more duck island/tremont coming on a tough to build site --
cooper flats
October 10, 2023 12:12 PM
Builder's perseverance will bring new apartments to Tremont and Duck Island
STAN BULLARD
Builder's perseverance will bring new apartments to Tremont and Duck Island
STAN BULLARD
The first phase of the Cooper Flats apartments would occupy what's been until recently a vegetation-filled site. The ground was cleared to allow surveyors and other consultants access to the site for its planning stage.
For five years, Matt Berges, the owner of Berges Home Performance LLC of Cleveland, called up The Flats Industrial Railroad to buy what he calls “some slivers of land” jutting from the railroad near Willey Avenue between Train Avenue and Columbus Road.
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Patience and perseverance such as that are key to how this urban homebuilder operates. Berges also is pushing to get started by this winter or early spring on Cooper Flats. One of the trio of parcels he bought from Flats Industrial Railroad will allow the first phase of the project to increase 17 apartments to 21.
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Berges and Bo Knez, the owner of Knez Homes of Concord Township, who also builds in the city of Cleveland, have formed a joint venture to develop parcels they own on the north side of Willey together.
“For years, I’d say to Bo, ‘Sell me that land by the railroad.’ He’d say, ‘You sell it to me,’“ Berges said. Finally, the two have decided to cooperate on building one project that combines both their holdings, which could accommodate more than 150 units. In a phone interview, Knez said it was a case of both men wanting to develop the land. “Doing it together just makes for a better use of the land,” Knez said, “and a better project.” Two of the parcels that Berges bought from the Flats Industrial Railroad will also aid the development of the project on Willey’s north side.
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