This is the Cedar-Central Development currently under construction.

 

https://pennrose.com/apartments/ohio/sankofa-village/?utm_source=E-News%20Recipients&utm_campaign=b7e3fe9e30-In%20the%20Campus%20District%20%20February%2021,%202017&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5d870f6a13-b7e3fe9e30-100908441

http://planning.city.cleveland.oh.us/bza/agenda/2017/crr03-06-2017.pdf

 

Board of Zoning Appeals

MARCH 6, 2017

9:30

Calendar No. 17-31: 1937 Prospect Avenue Ward 5

Phyllis E. Cleveland

12 Notices

Prospect Yard Limited Partnership, owner, proposes to change of use from manufacturing to 42 units

apartment in an E5 General Retail Business District. The owner appeals for relief from the strict

application of the following sections of the Cleveland Codified Ordinances:

1. Section 357.09(b)(2)© which states that a 20 foot side yard is required on both sides.

2. Section 357.08(b)(3) which states that a 40 foot minimum rear yard is required and no rear

yard is proposed.

3. Section 355.04 which states that the maximum gross floor area of building cannot exceed 1 ½

times the lot area or in this case 18,888 square feet and 65,922 square feet are proposed.

(filed February 3, 2017)

 

Cleveland Landmarks Commission

Agenda for March 9, 2017

 

Case 17-014

Prospect Avenue Historic District

YMCA Domain Cleveland 2200 Prospect Avenue

Partial Demolition and New Construction Concept

Ward 5

Cleveland

Don Rerko Architect

Makovich & Pusti

Kevin McGraw

Rivercaddis Development

 

A few of the 40 images from:

http://planning.city.cleveland.oh.us/landmark/agenda/2017/03092017/index.php

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

^WOW.  I know the addition is only conceptual at this point but that "thing" needs a lot of work.  It looks pretty Sh@#ty on its own and it awfulness is only compounded by its lack of integration with the original Y building.

^Yeah, but the site layout is good, no?  I like the idea of a 7 story building wrapping around a corner and concealing a parking lot behind.

 

Or is this just a shiny object they're throwing in front of the Commission to make easier the demolition approval?

^I'm guessing shiny object.

Is there any funding behind this building? If not, it's just a conceptual rendering whose only purpose is to justify knocking down a building that's no longer wanted.

I was going to say that rendering is literally a 10 minute project in a 3-D modeling software called SketchUp and tell you not to take it too seriously...but now that I think of it, most of the new construction in the entire City of Cleveland looks like a hastily made SketchUp model. It might actually look like that.

In today's PD: Developers seek permission to raze large piece of #CLE's former downtown YMCA, built in 1912: https://t.co/5WkGYwODr2

^Clearly the Landmark Commission was totally unimpressed (and rightly so) by the slapped together conceptual renderings.  The commission was bright enough to see that the presentation is part of a scheme to allow the owners to demolish an admitted money pit in order to sell the property, and not a true re-development proposal.  Really, from reading the article, I don't think they have any real desire or passion to re-develop.  It will be interesting to see if they bite the bullet, invest additional money, and come back with a "true" re-development plan in order to win a favorable demolition vote.

 

My biggest fear is that the fitness center is demolished and the building is eventually sold (or the current owners keeps the property) and all we get out of it is a parking lot for years to come.  The tone of the article suggests to me that the current owners are just trying to get rid of a bad investment without losing their shirts and this demolition is a means to that end.  All of this is leaving a very bad taste in my mouth.

A new neighborhood is born. Congrats @CuyahogaHousing @ClevelandWard5 #sankofavillage https://t.co/SLJka5koCh

^Yeah, but the site layout is good, no?  I like the idea of a 7 story building wrapping around a corner and concealing a parking lot behind.

 

Or is this just a shiny object they're throwing in front of the Commission to make easier the demolition approval?

 

Concealed parking lots within or within walking distance of high crime neighborhoods are a poor idea.  Ask pretty much any rank and file LEO.  All the cameras in the world don't have the same impact as a cruiser passing by.

