Developers of Intro Project in Ohio City Praise Mass Timber Construction
By Steven Litt, cleveland.com
In a no-touch world of glowing screens, Zoom calls, and virtual reality, it’s encouraging to see something indisputably authentic that you can rap your knuckles on — like a big building made of good old wood.
Authenticity is one of the big ideas behind Intro, a $145 million Cleveland apartment building rising in Ohio City that will soon briefly enjoy bragging rights as America’s tallest mass timber building.
With 298 apartments and 35,000 square feet of street-level retail space plus amenities, Intro will rise nine stories at West 25th Street and Lorain Avenue.
Intro isn’t the only mass timber project underway in Cleveland. The Cleveland Foundation has just started construction in Midtown on its new, three-story mass timber headquarters.