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Downtown’s Canal Basin Park design gets early OK

Ken Prendergast / January 3, 2025

Although Cleveland Planning Commission’s Design-Review Committee gave a unanimous thumbs-up today to conceptual plans for downtown’s Canal Basin Park, it wasn’t without some suggestions for improvement. The design team for the 20-acre park, located between turns in the curvaceous Cuyahoga River, will come back to the commission with refined, more detailed schematic designs in the coming months.

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Did city derail scenic railroad extension?

Ken Prendergast / June 30, 2023

While helping Bedrock Real Estate acquire land for its downtown riverfront development, the city of Cleveland may have also “significantly harmed” nascent efforts to extend Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad (CVSR) passenger trains north to downtown. That harm was the apparent result of the city releasing itself from a lien on current and former railroad rights of way along the Cuyahoga River from below Tower City Center south to near Interstate 490.

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Huge Tremont hillside development site is in the works

Ken Prendergast / January 18, 2023

A former railroad yard-turned-asphalt plant at the edge of one of Cleveland’s hottest neighborhoods is the location of an emerging, large development site that could add shops, restaurants, other small businesses and hundreds of homes at a riverfront location. The developer leading the charge for this nearly 25-acre site is the same one involved in helping to move forward the 25-acre Thunderbird development on Scranton Peninsula in the Flats.

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Sokolowski’s to be razed for apartments over retail

Ken Prendergast / May 18, 2022

Two local businessmen are seeking to redevelop the former Sokolowski’s University Inn restaurant property, 1201 University Rd., into a six-story luxury apartment building, if the project is approved by the city of Cleveland as designed. The first step in the city’s design-review process began yesterday as a Tremont neighborhood block club saw and gave input to the project’s plans for the first time.

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Another mid-sized Tremont apartment building

Ken Prendergast / April 6, 2022

Seldom does a Cleveland development site offer such a remote, wooded lot and yet have so many urban amenities nearby. The features of that site, including it being next to a revived Clark Field, are why it is reportedly attracting a mid-size apartment building.

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NRP Group’s renews plans for Scranton Peninsula

2 Comments / Ken Prendergast / February 3, 2022

One month ago, NEOtrans published news from two sources that NRP Group would reactivate its plans for a development with 300-plus residences on Scranton Peninsula in Cleveland’s Flats. Tomorrow, those plans are being presented to the City Planning Commission for final approval.

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NRP Group taking fresh look at Scranton Peninsula

Ken Prendergast / January 3, 2022

NRP Group appears to have had a change of heart about its decision to walk away from developing on Scranton Peninsula, according to two sources with direct knowledge of the company’s plans.

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Four regional trail projects advance

1 Comment / Ken Prendergast / November 18, 2021

Four regional projects that encompass 5.7 miles of trail and bicycle connections on Cleveland’s East Side and in Euclid were award federal planning funds today.

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