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‘Lakefront plan’ becoming ‘lakefront project’

One of the most important pieces of legislation regarding the future of Downtown Cleveland’s lakefront is working its way through Cleveland City Council. The proposed ordinance amendment, if passed at council’s next regular meeting Sept. 9, would codify the desired lakefront land-use features and set the city on a course to implement them. In other words, it would no longer be a lakefront plan, but a lakefront project.

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Hough groundbreaking set for Sept. 5

According to a public record located by NEOtrans, a groundbreaking ceremony is scheduled from 10 a.m. to 12 noon Sept. 5 for the redevelopment of a vacant 10-story apartment building at 9410 Hough Ave. in Cleveland’s resurgent Hough neighborhood. Kristi Halford, a spokesperson for the project’s development partners, confirmed the scheduled event in an e-mail to NEOtrans.

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UH plans Wolstein conference center on Euclid Ave.

In an e-mail sent to all employees today, University Hospital Health System CEO Cliff Megerian announced that the health care provider will seek to build a new 30,000-square-foot conference and education center in Cleveland’s University Circle. The facility will be built on an underutilized green space at 11100 Euclid Ave. in front of an existing parking garage.

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Bedrock starts Downtown Riverfront phase one

Construction permit applications were filed this week with the city of Cleveland’s Building Department so contractors can start digging and installing foundations for the first phase of Bedrock’s Downtown Riverfront development. That first phase is the Cleveland Clinic/Cleveland Cavaliers Global Peak Performance Center, touted as one of the world’s largest training facilities.

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Stella Maris buys Flats site to expand

After nearly eight years on the market, a small parcel at 2208-2210 Superior Viaduct at the west edge of Cleveland’s Flats District has sold to a growing stakeholder in the neighborhood. Addiction treatment center Stella Maris Inc. acquired the property and proposes to renovate an existing building on the site to expand the scope of its services. The site was twice proposed for a residential tower but neither advanced past the conceptual stage.

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Market District Lofts in Ohio City to expand

On most other plots of land, adding 17 homes to it would be noticeable from the street. But if a proposed expansion of the Market District Lofts in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood happens, it might be the most below-the-radar residential development in the urban core since The Residences at The Guardian condominiums opened downtown. And the same developer is involved in both.

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Downtown property owner penalized for tax credit ‘double-dipping’

A U.S. Tax Court judge in Washington D.C. has agreed with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in disallowing a $22.6 million tax deduction claimed by Corning Place Ohio, LLC for not building a 34-story vertical addition on top of its 19th-century Garfield Building, 1965 E. 6th St., in Downtown Cleveland. Senior Judge Albert George Lauber also sustained the IRS commissioner’s imposition of a 40 percent penalty for a “gross valuation misstatement” in seeking the deduction.

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A strategic perspective of the Cleveland Browns Stadium

The Cleveland Browns have long been a cornerstone of Greater Cleveland, symbolizing community pride and excitement, and contributing to the local economy and cultural identity. While the current debate around the Browns’ future stadium is heavily focused on facility location and financial issues, it is crucial to recognize the team’s non-economic benefits, such as fostering civic pride, quality of life, regional unity, and shared traditions that bring people together.

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