 Two-Family Residential District. The owner appeals for relief from the strict application of the following sections of the Cleveland Codified Ordinances: 1. Section 357.08(b)(1) which states that a 50 foot rear yard is required; 8 feet are proposed 2. Section 353.01 which states that the maximum permitted height is 35 feet and 50 feet are proposed. 3. Section 355.04 which states that the maximum gross floor area of the building cannot exceed 1.5 the total lot area; in this case 6,745 square feet are permitted and 49,520 square feet are proposed. 4. Section 355.04 which states that in a ‘B’ Area District the minimum lot area must equal 2400 square feet per unit or in this case 50,400 square feet are required and 13,490 square feet are proposed. 5. Section 349.15 which states that 2 bicycle parking spaces required; none proposed. (Filed June 15, 2018) EDIT: I see that w28th[/member] posted about this idea two years ago.... Saw a blurb on block clubs presentations in the Inside Tremont monthly newspaper and it stated that developer Brian McCreary is proposing a 25 unit apartment building at the SW corner of W7th and Jefferson. Hadn't heard of this before. There is also another project of 10 town homes and commercial building proposed for the NE corner of W5th and Jefferson. Heating up on the east side of Tremont. Double "doh!" It's this...... http://planning.city.cleveland.oh.us/designreview/drcagenda/2018/06152018/index.php NEAR WEST DESIGN REVIEW NW2018-014 – Grosvenor Place Apartment Building New Construction: Seeking Final Approval Project Location: West 7th Street and Jefferson Avenue Project Representative: Paul Beegan, Architect "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
July 2, 20186 yr Looks like Gospel Press will be tumbling down Jefferson... These renderings are trash. They can't be bothered to drive the 14 minutes from Lakewood to get a non-Google streetview image for it?
July 2, 20186 yr Looks like Gospel Press will be tumbling down Jefferson... These renderings are trash. They can't be bothered to drive the 14 minutes from Lakewood to get a non-Google streetview image for it? The streetview rendering is pretty awful. Plus, the proposed building shows more of a setback from West 7th than is actually shown everywhere else. "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
July 10, 20186 yr TREMONT ANIMAL CLINIC 2408 SEYMOUR AVE - SINGLE FAMILY HOME DEMOLITION Project Information Near West Case # NW 2018-021 Address: 2408 Seymour Avenue Company: Osborn Engineering Architect: Description: Demolition of a two-family home to allow for construction of a new commercial building. TREMONT ANIMAL CLINIC 2326 SEYMOUR AVE - SINGLE FAMILY HOME DEMOLITION Project Information Near West Case # NW 2018-020 Address: 2326 Seymour Avenue Company: Osborn Engineering Architect: Description: Demolition of a single family home to prepare site for new construction commerical building. The two houses on the right would be demolished.... SeymourAvedemos-Tremont2009 by Ken Prendergast, on Flickr "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
July 16, 20186 yr TREMONT ANIMAL CLINIC 2408 SEYMOUR AVE Thankfully the city appears insistent on this being properly integrated with West 25th. I have not seen the proposed site plan, but judging from the comments, I'd guess the initial plan had rear parking with entrance and office functions fronting the parking lot. http://planning.city.cleveland.oh.us/designreview/brd/detailDR.php?ID=2842&CASE=NW%202018-015 Date: July 5, 2018 Committee: Staff Action Type: Initial Plan Submission Conditions/Notes: We want to encourage the project team to consider other ways to encourage more active uses along W. 25th. Date: July 11, 2018 Committee: Local Design Review Committee Action Type: Schematic Design Approval Conditions: The schematic design is approved as presented and with the following requested changes: * Redesign the W. 25th street entrance to be more retail oriented. * Consider moving internal retail/hospitality displays closer to W. 25th entrance. * Install planters, benches, and/or other amenites along the W. 25th street frontage to further engage the street.
