Yesterday it was the owners of the Cleveland Browns, the Haslam Sports Group (HSG), accusing Cleveland city officials of “misguiding” its residents. Today it was Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb firing a return volley in kind.
Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb, Cleveland City Council and the Cleveland office of Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC Cleveland) announced details today of a major new initiative to address the affordable housing crisis facing Cleveland residents.
Haslam Sports Group (HSG), owner of the Cleveland Browns, submitted an amended complaint in an existing federal lawsuit against the city of Cleveland which is seeking to keep the Browns from moving to suburban Brook Park. In announcing its filing today, HSG said the city is “misguiding” its residents.
Digging through public records can reveal a lot of interesting things sometimes. One of those is where Cleveland’s new Site Readiness for Good Jobs Fund, Cuyahoga Land Bank and the city’s Department of Economic Development (ED) are focusing their efforts to assemble land for new employers.
Barring a surprise, the last of the big hurdles appears ready to be surpassed for the Cleveland Browns football team’s move from downtown to Brook Park. Yes, there’s a million other things that can happen or not happen in the next year before financing might close and construction contractors are given the green light. But most of those hinge on events occurring now at committee hearings in our state’s capital.
Two transformative projects — a nearly $50 million West Side Market overhaul and a $44 million Superior Arts District mixed-use project — received significant financial support today from the Port of Cleveland following their approval by the board of directors.
The stage is set for the debut of The Bulkley Residences in Downtown Cleveland’s Playhouse Square District. Its 84 apartments have layouts spanning four floors of the nine-story historic Bulkley Building, 1501 Euclid Ave. in the heart of Playhouse Square.
Both of Ohio’s U.S. senators and 11 of its 15 Congressional representatives urged in a joint letter yesterday to Vice President J.D. Vance and NASA Director Jared Isaacman to relocate the space agency’s 2,500-employee headquarters to Ohio, specifically to Cleveland, after its Washington DC HQ lease expires in 2028.
As part of an ongoing effort to expand the company’s presence across the U.S, Baker Construction of Monroe in Southwest Ohio announced this week that it will be purchasing the equipment assets from Cleveland Cement Contractors, a Brooklyn Heights-based full-service concrete contractor.