Excellent Willow, flat out excellent. I hope to see some residential units there in the future!

If you ever add some business/executive type units I would stay there most definetely. I have laid out thousands to stay at Tremont Place Lofts which are nice, and I thought unique, but they do not undertsand how to take care of people who want a different and special experience. Looks like you have that with Tyler Village. Good Luck!

MayDay, let me know if you want to walk around and snap photo's. You are always welcome. I can't make promises on future work, but tours I can.

 

Thanks for all the kind words. Residential is piece that makes a whole lot of sense eventually here at Tyler. It's an fascinating project for me personally because I don't know of many opportunities in a city such as Cleveland (Buffalo, Pittsburgh, etc..) where you can control an entire neighborhood, not just a few houses or buildings on a block.

 

Something that I hope comes across in this video is that we are very interested in our tenant's success. If there is a city program, or contact that we think could help one of our tenants we make sure to get that information in front of them, in some cases we can guide them through the process as well. 

Teen Step program and Cleveland Public Theater will be performing at Tyler Village at noon on Tuesday August 4th.

thanks for the advice. We will tweak it at some point next year, but this will be what we go with for a while

 

Just adding my opinion .. I agree. Maybe you could break it up into several videos covering a different facet of TV?

 

But it's definitely really beautifully done .. this is a fantastic project in the city, for sure. The spaces look amazing.

Nice. These buildings are also handsome and not the typical industrial buildings. I hope more emphasis is applied to their exterior restoration as well. At least cleaning.

I kind of enjoy the industrial age patina.

 

Excellent presentaion!!!!

http://www.tylervillage.com/Tyler-Mac.swf

 

FYI, this link is where our promo piece will be permanently.

wow.

 

the part that really grabbed me was about highlighting the mix between the creative hi tech and lo tech businesses.

 

just incredible!

 

 

thank you. We believe that companies like Gotta Groove Records or Indigo Imp, though production facilities, mix well with companies like Sparkbase and DigiKnow. We hoped to convey that some in the presentation.

WIW- Nice work..

Today, at noon Cleveland Public Theater will be putting on a show at Tyler Village in the north parking lot off of 36th street. All are welcome to come, it's a free event.

 

Rain or shine, if it rains we have an indoor option.

1st vinyl record ever pressed at Tyler Village care of Gotta Groove Records!

Grove is in the heart.....

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmvgDzTbyuM&feature=related

Does vinyl grow in groves?

http://www.wkyc.com/video/default.aspx?maven_playerId=immersiveplayer&maven_referralPlaylistId=9271045a646128edc214e46f9b102f3c3962bd5c&maven_referralObject=1276060340&maven_referrer=staf

 

Tyler Village in the news (wkyc report)

http://twitter.com/TylerVillage

 

Tyler Village Twitter page.. follow for occasional updates.

Michael Seifert's Ante Up Audio recording studio lures big names to Cleveland and puts local talent on the map

By John Soeder, The Plain Dealer

January 24, 2010, 12:00AM

 

Built to the tune of $2 million, Ante Up opened in 2004 in Tyler Village, a mixed-use development nestled between Superior and St. Clair avenues on East 36th Street, on the site of the old W.S. Tyler factory. If an ultra-hip, state-of-the-art recording studio strikes you as the last thing you would expect to find tucked away in this part of town, you wouldn't be the first to be surprised.

 

http://www.cleveland.com/popmusic/index.ssf/2010/01/michael_seiferts_ante_up_audio.html

 

updates:

corporate client looking to move offices to Tyler. (company hurt by recession, needs less space from downtown office)

 

post start up tech company looking at leaving incubator space for it's own office, would be hiring once in.

 

Media Design and branding firm just signed a lease March 2nd.

 

Cafe close, plumber has a couple of hours and will need to pass inspection. After that, Cafe Tyler (actually, I don't know what the name will be) will be open to the public and our tenants.

 

Large suburban tech firm looking at possibly taking 35,000 SF of space at Tyler.

 

3,500 SF user looking at the 4th floor of building 31. Would also take 12,000 SF at a separate facility in Cleveland for it's distribution arm. Would be hiring 20 or so people right out of the gate.

WW,

 

Is residential still in the long term plans or have TV's office successes and the national residential woes altered Tyler Village's plan?

there's active work being done on that front that include plans, etc..  looking for financing now, like everyone else.

If all the current prospects come through, about how much total sq ft do you guys have leased up?

450,000 of 540,000 SF for the east side of campus.

^That's GREAT!  Congrats!!  This is the type of adaptive reuse that the city needs more of!

post start up tech company looking at leaving incubator space for it's own office, would be hiring once in.

 

What incubator?

post start up tech company looking at leaving incubator space for it's own office, would be hiring once in.

 

What incubator?

 

Can't say, don't know what their confidentiality level needs to be at.

Just stumbled on to this thread, never knew about the area otherwise which is odd because I work at E. 49th & Lakeside...

