December 20, 20186 yr I'm disappointed they're demolishing the 3-4 story section on the western edge. Otherwise the addition looks pretty good. Edited December 20, 20186 yr by Mendo
December 21, 20186 yr First look: CWRU addition planned for Maltz Performing Arts Center gets big thumbs up for design By Steven Litt, The Plain Dealer | Posted December 20, 2018 at 02:16 PM | Updated December 20, 2018 at 02:37 PM CLEVELAND, Ohio – Members of the city’s Euclid Corridor Design Review Committee were impressed. They loved it. Their heartstrings were pulled. They said all that and more at a Thursday morning meeting in which they enthusiastically approved plans for a large addition to Case Western Reserve University’s Maltz Performing Arts Center at Temple-Tifereth Israel in University Circle. The approval wasn’t surprising, given that DLR Group Westlake Reed Leskosky has a national reputation for designing cultural and performing arts facilities. Their specialization is rooted in the planning and design they did for renovating Playhouse Square theaters starting back in the 1970s. https://www.cleveland.com/expo/life-and-culture/erry-2018/12/1fec6f21b77582/first-look-cwru-addition-plann.html
February 4, 20196 yr On 11/27/2018 at 12:21 PM, KJP said: EDIT: a few more images. That's a lot of surface parking although some will be covered by the the L-shaped building.... I thought they were changing the use of this building into mixed-use, but it looks like they already had classrooms and offices in this otherwise mostly residential building...... http://planning.city.cleveland.oh.us/bza/agenda/2019/crr02-11-2019.pdf Board of Zoning Appeals FEBRUARY 11, 2019 9:30 Calendar No. 19-014: 1609 Hazel Drive Ward 9 Kevin Conwell Cleveland Institute of Music, owner, proposes to erect a 5 story building consisting of classrooms, offices and residences in a D5 Multi-Family Residential District. The owner appeals for relief from the strict application of the following sections of the Cleveland Codified Ordinances: 1. Section 337.08(d) which states that a public or private school and its accessory uses must be at least 15 feet from premises in a Multi-Family Residential District. 2. Section 355.04 which states that in a 'D' Area District the total floor area of a residential building cannot exceed the lot size area. The lot size is 61.059 square feet and the proposed building area is 102,785. 3. Section 357.04(a) which states that the front yard equal to 15% of the lot depth is required to a maximum of 30 feet. The proposed front yard setback at its closest point is 5 feet. 4. Section 357.08(b)(1) which states that a rear yard equal to 15% of the lot depth is required. In this case 32 feet are required and 14 feet 6 inches. 5. Section 357.09(b)(2)(C) which states that an interior side yard equal to one-fourth the height of the main building is required; in this case 15 feet is required and a portion of the building is 8 feet 3 inches. A 3,018 square foot side yard area at the north side of the building is required where approximately 1,400 square feet are proposed. 6. Section 341 which states that City Planning and Landmarks approval is required (Filed January 22, 2019) Edited February 4, 20196 yr by KJP "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
February 4, 20196 yr They're appealing the applicability of City Planning and Landmarks review? Hope the design has improved, but given the awfulness of the first try, hard to be optimistic.
February 4, 20196 yr Demolishing still another of the original Wade Park Allotment residences is disgusting. It's a real shame that block was not included in the Cleveland Historic District (I assume it wasn't)! Edited February 4, 20196 yr by lafont
February 4, 20196 yr 1 minute ago, lafont said: Demolishing still anotger of the original Wade Park Allotment residences is disgusting. It's a real shame that block was not included in the Cleveland Historic District (I assume it wasn't)! It's in the Magnolia-Wade Park Historic District
February 5, 20196 yr 3 hours ago, TPH2 said: It's in the Magnolia-Wade Park Historic District I feel that new Landmark designation was instrumental in Mt. Zion's changing their plans to demolish their mansion and I'd like to think then that the Landmark status means something here. Are you positive about the border? I thought it may only go down to the south side of Magnolia. I know the beautiful house that was sacrificed for the Alumni House expansion was definitely not in the District. Edited February 5, 20196 yr by lafont
February 5, 20196 yr 14 hours ago, lafont said: I feel that new Landmark designation was instrumental in Mt. Zion's changing their plans to demolish their mansion and I'd like to think then that the Landmark status means something here. Are you positive about the border? I thought it may only go down to the south side of Magnolia. I know the beautiful house that was sacrificed for the Alumni House expansion was definitely not in the District. Here's a map of the district. I circled the house in red.
