Posted January 17, 200619 yr Let's add this one to the mix too... Park Lane Villa, located on E. 105 & Park Lane, overlooks Wade Lagoon and Rockefeller Park, just south of the West Quad mega-development. This historic apartment building will soon be renovated, with additional units soon to be added in a contextually appropriate building between the villa and the more prominent Judson Manor (formerly, the Wade Park Hotel). The view from the corner of E. 107th & Park Lane (Judson Manor is in the fore)
January 17, 200619 yr that building is gorgeous, i didnt know they were adding another build to it tho
January 17, 200619 yr It was low income housing and the bank forclosed after the owner defaulted. UCI bought it and sold it to the Finch Group (the developer). The new building will be 4 stories with two condos on each floor. It'll be located between the Judson Manor and the renovated structure on Parklane. The new building will hide a two story parking deck that will be constructed on the existing surface lot. The entrance to the parking deck will be on E.105. The developer wants to put a restaurant on the first floor of the existing structure.
January 17, 200619 yr ^ great! I had heard that they were planning to build 4 townhouses on that lot at one point. Did I hear wrong, or was there a change of plans? I can't wait to see some renderings of the new building and restaurant. I think that block has so much potential.
February 19, 200619 yr Found this update on Park Lane Villas on the Marous Bros website: http://www.marousbrothers.com/Work-In-Progress/ParkLane.htm Doesn't include any renderings of what the inside will look like. A couple interesting details: Total budget: $21 Million Began some demo and abatement work in Oct 2005 and says total project duration is 18 months. Don't know what they're counting as the start of the project, but 18 months from Oct '05 means an estimated completion date of no later than Apr '07. Plan is for 56 "luxury" apartments and 4 townhouses. Historic renovation (assuming=old bldg, w/o townhouses) listed as 170,000 sq ft, which means an average of over 3,000 sq ft/unit(!) Even accounting for the hallways, lobbies, and other public spaces, it seems like these units will be pretty big. As a point of reference, the building previously had 185 units (~900 sq ft/unit) in it when it was HUD housing. Townhouse sq footage listed as 16,000 = 4,000 sq ft/unit.
March 27, 200619 yr University Circle site set for $28M transformation Related Links University Circle Inc. By JAY MILLER 6:00 am, March 27, 2006 The developer behind Arbor Park Village, a new public housing project on Cleveland’s East Side, is going upscale with a market-rate project in the University Circle area. The Finch Group of Boca Raton, Fla., plans to begin interior demolition next month at Park Lane Villa, a 1920s-era, six-story residence hotel at 10510 Park Lane, just north of Chester Avenue. It will transform what had been 184 units of public senior housing into a 96-unit apartment building with 24-hour concierge service, said Finch Group president Christine Alletto. More at crainscleveland.com http://www.crainscleveland.com
April 2, 200619 yr Down-and-out hotel set for new life of luxury Sunday, April 02, 2006 Angela D. Chatman Plain Dealer Reporter A University Circle address will return to its old grandeur with a $28.5 million historic renovation, introducing the first upscale housing in decades to the neighborhood. The Finch Group and City Architecture will turn Park Lane Villa, overlooking Rockefeller Park, into luxury apartments. Interior demolition is to begin this week. "We're really building a New York or Chicago-style apartment complex in University Circle," said Wes Finch, the group's chairman. More at http://www.cleveland.com/printer/printer.ssf?/base/cuyahoga/1143967301212420.xml&coll=2
April 3, 200619 yr I am very excited about Park Lane Villa, it's one of the first (of hopefully many) projects on the northside of Chester near the Cleveland Clinic!
April 3, 200619 yr is this Park Lane Villa development the whole block of buildings? isnt there a 10ish story building in the mix too that was to be fixed up??
April 3, 200619 yr Parklane Villa is the building at Parklane and E105 with the mansard roof. It is surrounded by parking lots on all sides. Last I had heard, the parking lot was going to be turned into a parking deck and 8 new lofts would be built between Judson Manor and Parklane. Judson Manor is a beautiful and somewhat exclusive retirement home. The article doesn't mention the new lofts, so I don't know if that has been scrapped. I would think that the lofts are still a go.
April 11, 200619 yr Yea! I doubt it'll be much to look at until they start the new building (any idea when that will be?), but the original building will look fantastic when it's all polished up!
April 11, 200619 yr Considering that the construction trailer is located where the new construction will go, it won't be anytime soon. I saw an updated image of the new construction and it looks pretty good (much improved from the earlier renderings).
April 25, 200619 yr Its good to see that they are beginning to tear out a lot of the old junk that is inside the Park Lane Villas.
