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Business reporter learning new things at @WEWS . Past: Crain’s Cleveland, The Plain Dealer. Wife, mom, cat servant. DMs open. michelle.jarboe @wews .com
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I'm thrilled to share that I'm joining
@WEWS
this month as part of the Scripps Journalism Journey Initiative, a national professional-development program. I look forward to telling Cleveland stories in new ways - and learning from inspiring colleagues.
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I'm excited to share that I'll be joining the newsroom at
@CrainsCleveland
on May 18, as an enterprise reporter. I'm looking forward to being part of the team - and I'm thrilled that I'll still be able to write about real estate, economic development and other biz topics in
#CLE
.
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Bedrock, the Detroit-based owner of Tower City and riverfront land behind it, has submitted additional images from its master plan to the Cleveland City Planning Commission. The commission is scheduled to see an informational presentation Friday. Context:
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Some personal news: Today was my last day at
@CrainsCleveland
. It was a privilege to be part of this newsroom for the last 3.5 years, but it’s time for new adventures. I’m staying here in Cleveland - and looking forward to sharing details soon about the next chapter!
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Bedrock unveils its sweeping master plan for Tower City Center and downtown Cleveland's riverfront. As part of the announcement, the company confirms it has deals to buy the existing Sherwin-Williams HQ and riverfront technology center flanking the site.
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It has been a privilege covering real estate in this community for 12-plus years. I'm grateful to everyone who trusted me to tell a story, to hardworking colleagues at
@ThePlainDealer
and
@clevelanddotcom
- and, most of all, to the readers. With sadness and gratitude, onward!
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In early March, I grabbed a fresh box of business cards from my mailbox at The Plain Dealer. Then the pandemic made handing anything to anyone inadvisable. Today, with the box still unopened, I was laid off ... (1/2)
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It's my first day back in The PD newsroom after a year away (with this tiny, magical person). Thankful that
@JGrzelewski
stayed on top of all things real estate while I was gone - and glad she's here to tell me about what I missed. Less grateful for the sea of email I'm awash in.
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Local preservationists have a plan for reviving empty storefronts at the Arcade as a cultural showplace, with dining, merchants and museum spaces. And the owner of the downtown Cleveland landmark is intrigued.
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The excellent reason for my recent absence from Twitter. Meet Tess, who is three weeks old and learning new things every day. Onesie courtesy of
@GChristCLE
. (Our cats are skeptical about this baby thing, though they’ve discovered that her small feet are useful for head rubs.)
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I did not lose my job at The Plain Dealer today, but some remarkable, dedicated journalists did. Thanks to my best friends for sending these flowers today, which made for a bright end to a bleak week. Now, everyone, subscribe to your local paper! (And other papers, too!)
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Chef Rocco Whalen plans to move Fahrenheit, his long-running Tremont restaurant, to downtown Cleveland. He recently signed a lease on the former John Q's Steakhouse at the base of the 55 Public Square office complex.
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Cut through the blissfully shady Eastman Reading Garden at the Cleveland Public Library this afternoon, on my way back to the office from a meeting. My favorite public space downtown.
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Checking out the recently opened
@LunaBakeryCafe
in downtown Cleveland. Having this around the corner from the Crain’s office is going to be dangerous!
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I toured the May Co. apartment redevelopment in downtown
#CLE
yesterday. Here are a few snapshots: An apartment facing Public Square; the fitness center, with a rather tropical mural; and two perspectives on the open-air atrium at the core of the former department store.
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ICYMI: The developer of East Fourth Street in downtown Cleveland is planning a $1.65 million refresh of the public spaces, a project that could include creation of the city’s first Designated Outdoor Refreshment Area, or DORA.
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Plans for 140 units of mixed-income housing in the former Warner & Swasey Co. factory in
#CLE
got a lift today from a low-income housing tax credit award.
@PennroseCompany
and
@MidTownCleInc
hope to salvage the long-vacant historic structure.
#CRE
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The partners behind the Irishtown Bend Park project have raised almost $17 million - including a $5 million Mandel Foundation challenge grant announced today - for the 23-acre riverfront space in Cleveland's Ohio City neighborhood.
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CrossCountry Mortgage, which plans to move 600 jobs from the suburbs to Cleveland's Superior Arts District next year, held a ceremonial groundbreaking Thursday afternoon for its future headquarters. Here are a few renderings of the project, a historic-preservation deal.
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A few photos, mostly from the future roof deck, from a groundbreaking event at 45 Erieview today. The empty downtown Cleveland office building is set to become 367 apartments, plus commercial space. Construction is set to start this month and will take 14 to 16 months.
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In the (for the moment, virtual) newsroom at
@CrainsCleveland
starting today, so feel free to reach out with tips, story ideas or tidbits I might have missed during my five-week hiatus from the Cleveland biz-reporting scene. New email: michelle.jarboe
@crain
.com.