February 12, 20196 yr Maybe this belongs in the West Quad thread since it would be across the street from where it was supposed to be? Signet is a pretty significant developer. I'm interested to see what they are proposing here.... EC 2019-008 Hough-Ansel Residences C Seeking Conceptual Approval Ansel Road at Hough Ave. Hough Neighborhood Kevin Belt, Signet Real Estate Group Aaron Brooker, Signet Real Estate Group Robert Donaldson, Moody Nolan "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
February 12, 20196 yr Just a massing, but it looks like it will be an apartment building with some decent scale, ground-floor retail and within walking distance to employers in Ohio's fourth-largest employment district. Now, about that abandoned, modern apartment building next door.... EC2019-008 - Hough-Ansel Residences Apartment Building New Construction: Seeking Conceptual Design Approval Project Location: Ansel Road at Hough Avenue Project Representatives: Kevin Belt, Signet Real Estate Group Aaron Brooker, Signet Real Estate Group Robert Donaldson, Moody Nolan "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
February 13, 20196 yr Not bad, glad to see development heading further north there. Man, that vacant 10 story really needs to come down... CLE Venture Fund LP (whoever they may be) bought it almost a year ago now, and are at least paying on the large tax delinquency, so maybe they have a plan. Hopefully they do, since demos are about to come to a halt.
February 13, 20196 yr Whoa! Great to see University Circle development continuing to spill outside its borders and into neighborhoods like Hough. Too bad some of these units can’t be some “for sale” units with the $10K-$30K of free money University Circle gives employees of the area: https://www.universitycircle.org/live/incentives-for-home-buyers Edited February 13, 20196 yr by MuRrAy HiLL
February 13, 20196 yr 1 hour ago, PoshSteve said: Not bad, glad to see development heading further north there. Man, that vacant 10 story really needs to come down... CLE Venture Fund LP (whoever they may be) bought it almost a year ago now, and are at least paying on the large tax delinquency, so maybe they have a plan. Hopefully they do, since demos are about to come to a halt. Why would all demos come to a halt? Even though it's so far north, could this possibly be one of the "seven" apartment houses existing or planned for the Euclid/Chester/East 107th Street vicinity?
February 14, 20196 yr An update on the CIM student housing on Hazel drive. They expanded the office/student space on the ground floor toward the sidewalk, plus some tweaks to the facade. More here: http://planning.city.cleveland.oh.us/landmark/agenda/2019/02142019/index.php \
February 15, 20196 yr So what was said about the nice brick house on Hazel? The headline only mentions the new bldg. - doesn't mention it would require the demolition of one of the few remaining Wade Park Allotment residences, which music students have long used (I always hear music coming from it). The Landmark District was specifically extended south of Magnolia Drive tobincludevthat house. Disgusting!
February 15, 20196 yr ^ At least some old houses are getting new life and reused. Definitely a bummer when Montessori High School closed, especially since it brought in so many out-of-state and international students. Happy to see more young people will be back on this block starting 2020: Hawken buys Montessori campus in University Circle for new Mastery School Updated 6:12 AM; Posted Feb 14, 6:30 PM By Patrick O'Donnell, The Plain Dealer CLEVELAND, Ohio – The Hawken School is taking over the former Montessori high school in University Circle and turning it into a new private high school with a model that’s growing in popularity nationally – teaching classes through student projects, rather than through lectures. The Mastery School of Hawken will have another major twist fitting its name. It won’t be grading students with As and Fs on report cards. It will use an ungraded “mastery” evaluation method, which rates students’ skills as Emerging, Developing, or Competent on an ongoing basis. Hawken is spending $3.7 million to buy three buildings on Magnolia Drive, behind the Western Reserve Historical Society, to house the school. All were part of Montessori High School at University Circle, which closed in the summer with enrollment and funding troubles. The new school will have about 160 students, possibly growing to 220, with some living in the 18-bed dormitory Hawken is buying from the closed Montessori school. https://www.cleveland.com/news/2019/02/hawken-buys-montessori-campus-in-university-circle-for-new-mastery-school.html Edited February 15, 20196 yr by MuRrAy HiLL
February 16, 20196 yr ^There's still a lot of money kicking around these circles. This is pretty cool news. A refreshing change from the relentless drift further east of so many other institutions.
February 16, 20196 yr Hawken has a substantial spread of facilities and acreage in Chester Township. They appear to have a very wealthy endowment. Unless the County's website is inaccurate, the three-floor former mansion on Magnolia alone was sold last year for a huge sum.
