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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Downtown Heinen’s store reopening delayed

Ken Prendergast / July 24, 2020

Reopening of the downtown Cleveland Heinen’s grocery store is delayed another month from earlier estimates. Previously, sources said the full-service store would open up again by early August. The store closed following the riots that hit numerous cities nationwide, including Cleveland, May 30.

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Columbus developer has big plans for Flats West Bank

Ken Prendergast / July 23, 2020

According to three sources who agreed to speak off the record, Flats West Bank property owner Jeff Jacobs may sell 5.6 acres of prime riverfront land near downtown Cleveland to a Columbus-based real estate developer or a partner thereof.

CASTO, which focuses on urban developments from Ohio to Florida, has expressed interest in acquiring or otherwise developing the land with a significant, multi-building, mixed-use development on the site. The land currently is used as a vast surface parking lot north of Jacobs’ Nautica Entertainment Complex that includes the Powerhouse at Nautica.

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Rockefeller Building to start new life with housing, offices

Ken Prendergast / July 12, 2020

According to several sources, a development partnership is acquiring the Rockefeller Building, 614 W. Superior Ave., in downtown Cleveland and will redevelop the historic office building with micro-unit apartments, offices, retail and parking.

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Pandemic quarantines CWRU development

1 Comment / Ken Prendergast / July 9, 2020

Construction of several residence halls at Case Western Reserve University has been put on hold indefinitely, another victim of the COVID-19 pandemic and the fiscal uncertainties that surround it. Construction on the first phase of the $72+ million multi-phased project was due to start in early 2021.

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Two developments, two sides of town and redesigned, too

Ken Prendergast / July 5, 2020

Two small-to-medium-sized developments on each side of town are finding new lives after they’ve been significantly redesigned. One was a purely residential development in Lakewood that shrank but added mixed use. The other was a mixed-use development in Cleveland’s Larchmere district that has become purely residential.

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CSU starts process for skyline-altering master plan

1 Comment / Ken Prendergast / June 29, 2020

A lot can change in just six years. That’s especially true when it comes to a university that’s continuing to make the transition from a regional commuter school to more of a nationally prominent residential institution.

And when that university is also trying to reconfigure its athlethic facilities, privatize its parking and capitalize on Cleveland’s international standing as a medical center, then it’s time to take a fresh look at its campus.

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Contestants emerging for Flats development

1 Comment / Ken Prendergast / June 23, 2020

A new name has entered the mix for developing 1250 Riverbed St. on the Flats’ West Bank. Joseph Shafran, Chairman/CEO of Paran Management Co. of Cleveland is considering options for redeveloping the site.

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Talks start for Cleveland’s own High Line-type park

Ken Prendergast / June 16, 2020

Above the Flats’ West Bank, Cleveland could have its own scaled-down version of New York City’s High Line park if early talks bear fruit.

The site is the Superior Viaduct that was completed in 1878 but closed to traffic in 1920. It’s primary use over the past 20 years is as a parking lot for K&D Group’s Stonebridge development that includes apartments, condominiums, restaurants, galleries and offices. The viaduct’s former roadway deck, still hosting streetcar tracks from long ago, is largely barren.

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Heinen’s downtown Cleveland store to reopen by August

Ken Prendergast / June 9, 2020

According to a source close to the situation but was not authorized to speak publicly about the matter, Heinen’s downtown Cleveland grocery store will reopen in four to eight weeks.

Rumors have swirled since the nationwide riots and looting on May 30 forced the closure of the full-service downtown grocer. The store suffered modest damage and theft of merchandise from the first floor only. Some downtown residents feared the store would not reopen.

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