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Stark’s nuCLEus has a smaller, more achievable concept

1 Comment / Ken Prendergast / January 23, 2019

After months of speculation and rumor about a scaled-down design for Stark Enterprises’ downtown Cleveland megaproject called nuCLEus, revised conceptual site plans for the project were briefly posted on Stark’s web site earlier today. They apparently were posted in error or posted prematurely because they were since taken down. All references to nuCLEus were briefly removed from Stark’s website but since restored using an aerial graphic showing only the existing parking lot at the proposed site.

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County engineer’s Ohio City property hits the market

2 Comments / Ken Prendergast / January 8, 2019

It’s official. Cuyahoga County has put on the market one of the most attractive properties for redevelopment in years. The former Cuyahoga County Engineer’s headquarters at the west end of the Detroit-Superior Veterans Memorial Bridge is expected to fetch the most interest by real estate developers among four sites in the county’s latest disposition of surplus properties.

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Stark Enterprises sells its HQ, but to whom? And why?

Ken Prendergast / December 27, 2018

A potentially strategic property transfer in downtown Cleveland nearly slipped under the radar last week. Not only was the transfer publicly filed the Friday right before the Christmas holiday weekend, perhaps to avoid attention, but it was sold using a process that concealed the details of the transaction.

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Pop goes the West Rim

Ken Prendergast / December 10, 2018

A skeptical Clevelander would look at the above map where five potential major real estate developments may rise atop the West Rim of the Cuyahoga River valley and question how many will actually get built. An optimistic Clevelander would be certain that most, if not all, will get built. And an older, lifelong Clevelander would look at that map and be amazed that there are five potential major projects at all.

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Lakewood housing hunt drew Columbus developer here

2 Comments / Ken Prendergast / November 28, 2018

Anyone who has tried to buy a high-quality, competitively-priced home in Lakewood in the last year or two knows the drill. The real estate search is one of the most difficult scavenger hunts you’ll play. Unless you’re willing to sacrifice many features you want in a home or make a high, all-cash offer, a Lakewood housing hunt is not a game for the impatient.

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Another big investment coming to Lakewood

5 Comments / Ken Prendergast / November 21, 2018

Over the past 30 years, Lakewood has lost more than 1,700 housing units, with only Cleveland, East Cleveland and Euclid losing more. The average age of its housing stock is the second-oldest in the county. At the same time, growing interest in traditional, walkable communities has made Lakewood a hot real estate commodity. It’s why Lakewood had the highest property value rate of increase, 22.5 percent, among all Cuyahoga County communities in 2018.

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Cleveland’s profile soars among out-of-state investors

1 Comment / Ken Prendergast / November 19, 2018

Presidential candidate Ross Perot in 1992 famously referred to a “huge sucking sound” when it came to jobs leaving the USA. When money starts pouring into a city like Cleveland, it ought to make a sound, too. It is, and people are noticing.

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Big developments converge on Ohio City’s Red Line station

2 Comments / Ken Prendergast / November 8, 2018

More developments are cozying up to the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority’s. Red Line and station in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood. The scope and scale of the planned developments are unlike anything that’s been built along Cleveland’s underutilized rail transit system, outside of the downtown area and University Circle. The lack of dense developments around rail stations has a direct correlation to the usage of the rail system. But that’s starting to change.

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Is Sherwin-Williams ready to paint Cleveland’s sky?

2 Comments / Ken Prendergast / October 31, 2018

On Jan. 22, 2016, some 6,000 Sherwin-Williams Co. (SHW) salespersons began descending upon the Fortune 500 company’s annual National Sales Meeting in Orlando, Fla. Many were excited and not just because it was the paint and coatings company’s 150th year in business. Reportedly, a large number of attendees expected to learn about the company’s grand birthday prize to itself — a shiny new headquarters tower in SHW’s home city of Cleveland, Oh.

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Cleveland’s economy is kicking butt

2 Comments / Ken Prendergast / October 20, 2018

In case you’ve missed it, and judging by the lack of coverage in local mainstream media you have, but Greater Cleveland’s economy has managed to win some serious momentum in recent months.
September jobs data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics just came in this past week (see chart below). It showed that Greater Cleveland’s employment grew by 2.7 percent compared to September 2017 year-over-year (YOY). That would have been an increase over August’s robust 2.5 percent increase YOY, except that August’s preliminary data was adjusted upward to 2.7 percent in this latest report.

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