31 minutes ago, KHart said:

https://www.hotel-online.com/press_releases/release/hotel-management-company-rfq-for-a-new-build-branded-lifestyle-hotel-in-the-ohio-city-neighborhood-of-cleveland-ohio/

 

Hotel Management Company RFQ for a New-Build, Branded Lifestyle Hotel in the Ohio City Neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio

 

November 12, 2020

 

On behalf of and by direction of a Cleveland, Ohio-based commercial real estate development firm, Newmark Valuation & Advisory is pleased to request qualifications from experienced hotel management companies for a hotel development in the Ohio City neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio. Mixed-use developments at the site are planned to include market-rate apartments, leased retail and restaurant space, and the new-build hotel. The developer is seeking an operator for the hotel component only.

Within the Request for Qualifications (RFQ), we provide an overview of the developer, summarize details regarding the proposed hotel and overall project, outline recommendations from the feasibility analysis, and define the scope of services expected from a third-party hotel management company.

This RFQ is the pre-qualification stage of the procurement process. Only those applicants who successfully respond to the RFQ and meet the qualification criteria will be included in the subsequent Request for Proposals (RFP) solicitation process. Submissions will be reviewed and forwarded to the development firm. A copy the feasibility study will be provided to those firms deemed most qualified.

Interested parties should contact Laurel Keller, MAI, Senior Vice President in the Hospitality, Gaming & Leisure practice, at [email protected] for a copy of the RFQ. Submissions are due by 5:00 PM EST on Monday, November 30, 2020.

I know there have been a few "potential" boutique hotels discussed for Ohio City. However, both of those would not technically qualify as "new builds" as they were planned for historic properties.

 

Wondering if this could be part of Intro? 

Edited November 13, 20204 yr by BJBaes

Im thinking it relates to Bridgeworks.

I received the RFQ. And, this is Bridgeworks.

Interesting that they show the subway deck of the Detroit-Superior Birdge through that hole.

Looks like the townhomes on the corner of 44th and Whitman have finally broken ground.

 

Not gonna lie after three years of no activity I thought this one was dead.

Edited November 16, 20204 yr by Enginerd

The Bridgeworks massing looks sharp, and is potentially a great juxtaposition of old and new.

1 hour ago, G00pie said:

I was out exploring yesterday and noticed the equipment and trucks!  very exciting!  I did not realize how much construction is happening in that area!  its amazing

 

Actually, I should've posted that in the Duck Island thread. I took pictures today and will post them there.

 

While I was taking pictures of the Stoneleigh development, I turned my camera to Intro, across Lorain Avenue......

 

It’s already hard to imagine what Hingetown looked like even just 2 or 3 years ago. Church + State and both phases of the Quarter have tremendously improved the neighborhood’s density and streetscape experiences along Detroit Ave.

 

I also love how the Quarter Phase 2 has turned out. The dark gray facade is beautiful, it has a strong street presence, and the pops of green from the accent walls and Juliet balcony greenery add nice visual contrast.

 

Edit - I’m having trouble uploading more pics, so see a few more here: 

 

Additionally, the neighborhood’s development momentum is continuing with The Dexter. This is a beast of a project that adds so much density and makes a big impact!

 

Edited November 22, 20204 yr by urbanetics_

I like The Quarter Phase II, but as nice as it looks in the grey, I think it would be nicer with red brick.  The grey is a bit dreary.

1 hour ago, X said:

I like The Quarter Phase II, but as nice as it looks in the grey, I think it would be nicer with red brick.  The grey is a bit dreary.

Oh, I have to respectfully disagree. Nearly all of the historical buildings in Ohio City are red brick. It’s everywhere. And while I do love the look, the dark gray is a very sharp, modern color and really sets it apart in Hingetown. 
 

Just my opinion. 

No problem, we all have opinions!  Personally, the grey reminds me of the color of some of the historic brick buildings downtown, before they're cleaned of generations of soot!