July 16, 20186 yr I suppose it will be a cold day in hell before the CPC feels so emboldened to make the same requests of Cleveland Clinic buildings?? Or, for that matter, the new MetroHealth campus :) "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
July 16, 20186 yr I suppose it will be a cold day in hell before the CPC feels so emboldened to make the same requests of Cleveland Clinic buildings?? Or, for that matter, the new MetroHealth campus :) Judging by the back-slapping over the proposed Irishtown Bend Park, they probably consider the new Metro campus a glorious win.
July 16, 20186 yr A couple Tremont development updates while I'm at-it. The low rise buildings on the Ferry Cap & Screw site are completely gone. The only thing left is the main 5 story building. See here for discussion in March when WXZ bought the complex. What are they building at the corner? Looks like some kind if corner park or rec space? No idea. These pics are from University Rd looking northeast toward Scranton.
July 16, 20186 yr Site prep started for the 10 unit townhouse and rehab project at the corner of West 5th and Jefferson. Not much to see yet.
July 16, 20186 yr ^^That is sewer work- one of the big access points they are going to work from to install a major interceptor line for the westside of Cleveland.
July 16, 20186 yr ^^That is sewer work- one of the big access points they are going to work from to install a major interceptor line for the westside of Cleveland. Ahh, that's right, thanks. I forgot all about the sewer project planned here.
July 16, 20186 yr Looking forward to seeing the progress in industrial sites. The infrastructure down there has been so neglected and forlorn looking.
July 16, 20186 yr My wife and I are shopping for housing. She's from Ukraine, so I appreciate her views of Cleveland because they lack any preconceived notions based on what it was. She comes at it from the perspective of a blank slate. So she loves Ohio City and Tremont. She is often saddened to see these tremendous walkwable neighborhoods stop before they get to the water's edges and suddenly become inaccessible to the public. She looked at Tremont, for example, and asked me to scroll the real estate website's map over to the river to see what's available. I had to inform that nothing is available. She asked "How do you know?" I said because all of the riverside land is entirely industrial and has been that way for 150 years, although it was going to be developed with residential in the mid-1800s before industry blossomed. She was disappointed to hear this, and I said that things may change but it's going to take a long time owing to the required cleanup of polluted industrial lands and the lack of funding available for such cleanup. She was very happy to learn about Irishtown Bend park and the housing that's emerging for just west of West 25th. But that's going to take a long time before anything is available, assuming the existing residents don't mess it up. There isn't much housing available there now, and what is available is becoming tremendously expensive. "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
July 16, 20186 yr ^ I'm likely to get some flak here, but in the back of my mind I'd always be worried about the air quality in Tremont. Adults are one thing, but kids are a whole different story.
July 16, 20186 yr ^ I'm likely to get some flak here, but in the back of my mind I'd always be worried about the air quality in Tremont. Adults are one thing, but kids are a whole different story. I've thought about it myself. I wonder is the soil around there is safe for vegetable gardening.
July 16, 20186 yr My wife and I are shopping for housing. She's from Ukraine, so I appreciate her views of Cleveland because they lack any preconceived notions based on what it was. She comes at it from the perspective of a blank slate. So she loves Ohio City and Tremont. She is often saddened to see these tremendous walkwable neighborhoods stop before they get to the water's edges and suddenly become inaccessible to the public. She looked at Tremont, for example, and asked me to scroll the real estate website's map over to the river to see what's available. I had to inform that nothing is available. She asked "How do you know?" I said because all of the riverside land is entirely industrial and has been that way for 150 years, although it was going to be developed with residential in the mid-1800s before industry blossomed. She was disappointed to hear this, and I said that things may change but it's going to take a long time owing to the required cleanup of polluted industrial lands and the lack of funding available for such cleanup. She was very happy to learn about Irishtown Bend park and the housing that's emerging for just west of West 25th. But that's going to take a long time before anything is available, assuming the existing residents don't mess it up. There isn't much housing available there now, and what is available is becoming tremendously expensive. My fiance and I have since changed our mind about living at Stonebridge and will likely rent the unit out. We have (at least what I think is) a respectable budget, and we've had four house go for above ask within 48 hours of hitting the market and us scheduling showings. I just can't rationalize overpaying on some of these streets right now, particularly in the Southeast corners of Tremont. I think we're likely going to need to purchase a house that needs a lot of work, and I'm about as handy as a turd flavored popsicle.