 

This looks great though!  Big thumbs up for those who had the vision & commitment to make this come together!

So a couple of lease's have been executed:

 

Moss Media has made their home at Tyler Village and should be operating by mid-next week.

 

John Deere has brought their Cleveland offices to the Old Factory Restaurant space (Factory left due to various issues). A little corporate America across from Ante Up Audio and next to E Prep!

 

Solutions At Work (SAW) is opening a Cafe in the old administration offices of Tyler Elevator. Assuming they pass inspections we are looking at a March 22nd opening possibly!

 

In the mean time, Gotta Groove records is getting some national press, PC Helps is actively hiring more people, Sparkbase is at capacity in terms of employees, Nu Life Fitness is hopping and and Village Prep kindergarten is in full swing.

^Wow, the diversity of your rent roll is really amazing.  Nice work!

Congratulations!

Where was John Deere before?

 

Hey WW, your work has been phenominal, so let me get greedy

Has your group look at expanding into some sort of housing contingent?  Maybe identify a few blocks kind of near T.V. in which employees of the various companies may want to live?

 

 

Congratulations!

Where was John Deere before?

 

Hey WW, your work has been phenominal, so let me get greedy

Has your group look at expanding into some sort of housing contingent? Maybe identify a few blocks kind of near T.V. in which employees of the various companies may want to live?

 

 

 

John Deere is coming from 2 floors at Erie Tower.

 

I don't know what you mean by housing contingent. We started off looking at all of Tyler for housing. After switching directions towards office, tech, education and arts uses we are back looking at live/work market rate apartments somewhere on campus. The only acquisition we are looking at is land for additional parking.

Cafe' is open with free wi/fi, sandwiches, coffee and various healthy options for snacks. If you have a chance drop in. Open from 8:30 until 2:00 M-F (though these hours may be extended after they gauge what works).

update from PC Helps: We now have well over 60 employees working full time in our office, and have been hiring new employees recently. We are all very happy with Typer Village, and really appreciate the recent work that was done in the hallway outside of our main entrance. New walls put up, painted, and will soon have new flooring installed. The new tyler village cafe, while modest in choices, allows us an another option for grabbing a bagel or quick snack during the day without having to leave the complex. There is work being done in the areas where we park to improve that as well. We also continually notice the new tenants coming in and we appreciate having such great neighbors. Thank you Tyler Village, for all the hard work you have done. Keep it up!

Visiting this place on one of the Hidden Cleveland Tours, I was amazed at the back story and history of this place and the views of the city from the higher floors were great.  With more tenants on board, it sounds like it is turning into a truly thriving, dynamic work space to boot.  What a great story.

I work around the corner in another Greystone property at E49th & Lakeside, the Cleveland Twist Drill building.  I've been meaning to check out the Tyler Village complex and now that they have a little cafe open, that's a perfect reason to check it out

 

Demo of back spaces making way for very needed parking. Sad to lose some of the buildings, but between the inefficiencies of space and the fact that our success is driving our need for more surface spaces, so be it. We will also be adding some green areas to the landscaping.

^First post of yours that I dislike.

ha! well, in order for Tyler Village to continue to allow for me to post things you do like, steps like this one needed to happen.  We had brokers not even bothering to show our space because of lack of parking capacity, and worse still, telling their clients not to bother when asked about it (true story). Without parking we don't fill the space, we don't fill the space we don't continue doing the development and go back to warehousing or mothballing the project or future improvements.

 

Urban idealism meets urban realities. Hopefully we are able to meet somewhere in the middle.

Have you guys considered structured parking in this area so there won't be the need to demo more buildings for more surface parking?

Yeah, I'd guess that if the plan is surface parking than your project will end up being "rehab 1, demolish 3".

we have, unfortunately the costs associated with structured parking are so great that we would have to charge close to $200 a spot to re-coup the dollars invested (and that's at a paltry 7.5% over 30 years). The market in midtown calls for free or very cheap parking, and it's doubtful that we could ever get a premium for spots. It's telling that few if any structured lots have been built in the Cleveland area without heavy tax payer subsidies. when it costs 25k per car for structured parking, the ability to get it built through private investment isn't quite as fees-able.

 

At one point we had plans to ramp up the 2nd floor of one of our buildings and maintain the structures coming down. The costs associated with that were huge, and only netted us 66 new spots. Demoing the buildings in back (and keep in mind that these were terribly inefficient buildings) netted us 327 spots and was able to be done for a fraction of the cost.

 

We don't currently have plans for future demoing of buildings, though.

Well, that last part made me smile a little!

WW, If you are willing to have an open mind about some new ideas, urban idealism can merge with urban realities more often. Are you open to hearing some ideas here?

^I know it sounds like a cop out, but I think it's probably the brokers and tenants who need to have the open mind.  I'm sad to see those buildings come down, but happy to see TV thriving. 