On 10/14/2020 at 11:00 AM, YABO713 said:

 

I just want my commute route back ? 

 

Then today's your lucky day -- Fulton and the Franklin Circle roundabout are open.

38 minutes ago, Litening said:

 

Then today's your lucky day -- Fulton and the Franklin Circle roundabout are open.

I was wondering; the barricades were taken down but when I drove Fulton I passed about 10 signs saying wrong way 

58 minutes ago, Enginerd said:

I was wondering; the barricades were taken down but when I drove Fulton I passed about 10 signs saying wrong way 

 

I saw a police car driving the "wrong way" so I figured it was ok to do it too. 🚓😎

From @mack34

 

8 minutes ago, KJP said:

From @mack34

 

 

Idk why you guys expect me to go around the circle when I could go through it. It's fuel and time efficient. Stop judging 

2 hours ago, YABO713 said:

2 hours ago, KJP said:

From @mack34

 

 

Idk why you guys expect me to go around the circle when I could go through it. It's fuel and time efficient. Stop judging 

 

This driver (or maybe drivers plural?) had to either be blackout drunk or flat out sleeping. They went over the median/6 inch curb, hit a sign, and kept going over a second raised curb to get inside the circle, knocked over a second sign, and turfed plants and mud - all without stopping? 

Or maybe one of those anti-circle people.

Or they had a crappy enough car and thought it was fun.

Aaaaaaand that is how the landscaping will remain until the road needs to be fully rebuilt again.

 

On 12/3/2020 at 11:38 AM, KJP said:

 

I think the building looks pretty good and any development on lorain is good imo, but it's a shame they're tearing down two decent buildings to make this when there's so many parking lots and car-centric developments on lorain. 

New apartment bldg slated on W. 25 between the Porco Tiki Lounge and bridge over Train Ave. Not technically Ohio City, but it is close and can be seen as a result of the booming development in Ohio City proper. Will likely be 4-5 stories and up to 200 units per the Crains article.

 

"Mavrek Development, a Chicago real estate developer, has purchased the SASS Automotive & Wrecking Co. property at 2487 W. 25th St. near the West Side Market, and it plans to develop an apartment building on the site. If your first thought is, "What site is that?," you wouldn't be alone.

 

While SASS has a street-level address, the bulk of the nearly acre site is several feet lower and currently serving as a repository for junked cars. The site's size is clearer from the West 20th Street side, which dead-ends nearby...."

 

This is noteworthy:

 

"That Mavrek, through Treo Development LLC, paid $1.3 million to the seller, a local investor group named Cle Vue LLC, is the other break from Cleveland development past. It reflects the run-up of Ohio City and Tremont land values: The site carried a fair market value of just $330,000 for property tax purposes...."

 

https://www.crainscleveland.com/real-estate/chicago-developer-has-apartments-planned-west-25th-street-site

Edited December 7, 20204 yr by Pugu

 

MONDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2020
Seeds & Sprouts XIII - Early intel on real estate projects

 

MetroHealth seeks appointment for dentistry clinic

 

MetroHealth System's nonprofit development arm, CCH Development Corp., has requested a permit to renovate a former Hollywood Video store at 3701 Lorain Ave. in the Ohio City neighborhood into a family dentistry clinic.

 

The permit application was filed Nov. 17 by Perspectus Architecture LLC of Cleveland on behalf of CCH for its property at 3701 Lorain Ave. The 7,665-square-foot building was constructed in 1998 as a Rite Aid, set at the southwest corner of Lorain and Fulton Road, next to the Tinnerman Lofts rehab project and near to other developments. Value of the renovation and interior buildout was not listed on the application.

 

MORE:

https://neo-trans.blogspot.com/2020/12/seeds-sprouts-xiii-early-intel-on-real.html

The Exchange project on Clinton is progressing nicely

 

i think the brick will look nice when the accents around the windows and porch are done

I don't think I've seen this anywhere but if so sorry for the duplicate information.

