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Why does Circle Square get love and nuCLEus doesn’t?

Ken Prendergast / September 23, 2020

Two births were noted in 2014. Ideas for a pair of major urban core real estate developments in Cleveland — nuCLEus and Circle Square — were set into motion, leading to much excitement and debate by everyone from urbanistas to media to fellow developers to elected officials.

Since those births six years ago, neither project has turned a shovel of dirt for new construction. Yet nuCLEus gets publicly criticized and doubted while Circle Square doesn’t. Is that fair? Let’s take a look at that….

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nuCLEus still lurks among many downtown projects

2 Comments / Ken Prendergast / February 10, 2020

In two years, construction may be underway in downtown Cleveland for as many as a half-dozen towers. And that doesn’t count all that are in pre-development. If you did, there would be at least 13 towers under consideration.

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Cleveland’s core entering new-construction mode

2 Comments / Ken Prendergast / June 1, 2018

The latest report from the Downtown Cleveland Alliance (DCA) on the progress of downtown had an especially interesting data set in it. That report, for the First Quarter of 2018, showed that the last of downtown’s obsolete commercial buildings (offices, warehouse, department store, etc.) being converted to residential (along with several new construction projects) will put the population of downtown Cleveland at about 20,000 people by 2020.

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