Woodhill Station transit-oriented development on track

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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GCRTA may unify its rail system with single rail car fleet

Ken Prendergast / June 27, 2020

For those who like the idea of being able to take one train without transfers from Shaker Heights to the airport or possibly from University Circle to the Van Aken District, then a new challenge-turned-opportunity may be of interest.

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Moving I-90 an option in new ODOT & Metroparks lakefront plans

1 Comment / Ken Prendergast / June 3, 2020

Sliced in half by a freeway nearly 70 years ago, Cleveland’s Gordon Park and its surrounding area were recently dubbed by east-side real estate developers as a potential “Edgewater East.” It could be that and more depending on the results of two separate but related planning efforts that got underway last week.

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Calming traffic at RTA station key to developing area

1 Comment / Ken Prendergast / April 1, 2020

The revitalization of Cleveland’s Detroit-Shoreway neighborhood continues to spread west. To the north, Edgewater Park and its healthy namesake neighborhood have improved in recent years. And to the west, Lakewood has seen Greater Cleveland’s fastest-growing real estate prices along with new housing development.

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Amtrak considers new resources for new train services, including Ohio

Ken Prendergast / March 2, 2020

If the rail and transit advocacy group All Aboard Ohio had designed proposed initiatives to help jump-start passenger rail development in the nations seventh-most populous state, they would likely look similar to the ones Amtrak is considering now, according to their press release.

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Cleveland remembers, jump-starts the Forgotten Triangle

Ken Prendergast / November 15, 2019

The 1970s weren’t kind to America’s older cities. The white middle class fled from them, taking their homes and jobs to the suburbs. Left behind were low-income minorities, shuttered factories and stores, hopelessness, drugs and crime.

Cleveland suffered greatly, losing more residents in the 1970s than any other decade. But Cleveland was far from alone.

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Columbus Road TOD coming into focus for Duck Island

Ken Prendergast / March 5, 2019

Today, the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (GCRTA) announced its staff recommendation for who should develop its Duck Island property along Columbus Road south of the Ohio City Red Line rail station. The GCRTA Board of Trustees still must decide whether to approve that recommendation. The proposed team and design may be intriguing to many.

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Transit station-area development activity paces region-Part 2

1 Comment / Ken Prendergast / September 1, 2017

For those who keep track of new real estate developments in Greater Cleveland, they might be noticing something about the location of these developments. Where are most of the planned, proposed, under-construction and recently completed developments? If you said “within walking distance of a Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority rapid transit line” you’d be right!

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Cleveland transit-oriented development gains traction-Part 1

1 Comment / Ken Prendergast / July 15, 2017

In the 1990s, the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority was considering extending the Red Line into Berea. Planners touted the economic development potential of the rail line. So a group of elder Berea residents who apparently hadn’t ever ridden the Red Line before took a driving tour of the areas around some of the existing Red Line stations.

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America’s first Interstate to be abandoned – when and where?

Ken Prendergast / October 14, 2012

Sometime in the next 5-15 years, a remarkable event could occur. The first section of Interstate or interstate-quality highway will be abandoned somewhere in this country due to a lack of funds.
It will probably be a short, lightly used section of road with a decaying, expensive bridge in the middle of it. The highway department responsible for closing that section of road will try to minimize the significance of the event by calling it a temporary closure.

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