July 16, 20186 yr I saw a 13-year-old Ohio City townhouse with its tax abatement due to expire in 2 years that listed a week ago sell while I was looking at it. I opened a photos page and went back to the listing page and it went from active to contingent in that time. "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
July 16, 20186 yr Yes "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
July 16, 20186 yr Nice townhome. Fee simple too. The homeowner was delinquent in paying his taxes. Oh well. To bring this back around to Tremont, I was looking at homes valued at under $250,000 and only three showed up in the prime area east of I-90 and north of I-490. So I reset my ceiling for $500,000 (yeah right) and probably 20 results showed up. "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
July 17, 20186 yr I think riverfront housing in Tremont is on the horizon--or here if you count Thunderbird!--but I have to be the Debbie Downer and bring up the 1913 flood. Buyer and builder beware...
July 17, 20186 yr The Cuyahoga River is substantially wider than it was in 1913, following the city's channel and bridge reconstruction projects in the late 1940s, and very few of its Cleveland floodplains flooded in 1913. "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
July 17, 20186 yr very few of its Cleveland floodplains flooded in 1913. Just a few? The West 3rd lift bridge got completely wiped out. It explains why there are very few pre-1913 buildings on the Tremont peninsula and the south side of Stones Levee. I wasn't around, but by all accounts it was pretty bad for the Tremont riverfront. I look forward to seeing development down there, but I wouldn't recommend a first floor anything...
July 17, 20186 yr But the West 3rd bridge was destroyed because a boat, set loose from its moorings by the flood, crashed into the bridge. The flood water level was well below the bridge deck of this swing bridge (see photo below). I don't mean to minimize the concerns about flooding. I'm no flooding expert. Although the river channel was widened, we haven't been tested by a 1913-scale flood since. And the amount of urban sprawl that has occurred in the Cuyahoga River's watershed since would likely worsen the stormwater runoff from a 1913-scale flood. Perhaps the approach taken by development along the mouth of the Rocky River (homes built above garages for cars and boats) could be taken in riverside developments in Tremont and other places. "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
July 17, 20186 yr Perhaps the approach taken by development along the mouth of the Rocky River (homes built above garages for cars and boats) could be taken in riverside developments in Tremont and other places. Now that would be amazing.
July 17, 20186 yr Perhaps the approach taken by development along the mouth of the Rocky River (homes built above garages for cars and boats) could be taken in riverside developments in Tremont and other places. Now that would be amazing. I love the idea, but I think the commercial freighters would take issue with that.
July 29, 20186 yr 21-suite apartment complex in Tremont is in early stages Tremont Lofts, the apartment building remake of the former Union Gospel Press complex in Cleveland's Tremont neighborhood, may get some company. Plans for a four-floor, 21-suite apartment building on the southwest corner of Jefferson Avenue and West Seventh Street were given a conditional approval by Cleveland City Planning Commission at its meeting on Friday, July 20. The commission usually provides final approval, but it OK'd the plan with the condition that the developer of the project, J. Brian McCreary, receive approval of landscape and lighting plans for the project from the city's Near West Design Review Committee before securing building permits. http://www.crainscleveland.com/article/20180729/news/169871/21-suite-apartment-complex-tremont-early-stages
August 14, 20186 yr This is a vacant lot at the NE corner of West 25th and Seymour Avenue.... NW2018-015 – Tremont Animal Clinic New Construction: Seeking Final Approval Project Address: 2885 West 25th Street Project Representatives: Jon-Michael Lemon, Osborn Engineering Geoff Graham, Project 64 Katie McCoy, Property Owner http://planning.city.cleveland.oh.us/designreview/drcagenda/2018/08172018/index.php "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
August 14, 20186 yr This is a vacant lot at the NE corner of West 25th and Seymour Avenue.... NW2018-015 – Tremont Animal Clinic New Construction: Seeking Final Approval Project Address: 2885 West 25th Street Project Representatives: Jon-Michael Lemon, Osborn Engineering Geoff Graham, Project 64 Katie McCoy, Property Owner http://planning.city.cleveland.oh.us/designreview/drcagenda/2018/08172018/index.php The two demolitions on Seymour are also tied to this project.