January 25, 200718 yr Believe it or not, Park Lane Villa doesn't have it's own construction/project thread yet! With 96 luxury rental units and 45 floor plans (even units of the same floor plan will have slight variations), this is going to be one of the most fantastic buildings in Cleveland to live in come autumn. Units will range from 900 - 2,200 square feet and the prices will be roughly $1 per square foot/month. Views include the Clinic mega-campus, Downtown Cleveland, Rockefeller and Wade Parks, and the University Circle arts, culture, education, and medical area. I had the opportunity to take a tour of the building last week and speak with one of the principals from the Finch Group, who is developing the project. It's looking fantastic inside, but there's still a lot of work to do. The first model units should be complete in March and the building is slated to open in late-summer 2007. Floor plans are indeed unique and spacious. There are still numerous features that have been preserved, from fireplaces to built-in cabinets. The restaurant and ballroom on the ground floor is being meticulously restored and hopes to lure a 250-seat restaurant with a bar and cafe bistro that will cater to residents and visitors alike. I'm sure you're all wondering (I know I was!) about the loft building that was to be built next door. Well, according to my source, that's still on the table, but is in redesign right now. It was originally to be 4-8 units and now is looking more like 14. The footprint for this addition has been preserved, but a construction timeline is still undetermined. I'll get the thread started with some aerial shots from the Judson Manor (next door) and a postcard from Cleveland Memory (www.clevelandmemory.org) and will post more later. There are additional notes, articles, photos, etc. in the University Circle Construction thread, but I figured this warranted its own special place! Postcard from Cleveland Memory: Downtown Cleveland skyline in the distance and Cleveland Clinic construction cranes on the left: Lake Erie and the Temple Tifereth Israel to the right; CWRU's West Quad research campus will rise just steps from here: Shot of the bi-level garage construction. This will wrap around the building and could potentially be fronted on Park Lane with the loft building.
January 25, 200718 yr this corner of university circle(let's be honest, its hardly a circle, so it might as well have a corner) will be quite nice in a few years, with a renovated museum, future biotech thingy, and that giant dome-a-ma-jig in the background. what is that thing? is it in use?
January 25, 200718 yr this corner of university circle(let's be honest, its hardly a circle, so it might as well have a corner) will be quite nice in a few years, with a renovated museum, future biotech thingy, and that giant dome-a-ma-jig in the background. what is that thing? is it in use? uh, the correct name is giant dome-a-ma-jig temple. C'mon, lets be accurate hear! ;)
January 25, 200718 yr Technically that would be the Temple Tifereth Israel, built in 1923 and named after the Tifereth Israel congregation: http://www.ttti.org/article/article_view.aspx?UID=0D8B5798-E9BE-428F-9619-09E8166EC5DC The congregation's main facilities are in Beachwood, but the Temple is used for special events such as high holidays. clevelandskyscrapers.com Cleveland Skyscrapers on Instagram
January 25, 200718 yr ^ Yes and the temple also participates in the distance-learning programs offered by UCI along with the Art Museum, WRHS, & CIM. Nice shots MGD - what a fantastic building and location.
January 26, 200718 yr That looks like an awesome building, I wonder if there are any floor plans or a website yet?
January 26, 200718 yr That looks like an awesome building, I wonder if there are any floor plans or a website yet? You mean something like this? http://www.parklanevilla.com/
January 27, 200718 yr Still not ready to post my interior shots yet, but there will be a lovely shot on the front cover of the next Full Circle magazine, which comes out soon! By the way, don't you people read my captions? I named the dome thing-a-ma-jig in post one! Why do I bother...
January 28, 200718 yr It's quite a beautiful complex. I'd say, it ranks right with Moreland Courts as, probably, one of Cleveland's, certainly the East Side's, most elegant and influential in its day. I can only imagine what this immediate area been like, today, had Doan's Corners survived as Cleveland's high-density 2nd Downtown. With Park Lane Villa sitting on its slight eminence overlooking MLK and the beginnings of Rockerfeller Park, this part of Cleveland had the look and feel of NYC's Central Park... still does, on some levels.
January 28, 200718 yr It's quite a beautiful complex. I'd say, it ranks right with Moreland Courts as, probably, one of Cleveland's, certainly the East Side's, most elegant and influential in its day. I can only imagine what this immediate area been like, today, had Doan's Corners survived as Cleveland's high-density 2nd Downtown. With Park Lane Villa sitting on its slight eminence overlooking MLK and the beginnings of Rockerfeller Park, this part of Cleveland had the look and feel of NYC's Central Park... still does, on some levels. I agree, the park like setting is so beautiful. I wish more of these buildings would convert to condo. Personally, I think its a better building than the courts or belgian village.
January 29, 200718 yr if I am not mistaken, one reason the area looks like central park is because the landscaping architecture was designed by the same person who designed central park, frederick law olmsted.