 

Looks like lululemon opened a pop up shop in Harness Cycle. I tried to embed the tweet from @ohiocitytweets but couldn't get it to work. Maybe testing the neighborhood for Intro?

Edited December 9, 20204 yr by MikeyB440
removed embedded tweet

18 minutes ago, MikeyB440 said:

I don't think I've seen this anywhere but if so sorry for the duplicate information.

 

Looks like lululemon opened a pop up shop in Harness Cycle. I tried to embed the tweet from @ohiocitytweets but couldn't get it to work. Maybe testing the neighborhood for Intro?

 

You're correct!  We talked about it up-thread but it's exciting and should be repeated. Lululemon is not the only retailer that plans to test this market, from my understanding - and it's not just Intro drawing the attention. 

3 hours ago, YABO713 said:

 

You're correct!  We talked about it up-thread but it's exciting and should be repeated. Lululemon is not the only retailer that plans to test this market, from my understanding - and it's not just Intro drawing the attention. 

According to the store manager I spoke to when I was in Lululemon a few weeks back, their lease for the Harness spot is 1 year long. Depending on how they do, they have plans for a permanent store "most likely somewhere along Detroit" in Hingetown.  

Edited December 9, 20204 yr by BJBaes

I could definitely see them opening up a shop in Church and State. That seems like the perfect spot for them. Hope they do well!

31 minutes ago, PoshSteve said:

I could definitely see them opening up a shop in Church and State. That seems like the perfect spot for them. Hope they do well!

 

I've heard that as well - but from my understanding the block club has already made it known that they won't tolerate "non-local" "profit-focused" retailers after the "abomination" of Title Boxing getting the second spot in the Saucy building. 

 

Those are in quotes because I pulled those directly from comments from a block club member. As if the point of retail wasn't to make a profit... 

1 hour ago, YABO713 said:

 

I've heard that as well - but from my understanding the block club has already made it known that they won't tolerate "non-local" "profit-focused" retailers after the "abomination" of Title Boxing getting the second spot in the Saucy building. 

 

Those are in quotes because I pulled those directly from comments from a block club member. As if the point of retail wasn't to make a profit... 

Yeah, who would want amenities for residents! Let's expand Linda's into the Quarter and open up another used car lot! 

Franklin Circle is crying out for historic-style streetlights; does anyone know if  are they part of the project?  There are the leftover, cliched "historic" light poles and globes - some of which look wretched; they can try to match those (probably won't get a perfect match, as they usually don't in Cleveland) or come up with something at least slightly more distinctive.  Something needs to be done anyway, because the current lighting on the circle has big gaps.

 

Fulton Road now has sort of a boulevard image and it to is crying out for decorative lighting of some sort.

 

Edited December 11, 20204 yr by lafont

 

4 hours ago, YABO713 said:

 

I've heard that as well - but from my understanding the block club has already made it known that they won't tolerate "non-local" "profit-focused" retailers after the "abomination" of Title Boxing getting the second spot in the Saucy building. 

 

Those are in quotes because I pulled those directly from comments from a block club member. As if the point of retail wasn't to make a profit... 

The block-club is the real life version of the Ohio City Facebook page. It’s awful (and it’s my block club). The problem, as it usually is, is that you only have a specific kind of very vocal minority that take the time to devour to these meetings. 

How much authority does a block club have in dictating who a private landlord can and can't rent to? I think they can be safely ignored on this.

On 12/9/2020 at 5:20 PM, KJP said:

 

 

Progress update from yesterday. The next building hasn't been demolished, but the debris from the demolished building has been removed as of this afternoon. Photos courtesy of Jonathan Parrish.

Full steam ahead at the new MyPlace development on Franklin. The road will be closed between 48th and 50th for the next few days(?)

The other building at Lorain and Randall is down. I took a photo of it and will post it later.