February 17, 20196 yr https://app.oxblue.com/open/ccf/cwruhec The link for the CWRU Health Education Campus construction cam shows they are finishing up the exterior of the Residence Inn at Innova. I love how the large tree growing at the corner of E. 101 st. and Chester was not cut down. Also, some progress at the Dental clinic not really visible in the construction cam. pic from 2-14-19
February 17, 20196 yr That Dental School is just an abysmal bunker. The renderings weren't very promising, but it looks even worse in reality.
February 17, 20196 yr The setback of the new medical school is so unnecessary and anti-pedestrian. I fear this whole area could be an example of how to spend hundreds of millions of dollars in the middle of an existing city in the most un-urban way possible. Hope I’m wrong.
February 17, 20196 yr I agree with X re: dental school. Yes the renderings were not promising and yes it looks worse in real life. Disagree with the comment about the medical school. The Foster and Partners design (which I like) looks better with a buffer surrounding it.
February 17, 20196 yr Going back a page, that proposed CIM facility is still heinous. They should be embarrassed presenting such dreck. Such a bummer what parking needs can do to design quality.
February 17, 20196 yr I suppose the medical school's roof's deep overhang (graceful but extraneous) on all four sides, contributes to the aesthetic need for space around the building. No, in that respect the building is not so urban. Edited February 17, 20196 yr by lafont
February 17, 20196 yr 1 hour ago, StapHanger said: Going back a page, that proposed CIM facility is still heinous. They should be embarrassed presenting such dreck. Such a bummer what parking needs can do to design quality. Does anyone know what happened at the Landmark Commission meeting regarding the proposed demolition of the brick house that's within the District. Respect for a house like that is exactly what the Commission should be all about.
February 17, 20196 yr 3 hours ago, X said: That Dental School is just an abysmal bunker. The renderings weren't very promising, but it looks even worse in reality. Agreed. The dental school turned out worse than expected. I thought we were done with the brutalist bunkers but here we are. 3 hours ago, ryanfrazier said: The setback of the new medical school is so unnecessary and anti-pedestrian. I fear this whole area could be an example of how to spend hundreds of millions of dollars in the middle of an existing city in the most un-urban way possible. Hope I’m wrong. No you aren't wrong. Add in the new cancer center, hotel, and parking garages. This area is a haphazard mess of pedestrian unfriendly buildings. Edited February 17, 20196 yr by Mendo
February 18, 20196 yr Yea, That dental school looks like it was brought out of the 70s, just with a little better selection of exterior materials. The lack of windows, or large windows is what makes it tough to look at IMO. I wonder if the Clinic ever thinks about doing a building up to the sidewalk, or is there a specific reason for the set backs in a lot of their buildings? It may be to keep the street noise somewhat separate from their patients, maybe there is another reason.
February 18, 20196 yr 24 minutes ago, lafont said: The Clinic does have many buildings that pretty much go to the sidewalk. On Carnegie but even those are bunkers.
February 25, 20196 yr These photos are of the original Wade Park Allotment house that would be sacrificed for the new and rather bland Cleveland Institute of Music dormitory. It's not only in a Historic District on the National Register but in a Cleveland Historic District, which should be more significant. No one here has responded to my inquiry about what was said at the last Landmarks Commission about this property? The Cleveland District was specifically extended beyond Magnolia Drive to include this property. Houses in the SECOND photo to the left relatively new fraternities which replaced two adjoining mansions that had been a fraternity and a sorority that had been destroyed in a fire. In other words, the threatened house, in this case, is the historic one. The newer house on Magnolia is ZBT, which moved there when their house on Belflower was to be demolished - another of the original Wade Park houses. Edited February 26, 20196 yr by lafont
February 27, 20196 yr ^ Don't forget we also lost this historic Caine-Hubbard Home at 11320 Juniper Road, knocked over by Case Western Reserve in Oct 2015. Yep, the same Hubbard as the "Cowell & Hubbard" jewelry store. On 10/12/2015 at 5:28 PM, Clueless,Ohio said: As of today.... unfortunately the fencing went up Edited February 27, 20196 yr by MuRrAy HiLL
February 27, 20196 yr Yes, I had posted quite extensively about that house. I'd say it was a yet superior house to the one on Hazel Drive, but I was less perturbed when one day I found a sibling to the Juniper house ( a semi-twin but in reverse) on East 108th dtreet happily remaining among the living. Edited February 27, 20196 yr by lafont
February 27, 20196 yr What is the point of being in a designated historic district when it seemingly is so easy to knock over the homes in the historic district? So backwards and frustrating.
