Public bathrooms are exactly what many civic and business people say Downtown Cleveland needs. But where they should be located has been a difficult question to answer. It’s one of the reasons why it has taken three years to advance three proposed locations for four of these public potties for consideration to the City Planning Commission’s Design Review Committee this Friday.
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Although it’s not the full $260 million federal grant that city of Cleveland officials had hoped to get for its lakefront vision, the $59.7 million it won today from U.S. Department of Transportation will knock down the first lakefront domino. Once knocked down, other aspects in the city’s plans can be funded and built.
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Cleveland City Council has passed legislation transferring the management, marketing and programming for Public Square to Downtown Cleveland, Inc., effective upon Mayor Justin Bibb’s signature. This transition underscores Downtown Cleveland’s ongoing commitment to revitalizing the core and builds on the organization’s recent successes in securing significant funding for Public Square enhancements.
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Two Cuyahoga County leaders sent a letter today to Cleveland Browns owners Jimmy and Dee Haslam urging the football team to keep playing at the stadium on the Downtown Cleveland lakefront rather than build a new domed stadium in suburban Brook Park. County Executive Chris Ronayne and Cuyahoga County Council President Pernel Jones Jr. said the Haslams’ Brook Park plan “does not make fiscal sense.”
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One day after NEOtrans broke the news that the Cleveland Browns’ home games would be moved from Downtown Cleveland to a proposed domed stadium in suburban Brook Park (and why), the football team’s owner Haslam Sports Group has made it official.
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Mayor Justin Bibb and his lakefront development team are inviting the community to a Lakefront Future Forum scheduled for from 4-7 p.m. Aug. 5, on Mall C in Downtown Cleveland. The site is located between City Hall, 601 Lakeside Ave. and the old Cuyahoga County Courthouse, across from the entrance of the Huntington Convention Center of Cleveland.
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City Planning Commission today voted unanimously to recommend that City Council approve a 45-year, project-specific tax-increment financing (TIF) deal with Bedrock Real Estate to generate $400 million for infrastructure to support Bedrock’s $3.5 billion riverfront development. This would create a second, albeit smaller TIF district downtown to support major waterfront and urban core improvements.
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The work to improve Cleveland’s centuries-old Public Square, a New England-style community commons, is never done. To that end, Downtown Cleveland Inc. will receive $750,000 in funds from the Ohio legislature’s one-time Strategic Community Investment Fund for a more welcoming, engaging and inclusive Public Square for all.
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When looking at Chicago’s enviable lakefront, it never had it. Toronto’s did, but not anymore. Same with Milwaukee’s and Hamilton’s but due to different circumstances. Detroit, Buffalo, Toledo and smaller cities like Green Bay and Erie never did. What are we talking about here? A busy mainline freight railroad routed along a major Great Lake city’s downtown waterfront.
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Cleveland Metroparks announced it has been awarded a $19.5 million federal grant, the largest ever to be received by organization to construct 4 miles of all-purpose trails on the city’s southeast side into Downtown Cleveland. Construction work on the trail segments is planned to begin in 2026.
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