Does anyone know what's going on with this old house next to Tinnerman Lofts on Fulton? https://www.redfin.com/OH/Cleveland/2054-Fulton-Rd-44113/home/139892812

 

It was in rough shape 6 months ago but has had some very significant work done in the interim. I thought Tinnerman would be tearing it down for their courtyard, but that doesn't seem to be the case. It's also apparently not owned by Tinnerman (owned by FRHOUSES LLC).

 

I did some googling for the address and found this article about some of the building's history as a Hungarian club: http://www.clevelandmemory.org/hungarian/articles/burnmort.html but otherwise couldn't find anything useful about its future plans.

 

Did a bit more searching and found a permit to renovate the exterior filed by the Dalad Group, no mention of the property on their website though.

Edited December 22, 20204 yr by dastler

Foundation is getting set for the MyPlace project on Franklin. They were pumping concrete in non-stop the last two days

On 12/22/2020 at 12:26 PM, dastler said:

Does anyone know what's going on with this old house next to Tinnerman Lofts on Fulton? https://www.redfin.com/OH/Cleveland/2054-Fulton-Rd-44113/home/139892812

 

It was in rough shape 6 months ago but has had some very significant work done in the interim. I thought Tinnerman would be tearing it down for their courtyard, but that doesn't seem to be the case. It's also apparently not owned by Tinnerman (owned by FRHOUSES LLC).

 

I did some googling for the address and found this article about some of the building's history as a Hungarian club: http://www.clevelandmemory.org/hungarian/articles/burnmort.html but otherwise couldn't find anything useful about its future plans.

 

Did a bit more searching and found a permit to renovate the exterior filed by the Dalad Group, no mention of the property on their website though.

 

Tinnerman Lofts project is BEING BUILT BY the Dalad Group in Ohio City.

 

And the project is converting a vacant former manufacturing site into 49 market-rate housing units and a few workforce units and I'm assuming the old house will be the workforce units.

12 hours ago, Larry1962 said:

 

Tinnerman Lofts project is BEING BUILT BY the Dalad Group in Ohio City.

 

And the project is converting a vacant former manufacturing site into 49 market-rate housing units and a few workforce units and I'm assuming the old house will be the workforce units.

Thanks, after some more digging found info on the historic tax credit awarded for Tinnerman which mentions three houses being renovated as part of the program, although none of them were designated as historic. The other two sit across Fulton.

edit to correct the link to right press release.

Edited January 3, 20214 yr by dastler

14 hours ago, dastler said:

Thanks, after some more digging found info on the historic tax credit awarded for Tinnerman which mentions three houses being renovated as part of the program, although none of them were designated as historic. The other two sit across Fulton.

edit to correct the link to right press release.

You are very welcome my friend!

Longhouse Huts/2800 Church Apartments have a March 1 target start date according to the Dodge Reports.

 

Here's the article from when I broke the story about this project with the help of @tykaps:

https://neo-trans.blogspot.com/2020/06/longhouse-huts-proposed-for-ohio-citys.html

Two great new corner builds under construction on West 44th. Harbor Whitman Townhomes on the corner of 44th and Whitman and Harbor 44/Sherwin-Williams retail relocation at 44th and Lorain.

Since this isn't thread for posting ideas (especially about transportation), I thought you all might be interested in this idea which I've posted here......

 

 

15 minutes ago, KJP said:

Here's some ideas to turn the West Shoreway into a real Edgewater Parkway, to get trucks out of neighborhoods (especially Lakeview Terrace), foster more neighborhood and commercial development, and promote transit access!

 

 

 

 

 

Feel free to discuss at the Cleveland road/highway news thread.

Here's an interesting project on tomorrow's Design Review agenda:

 

It's a five-story building (an additional four stories) of apartments (20 units total) above the Ohio City Brew Stop beverage store at the corner of Woodbine and Fulton.

Edited January 20, 20214 yr by Clefan98

I like that a lot.  Fulton is a major road so it makes sense for the density between Lorain and Detroit/Franklin to extend along that road.

I love it! Does this fall under the same block club that the Dexter and Church and State are under? If so, they are going to go NUTS