^Yeah, but the site layout is good, no?  I like the idea of a 7 story building wrapping around a corner and concealing a parking lot behind.

 

Or is this just a shiny object they're throwing in front of the Commission to make easier the demolition approval?

 

Concealed parking lots within or within walking distance of high crime neighborhoods are a poor idea.  Ask pretty much any rank and file LEO.  All the cameras in the world don't have the same impact as a cruiser passing by.

How do you improve high crime neighborhoods? Improve the quality of construction as well as the demographic in it. The neighborhood is in the process of improving , as it continues to improve the construction and design should reflect that of an urban neighborhood. Having visible sprawling parking lots aren't urban IMO. It is important to get design right the first time so as the neighborhood increases in popularity we don't have to have discussion on having to hit the redo button on design.

Guess CMHA didn't ask their rank and file LEO before concealing this parking lot in the same neighborhood.

^Yeah, but the site layout is good, no?  I like the idea of a 7 story building wrapping around a corner and concealing a parking lot behind.

 

Or is this just a shiny object they're throwing in front of the Commission to make easier the demolition approval?

 

Concealed parking lots within or within walking distance of high crime neighborhoods are a poor idea.  Ask pretty much any rank and file LEO.  All the cameras in the world don't have the same impact as a cruiser passing by.

How do you improve high crime neighborhoods? Improve the quality of construction as well as the demographic in it. The neighborhood is in the process of improving , as it continues to improve the construction and design should reflect that of an urban neighborhood. Having visible sprawling parking lots aren't urban IMO. It is important to get design right the first time so as the neighborhood increases in popularity we don't have to have discussion on having to hit the redo button on design.

 

It doesn't help that they seem to be building a bunch of Cabrini Greens up here. One thing that we've learned from the field of Urban Planning is that dispersing low-income housing in place of large scale housing projects, has a profound impact on lowering crime overall.

They were Cabrini Greens. Whole area was filled with public housing dating back to the 1930s to replace deteriorating conditions. But by the 1960s, the public housing was deteriorating as well. CMHA demolished most of them and is replacing them with mixed-income housing.

 

BTW,  Central had more than 100,000 residents in it in 1940. It had only about 15,000 residents remaining by 2000 but is starting to grow again.

Campus Dist. home to 110 new market rate & affordable apts: https://t.co/JPlzJrnXk8 @CDICleveland @CuyahogaHousing @TriCedu @SOCHealthSystem

Interesting property acquisition from two weeks ago. Three people are listed as the buyers of the Ohio Educational Credit Union, 2554 East 22nd Street -- next to where Interstate 77 ends at the I-90 Inner Belt. I couldn't get any hits on the first two people listed until I got a hit on the last name: "Mark Moen"...

 

2554 E 22 ST

CLEVELAND

Sales Date 4/26/2017

Amount $3,200,000

Buyer SHERRY DON & FOUTS RICK & MOEN MARK

Seller OHIO EDUC CREDIT UNION

Deed type WARRANTY D

Land value $784,100

Building value $2,080,800

Total value $2,864,900

Parcel 122-03-001

Property Office buildings 3 or more stories (walk up)

 

Mark Moen showed up on this web page. And coincidentally, so did the other two....

 

https://www.ikorcc.com/leadership

 

INDIANA/KENTUCY/OHIO REGIONAL COUNCIL OF CARPENTERS OF THE UNITED BROTHERHOOD OF CARPENTERS AND JOINERS OF AMERICA

 

Rick Fouts, Assistant Director, Indiana/Kentucky

Mark Moen, Trustee, Carpenter Local 200 (Columbus, Ohio)

Don Sherry, Director of Organizing, Carpenter Local 175 (Louisville, KY)

 

Considering that these people live/work in other metros, this likely isn't a property acquisition for a union local. It is probably something larger, perhaps a credit union for the carpenters union or, perhaps, a relocation of the Joint Council of the carpenters union from Columbus to Cleveland? Another reason why it could be something larger -- why didn't the carpenters union buy the property? Why "mask" the acquisition by using names of three people as principals that would require a little bit of research to identify what they have in common?

