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NRP Group abandons Scranton Peninsula project

2 Comments / Ken Prendergast / September 2, 2020

A worldwide economic downturn and a shift in market approach have forced the NRP Group to abandon its plans to develop a 330-unit apartment-townhouse complex on Scranton Peninsula, across the Cuyahoga River from downtown Cleveland.

Among major cities, Greater Cleveland has suffered more pandemic-related job losses than all but three other cities — New York, Las Vegas and Boston. And NRP Group has been shifting its focus from developing market-rate housing to affordable and workforce housing,

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Mixed-use could boost proposed downtown office tower

1 Comment / Ken Prendergast / August 31, 2020

For six years, Stark Enterprises’ nuCLEus proposed development has always been about mixed use. But it is yet to be about construction. It could be about both if the uses were mixed in a single tower.

For its downtown Cleveland project in the Gateway District, it has proposed a mix of ground-floor retail, restaurants and entertainment topped by parking. Above that, the project has offered various layouts of offices, residential and hotel uses in several combinations — one tower, two towers and even two towers with a cantilevered bridge between them.

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Seeds & Sprouts X – Early intel on real estate projects

1 Comment / Ken Prendergast / August 29, 2020

This is the Tenth 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. Conceptual plans for the new Walz Branch of the

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Biz moving from suburbs to downtown Cleveland

Ken Prendergast / August 29, 2020

For the second time this month, there is news that a company is relocating office jobs from the suburbs to downtown Cleveland. Earlier this month, NEOtrans broke the news that digital marketer Fathom will relocate its headquarters and about 100 jobs from Valley View to the West Bank of the Flats.

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Rockefeller Building sold, new chapter begins

Ken Prendergast / August 27, 2020

Title to the Rockefeller Building in downtown Cleveland transferred today to a partnership that seeks to redevelop the historic edifice with housing, offices and ground-floor retail.

The 17-story building is located at 614 W. Superior Ave., across West 6th Street from the planned site of the new Sherwin-Williams headquarters. This purchase is the first what may be several spin-off investments directly resulting from the massive headquarters project.

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Cleveland is rising higher on the waterfront

1 Comment / Ken Prendergast / August 27, 2020

Coastal cities have one thing in common — a tendency to build more high-rise buildings along their waterfronts. In real estate, where location is all-important, few things attract investment more than an accessible waterfront. That’s true for shorelines on oceans, Great Lakes and major rivers.

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Edgewater Hill project: signs of sudden growth

1 Comment / Ken Prendergast / August 22, 2020

UPDATED AUG. 24 WITH COMMENTS BY WAYNE JATSEK

For those watching the City Planning Commission’s virtual meeting yesterday, two examples of sudden growth were apparent. Both centered around a new apartment building project in the Edgewater Hill section of Cleveland’s Detroit-Shoreway neighborhood.

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City Club Apartments tower may rise in November

Ken Prendergast / August 20, 2020

UPDATED AUG. 21, 2020

If you missed seeing construction cranes over downtown Cleveland, you may not have to wait long for their return. With the city’s approval of final designs tomorrow for the City Club Apartments, the first of several cranes likely in 2021 could sprout in the spring.

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LockKeepers, Marble Room, Il Venetian face uncertain futures

Ken Prendergast / August 20, 2020

Six of Greater Cleveland’s swankiest establishments that share the same owner have not reopened from the Coronavirus shutdown. Several sources with direct knowledge of the businesses’ operations and finances said they doubted all of the establishments would reopen under their current ownership.

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A new housing crisis is hitting Cleveland, anonymously

Ken Prendergast / August 14, 2020

At first blush, it sounded like such a rosy story.

The headline in the June 8 Wall Street Journal read “Cleveland Is a House-Flipping Hot Spot, and Covid Adds Fuel.” Its central theme was that Greater Cleveland has become one of the most profitable places in the country to flip houses and own rentals. Investors have been redirecting their dollars from pricey coastal real estate markets and investing them in Cleveland. A happy story, right?

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