WW, If you are willing to have an open mind about some new ideas, urban idealism can merge with urban realities more often. Are you open to hearing some ideas here?

KJP, I don't think it's about me being closed minded. I'd love to have structured parking on the north end of the campus with a dynamic high rise market-rate apartment complex on top of it looking at the lake and the city. Ultimately we have to work with the market that we have, not the market we want.

 

I also think that tearing down buildings isn't always a bad thing. It often times is painted as such, but in reality I can think of tons of building stock in and around Cleveland that is holding the city back. You could take down a mile and a half of St.Clair today and we'd probably be in better position for new development than we are now.

"I also think that tearing down buildings isn't always a bad thing. It often times is painted as such, but in reality I can think of tons of building stock in and around Cleveland that is holding the city back. You could take down a mile and a half of St.Clair today and we'd probably be in better position for new development than we are now."

 

I've never visited a neighborhood or city because they had an interesting surface parking stock.  When buildings are torn down you lose the very thing that makes the city interesting.  In a city that has been so liberal with demo permits for the past decades, I don't think you're going to get much sympathy here.  One building here, another there, and before you know it you have Euclid Avenue from E55th to E79th.  The comment about St. Clair is also somewhat mystifying...

WW, If you are willing to have an open mind about some new ideas, urban idealism can merge with urban realities more often. Are you open to hearing some ideas here?

KJP, I don't think it's about me being closed minded. I'd love to have structured parking on the north end of the campus with a dynamic high rise market-rate apartment complex on top of it looking at the lake and the city. Ultimately we have to work with the market that we have, not the market we want.

 

I also think that tearing down buildings isn't always a bad thing. It often times is painted as such, but in reality I can think of tons of building stock in and around Cleveland that is holding the city back. You could take down a mile and a half of St.Clair today and we'd probably be in better position for new development than we are now.

 

I guess I have a different view of the lifetime of a city. In most parts of the world, buildings outlive their owners, their governments and even their countries. To borrow a phrase from the Vietnam War, we don't have to destroy a village in order to save it.

 

And I'm not sure you're so open-minded when you make a comment needing to add a high-rise apartment building to a parking deck, as if that is what I would expect from you or our current market. Why jump to such conclusions?

 

What parking is already available within 500 feet of your property? How heavily is it used? If it's heavily used at the same times of the day that Tyler Village is used, then why not work with St. Clair-Superior and/or Asiatown on a shared parking deck? If the existing parking in the area is heavily used at times different than when Tylver Village is used, or not used heavily at all, then why not go in with these other property owners to share the existing parking lots to share the expense?

 

There's some good ideas in this document, especially on pages 14-22, and in the case studies later on...

http://www.smartgrowth.org/pdf/prkgde04.pdf

This is really sad to see, but parking is actually pretty scarce around Tyler (the lot directly behind my house opposite Tyler is large and generally close to full capacity). With the houses doubled up on already small lots in the East 30s and East 40s, residential parking needs keep streetside pretty booked up, and given a relatively high rate of unemployment in the neighborhood, this applies to both daytime and evening scenarios.

 

There is still a pretty active manufacturing employment base that keeps surface lots around my house relatively full, and the lots at the Asian markets and Dave's are near capacity during the day (with the exception of the new one across from Tyler ... but that scenario will likely change when it's tenanted. Then you have substantial lunchtime populations at places like Number 1 Pho, Superior Pho, Tastebuds, Slyman's ... It can be tricky. There may be opportunities to partner up on lots or structured parking, but I agree that I'm not sure that it could be made financially feasible for most of the smaller businesses that populate the neighborhood or even at the CDC level.

 

It's a real shame, and I hope increases in business density will increase the likelihood that it can be done. And let's just keep in mind that WW and the people he work with are serving as stewards of a massive amount of historic building stock that otherwise would be vacant or very, very sparsely tenanted at all; what they have done over the past decade makes it substantially less likely that these buildings will face the wrecking ball.

KJP, I'd say that the Tyler Building has outlived it's owner, Tyler Elevator is no longer around.

 

W28th, yes, you don't visit a city to look at parking lots. I don't think we should be tearing down buildings every five feet for another parking lot. I also don't think people go to cities to visit obsolete industrial space. Not all buildings have the ability to live a second and third life, many buildings built after ww 2 weren't even built to last 40 or 50 years (unlike a Tyler building or Richmond Brothers) Some times it's needed. The comment on St.Clair, I'm talking about all the single story stuff that can barely keep viable tenants in them. You aren't walking down 22nd and St.Clair saying, "now these are some great post war 50's style single story industrial buildings." There's a reason a place like Tyler has an emotional impact while a place like the former Sutton Hardware has little to no character.

JDD is opening up a 3800 SF headquarters office on the fourth floor of building 31 (small office building at 36th and Superior). JDD will be bringing new jobs to the region as they are expanding from a small work force on the east side to a large sales team here at Tyler and a distribution warehouse at another Graystone building (Cleveland Twist).