The Frangos Group, under the name Prospectus 14 Holdings LLC and Prospectus 14 Holdings II LLC, last month acquired 17 non-contiguous properties (mostly surface parking lots but two have buildings on them) in the triangle bounded by Prospect Avenue, East 14th and East 18th, next to the Salvation Army complex that recently expanded with the new family shelter on East 18th.

 

Here are the properties Frangos acquired last month (April 10) for about $487,240....

 

1412 Prospect

1416 Prospect

1422 Prospect

1510 Prospect

0000 Prospect

1520 Prospect

2185 E 14th

0000 E 14th

2215 E 14th

0000 E 14th

2239 E 14th

2245 E 14th

Plus four parcels with no addresses listed on East 18th Street north of Huntington Place alley and the old Travelers Custom Case building.

 

Frangos Group lists two of its new purchases, the ones with buildings on them at 2215 and 2245 East 14th, as for sale or lease on its website: http://www.thefrangosgroup.com/Home/Properties

 

If this was a just a play for adding to Frangos' parking portfolio, then why acquire the two properties with buildings on them? Are they acquiring land in anticipation of a new development being built on or near their new acquisition?

KJP[/member] the credit unions sign was replaced with the carpenter union's sign. I bank there and was concerned that they moved last time I went to that branch.

Regarding the Frangos Group. Keep in mind that just next door to these parcels CSU has released an RFP for the redevelopment of the 19 acre Wolstein Center site.  These are due June 20.  I tried to find a connect between the 5 groups  that are submitting and Frangos but came up empty.  But if CSU is planning up to 1000 units for student housing they will need parking which could explain the Frangos purchase. Also CSU is looking to privatize their parking situation. I would like to think Frangos is planning something bigger but that just not his thang.

Yeah I was thinking that Frangos might try to get some benefit from the Wolstein Center redevelopment. But I guess I was just hoping that Frangos wouldn't try to build a parking moat between the Wolstein Center redevelopment and the Gateway District.

https://www.clevelanduprising.com/blogs/articles/check-out-this-video-of-a-virtual-tour-of-the-new-edge-apartments-by-csu

Don't know if this would be Campus District or Gateway. So I flipped a coin and put it here. Vacating streets is a possible early indicator of a real estate development. I love this area for a self-contained Transit Oriented Development overlooking the Cuyahoga Valley. Vacating Andes Court means it gets drawn, quartered and absorbed into the adjoining properties. Other than ODOT, the adjoining private property owner is McElwee Properties LLC which, since 2013, owns Cleveland Black Oxide Inc. business (a powder coating service which in turn is owned by Tatham Schulz Inc.).

 

 

http://planning.city.cleveland.oh.us/designreview/drcagenda/2017/05192017/index.php

 

Agenda for May 19, 2017

 

ADMINISTRATIVE APPROVALS

 

Ordinance No. 500-17(Ward 3/Councilmember McCormack): To vacate a portion of Andes Court S.E. 

 

 

 

Thanks for the pics Dumbledore. That building turned out pretty good, and it has great street presence.

It looks better than i expected

 

I never liked the look of this building from the renderings, but wow!! The finished product looks really good and adds some well needed density.

Curious to see Prospect...

This is how buildings should be situated in urban settings. CSU needs to look at unnecessary setbacks along Euclid Ave.

That turned out soooo much better than I expected.

Now all we need is that new tower on the Playhouse Square lot, and a new Urban Affairs building that abuts the whole stretch of Euclid between E. 17th and E. 18th (preferably with retail).

^ What?  You don't like the moat around the Urban Affairs building?

^ lol yeah, gotta love that moat which literally goes right up against the sidewalk on Euclid without fencing. When I was a student at CSU, I should've "accidentally" fallen down there. I could've gotten a nice settlement - no student debt!

not sure if this is the right forum but I heard Central Cadillac was sold to Ganley group and the dealership will be moving.  Not sure what sort of redevelopment could happen there.  It's not exactly a hot pocket of development right there.  Sort of on the fringe of nothing.