We're excited today
@CrainsCleveland
to have Michelle Jarboe, who covered real estate for The Plain Dealer, join us as an enterprise reporter. You can follow her
@mjarboe
.
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We walked the new Red Line Greenway trail this morning. Fantastic.
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The Bibb administration has picked Tom McNair, the longtime executive director of nonprofit Ohio City Inc., as Cleveland's next economic development director.
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Bedrock buys NuCLEus site in downtown Cleveland's Gateway District, gaining control of 3 acres across from Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse.
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Here are updated images of the planned City Club Apartments project in downtown
#CLE
, on the Euclid Avenue parking lot just west of the City Club building. Received schematic approval at
@CLEcityplanning
commission this morning.
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Better images of that proposed apartment project at the Van Aken District in Shaker Heights, from developer RMS.
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Craft brewer
@BrewDogUSA
intends to lease the first floor of the Avian building on Cleveland's Scranton Peninsula for a pub. Plans show 250 seats indoors and 400 in an outdoor beer garden, with a dog park and playground or mini golf. w/
@JeremyNobile
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Mayor Justin Bibb appoints Lillian Kuri as chair of the Cleveland City Planning Commission,
@steven_litt
reports. She will succeed David Bowen, who has helmed the commission since 2015.
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With a $4 million purchase agreement on the Catanese holdings in the Flats, Cleveland Metroparks is seeking development proposals for part of the property. A request for proposals makes clear that a deep slice of riverfront is reserved for public access.
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Here are updated renderings of SomeraRoad's planned apartment project in downtown's Gateway District. The Cleveland City Planning Commission is set to review the designs Friday. Our September story:
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A few new images of the planned Viaduct apartment tower on the west bank of the Flats, being discussed (schematic approval) at a virtual
@CLEcityplanning
commission meeting right now. via
@dimitarchitects
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I (nervously) made my on-air debut last night, with a follow-up story about electronic benefits theft and the extent of the problem in Ohio. It's amazing to have this opportunity to learn new things every day from my colleagues at
@WEWS
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There's no lack of demand for housing in downtown Cleveland. The challenge is creating supply. That's the crux of a new report that digs into the dynamics of the post-pandemic market, where apartments are 95% leased and the population continues to grow.
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The City Club of Cleveland has signed a long-term lease at Playhouse Square, setting the stage for a move next year. The free-speech forum is ending a 40-year run at its current location, near East Ninth Street and Euclid.
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An announcement: Please welcome - and follow -
@JGrzelewski
, who is starting at The Plain Dealer today and who will be filling in for me, covering all things real estate, during my imminent maternity leave.
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I toured the NRP Group’s apartment project on Scranton Peninsula yesterday. They expect the two main buildings to be under roof in 45 days or so. The first units could open in August 2024, and the entire project is slated to be done in spring 2025.
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Also scheduled for
@CLEcityplanning
schematic review later this week, the planned Superior Viaduct apartment tower we wrote about in May: Now 27 stories, with a top-floor deck and outdoor pool. Plans show 165 to 173 units. Some renderings ...
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A New York developer has purchased the mammoth Richman Brothers Co. factory on Cleveland's East Side, in a quiet deal that eventually could bring new life to one of the city's largest eyesores.
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Here are some updated images of the proposed Bridgeworks project in Cleveland's Ohio City, at the western end of the Detroit-Superior Bridge. The revisions will get an airing at neighborhood meetings next week. Our November story:
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A good night! So happy to gather and celebrate with wonderful
@CrainsCleveland
colleagues, past and present.
#pressclubcle
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The owners of the Renaissance Cleveland Hotel plan to rebrand the landmark property as the Hotel Cleveland, returning the city's second-largest hotel to its historic name. (And they're going to bring back the rooftop sign.)
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Husband and I received our first COVID-19 vaccines today in Hough, thanks to a waitlist organized by our child’s nonprofit daycare center. We got the final two shots that would have gone to waste when other folks didn’t show up - with 15 minutes worth of notice. So thankful. ❤️
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Rebol remains closed on downtown
#CLE
’s Public Square, but the boards out front are looking much brighter thanks to
@GlenInfante
.
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Took this gorgeous spring day off to go hiking. 9.5 miles at the Rocky River Reservation. Zero regrets.
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The Reporter Who Wrote About Layoffs at the Cleveland Plain Dealer After He Was Laid Off | The New Yorker
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Market Plaza shopping center, across from
@WestSideMarket
in
#CLE
's Ohio City neighborhood, sells to Chicago-area developer with plans for mixed-use project.
#CRE
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Friday evening in the Flats. Boats, trains and lots of room to roam on the boardwalk.
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The 297-unit Intro apartment project in Ohio City - set to briefly hold the title of the nation's tallest mass-timber building - is being recognized as a leading example of a public-private partnership.
