CLEVELAND | Project Rundown - Page 33

Evergrey · #**641** Posted **Nov 12, 2012, 2:15 AM**

http://www.cleveland.com/opinion/ind...rfax_edit.html

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PNC Connection provides a dose of wow for Fairfax: editorial

Published: Sunday, November 11, 2012, 7:33 PM Updated: Sunday, November 11, 2012, 7:34 PM
By The Plain Dealer Editorial Board

The physical transformation on the southwest corner of East 83rd Street and Carnegie Avenue has been dramatic and unmistakable, both to residents of Cleveland's proud Fairfax neighborhood and to the thousands of East Side commuters who zip by daily. The nondescript brick building -- most notable because it once housed a pizza shop and a dry cleaner -- has been transformed by New York architect Edward Schlossberg's imaginative use of glass and dancing lights into something eye-catchingly special.
But what's really special about the PNC Fairfax Connection is what goes on inside.

Its 6,400 square feet are stocked with the latest computer technology, the better to help bridge the digital divide. But all the gizmos and whiteboard walls simply provide the platform for programming -- financial literacy classes and small-business counseling -- presented by the bank and a long list of partners that includes the Boys and Girls Club, the Cleveland Browns and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum.

If you're looking for bank services beyond an ATM, this isn't the place to go. PNC Regional President Paul Clark says the idea is to forge a different relationship with a neighborhood. Fairfax was chosen because it had needs, but also enduring anchors such as Karamu House and deeply rooted churches.

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pnc.com

Austinlee · #**642** Posted **Nov 12, 2012, 5:54 PM**

Nice

dar124 · #**643** Posted **Dec 5, 2012, 8:32 PM**

Starting Monday Cleveland's Lorain-Carnegie bridge will feature a wide path for those on bike and foot

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A historic bridge near downtown will open a new era for those on bike and foot starting Monday.

Crews are finishing a 14½-foot-wide path on the north side of the Lorain-Carnegie (Hope Memorial) Bridge, offering an eyeful of downtown and an improved link for cyclists and pedestrians.

http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index...negie_bri.html

MayDay · #**644** Posted **Dec 9, 2012, 5:06 PM**

Finally got around to doing some updates - check 'em out page 1

case_architect · #**645** Posted **Dec 10, 2012, 9:30 PM**

it'll be nice to finally see this one redeveloped

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http://www.crainscleveland.com/artic...FREE/121219984
Cleveland Metropolitan School District to auction its headquarters building

The Cleveland Metropolitan School District plans to auction off its headquarters building at 1380 E. Sixth St. In downtown Cleveland.

dar124 · #**646** Posted **Jan 2, 2013, 8:45 PM**

Good to hear about some progress on the Ameritrust building!!!

It'll be nice to see some construction in that area and then eventually to see people around on the streets that work and live in the buildings.

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Cuyahoga County Council will take its first public look today at plans to unload the mothballed Ameritrust complex

http://www.cleveland.com/ameritrust_deal.html

dar124 · #**647** Posted **Jan 3, 2013, 5:41 PM**

Here's a rendering of the Ameritrust complex and a diagram of the site that I came across yesterday. Just now getting time to post them here.

I checked out the Geis Companies website and they only have an image of the rendering and a link to the cleveland.com story from 12-11-12.

xboarder84 · #**648** Posted **Feb 8, 2013, 8:33 PM**

Just saw the renderings for the Inner Belt landscape near Tremont and downtown. At least the project acknowledges that you need to make the areas around the bridge look attractive too:

http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index...look_on_1.html

dar124 · #**649** Posted **Mar 14, 2013, 4:35 PM**

Port Authority board approves $90 million bond deal for new Cuyahoga County headquarters

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The financing package for Cuyahoga County's new headquarters came together Thursday, as the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority agreed to issue $90 million in bonds to pay for the project.

The Port will act as a conduit for the deal, issuing tax-exempt lease revenue bonds that will be paid off using rent from the county. The Geis Cos., a real estate developer and construction company based in Streetsboro, is demolishing a pair of vacant, low-rise office buildings at East Ninth Street and Prospect Avenue and plans to build an eight-story government headquarters there.

The Port expects to issue the bonds within several weeks. Geis has started demolition inside the old P and H office buildings and plans to give the county keys to the new building in July 2014.

http://www.cleveland.com/business/port_authority_board_approves

dar124 · #**650** Posted **Mar 28, 2013, 4:35 PM**

Northwestern Mutual signs on at Flats East Bank office tower, taking most of 6th floor

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Northwestern Mutual will fill most of the sixth floor of the Ernst & Young Tower at the Flats East Bank project, adding to the stable of tenants for the city's first new high-rise office building in years.

