A conceptual rendering of what the former Westinghouse plant near Edgewater Park in Cleveland would look like after all components of a phase-one redevelopment are completed (AODK). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.
Edgewater Park-area project detailed by developers
Confirming a report first published by NEOtrans in July, a development group today announced their phased-approach plans to redevelop the vacant, former Westinghouse plant overlooking the West Shoreway. They also detailed upcoming steps that need to be taken in order to start construction on phase 1A in early 2026.
The confirming and detailing was done at a community meeting held online and hosted by the Northwest Neighborhoods Community Development Corporation and Ward 15 Councilwoman Jenny Spencer.
Much of the financing for the estimated $59.3 million project is in place, including partner equity, a bank loan and a Property Assessed Clean Energy loan. The remaining pieces are tax-increment financing and community benefits agreements (CBA) with the city which will be submitted soon to City Council for approval. The community meeting was held to get public input for the agreements. The input was supportive.
The project’s development group is organized as TW58 Cleveland LLC. The redevelopment was initiated by the Trebilcock family which founded the Cleveland-based information technology firm MCPc Inc. But the project hadn’t advanced despite site clean-up and demolition of unneeded structures in 2023.
That changed earlier this year when the redevelopment effort picked up a new partner — Patina Capital of Cleveland, Michael Trebilcock Jr. told NEOtrans. He said Patina joining the partnership helped put the effort “back on track.”
Proposed site plan and features associated with the redevelopment of the former Westinghouse plant (AODK).
Phase 1A of the Westinghouse redevelopment is comprised of enclosing and renovating the existing core and shell of the 113,680-square-foot historic tower at 1200 W. 58th St. in Cleveland’s Gordon Square neighborhood. The 1915-built, eight-story, 136-foot-tall tower saw interior demolition work done in 2023, gutting the tower to its core and shell.
Enclosing the building will start first as will additional, limited demolition of the remaining east-west walls of a former foundry structure. Then, later in 2026, the tower is due to gain 106 mostly market-rate apartments, said Project Designer Kaitlyn Boniecki with Lakewood-based AODK Architecture.
The CBA will offer several workforce apartments at about 120 percent of the area’s median income. Also in the CBA are new sidewalks near the site, speed tables on West 58th and Breakwater Avenue, plus brownfield remediation and removal of blight on the site.
The apartments will be comprised of one-bedroom units, one bedrooms with a den, and two-bedroom suites primarily at the corners of the tower. A new rooftop skylight and amenity deck will offer residents views of Downtown Cleveland, Lake Erie and the West Side.
While there will be no commercial spaces in the historic tower, there are plans to provide two floors of commercial uses in a five-floor, new-construction building proposed as Phase 1B. The top three floors of that new building are proposed to have about 30 apartments.
Looking at the Westinghouse site from the east along West 58th Street, the historic tower at right or north will structurally remain as-is. But the foundry at left will be demolished further, leaving only a façade to serve as a mask for a new, five-story mixed-use building to be built behind it (AODK).
Called the Foundry Building, it is planned next to surface-level parking, with both atop a level of subterranean parking. It is called the Foundry Building because it would be built on the site of the former Westinghouse’s foundry. Boniecki said design work on the new Foundry Building will be done in 2026.
Planned are 213 parking spaces for residents, commercial tenants and visitors whereas 190 spaces are required per the city’s building code. There will also be bicycle parking as the site is along the Lakefront Bikeway.
James Rusnov, a principal in the ownership group, said there are no signed leases of commercial tenants yet but the group envisions a health-wellness facility plus a small café/restaurant on the first floor, along with a potential office tenant and another health services tenant on the second floor.
The façade for the foundry will remain on West 58th like a mask, with the new foundry building built behind it. The intention, according to the development team, is to start construction on it and the parking deck at the end of 2026.
Construction will take about 18 months with construction vehicles using West 58th, said Dave Fischback, principal and manager of the development’s ownership group. He is also president and co-chairman of Cleveland-based The Krill Co., which is the project’s general contractor.
Existing conditions at the site of the former Westinghouse plant which overlooks Edgewater Park and the West Shoreway (AODK).
“Asbestos has been removed from the site with the exception of Transite panels on the roof of the foundry,” Fischback said. “We’ve also removed polluted soil. Now it’s a pretty clean site.”
This Monday, the developers of the project are seeking two waivers from the city’s Board of Zoning Appeals to allow residential uses on the site and at a density that exceeds the current zoning and building codes.
The surrounding area, once a bastion of heavy industry, is dominated by residential. The 3.6-acre Westinghouse plant property is owned by Westinghouse-Breakwater Properties LLC. Phase two, likely to be primarily residential, is envisioned for the west half of the site but is still a couple of years off, Rusnov said.
In 1979, the Westinghouse Lighting Division ceased operations at the plant after nearly 100 years. The factory was leased by the Kole family in 1981 and bought in 1986 for their Paramount Stamping, Welding & Wireforming Co. Paramount made steel automobile seat frames and employed 300 people but closed in 2019.
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