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.

Chipotle expanding to Ohio City

When the chains start replacing mom-n-pop businesses in a growing neighborhood, some welcome them as a validation of its success. Others reject them as a weakening of a neighborhood’s uniqueness that created that success in the first place. So the replacement next year of the popular Soho Chicken + Whiskey with a Chipotle Mexican Grill could be the start of a shift in Ohio City’s Market District in Cleveland.

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Is DeWine’s stadium tax idea a good bet?

Everything from helping to finance a new stadium for the Cleveland Browns to funding sports programs for low-income families could be supported by a new sports facility and education fund sought by Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine in his proposed state budget. But the proposed fund doesn’t pick a stadium site for the Browns, which appears to give Downtown Cleveland site backers more of a win than it does for the owners of the pro football team.

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Canon Healthcare USA picks Cleveland for HQ

Over the past several years, Canon Healthcare USA was considering multiple locations inside and out of Greater Cleveland for its new headquarters. While most real estate insiders believed it would land at the former IBM Explorys headquarters, 10500 Cedar Ave., in Cleveland’s University Circle, it was not a done deal. With the city’s passage of a job creation income tax credit last night, it now appears to be.

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Receiver appointed for Downtown office complex

On Friday, Judge Christopher Boyko at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio ordered the North Point office complex in Downtown Cleveland be placed in the hands of a receiver to manage the property and, more specifically, to pay its creditors. The request was made earlier in the week by Wells Fargo Bank, as trustee for the benefit of the registered holders of GS Mortgage Securities Corp.’s distressed loan collateralized by the property.

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Developer to rebuild after Cleveland Hts fire

The developer of the Marquee development has informed Cleveland Heights city officials that it will rebuild the structure that was destroyed by an overnight fire that began Jan. 25. The 139-unit Marquee at Cedar-Lee building fronting Cedar Road in the 13200 block, was still under construction and unoccupied at the time of the fire, which started about 7 p.m.

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New East-Side fieldhouse due at Breakthrough School

Having affordable, comfortable places for the community to gather for events, sports and even voting can be hard to find in Cleveland’s Kinsman and Woodland Hills neighborhoods. But that could soon change for the better based on plans for a new fieldhouse at Breakthrough Schools’ Woodland Hills Campus, 9201 Crane Ave. Those plans were submitted this week to the city’s Building Department.

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