A press release from the city of Cleveland, 8/4/05:

 

 

11 NEW CITIRAMA® HOMES UNDER CONSTRUCTION IN CLEVELAND’S GLENVILLE NEIGHBORHOOD

 

CLEVELAND – August 4, 2005 – The sights and sounds of hammers, power tools, and construction equipment are evident as the City of Cleveland, the Home Builders Association (HBA) of Greater Cleveland, and the Glenville Development Corporation build toward the opening date of Cleveland’s 2005 CiTiRAMA home show.

 

CLEVELAND’S 2005 CITIRAMA HOME SHOW IS SET TO TAKE PLACE SEPTEMBER 10 - 18.

 

Eleven homebuilders are working simultaneously in the construction of 11 market rate homes along East 101 st Street/ East 100 th Street and East Boulevard, off of Superior Avenue.

 

“Cleveland’s red-hot housing market continues to sizzle with a wide range of housing products designed to meet and exceed the needs of homebuyers at all levels of the economic spectrum,” said Mayor Campbell.

 

“We’re entering the ‘home’ stretch of CiTiRAMA’s home construction phase, and this is the opportune time to capture the mid-point progress of the City of Cleveland’s and the HBA’s second massive urban development effort.”

 

The 11 homes are being built simultaneously, causing a great deal of excitement in the Glenville community. This concentrated infill development is part of Mayor Campbell’s initiative to rebuild Cleveland’s neighborhoods. The City of Cleveland has partnered with the Home Builders Association of Greater Cleveland and the Glenville Development Corporation in the second new home construction showcase in Cleveland.

 

“The Home Builders Association of Greater Cleveland’s mission in part is to promote the residential construction industry to the homebuying public,” said Nate Coffman, Executive Director. The HBA has had decades of success in promoting new construction through home shows, albeit primarily suburban. That changed with the inaugural and extremely successful 2003 CiTiRAMA home show along Linwood Avenue in Cleveland’s Hough neighborhood.”

 

The purpose of CiTiRAMA is to:

 

* Promote the urban lifestyle, the City of Cleveland and its unique neighborhoods, and the myriad of new housing options available in the City,

* Encourage suburban builders to gain knowledge and opportunity in center city development thus increasing consumer options and competition,

* Celebrate the City’s vibrant redevelopment; and

* Create a construction boom in the Glenville neighborhood. Prospective homebuyers will have dozens of lots to choose from in close proximity to the 2005 CiTiRAMA site.

 

The following is a list of the 11 participating CiTiRAMA 2005 builders:

 

- A.L.L.S. Inc. 

- Alabasi Construction

- Civic Builders

- Evergreen Homes

- Horizon Construction

- Jainco /Lighthouse Properties

- JEKS Builders

- M.A.R. Development

- Pepperwood Home Builders/Cleveland Housing Network

- Rysar Properties 

- Wake Forest Homes 

 

For more information on CiTiRAMA 2005 contact the City of Cleveland’s Department of Community Development at 216/664-4597 or the Home Builders Association of Greater Cleveland at 216/447-8700.

 

http://www.city.cleveland.oh.us/mayor/press/2005/200508/08_04_2005_2.html

 

i went to this two years ago, it was kinda funny.

 

All the homes were infil, mostly on vacant or abandoned land. With that being said, some of the existing stock wasn't in the best shape, so I'm not sure who, but "someone" went around sprucing up the local lots, but nothing says half-assed like pieces of sod lying around.

 

Regardless, good for glenville. I shoudl go back and check on the old sites and see how they are doing....

add these 11 houses to the drip drip drip of new housing being built

 

or as Mayor Jane calls it the RED HOT housing market :)

(its funny because it might be true)

haha, it always blows my mind... who would have EVER thought 10-15 years ago that the city would be leading the metro area in home construction?  I would have been laughed out of town for thinking so...

Good for Cleveland.

 

I am old enough to remember its rapid skid -- burning river, burning streets, burning mayor ...

 

But now it's real estate that.s burning!

 

Yay Cleveland!

I've been in DC, Baltimore, New Orleans (these guys bought something upper prospect, I assumed it was the montana bldg.) and people in each of those cities asked how the real estate market is doing, as they are looking for properties to invest in.

 

Cleveland needs to advertise properties a lil farther away from Cleveland, to help continue the housing boom. 

 

When I was in DC and they reported Cleveland's housing market as "scorching."

 

Not only is housing "booming" but property values are going thru the roof as well.

OK, I don't want to jinx it....

But, at what point to we reduce or eliminate the tax abatement for new homes?

 

I say not now, or in the immediate future, but if we continue to be "red hot" (still skeptical here...Clevelanditis) there would not need to be one, once the secret gets out.

Hush now, Grasscat ...

 

don't spoil the good mood ...

oops, sorry, I meant punch

Punch,

 

When condo projects start to be sold out before construction starts, then we shouldn't be using abatements.

I think they should phase in the removal of tax abatements neighborhood by neighborhood.  I can see some of the west side being ready for that in a decade, maybe.  Other neighborhoods will take longer.

X,

 

I wonder if council would be able to pass a "phase out" plan.  I doubt that Ohio City's rep and Cimperman would go for that.  It does make some sense and maybe the neighborhoods will be dense enough in a decade.

but at that point, all of the construction of today and the last 5-10 years will have their abatements expiring...are we seeing this as a potential negative force or are we just thinking that new abatements will hurt more than help in the short-term?  Basically, will people who own a house that is losing its abatement look to build anew or will they stay put?  I guess if we achieve a higher level of density and new construction isn't that easy to do anymore, then people will stay put...

I had the privilege of going down to the site and viewing the 11 beautiful homes that were built for this showcase.  The vast majority had amazing front porches and fit very well into their surroundings.  About half had rear garages, while the rest used their garage space well by featuring rooms above.  The spaces were amazing and made me want to think seriously about buying!

 

The Corner of E. 101 & Superior, just off of East Blvd and the Cultural Gardens...

 

Nine of the eleven houses were built on E. 101 on either side of the street:

 

 

 

This house and another very similar one were on E. 100:

 

The ultra-modern interior of the Civic Builders/Progressive Urban Real Estate home:

 

 

One of my favorites on E. 101:

 

 

...was reading the old posts and found this one particularly interesting.

ok, so what exactly did you find interesting?

-the references to the then housing bubble

-the actual homes, which look so strangely (but not in a bad way) out of place compared to the neighborhood

-the similar neighborhood near the Cleveland Clinic (you know, the townhomes/condos/whatever off Chester) and how that project seems to have gone well

-the references to the then housing bubble

-the actual homes, which look so strangely (but not in a bad way) out of place compared to the neighborhood

-the similar neighborhood near the Cleveland Clinic (you know, the townhomes/condos/whatever off Chester) and how that project seems to have gone well

 

I go thru that area frequently, i don't think they look out of place compared to the neighborhood.  Those houses are small, in my opinion, compared to other SFH's in the area.

 

I think this area is ripe for more townhomes, row houses and single family homes on existing streets.