Any idea where they will move? 

Interesting. Go back to the discussion following my Nov. 2015 posting about the sale of Central Cadillac to a new company set up by Frank Porter, the owner of Central Cadillac:

 

https://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php/topic,14163.msg779651.html#msg779651

It appears the HVAC is about to go on the roof at the Edge

Awesome. Will the edge be ready for students coming in in August? 

Heating and cooling units going up at the Edge

Cleveland State University to honor Norm Krumholz's 90th birthday today with street renaming (photos)

 

http://www.cleveland.com/architecture/index.ssf/2017/06/cleveland_state_university_to.html#incart_river_home

Campus, MidTown districts considering addition of SIDs

June 18, 2017 UPDATED 2 DAYS AGO

By JAY MILLER

 

Two more Cleveland development corporations are planning to create special improvement districts, or SIDs, within the areas they serve.

 

Campus District Inc. and MidTown Cleveland Inc. see the SIDs as a self-help way to polish the appearance and the image of their prime commercial areas and to attract more development. They have seen how SIDs have worked, most recently, to spiff up Ohio City and the Gordon Square Arts District.

 

The Campus District neighborhood runs between East 18th Street and East 30th Street from Interstate 77 on the south to the Shoreway on the north. Midtown covers the commercial and industrial blocks that run from the Innerbelt Freeway on the west to East 79th Street on the east, between Payne and Carnegie avenues.

 

MORE:

http://www.crainscleveland.com/article/20170618/NEWS/170619813/campus-midtown-districts-considering-addition-of-sids?X-IgnoreUserAgent=1

The Constantino's Market Place going in at the Edge looks like it will be in a nice space.

Wait. What? Constantinos is building a market at the Edge? The new building on Euclid? This is the first I've heard of it

^ Yeah, that's news to me too. I remember folks were disappointed the Edge would have no retail.

Cuyahoga Community College to put 0.5-mill bond issue on November ballot

June 29, 2017 UPDATED 3 HOURS AGO

By RACHEL ABBEY MCCAFFERTY   

 

Cuyahoga Community College's board of trustees voted to put a 0.5-mill bond issue on the Nov. 7 ballot. The issue, if passed, would support a number of construction and renovation projects at Tri-C's campuses around the region.

 

The vote took place during a regular board meeting on Thursday, June 29, according to a news release from the school.

 

If passed, the bond issue would begin to be collected in 2018 and would run for 25 years. The release stated that the bond issue would generate about $227 million for Tri-C. The estimated cost to homeowners would be less than $1.50 per month for a $100,000 home, according to the release.

 

MORE:

http://www.crainscleveland.com/article/20170629/NEWS/170629748/cuyahoga-community-college-to-put-0-5-mill-bond-issue-on-november

Yup, they have some not-so-prominent signage in the window at the instersection. It will be marketed as more of a cafe/market though

Cuyahoga Community College's board of trustees voted to put a 0.5-mill bond issue on the Nov. 7 ballot. The issue, if passed, would support a number of construction and renovation projects at Tri-C's campuses around the region.

 

This seems like edifice-itis by trustees who don't know what else to do. Is construction what Tri-C really needs? They should work on a quality faculty and better academics first.

Cuyahoga Community College's board of trustees voted to put a 0.5-mill bond issue on the Nov. 7 ballot. The issue, if passed, would support a number of construction and renovation projects at Tri-C's campuses around the region.

 

This seems like edifice-itis by trustees who don't know what else to do. Is construction what Tri-C really needs? They should work on a quality faculty and better academics first.

 

Such short sighted thinking. It's not an either/or proposition. It should be both. Tri-C's new construction plans could be catalytic, particularly around the metro campus. I don't know how anyone could think that's a bad thing

In a metro without a sizeable, major, national university to help feed our local populace and work force with a continuing stream of top notch graduates each year (think: OSU) - bolstering the visibility of our already way-too-locally-prominent community college is what the region's taxpayers should be asked to directly support? I just don't get it...