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A conversation between an architect and his client, first in their youth and later in old age, sets up Carl Stein’s argument for Greening Modernism, a book just released by W. W. Norton. While drinking wine and playing chess, the young client says to the architect, “We may not have a lot of money but we [...]
With less than six months remaining until they leave office, the Cuyahoga County commissioners are still trying to figure out what to do with the downtown Ameritrust complex, which has sucked up $40 million in public money since 2005. Here’s our advice: Nothing… (go to article)
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Real estate broker Ron Nicklos has a plan to revive Cuyahoga County commissioners’ vision of a modern headquarters and to protect the $40 million taxpayers already have invested. But commissioners are ignoringNicklos’ proposal to make over the century-old Ameritrust complex, even as they consider putting the property on the market for as [...]
Recently I embarked on what many consider to be a long and arduous journey, called graduate school. My first course, Urban Planning Seminar, was taught by Sally Levine, a local architect. During one brisk Saturday afternoon our class headed out on a walking tour of downtown Cleveland at which time each student discussed a different [...]
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Cuyahoga County taxpayers could take a nearly $18 million hit as commissioners resurrect efforts to sell the long-vacant Ameritrust complex in downtown Cleveland. Commissioners are considering new staff-recommended asking prices ranging from $22.5 million to $28 million for the century-old rotunda, 28-story tower and surrounding buildings at the southeast corner of East [...]
Bicycling Magazine’s mini-feature on Cleveland in its May issue highlights the growing interest here in biking as a cool urban activity, as an economic engine and as a healthy way to commute. Mentioned in the feature… (go to article)
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Cuyahoga County commissioners have a bite on the Ameritrust complex, the long-vacant downtown office complex they have been trying to unload since grand plans for a new government headquarters crumbled. But don’t bust out the party favors or call the welcome wagon. Cue the fire sirens instead. Cleveland public safety leaders are pursuing [...]
So this is the third year I have tried to complete some sort of milestone to track the potential progress the city has to offer. In doing so I checked back with my 2008 Year in Review looking for some sort of benchmark to hit. My, the bar was set so low. The economy may have [...]
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Puffing out its granite chest, the edifice presides over the intersection Euclid Avenue and East Ninth Street in downtown Cleveland. It’s striking and mysterious, the Ameritrust rotunda, giving peeks to passersby of only dusty drapes and cock-eyed blinds. Few have entered since 1996, when the last KeyBank employees departed. In 2005, Cuyahoga [...]
Records obtained by The Plain Dealer show that two of the four final bidders to develop a Cuyahoga County administration building in 2005 argued against the county commissioners’ secret process for choosing a site. Commissioners — now saddled with the defunct Ameritrust building — refused developers’ requests for information, saying the law let them keep [...]
For four years, Cuyahoga County taxpayers have asked questions about the commissioners’ controversial $40 million purchase and renovation of the Ameritrust complex downtown, questions that have grown louder since federal investigators revealed a massive government corruption probe a year ago. A Plain Dealer review of county records and federal plea agreements shows a lawyer and [...]
Developer Lou Frangos says he can bring new tenants to empty office buildings in the former Ameritrust complex — if he can resolve a legal snarl with Cuyahoga County. