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10 hours ago, KJP said:

My own meager contribution

 

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Nice artwork Ken! :) 

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12 minutes ago, Cleburger said:

Nice artwork Ken! :) 

 

That's from Cresco, as credited in the article.

"In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck

2 hours ago, KJP said:

 

That's from Cresco, as credited in the article.

My bad didn't have time to read this morning!   :) 

14 hours ago, KJP said:

My own meager contribution

 

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Lakefront properties change hands

By Ken Prendergast / January 12, 2023

 

In the past week, two significant property sales occurred near the lakefront in Cleveland’s Gordon Square neighborhood. While both occurred on different sides of Breakwater Avenue, one sale was of a former light-industrial property that was redeveloped with residential a little more than five years ago. The other sale was of a light-industrial property that has been destined for years to become residential and may now be on a faster ride in that direction.

 

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https://neo-trans.blog/2023/01/12/lakefront-properties-change-hands/

 

Glad to hear they are going residential!

 

That map made me wonder when we will hear more about HKM. Have there been many updates since it was sold a few years ago? Hopefully the owners aren’t just speculating. 

 

A for sale sign popped up on the vacant parcels on the south side of Detroit at the Lake-Detroit intersection. That whole intersection is just begging to be built up. 

Apologies if someone else posted about this but I noticed today there is a dumpster permit posted outside the old Romanian(?) church at 1416 West 57 for Forest City Restoration

St. Augustine/Catholic Charities continues its impersonation of the Cleveland Clinic by demolishing its surrounding neighborhood. The beautiful 32 unit walk up apartment building on West 80th is currently being taken down. The remaining 2 homes on Elsa are slated to be next. Some residents on West 81st have also been made offers on their homes. Anyone have any info on what their plan is other than parking? So disheartening to see. 

The one with the beige brick?!  Who even allowed this? thats a fantastic building

12 minutes ago, mack34 said:

The one with the beige brick?!  Who even allowed this? thats a fantastic building

 

Oh man, please not that one. 

Cleveland honestly takes 1 step forward and one step back. Can't have a 15 minute city if you allow demolitions of large savable buildings such as this. Disheartening tbh.

The first level of the last townhome phase in Battery Park has begun getting framed in this week. 

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so what's the final count on number of houses/units in this whole development? Seems they really crammed a lot of people in this small development which is great for density! Especially being able to house so many people within a 5 minute walk to edgewater park.

22 hours ago, McLovin said:

Cleveland honestly takes 1 step forward and one step back. Can't have a 15 minute city if you allow demolitions of large savable buildings such as this. Disheartening tbh.

Demo abruptly stopped yesterday after they tore down the north wing of the building. No activity today either. Wonder what happened.

Demo abruptly stopped yesterday after they tore down the north wing of the building. No activity today either. Wonder what happened.
How much damage was done though? It may not even matter at this point.

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On 1/20/2023 at 9:03 PM, MyPhoneDead said:

How much damage was done though? It may not even matter at this point.

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The north east wing is completely gone. The rest of the building is still intact. Probably 75% left. Still no activity. Did they just go about tearing it down without any approval?

Does anyone know the story with the work happening on 65th? I saw them take down a few trees today, and I’m wondering if anyone has seen plans for what will happen on that lot. Assuming it’s a single family? I think the property is roughly across the street from Toast. 

 

Ha! It must be a law that every project in this town has to start with cutting down some trees.

 

How we do it in the 216 baby.

On 1/27/2023 at 5:41 PM, cadmen said:

Ha! It must be a law that every project in this town has to start with cutting down some trees.

 

How we do it in the 216 baby.

The sad truth 

Construction fences are going up for Westinghouse... sorry for the size
(pics from The Edison side of the property)

 

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I still think the Welleon build is one of the most underrated projects in the city right now. As I sit at Astoria, across from this massive structure, I can't help but think of the massive street presence this building already has. Welleon is really going to wake up an important part of town. This stretch of Detroit has some great spots, but it still doesn't feel like a neighborhood on its own. I think this development will change that immediately!

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Exciting stuff! I like to think about which cool neighborhood in CLE is going to be completely built-out first. That would make a neat poll. But Detroit-Shoreway sure is moving fast. 

Great pics, @clandman1123.  I've been surprised at the lack of progress photos posted here for this project.  Glad to see the progress and big impact on the neighborhood!

 

53 minutes ago, clandman1123 said:

I still think the Welleon build is one of the most underrated projects in the city right now.

 

 

FWIW I also think they deserve some credit for not [fully] blocking the bike lane for construction. Probably the best project along a main route, in that regard.

City of Cleveland releases Request for Proposals (RFP) for the Watterson-Lake School site in the Gordon Square Arts District

 

Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023 — Cleveland — The City of Cleveland will soon acquire ownership of the former Watterson-Lake School site through a land transfer with the Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD). The site will be made available for redevelopment through a Request for Proposals (RFP) process, which opens today, Feb. 1, 2023. This 2.2-acre tract of land is situated at W 74th St. and Detroit Ave. in the Gordon Square Arts District in Cleveland’s Ward 15. The project presents a once-in-a-generation opportunity to reimagine a strategic site in a burgeoning neighborhood.  
 

 

 

https://mayor.clevelandohio.gov/news/city-cleveland-releases-request-proposals-rfp-watterson-lake-school-site-gordon-square-arts

 

"In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck

On 2/1/2023 at 11:54 AM, clandman1123 said:

I still think the Welleon build is one of the most underrated projects in the city right now. As I sit at Astoria, across from this massive structure, I can't help but think of the massive street presence this building already has. Welleon is really going to wake up an important part of town. This stretch of Detroit has some great spots, but it still doesn't feel like a neighborhood on its own. I think this development will change that immediately!

