It’s not unusual when buildings are sold by the owners who built them. But it is very unusual when those buildings are 143 years old.
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While revitalization efforts since the 1990s have transformed Cleveland’s Ohio City into a vibrant urban destination, the demolition of vacant, abandoned, and fire damaged homes has scarred some blocks with empty lots. Construction of new “infill” development in the SoLo (South of Lorain) neighborhood is restoring the south side of Ohio City to its former glory — and in theory, creating an immediate source of property tax revenue.
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In the 36 years following the Variety Theater’s closure, a parade of owners have sought things for the 99-year-old venue — new uses, money and luck. Sadly, each of those have been beyond the grasp of each proprietor. Now, another potential owner is bringing another opportunity to change the theater’s fortunes.
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Projects that have languished for half as long as the redevelopment of the Warner & Swasey factory, 5701 Carnegie Ave., were ultimately abandoned. But not this one and the reason is because just about anyone who follows redevelopment locally wants its catalytic reactivation for the benefit of Cleveland’s Midtown neighborhood.
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The Variety Theatre, 11816 Lorain Ave. in Cleveland’s Westown neighborhood, has had multiple owners and uses in its 98-year history. It’s about to have a new one as its owner has put the property up for sale this week.
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Cleveland’s growing demand for affordable health care and having one of the worst infant mortality rates in the country is behind a new clinic planned for Cleveland’s Clark-Fulton neighborhood. Cleveland-based Neighborhood Family Practice (NFP) is proposing to open a community health center in the newly refurbished Northern Ohio Blanket Mills at 3466 St. Rocco Ct.., just off Fulton Road.
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If you remember AJ Rocco’s as a coffee shop in the neighboring Caxton Building in Downtown Cleveland, the new AJ Rocco’s is going to be a big change for you. Restaurant-bar owner Brendan Walton and building owner Paul Shaia spared no expense in renovating a 19th-century bank building at 828 Huron Rd. to its Gilded Age glory with all of the rich woodwork, brick walls and metal decorative elements one would expect in a cozy downtown pub.
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Two new mixed-use buildings, historic renovations of others, hundreds of mixed-income apartments and retailers that could include a grocery store are envisioned as part of a $60 million to $70 million redevelopment of the North Broadway Corridor in Cleveland’s Slavic Village neighborhood. And that’s just the first phase envisioned by a development team called The Village Partnership comprised of several of Northeast Ohio’s most prolific developers.
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A zombie is about to be slayed thanks to a property transfer and a development partnership that got good news this week. That zombie is 45 Erieview, the former Ohio Bell headquarters in downtown Cleveland at the southeast corner of East 9th Street and Lakeside Avenue.
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Citing a lack of a modern apartments at Shaker Square, Paran Management Company Ltd. is reviving its plan for constructing a multi-family building next to the historic mixed-use neighborhood center. But the plans come with a new angle — preserving the historic office and commercial structures at the southwest corner of Shaker and Van Aken boulevards.
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