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The future of the Cleveland Play House site

Ken Prendergast / September 18, 2022

Planning and development activities by several large players are pointing toward the need for constructing thousands of housing units in and near the Cleveland Clinic and the nearby booming University Circle area. And while the large number of housing units already under construction in and near University Circle is evident, it’s likely that they will start rising west of the Clinic’s main campus soon.

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GE may demolish historic factory, incubator in Cleveland

Ken Prendergast / September 13, 2022

A sprawling factory complex on Cleveland’s near-East Side is proposed to be demolished by its owner of the last 130 years, General Electric (GE). The Design Review Committee of Cleveland’s City Planning Commission will hear a presentation this week by GE’s engineering consultant Stantec on why it should approve demolition of the factory, called the Euclid Lamp Plant, 1814 E. 45th St. But not everyone agrees the factory has to be razed before the property can be sold by GE.

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Two old Hough walk-ups: two fates

Ken Prendergast / August 29, 2022

Two century-old, walk-up apartment buildings face each other on East 89th Street in Cleveland’s Hough neighborhood. One is structurally unsound and in danger of collapse after it was neglected by a so-called foundation facing a huge unpaid tax bill. The other will have its renovation and expansion plan reviewed by a committee of the City Planning Commission starting this week after it was bought by a successful, civic-minded local investor.

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PearlBrook shopping center to be razed

Ken Prendergast / August 4, 2022

An historic retail strip where Cleveland meets Parma, but was often better known for its cinematic and musical neighbors, is due to be demolished. In place of the PearlBrook shopping center will be a Sheetz gas station and convenience store, plus some identified future development just north of it. The center, located at its namesake Pearl and Brookpark roads, has been the space between two places ever since it was built.

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Stokes West plans revised, gains support

Ken Prendergast / July 1, 2022

A largely vacant triangle of land in the southern part of Cleveland’s University Circle could see construction of a 261-unit residential development start by year’s end. But the part of the triangle that still has a building on it has been a source of debate for the community.

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Old Play House gets May 16 curtain call

Ken Prendergast / April 29, 2022

The Cleveland Clinic Foundation and Fairfax Renaissance Development Corp. will host a public meeting to gather community input on what to do with the vacant former home of the Cleveland Play House (CPH), 8500 Euclid Ave.

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Bridgeworks design to be re-refined

Ken Prendergast / April 15, 2022

Development team members of a proposed high rise in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood are going back to the drawing board again. While this redesign may be less significant than the last one, done to bring Bridgeworks’ costs in line with available financing, its impact on the residential-hotel-retail project’s $60+ million budget is not yet known.

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Cleveland Hts. monastery site remake revealed

Ken Prendergast / April 7, 2022

The redevelopment of a former monastery at Lee Road and North Park Boulevard in Cleveland Heights with upscale housing is finally moving forward after nearly three years of planning. Conceptual plans for the project, to be called the Wellington Mews, are scheduled to be presented to Planning Commission at 7 p.m. April 13.

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Demolitions to start for Clinic’s largest building

4 Comments / Ken Prendergast / March 30, 2022

Cleveland Clinic is requesting a demolition permit from the city to make way for the largest building ever to be constructed by the global health care system.

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Seeds & Sprouts XXII – Jacobs Pavilion, Van Dorn, Ohio City, BigHaus

2 Comments / Ken Prendergast / February 14, 2022

This is the Twenty-Second edition of Seeds & Sprouts – Early intelligence on Cleveland-area real estate projects.

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