Just after sunset Friday, the first new light-rail train acquired by the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (GCRTA) in more than 40 years arrived by freight train at CSX Transportation’s Collinwood Yard. Today, CSX moved Siemens Mobility train No. 401 to the Port of Cleveland for delivery to GCRTA via a newly built transfer track.
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A variety of new housing products are due to start arriving over the next year on Cleveland’s West Side. Not only are they a mix of for-sale and for-rent housing, they are of different styles and located in different neighborhoods.
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The Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (GCRTA) has scheduled public hearings on proposed service reductions to address a financial crunch. But as NEOtrans first reported last month, those cuts will be less than transit agency officials first feared.
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Last fall, NEOtrans reported that CASTO’s $119 million mixed-use development had begun construction on its first building in Downtown Lakewood. In this week’s installment of Progress Pics, we’re excited to share exclusive construction photos as work advances on the first of five floors.
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A Michigan-based self-storage company that has been expanding its property holdings in Ohio is adding another. This time it’s a property that’s been courted for decades by developers and planners as a potential site for Transit Oriented Development (TOD).
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Though the $119 million Lakewood Common project celebrated its groundbreaking in late September, the former Lakewood Hospital site has remained dormant for more than a month. Finally, construction crews have begun to clear the site—a large, sunken plot known by locals as “The Pit”—to make way for a new mixed-use development.
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Progress Pics starts in NEOtrans’ home community of Lakewood. At the streetcar suburb’s west half, on the 2.75-acre site of the former Steve Barry Buick, 16000 Detroit Ave., are the Westline Apartments.
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For the first time in more than four decades, the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority is replacing its rapid transit trains — the oldest fleet of railcars used by any U.S. transit agency. But that rare $450 million opportunity to modernize its rail system could end up 10 percent short of its goal.
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When hearing a government official prattle on about his vision for his jurisdiction, a wag once said “Don’t tell me what you support; show me your budget.” Similarly, for several years, Cuyahoga County officials have talked and planned about Transit Oriented Development (TOD). But now they’re putting their money where their mouths are.
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After more than one year of reconstruction work and an unexpected cost increase, the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority’s (GCRTA) West 117th-Madison Red Line station is due to reopen to rail passengers at the start of transit service on Friday. GCRTA announced the reopening today.
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