October 2, 20186 yr Historic Church update. http://www.cleveland19.com/2018/10/02/historic-church-wont-be-demolished-being-converted-into-luxury-apartments-tremont/
October 2, 20186 yr Historic Church update. http://www.cleveland19.com/2018/10/02/historic-church-wont-be-demolished-being-converted-into-luxury-apartments-tremont/ Sounds like good news to me. That's a good looking building.
October 22, 20186 yr Near West Design Review Case Report WAGNER AWNING PHASE 2 Return to Case List | Start Over | Print Report (PDF format) Project Information Near West Case # NW 2018-034 Address:1633 Auburn Avenue Company:Bialosky Cleveland Architect: Description: New construction, 69-unit apartment building on the corner of Scranton and Auburn in Tremont. http://planning.city.cleveland.oh.us/designreview/brd/detailDR.php?ID=3019&CASE=NW 2018-034
October 22, 20186 yr Wow. That's terrific! Glad to see more empty lots along principal streets getting filled with productive uses. Maybe the NE corner will be next? Then maybe the NW corner?? ? "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
November 1, 20186 yr Normally I wouldn't post a BZA application for a single house, but it's in a pretty visible location so decided to set aside my little guideline.... http://planning.city.cleveland.oh.us/bza/agenda/2018/crr11-12-2018.pdf NOVEMBER 12, 2018 9:30 Calendar No. 18-237: 2121 W. 6 Street Ward 3 Kerry McCormack 15 Notices Cleveland Lofts LLC., owner, proposes to erect a 4 story single family residence with an attached garage on a 4,515 square foot lot in a B1 Multi-Family Residential District. The owner appeals for relief from the strict application of the following sections of the Cleveland Codified Ordinances: 1. Section 355.04(a) which states that the maximum gross floor area in a ‘B” area distract shall not exceed ½ the lot area, or in this case 2,257 square feet and the appellant is proposing 3,606 square feet. The minimum lot area for a single family dwelling in a “B” area district is 4,800 square feet and the proposed lot area is approximately 4,515 square feet. 2. Section 353.01(b) which states that the maximum permitted building height is 35’-0” and the proposed building height is 39’-6”. 3. Section 341.02(b) which states that City Planning approval is required prior to the issuance of a building permit. (Filed October 18, 2018) "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
November 1, 20186 yr I thought I remembered hearing there was supposed to be a turn around here since university was becoming the trail and the street was going away...but I guess there will still be room for it as long as it has a similar footprint to the one next to it.
November 5, 20186 yr About 15 yrs ago I wrote & photographed for Sun News a group of suburban school kids cleaning up garbage, especially hundreds of illegally dumped tires from beneath this Clark Avenue ramp. Seeing this transformation is truly amazing. "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
November 5, 20186 yr The transformation of that area and Clark Fields is phenomenal.....Kudos to all involved
November 5, 20186 yr The clean-up event was May 7, 2006. It was called Flats Sweep. Here are my pictures from that event.... "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
November 5, 20186 yr It was. And there were hundreds more buried underneath the thick brush. This was an effort by the Ohio Canal Corridor to get some in-kind donations of labor, trucking/disposal services, etc. to leverage some grants, IIRC. "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
November 15, 20186 yr These Bialosky designs are putting me to sleep. Surface parking at the northern corners of Auburn I suppose.
November 15, 20186 yr I think that looks great.? Especially compared to some recent projects we've seen that look awful, like Edison phase 2 and Uptown phase 3.
November 15, 20186 yr 49 minutes ago, w28th said: These Bialosky designs are putting me to sleep. Surface parking at the northern corners of Auburn I suppose. Already surface parking on the NW corner. Vacant lot on the NE corner right now. Ohio Awning LLC/Ohio Awning Equity LLC owns all four corners. "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
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