Ken Prendergast

Ken Prendergast has worked as a journalist for publications such as NEOtrans, Sun Newspapers, Ohio Passenger Rail News, Passenger Transport, and others. He also provided consulting services to transportation agencies, real estate firms, port authorities and nonprofit organizations. Writing about cities, transportation, history and the people who create these.

Moving I-90 an option in new ODOT & Metroparks lakefront plans

Sliced in half by a freeway nearly 70 years ago, Cleveland’s Gordon Park and its surrounding area were recently dubbed by east-side real estate developers as a potential “Edgewater East.” It could be that and more depending on the results of two separate but related planning efforts that got underway last week.

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Dream Hotel tower at Masonic Temple in Midtown planned

One thing’s for certain — the Coronavirus pandemic hasn’t slowed the rapid spread of plans for high-rise towers in Cleveland.
The latest is a proposed 19-story, $60 million Dream Hotel proposed to rise alongside the Masonic Temple, 3615 Euclid Ave. The project was announced today by investor Beaty Capital Group of Fort Smith, AR.

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New buyer(s) emerge for two Cleveland-area Ford plants

After one failed bid to acquire Ford’s Brook Park and Walton Hills plants, there is good news pointing to the eventual, productive re-use of both mammoth factories.

Ford Motor Co. last week entered the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Voluntary Action Program (VAP) for its Brook Park Engine Plant No. 2 that closed nearly 20 years ago, according to a source who was not authorized to speak publicly about the development.

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Co-working biz expands to Cleveland with Hingetown launch

In 2020, as the practice of social distancing has dominated, a relatively new business is taking the opposite approach. COhatch, founded in Columbus in 2016, is creating a community-centric approach to co-working where people not only work together, but socialize, exercise, host events and support new business ideas with the help of local investors in the same location.

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Wolstein goes west as backer of Flats West Bank tower

An important local real estate developer has emerged to lead a proposed apartment and hotel tower on the Flats’ West Bank, giving the project further legitimacy. That backer is the man who brought the Flats’ East Bank back from the ruins of being Cleveland’s Party Central in the late-20th century to become a bright, attractive mixed-use development.

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