Two panels of elected officials voted simultaneously last night to approve agreements authorizing the Downtown Lakewood development to start as early as Aug. 30, 2025. The $119 million mixed-use project will finally repurpose the former site of the city-owned Lakewood Hospital that closed in 2016 and has sat largely devoid of structures for five years.
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Herman Park may be in need of updating, but its presence is enough to attract a second proposed apartment building to rise next to it. Conceptual designs for that building, located at 6400 Herman Ave. in Cleveland’s Gordon Square neighborhood, were approved yesterday by a neighborhood design-review panel and referred to the City Planning Commission’s Design Review Committee.
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To finally repurpose the site of the former Lakewood Hospital that was closed in 2016, plans for a proposed major development have one more hurdle at the city of Lakewood to clear before crossing the finish line. That last hurdle, City Council, will take up those plans next month. If they’re approved by the end of this year, construction could start by Spring 2025 on the $100-plus million development.
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Developers of the proposed Downtown Lakewood mixed-use development said it was a mix of good and bad news that a grocery store chain backed out of the project. The good news is that the developers can proceed with a previous plan to offer a larger public plaza facing Detroit Avenue. The bad news was that revising the plans to accommodate the grocer cost the developers eight months of time and inflation in delivering the $100-plus-million project.
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Sitting dormant since Lakewood Hospital closed in 2016 and was demolished in 2019, a 6-acre city-owned site in Downtown Lakewood has a fresh strategy and a new tenant to finally reactivate it. While that strategy and a new tenant, a neighborhood grocery store, was enthusiastically received by City Council members at a committee meeting tonight, it remains to be seen whether it can overcome financing hurdles affecting it and all other projects nationwide.
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Lakewood Mayor Meghan George’s office revealed today that an agreement for the redevelopment of the city’s ex-hospital site is being finalized and could be announced in April.
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