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For a
@CrainsCleveland
feature section this week, I spent some time in Sandusky talking to folks about downtown revitalization - and efforts to build a destination economy beyond Cedar Point.
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So disheartened. These people are the unsung heroes of the newsroom. Many of their names don’t appear in the newspaper, but they make stories read better and look better - and find ways to turn a mishmash of online content into something cohesive, and design-conscious, in print.
The Plain Dealer informed the Guild today it would move forward with a plan to outsource the jobs of 29 Guild and management employees who copy edit, curate and design our newspaper.
#KeepPDLocal
#keepjournalismlocal
#localjournalismmatters
#1u
@news_guild
@CWAUnion
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Here are a few more developed images of the planned Sherwin-Williams Co. headquarters off Public Square, from a conceptual design presentation going on at Cleveland City Hall. It's the first look at how the top of the tower is evolving. Watch live here:
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The Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority took the first step Thursday toward eminent domain proceedings on the Irishtown Bend hillside, where members of the George family own an empty building topped by a prominent billboard on West 25th Street.
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I'm so glad that
@JGrzelewski
stepped in to cover real estate at The Plain Dealer during my maternity leave last year, and I'm so very sad to see her go. It has been a privilege to work with her for the last two months. (And the newsroom that snapped her up is incredibly lucky.)
My (very short!) time at The Plain Dealer has come to an end. I feel fortunate, because I have another job in journalism lined up. But my heart hurts for my fellow
@PDNewsGuild
members, who have given so much of their lives and hearts to their work here.
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More than 300 people have expressed interest in renting at the new apartment towers at the Van Aken District in Shaker Heights, even though the anticipated opening of the 227-unit project is still 10 months away.
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CrossCountry Mortgage, which has been toying with a move from the suburbs to the city, is firming up its plans for a Cleveland headquarters project that could bring more than 500 jobs to the Superior Arts District.
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A Sunday morning outing to the West Side Market with my valentine.
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I ended my work trip to Cincinnati with a visit to the Findlay Market. Built in 1852, it’s surrounded by small businesses and historic buildings. The market is city-owned but managed by a nonprofit corporation - the model Cleveland is putting in place at the West Side Market.
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I’m thrilled to have won a NAREE award for a story on a legal battle over tax foreclosures involving vacant and abandoned properties. I’m doubly thrilled that I got to celebrate tonight with so many inspiring journalists.
#NAREE2021
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The Cleveland City Planning Commission just approved final designs for a 184-unit apartment project on Bolivar Road downtown, in the Gateway District. Here are a few renderings - and our September 2021 story:
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Cleveland State University's new $650 million master plan calls for razing the Wolstein Center, building a new arena on Payne Avenue and transforming aging Rhodes Tower into student housing. Details (and before-and-after images).
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Two sizable Cleveland projects - the Bridgeworks apartment-and-hotel tower just outside downtown and the Waverly & Oak apartment building in the Gordon Square Arts District - won key approvals from the
@CLEcitylandmark
commission today.
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.
@BedrockDetroit
, which owns the ailing mall at Tower City in downtown Cleveland, says the company plans to turn the property into a "marketplace" - a sort of supersized market hall with revived retail, pop-up tenants, entertainment and events.
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Wildwood and Euclid Beach Park as winter melts. Every day, I'm thankful to live walking distance from the water.
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A Friday throwback for you. As we're talking about plans for a new
@SherwinWilliams
HQ on downtown
#CLE
parking lots, here's a taste of what the Warehouse District portion of the site used to look like, circa 1958/59. Image via
@Cleve_Memory
.
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The largest building in Cleveland's onetime garment district is preparing to don a new look. A major apartment landlord is partnering with Artcraft Building owner GBX Group on a plan to transform the property into roughly 159 apartments.
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"This is a living, breathing document that will never sit on the shelf," Jim Haviland, executive director of nonprofit advocacy group
@FlatsForward
, said of the newly adopted
@VFTV_CLE
plan spanning 8 miles of the Cuyahoga River.
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.
@ClayLePard
and I checked out the Renaissance Cleveland Hotel, which is near the end of an $80+ million redo as the Hotel Cleveland. We also talked to Audrey Dvorak, 89, who recalls the old Hotel Cleveland. Interviewing her was the highlight of my week.
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#CLE
Public Library's new MLK branch, the kickoff project for a multi-building, mixed-use development called Circle Square, could be a "palace for the people," PD critic
@steven_litt
writes.
@Cleveland_PL
@inthecircle
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With Cleveland City Council's OK, the administration and major landowner Bedrock can ink a master development agreement outlining how they'll work together to tackle a barren stretch of the downtown riverfront. (Bulkhead work on the site will start soon.)
