Construction Reform legislation - Ordinance 1256-2023 - was introduced by Councilmen Kevin Bishop and Council President Blaine Griffi
To paraphrase the 2021 campaign slogan of Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame isn’t waiting.
On Bibb’s watch, the city is planning an ambitious downtown lakefront makeover designed in part to reduce the relative isolation of North Coast Harbor and the Rock Hall, one of the city’s biggest attractions.
After nearly 50 years, the future of the Cuyahoga County Justice Center — the sprawling, nearly seven-acre city block punctuated by a 25-story “brutalist” concrete tower — is uncertain. But officials see this as an opportunity.
The Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority and a procession of partners celebrated a milestone this week in their quest to shore up an unsteady hillside and protect the Cuyahoga River shipping channel.
On Friday, Aug. 25, the port held a groundbreaking for a $60 million project more than a decade in the making. Workers are mobilizing at the top of the Irishtown Bend slope, off West 25th Street in Ohio City, to dramatically reconfigure the hill and prevent a catastrophic collapse.
New escalators and elevators will add to the escalating cost of repairs at Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse (RMFH). And it's not clear where the money will come from. The non-profit Gateway Economic Development Corp. unanimously approved $24.4 million in repairs to the arena at a board meeting on Wednesday, Aug. 9. Gateway is responsible for all major capital repairs to RMFH that exceed $500,000, but it's unclear where the money to cover all $24 million will come from.
The board of directors for the Port of Cleveland voted Thursday to approve hiring Cincinnati-based Goettle Inc., to undertake a nearly $60 million project to stabilize the Irishtown Bend hillside, which has threatened for decades to slide into the Cuyahoga River.
The first proposed office building in the mixed-use section of Valor Acres, at the northwest corner of Brecksville and Miller roads, has received final approval by the Planning Commission.
It didn’t happen, though, before the commission became entangled in disagreements over city code technicalities and architectural details, all of which could have delayed the project another couple of weeks.
More changes are in the wings for Playhouse Square Foundation's The Bulkley Building, at 1501 Euclid Ave., than the addition of a golden marquee that is going in at the attached Allen Theatre.
The operator of the city's restored theaters and its theater district development corporation plans to add 84 apartments in the nine-floor Bulkley Building. It's another example of vacant office space getting new use serving the growing downtown residential market.
It's reasonable to be skeptical about a Cleveland lakefront development plan actually coming to fruition in our lifetime. Since 1903, there have been 16 plans, visions and proposals, with nine of those created in the last dozen years.
Cuyahoga County has agreed to demolish the long-vacant 1931 Juvenile Court Building overlooking the Innerbelt freeway trench at East 22nd Street. The county’s move will make possible construction of a wide, surface-level highway “cap’' over the highway trench with generous spaces for pedestrians, bicyclists and transit.