The financial services company said Thursday that it has signed a lease on nearly 17,000 square feet in the tower and plans to move there in November. Based in Milwaukee, the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. has 100 financial advisors and other employees in its Cleveland office, at the Ohio Savings Plaza building on East Ninth Street.

www.cleveland.com/Northwestern Mutual signs on at FEB

MayDay · #**651** Posted **Apr 6, 2013, 5:46 PM**

I added updated photos for CWRU Student Center and Uptown Phase II - I'll try to add a few more projects/proposals this weekend.

JG573 · #**652** Posted **Apr 7, 2013, 3:17 AM**

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Originally Posted by MayDay

I added updated photos for CWRU Student Center and Uptown Phase II - I'll try to add a few more projects/proposals this weekend.

Great job keeping the first page updated I do not see that too often. Even though I am living in portland and not cleveland it is one of the cities I have been keeping a close eye on it with everything going on and hope to visit soon again.

MayDay · #**653** Posted **Jun 6, 2013, 11:05 AM**

Before anyone goes nuts over the image - it's JUST a haphazardly thrown together rendering and does NOT reflect a final design or even a massing at this point:

Cuyahoga County, Cleveland partner to spur convention center hotel, public-space overhaul

By Michelle Jarboe McFee, The Plain Dealer on June 05, 2013 at 6:00 AM, updated June 05, 2013 at 6:07 AM

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- In a rare collaboration, Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson and Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald are partnering to push forward on roughly $350 million worth of long-discussed downtown development, including a convention center hotel and a nearby pedestrian bridge to the lakefront.

FitzGerald will announce today that he plans to use extra money from the convention center complex to support construction of a 600-to-700-room hotel in place of the county's administration building at Lakeside Avenue and Ontario Street. Lower construction costs and higher-than-expected sales tax and hotel bed tax revenues -- the funding streams for the convention center and attached Global Center for Health Innovation -- have left the county with a windfall.

Now the county plans to use that money, which totaled $93 million on Tuesday, to support downtown projects private developers are unlikely to tackle. To stretch those dollars, FitzGerald has been working with Jackson, the business community and an array of consultants to sketch out budgets, identify funding sources and find opportunities for public-private partnerships.

More at:
http://www.cleveland.com/business/in..._river_default

dar124 · #**654** Posted **Jun 14, 2013, 12:53 PM**

Cleveland Convention Center Opens Today at 2:00 PM!!!
http://www.clevcc.com/

Aloft Cleveland had its ribbon-cutting yesterday!!!
http://www.starwoodhotels.com/alofth...ropertyID=3606

The new E&Y Tower is set to open this month.
http://www.crainscleveland.com/artic...304089974/1006

It's nice to see some of these projects being completed. Congrats Cleveland!!!

dar124 · #**655** Posted **Jun 28, 2013, 5:01 PM**

Looks like another project is getting ready to start (resume) downtown!!!

Developer resumes work on $50 million Schofield Building renovations for Kimpton hotel, apartments

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A long-delayed and much-discussed downtown Cleveland project has resurfaced, promising a hotel and 55 luxury apartments at East Ninth Street and Euclid Avenue by late 2014.

CRM Companies Inc. said Thursday that it has resumed work on the Schofield Building, a Victorian-style brick and terra-cotta structure that has been sitting, windowless and hung with scaffolding, for three years.

Working with Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants, the developer is planning a 122-room hotel topped by apartments that will have access to room service, valet parking, the hotel concierge and other amenities.

http://www.cleveland.com/business/in...n_50_m.html#/0

case_architect · #**656** Posted **Jun 30, 2013, 10:25 PM**

^^^^^^^

I'm really excited that this project is starting back up. I feel like this will spur some development down e. 9th and connect east towards csu.

MayDay · #**657** Posted **Jul 3, 2013, 11:28 AM**

Indeed, plus with the Ameritrust/Geis project across the street, that will get rid of one of Euclid Avenue's dead zones. I'm a little concerned about the former Huntington Building's rising vacancy rates but that's a ways down the road.

Wheelingman04 · #**658** Posted **Jul 6, 2013, 10:25 PM**

I am glad to see all of these great projects happening in our neighbor city

I need to get up there soon to see some of this!

MayDay · #**659** Posted **Aug 24, 2013, 4:49 PM**

Updated a few projects, added a few, and moved a few to 'Complete'.

MayDay · #**660** Posted **Sep 7, 2013, 4:09 PM**

Photo of the Cleveland Trust Tower renovation from Sept. 6th: