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Mixed-use could boost proposed downtown office tower

1 Comment / Ken Prendergast / August 31, 2020

For six years, Stark Enterprises’ nuCLEus proposed development has always been about mixed use. But it is yet to be about construction. It could be about both if the uses were mixed in a single tower.

For its downtown Cleveland project in the Gateway District, it has proposed a mix of ground-floor retail, restaurants and entertainment topped by parking. Above that, the project has offered various layouts of offices, residential and hotel uses in several combinations — one tower, two towers and even two towers with a cantilevered bridge between them.

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Biz moving from suburbs to downtown Cleveland

Ken Prendergast / August 29, 2020

For the second time this month, there is news that a company is relocating office jobs from the suburbs to downtown Cleveland. Earlier this month, NEOtrans broke the news that digital marketer Fathom will relocate its headquarters and about 100 jobs from Valley View to the West Bank of the Flats.

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Rockefeller Building sold, new chapter begins

Ken Prendergast / August 27, 2020

Title to the Rockefeller Building in downtown Cleveland transferred today to a partnership that seeks to redevelop the historic edifice with housing, offices and ground-floor retail.

The 17-story building is located at 614 W. Superior Ave., across West 6th Street from the planned site of the new Sherwin-Williams headquarters. This purchase is the first what may be several spin-off investments directly resulting from the massive headquarters project.

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Edgewater Hill project: signs of sudden growth

1 Comment / Ken Prendergast / August 22, 2020

UPDATED AUG. 24 WITH COMMENTS BY WAYNE JATSEK

For those watching the City Planning Commission’s virtual meeting yesterday, two examples of sudden growth were apparent. Both centered around a new apartment building project in the Edgewater Hill section of Cleveland’s Detroit-Shoreway neighborhood.

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City Club Apartments tower may rise in November

Ken Prendergast / August 20, 2020

UPDATED AUG. 21, 2020

If you missed seeing construction cranes over downtown Cleveland, you may not have to wait long for their return. With the city’s approval of final designs tomorrow for the City Club Apartments, the first of several cranes likely in 2021 could sprout in the spring.

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LockKeepers, Marble Room, Il Venetian face uncertain futures

Ken Prendergast / August 20, 2020

Six of Greater Cleveland’s swankiest establishments that share the same owner have not reopened from the Coronavirus shutdown. Several sources with direct knowledge of the businesses’ operations and finances said they doubted all of the establishments would reopen under their current ownership.

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Cleveland’s next ‘whale’ may eat more land than first thought

Ken Prendergast / August 12, 2020

While the steering committee is away, the consultants will play. But the consultants are getting ready to give a report on their findings about a new Justice Center. And what they have to say will bring into sharper focus the realistic sites for a new downtown courthouse as well as a new jail.

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Woodhill Station transit-oriented development on track

1 Comment / Ken Prendergast / August 6, 2020

All signals are green for construction of a moderately-sized apartment building across the street from the Buckeye-Woodhill light-rail transit station in Cleveland.
With financing in place, general contractor bids are due to be submitted to developer The Community Builders on Aug. 12, according to the Dodge Reports. Site preparation work could start in November but major construction activity is likely to get under way in the spring.

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Cleveland Clinic, Fairmount seek Meijer grocery store, apartments

Ken Prendergast / August 4, 2020

After months of planning, a mixed-use development is gaining traction on Cleveland Clinic Foundation-owned land on the Opportunity Corridor. The development is an effort to capitalize on the $306 million transportation investment, support the Greater University Circle Initiative and serve a growing residential population nearby.

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Sherwin-Williams HQ could offer two large buildings

1 Comment / Ken Prendergast / July 26, 2020

In the absence of renderings or other official news from Sherwin-Williams (SHW), Greater Clevelanders anxiously await the next little tidbit about their planned new downtown headquarters and suburban research facilities.

That little tidbit arrived in the past week, albeit not in a verbal or written form. Instead, it came from crews digging in a part of the downtown HQ site on the northeast corner of West 6th Street and West Superior Avenue. But the work wasn’t for construction — at least not yet.

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