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Lakewood’s East End gets some refreshments

Ken Prendergast / October 18, 2019

Several properties at Lakewood’s East End have changed hands recently, resulting in new investments that are due to turn underutilized structures into productive buildings once again.
The latest and largest transaction occurred Oct. 16 when Jim Miketo, owner of Forest City Shuffleboard in Ohio City, acquired a three-story, 101-year-old, mixed-use building at 12501 Madison Ave., county records show. It recently hosted the Madison Bi-Rite grocery store and Silhouette School of Dance.

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Planning starts for cross-county Lake Erie trail, erosion control

Ken Prendergast / October 17, 2019

A large investment in Greater Cleveland’s greatest natural asset could result from a jurisdictional planning effort announced on Oct. 17 at the Lakewood Women’s Club Pavilion at Lakewood Park. The investment could result in a transformative economic and quality of life payback for the region.

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Scranton Peninsula’s first major project gets a little denser

Ken Prendergast / October 15, 2019

Cleveland-based NRP Group has submitted to the city revised plans for its Scranton Peninsula development, after an earlier version was rejected by the City Planning Commission as having too much surface parking and looking too suburban.

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Sherwin-Williams HQ+R&D will be in downtown Cleveland

5 Comments / Ken Prendergast / October 14, 2019

Not only will Sherwin-Williams’ new headquarters plus research and development facilities be located in downtown Cleveland, but the coatings giant also has chosen its construction manager, learned the amount of its public incentives package and set its deadline for announcing its HQ+R&D site.

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Sherwin-Williams HQ and CEO are finding new homes

4 Comments / Ken Prendergast / October 10, 2019

If you were the chief executive officer of a major corporation that is about to build a new global headquarters in a new location, would you build a brand-new mansion for your primary residence right now? And if you did, where would you build it?

Chances are, you’d probably build it in the same metro area where your new headquarters will be located.

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Rebuilding Cleveland’s CBD office supply

3 Comments / Ken Prendergast / October 9, 2019

A decaying, aging hulk of a building in or near downtown today could be tomorrow’s next premier, Class A office space. Why? Because that’s the most economical way that new office space can be added to Cleveland’s Central Business District (CBD).

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Shaping up Sherwin-Williams new HQ, R&D facilities

1 Comment / Ken Prendergast / September 26, 2019

For those of us who were expecting Sherwin-Williams’ (SHW) new global corporate headquarters plus research and development facility to be Cleveland’s newest, tallest skyscraper, we may be disappointed. That’s more of a statement of about what the new HQ+R&D might look like than where it might be built.

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Future of two idled Cleveland-area Ford plants looks electric

Ken Prendergast / September 23, 2019

Since spring, Greater Clevelanders have been hearing that the sale and reactivation of two massive, idled auto plants in the area to a single buyer will be a “game-changer” for the economy of this region. There were more than 15 potential buyers with many showing interest in reusing both factories in a positive way.

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Lakefront development project to start this winter

1 Comment / Ken Prendergast / September 19, 2019

After shedding its partner Trammel Crow Co., things are starting to move a little faster for Cumberland Development LLC. when it comes to its lakefront development project. Demolition for and construction of the lakefront project is due to start in January.

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Market Square project to shrink by about one-third

1 Comment / Ken Prendergast / September 18, 2019

Without state financing and a tax exemption for its project, the developer of a $175 million, mixed-used development has decided to scale back the project by about one-third – at least at the outset.
Harbor Bay Real Estate Advisors, LLC is hoping for the city to approve a conventional, 15-year, 100-percent tax abatement for the residential portion of its Market Square project. If that happens, a seven-story apartment building with ground-floor retail

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