Irishtown Bend Park

Ohio City’s largest build site: the Lutheran lot

By Ken Prendergast / October 6, 2023

Sooner or later, development pressures will find their way to Lutheran Hospital’s huge surface parking lot on West 25th Street in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood. All around the 5-acre Cleveland Clinic Foundation-owned Lutheran Hospital parking lot, investors have built on or have big plans for just about every available piece of land. Even an unstable hillside across West 25th is being reborn as Irishtown Bend Park. There isn’t much room to grow. So the Cleveland Clinic, Ohio City Inc. and others are trying to get a handle on how best to develop the Lutheran lot someday in the future while making sure Clinic employees still have a place to park.

Shoving ye spades into the leitir

By Ken Prendergast / August 25, 2023

Today was a hooley 175 years in the making. Hundreds of people celebrated today on the banks of the Cuyahoga River, across the waters from the lietir, or hillside where work is already starting to stabilize a slope on which Irish immigrants settled under difficult circumstances long ago. Today, their struggle is about to be memorialized with the $100-plus million Irishtown Bend Park.

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Irishtown Bend Park stakeholders announce deal for George property

By Ken Prendergast / March 23, 2023

Partners working together on the transformational Irishtown Bend project have reached a tentative settlement agreement following a lawsuit by an affiliate of the George family against the use of eminent domain to acquire their land for the project. Terms of the deal were not fully disclosed at this time.

Up to $10M coming to Irishtown Bend Park

By Ken Prendergast / December 6, 2022

In a project beset with hurdles — primarily centered around money — the effort to move forward on developing the 23-acre Irishtown Bend Park in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood got a big financial boost today. That boost came from a $5 million challenge grant from the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Foundation. If enough donations are received by the end of 2024 to match the challenge dollar-for-dollar, it could generate up to $10 million.

Cleveland Flats peninsula finally coming back to life

5 Comments / By Ken Prendergast / December 6, 2021

Friday was a big day for Scranton Peninsula in Cleveland’s Flats. A new brewpub opened in a repurposed industrial structure next to the Cuyahoga River. City Planning Commission gave conditional approval to plans for a new neighborhood that would add more than 300 housing units to the city’s riverfront. And the commission approved new zoning for a large area of the Flats to support additional development.

Dalad Group to redevelop 19th-century mansion

Apartments planned at ex-elderly care facility in Ohio City

By Ken Prendergast / August 4, 2021

Dalad Group is proposing to redevelop this 19th-century mansion turned-elderly care facility on Franklin Boulevard in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood into 38 market-rate apartments.

George files development plan for Irishtown Bend land

By Ken Prendergast / June 8, 2021

On May 10, at a building at the southeast corner of West 25th Street and the Detroit-Superior Bridge, crews paint over graffiti including obscenities directed at the property owner Bobby George. With the clock ticking down on sale negotiations with the city, George has submitted a development plan for the site

Pop goes the West Rim

By Ken Prendergast / December 10, 2018

A skeptical Clevelander would look at the above map where five potential major real estate developments may rise atop the West Rim of the Cuyahoga River valley and question how many will actually get built. An optimistic Clevelander would be certain that most, if not all, will get built. And an older, lifelong Clevelander would look at that map and be amazed that there are five potential major projects at all.