February 28, 20196 yr Yes, Barking Spider site. "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
March 2, 20196 yr On 2/28/2019 at 4:07 PM, jeremyck01 said: ^ Is this the former Barking Spider location? Or am I imagining things? I go so far back I call it the Olive Tree. ? Are they going to do events and concerts or is just for the grand opening on the 15th?
March 5, 20196 yr Cozad-Bates house. Interesting combination of uses..... 9:30 Calendar No. 19-031: 11508 Mayfield Rd. Ward 6 Blaine A. Griffin 6 Notices University Circle, Inc., owner, proposes to establish use as a museum and a rooming house in an E2 Multi-Family Residential District. The owner appeals for relief from the strict application of Section 337.08(e) of the Cleveland Codified Ordinances which states that a museum is permitted if located not less than 15' from any adjoining premises in residence district not used for similar purpose: proposed use is located less than 15' from adjacent residential properties. (Filed February 22, 2019) http://planning.city.cleveland.oh.us/bza/agenda/2019/crr03-18-2019.pdf "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
March 6, 20196 yr 19 hours ago, KJP said: Cozad-Bates house. Interesting combination of uses..... 9:30 Calendar No. 19-031: 11508 Mayfield Rd. Ward 6 Blaine A. Griffin 6 Notices University Circle, Inc., owner, proposes to establish use as a museum and a rooming house in an E2 Multi-Family Residential District. The owner appeals for relief from the strict application of Section 337.08(e) of the Cleveland Codified Ordinances which states that a museum is permitted if located not less than 15' from any adjoining premises in residence district not used for similar purpose: proposed use is located less than 15' from adjacent residential properties. (Filed February 22, 2019) http://planning.city.cleveland.oh.us/bza/agenda/2019/crr03-18-2019.pdf Fantastic! That's some interesting history with this property, besides being the oldest structure in University Circle: https://clevelandhistorical.org/items/show/651?tour=44&index=0 http://buildwithkrueger.com/projects/detail/cozad-bates-house/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cozad–Bates_House
March 6, 20196 yr 17 minutes ago, Pugu said: What kind of museum will be there? I remember hearing that the Cozad-Bates House was used as a stop for the underground railroad, so maybe an underground railroad museum?
March 6, 20196 yr 33 minutes ago, Pugu said: What kind of museum will be there? The main house will be a guest house and office for Transplant House while the rear portions will be an interpretive center focusing on anti-slavery activity including modern-day human trafficking.
March 6, 20196 yr Cool topic for a museum, though it is a strange mix to have that with a comfortable place to stay during organ transplants.
March 7, 20196 yr On 2/17/2019 at 1:56 PM, WhatUp said: https://app.oxblue.com/open/ccf/cwruhec The link for the CWRU Health Education Campus construction cam shows they are finishing up the exterior of the Residence Inn at Innova. I love how the large tree growing at the corner of E. 101 st. and Chester was not cut down. Also, some progress at the Dental clinic not really visible in the construction cam. pic from 2-14-19 Is Brutalism making comeback?
March 11, 20196 yr On 3/2/2019 at 8:59 AM, E Rocc said: I go so far back I call it the Olive Tree. ? Are they going to do events and concerts or is just for the grand opening on the 15th? And before that, it was a beer hall by Hamilton Biggar III ? (In 1973). Check it out, there's even a picture of the mansion that used to be there: https://newspapers.case.edu/?a=d&d=OBS19730508-01.2.29&srpos=90&e=-------en-20--81-byDA-txt-txIN-juniper------ Edit: scratch that, I see the Olive Tree is mentioned are going in in 1967: https://newspapers.case.edu/?a=d&d=RT19670421-01.2.4&srpos=42&e=-------en-20--41-byDA-txt-txIN-juniper------ Official name will be "Dave's Cosmic Subs and Music." There should be plenty of live music, but not sure how often. Edited March 11, 20196 yr by MuRrAy HiLL
March 11, 20196 yr Such a shame those fine houses on Belflower were demolished. Also, this was when Magnolia was already cut into two but at least it was all called that. Then that piece was changed to "Juniper." I dream of the two stretches being reconnected and the original name coming back. Magnolia Drive was a beautiful winding boulevard, and even if some of its best houses are gone it xan have some of that presence again.
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