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Despite the economic slowdown, several prominent local and national developers and investors are making big real estate plays on the Flats’ West Bank, across the Cuyahoga River from downtown Cleveland. The end result could be a mix of buildings with mostly residential offerings and at least two of the developments possibly rising to 20 stories or higher.
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UPDATED MAY 14, 2020 WITH NEW RENDERINGS
Conceptual designs for a new 57-unit, market-rate apartment development in the Hough neighborhood were approved by the City of Cleveland’s Euclid Corridor Design Review Committee. It was the first design-review meeting held since the start of the coronavirus crisis two months ago.
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The last grain mill left on the Cuyahoga River is due to close in July, leaving 24 workers to wonder about their employment future and the fate of the mill property. Those lost jobs include seven trucking and two railroad jobs who serve a mill that’s stood in the 1600 block of Merwin Avenue for more than 150 years.
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This is the Sixth edition of Seeds & Sprouts – Early intelligence on Cleveland-area real estate projects. Because these projects are very early in their process of development or just a long-range plan, a lot can and probably will change their final shape, use and outcome. Work is reportedly about to getunderway soon on convertingCleveland’s
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After a 40 to 90-day hiatus forced by the COVID-19 crisis, Cleveland’s City Council and City Planning Commission meetings are due to restart. The first meetings are likely to be held in May.
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UPDATED APRIL 10, 2020
While the temporary scaling back of spending for the Sherwin-Williams’ (SHW) new headquarters+research (HQ+R&D) project is probably the most notable impact from the coronavirus crisis, it isn’t the only one in Greater Cleveland.
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On March 24, the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority’s (GCRTA) Board of Trustees did two things it had never done before.
One, GCRTA’s board voted to help form and partially own a unique public-private corporation to acquire and oversee development of its Ohio City Red Line station-area property in partnership with Carnegie Management and Development Corp.
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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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The 11-story Baker Building at 1900 E. 6th St. in downtown Cleveland enjoys a brighter future now that it’s in the hands of a deep-pocketed firm. But that future may not be imminent. And the delay has nothing to do with the global pandemic, according to a source familiar with the project.
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UPDATED MARCH 16, 2020
As successful investor Warren Buffet says, “Be greedy when others are fearful.”
So are Greater Cleveland’s real estate developers fearful or greedy as Ohio and the country goes into Coronavirus emergency? And what might be the long-term implications of the pandemic on pending real estate developments?
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