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Friday's
@CLEcityplanning
commission agenda includes two riverfront performance stages planned for the Flats East Bank project. One will face the Flats at East Bank apartments, while the other will sit at the end of a beer garden flanked by new dining and entertainment venues.
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It's interesting to see how the Jacobs master plan for the west bank of the Flats has evolved. On the left, the early 2016 vision for the Nautica district, with the existing Powerhouse and Jacobs Pavilion in the foreground. On the right, the 2020 version.
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The Phantasy Entertainment Complex has a buyer who plans to preserve the 105-year-old, rambing building as a series of entertainment venues - 18th century merchant ship and all - as part of a multi-building endeavor.
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Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb picks Joyce Pan Huang, VP of community development at MidTown Cleveland Inc., as the city's new planning director. Ricardo León, who leads the Metro West CDC, will be the city's senior strategist for equity. via
@steven_litt
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Fairmount Properties has submitted plans to the city of Cleveland for a six-story apartment building with a 40,000-square-foot Meijer market on the ground floor, at East 105th Street and Cedar Avenue. The project could open in 2023.
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Bedrock adds to its Cleveland team by hiring Jason Russell, former general manager of the Van Aken District in Shaker Heights, as senior director of operations and leasing for Tower City.
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Blue Abyss CEO John Vickers was looking at Texas for his first U.S. facility, a training center for space explorers and deep-sea divers. Then, through serendipitous networking, he shifted his attention to Northeast Ohio - to a 12.8 acre site in Brook Park.
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In an online forum Thursday,
@clevemetroparks
will unveil initial plans to use recycled sediment from the bottom of the Cuyahoga River to create 80 acres of parkland between the E. 55th St. Marina and Gordon Park,
@steven_litt
writes.
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"Whenever a stadium gets built, people say, 'It's a masterpiece. It's the best stadium possible,'" professor JC Bradbury tells
@JoeScalzo01
. "Then, 30 years later, people say, 'Oh, it was built on a shoestring budget and they cut corners.'"
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At the grand opening event for The Intro project on Cleveland’s West Side, where the 297 apartments are 95% leased and the development team is working through final punch-list items. In many ways, this building is a miracle, says Dan Whalen of Harbor Bay Real Estate Advisors.
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I took a tour last week at 75 Public Square, a recently opened office-to-apartment conversion in the center of downtown Cleveland. The 114-unit project includes an indoor play area for dogs and a rooftop deck. It's about 20% leased, at rents ranging from $1,200 to $3,000 a month.
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Walked through the Flats and across the new Wendy Park Bridge to Whiskey Island this morning. An ideal way to spend part of a beautiful vacation day. I can’t wait to ride my bike from the lake down to the Towpath and points south.
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To liven up this gloomy Friday, here are a few historic photos (circa 1940, 1914 and 1912) of workers at the Warner & Swasey Co. factory in
#CLE
's Midtown. All via
@Cleve_Memory
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A group of
@CleCityCouncil
members aims to introduce legislation to implement "source of income" protections, barring residential landlords from rejecting tenants only because those applicants plan to use a housing subsidy to pay the rent. via
@LeilaAtassi
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.
@SherwinWilliams
sticks to plans for 1 million-square-foot downtown
#CLE
headquarters, stays course on suburban R&D project even as the pandemic prompts companies to reconsider their office needs. Details ... $SHW
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The Sherwin-Williams Co. submitted its final design package to the city of Cleveland today, in advance of a Nov. 30 meeting. The garage is slimmer and taller; the lighting is color-changing, and programmable; and there's no "cover the earth" logo outside.
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Ohio House lawmakers propose putting $20 million from a mammoth spending bill toward downtown Cleveland’s planned land bridge to the lakefront. via
@MorganTrau
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.
@dreamhotelgroup
commits to Midtown
#CLE
project, as part of broader redevelopment of historic Masonic Temple and surrounding land. Renderings show a 19-story building housing 207-room hotel, 400-car garage, event space, etc.
@MidTownCleInc
#CRE
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I went for a walk downtown yesterday afternoon before the temperature plunged and the wind picked up, and it was interesting to see the progress on construction of the new pedestrian bridge at North Coast Harbor.
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A look at more refined plans for the 23-acre Irishtown Bend Park in Ohio City, via
@steven_litt
. The park will follow a hillside stabilization project set to kick off next year.
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Via CoUrbanize, the developers behind the proposed Waverly & Oak project in Cleveland's Detroit-Shoreway neighborhood have reached a deal with community groups to allow for demolition of the Club Azteca building.
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A morning spent hiking at Holden Arboretum, followed by a bike trek from North Collinwood to downtown - my first trip on that stretch of the lakefront bikeway. Perfect.
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Local developer MRN Ltd. is preparing to convert two empty floors of office space at 629 Euclid Ave. into residential condos - a type of housing that is scarce in Cleveland's central business district.
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