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Thanks - nice pics! Sounds like we may need to set up a UO hard hat tour...

 

-Justin

Took photos for them a few months ago while they were pouring a floor. The building is so much larger than the pics convey. 

  • 2 weeks later...

Westinghouse Project Demo: 02132023 - 07:45 AM

 

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Three projects - One picture

 

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Wow. That Westinghouse water tower building is bigger than I thought. That would make for a very nice two-story restaurant. 😉

"In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck

Some Welleon updates. PS, anyone figured out what the name means? Hasn’t grown on my quite yet 

 

 

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13 minutes ago, mtnbikefan said:

The Welleon name is explained on their Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/welleonliving/

For anyone else who was curious:

 

 

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I love the new street wall feel the last phase of BP and Station 73 has created coming up/down W73. Very impressive! 

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the welleon explanation is pretty amusing developer gymnastics, but i like it and like that they did it. 

 

i’ll take it as rather more thoughtful than the classic cynical tearing out a forest for a development and naming the streets maple and oak.

 

of course the best thing they can do to honor the past is make a very good urban project and by all accounts they are doing that.

Westinghouse demo is moving along very quickly. Here are five shots from yesterday morning, one from this morning (before sunrise and blurry), then another from around 8:00 AM today

 

Yesterday AM

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Today (sorry for it being unfocused)

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Today - 8:00 AM - ish

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I don’t recall there being actual renderings. Are all of those going to be windows where the plastic covers are? If so I think that will look great.

Vital signs:  Yesterday, I went to Gypsy Beans.  The parking lot behind it and that behind the Capital Thheater were completely full.  I did luckily find a space on W65th.  There were people walking around.  It was cool to see.  It's ALIIIIIVE. 

I did notice that Boiler 65 was gone.  I didn't remember that.

1 hour ago, urb-a-saurus said:

Vital signs:  Yesterday, I went to Gypsy Beans.  The parking lot behind it and that behind the Capital Thheater were completely full.  I did luckily find a space on W65th.  There were people walking around.  It was cool to see.  It's ALIIIIIVE. 

I did notice that Boiler 65 was gone.  I didn't remember that.

Im surprised Boiler 65 made it so long. The hours were sporadic, and the service was never good. Fortunately, it looks like someone snatched up the space already. Noticed work going on in there the other day. 

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2 hours ago, urb-a-saurus said:

Vital signs:  Yesterday, I went to Gypsy Beans.  The parking lot behind it and that behind the Capital Thheater were completely full.  I did luckily find a space on W65th.  There were people walking around.  It was cool to see.  It's ALIIIIIVE. 

I did notice that Boiler 65 was gone.  I didn't remember that.

I was there Saturday afternoon - it was sunny but brisk and there were quite a lot of people walking around.  Plus, Gypsy Beans was getting a good amount of traffic in and out.  Side note, they have some great specialty coffees if that's something you dig!

4 hours ago, urb-a-saurus said:

Vital signs:  Yesterday, I went to Gypsy Beans.  The parking lot behind it and that behind the Capital Thheater were completely full.  I did luckily find a space on W65th.  There were people walking around.  It was cool to see.  It's ALIIIIIVE. 

I did notice that Boiler 65 was gone.  I didn't remember that.


Cafe's like Gypsy Beans that offer more than just coffee but sandwiches and salads, etc. are so important to urban fabric. I'm so happy to have that there and especially happy to see some new cafes adopting the model (The Judith on W 52 and Lorain is amazing/Edda on W 25th).

7 hours ago, urb-a-saurus said:

Vital signs:  Yesterday, I went to Gypsy Beans.  The parking lot behind it and that behind the Capital Thheater were completely full.  I did luckily find a space on W65th.  There were people walking around.  It was cool to see.  It's ALIIIIIVE. 

I did notice that Boiler 65 was gone.  I didn't remember that.

I spoke to a bartender at XYZ last night who said that the Boiler 65 space will be taken over by Blue Habanero who plan to move next door. 

 



Westinghouse is moving along. Have we heard any updates from that gies collab project with townhomes and the apartment complex on lake Ave and near w83rd?



Westinghouse is moving along. Have we heard any updates from that gies collab project with townhomes and the apartment complex on lake Ave and near w83rd?
The building that will house the new Waltz library branch in the neighborhood, what's the status on that?

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Here's a shot from Sunday afternoon at around 1600 (02192023)

 

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Oh, I also set up a webcam. I've been wanting to set up one for my weather station anyway, but do not have an all-weather camera with night-vision picked out (I am certainly open to suggestions though). 
Anyway, this is a cheapy cam, but will serve its purpose:

 

https://www.myearthcam.com/clevoplanner

 

 

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Nice!  Wanna head downtown and set one up near W 3rd?

5 hours ago, sooner said:

Nice!  Wanna head downtown and set one up near W 3rd?

I don't think my USB cord is long enough

Looks like my source at XYZ wasn’t quite right. Wouldn’t be surprised if this is owned by Blue Habanero though, given their expansion on E 4 with Blue Agave and additional Blue Habanero locations in Strongsville and Brecksville. 

 

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Good seafood spots are def few and far between in Cleveland! Great neighborhood addition.

A huge blow to the neighborhood. Stockyard Meats is closing. That was my weekly go to. Gut punch.

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