January 29, 200718 yr ^Hmmm... I don't think so. Olmsted designed Wade Park with the lagoon in front of the art museum, but I believe someone else did Rock Park. According to www.tclf.org/landslide/cleveland/index.htm, it was Ernest Bowditch, a landscape architect from Boston.
January 29, 200718 yr I misunderstood the original post, I was talking about wade park, which is very close to this building. when the poster was referring to rockefeller park, along mlk. I believe Olmsted worked on the original gardens surrounding the park lane villa building. but it has been a long time since I saw the info, so I may be wrong.
March 2, 200718 yr The following article is from University Circle Inc's full Circle magazine. It appears in the Spring 2007 issue which just came out! The full magazine is available at: http://em.universitycircle.org/ASSETS/80610D210F3A4D0FBDB606E421AFB903/57428_EPSTEI_crx.pdf
March 2, 200718 yr I would so live here! the spiral staircase is da bomb! MGD do you have any picture of the interior in its current state that you can post?
March 2, 200718 yr Current, as of about a month ago... The Ballroom...not ready yet! If you can see, there will be booths along the sides underneath the second level: The Lobby:
March 2, 200718 yr amazing! If those don't sell out immediately I'll be surprised. I just hope that they take great precaution and screen renters accordingly, not just let anyone rent or college students, that don't care, rent and tear the place up.
March 2, 200718 yr What a dump! They should have just torn it down and built the Park Lane Lofts in its place! ;)
March 2, 200718 yr I just hope that they take great precaution and screen renters accordingly, not just let anyone rent or college students, that don't care, rent and tear the place up. Oh, they're not fixing this place up to get torn to bits. There is already high demand for these units and they're looking forward to renting them at a premium. If students move in there, they will be paying a pretty penny and will certainly have to appreciate the quality of what has been done to the building, past and present. I hope they don't actively turn away college students, but if it's a competitive renting process and they have income and rental history requirements, there won't be a whole lot of students who qualify. One interesting side note from my tour was that a number of people who have insisted upon getting into the building when it opens are requesting upgrades to their units (for a price), so some of the units will be even more remarkable when their tenants move in.
March 4, 200718 yr Hot Damn!!! I would move there. Question, how can "renters" request upgrades for an apartment? Is this building under the same guidelines are some of those building downtown, where they have to wait x amount of years before converting into condos? Are the condos being built simultaneously to renovation of the main building?
March 5, 200718 yr Nice!!! This looks like the premiere residential place in University Circle. I want one, dammit
March 5, 200718 yr Yeah, these are going to be super nice. I think that the situation I spoke of above was a special one in which some doctor or something said he would pay all sorts of extra money to confirm a particular space and to add upgrades. What this entails, I'm not exactly sure, but it could be better counter tops, a higher end bathroom, or something. If he's paying a premium for it, then why not? And if he moves out, they'll have a nice unit to rent to the next guy. The condos are on hold for now. Last I heard, they were going through a redesign and were trying to fit more in. This building will be rental for at least 5 years and the developer is not allowed to speculate about going condo at the end of that period. I guess it's a no-no to admit the inevitable at this point in time.
March 10, 200718 yr that seems peculiar, that a person would pay for upgrades in an apartment. Its throwing money away.
March 10, 200718 yr ^it actually happens quite frequently - especially when the building isn't focused on renters who will eventually buy a house or condo. a completely different market is the long term renter who doesn't plan to buy a house or condo, and a few thousand to make the apartment theirs when they plan to live there for 5 or 10 years is nothing.
March 10, 200718 yr Thats a reasonable answer. Living in NYC and having never rented an apartment in Cleveland, I was unaware that you could do such. Here in NYC, you usually dont have much to work with unless you've got luxury apartment money.
May 18, 200718 yr In todays PD: University Circle hotel gets redesign as apartments Friday, May 18, 2007 Henry J. Gomez Plain Dealer Reporter A once-proud hotel that became a rundown question mark in University Circle is about to get another lease on life. Crews will finish work this summer on Park Lane Villa, a historic, six-story building at East 105th Street and Park Lane. The Finch Group, a Florida developer behind the $28 million renovation, expects to begin renting out newly crafted apartments in phases this summer. The project, when completed, will have 96 units with rates ranging from $1,000 to $2,700 a month. Most floor plans include two bedrooms, though some one- and three-bedroom units will be available. Finch, chosen by the city to rehab Park Lane Villa, has been working with Cleveland's City Architecture and Marous Brothers Construction Inc. of Willoughby. More at cleveland.com http://www.cleveland.com
August 22, 200717 yr Just checked the Park Lane Villas website and noticed they have floor plans. Some of the suites are sweet! To bad its a rental.
March 11, 200817 yr Has anyone checked out the Park Lane Villa in person? According to the website (http://www.parklanevilla.com) they have an open house this Sunday. The units look very nice, albeit pricey. Just curious if any UO folks had information/opinions on it.
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