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When Midwest Development Partners first announced its Circle Square plan five years ago, then-called University Circle City Center or UC3, it was considered bold and ambitious.
Cleveland in 2015 was still shaking off the body blows it took from the Great Recession and even from the early-2000s recession before that. But this was University Circle — Cleveland’s fastest-growing employment hub.
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A bill intended to provide significant capital to megaprojects in Ohio’s largest urban areas and lesser assistance to real estate developments in smaller communities has sped up and slowed down at various times over the past few years. Now, Substitute Senate Bill 39, the Transformational Mixed-Use Development (TMUD) tax credit, is back in the slow lane, awaiting two votes.
Read MoreMegaproject tax credit slowed by Primary, Larrys’ feud Read More »
One of the downtown properties in the running for Sherwin-Williams (SHW) headquarters plus research and development (HQ+R&D) facilities was Bedrock Cleveland’s Tower City Center.
But when SHW chose to put its HQ elsewhere downtown and its R&D facilities in Brecksville, Bedrock lost out on landing a major anchor tenant for its ambitious, multi-phase City Block development, located in and south of Tower City Center.
Read MoreCity Block project at Tower City faces challenges post-SHW Read More »
ARTICLE UPDATED ON FEB. 25, 2020
Between Cleveland’s growing Ohio City and Clark-Fulton neighorhoods is a deadzone of railroad tracks, a 10-lane Interstate highway, scrap recycling businesses and two historic cemeteries. But efforts are gearing up to pump new life into this area.
Read MoreFulton Road deadzone to be enlivened by trails, rails & housing Read More »
When closet urban planners consider open land for development in Cleveland, their attention often is directed at Burke Lakefront Airport. That isn’t the only thing they direct at Burke. They also direct ridicule, scorn and even outright hatred for that 450-acre plot of former lakefront landfill that opened as an airport in 1948.
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After the first few minutes of talking with Graham Veysey, it’s apparent that he appreciates cities and their primary purpose of causing personal interaction. In his businesses and neighborhood initiatives focused on the Hingetown section of Ohio City, he has attempted to spur more and different ways for people to interact.
Read MoreOhio City’s Church+State rising to be a Hingetown hub Read More »
Downtown Cleveland’s largest parking crater, the so-called “Superblock” where Sherwin-Williams (SHW) plans to build its new headquarters, has a sole survivor among its once vast building stock.
That monolith is set off to one corner of the Superblock, named because its sea of parking is actually spread among two blocks, separated by the one-way alley Frankfort Ave.
Sherwin-Williams, Stark, Realife & the fate of an historic Superblock survivor Read More »
In two years, construction may be underway in downtown Cleveland for as many as a half-dozen towers. And that doesn’t count all that are in pre-development. If you did, there would be at least 13 towers under consideration.
Read MorenuCLEus still lurks among many downtown projects Read More »
Up in the 90-year-old Landmark Building, where Sherwin-Williams’ (SHW) headquarters has been growing and expanding for the duration of that Art Deco beauty’s lifetime, the employees’ response to The Big News appeared to be less than big.
Read MoreAn analysis of Sherwin-Williams’ HQ news: it’s just the beginning Read More »
Email sent to all corporate employees at about 8 a.m. Feb. 6. It was not edited in any way…
Dear Fellow Employees,
I am writing to share an exciting update with you regarding the planned locations for our new global headquarters and new R&D center.
Read MoreSHW company e-mail sent to employees regarding staffing etc. Read More »
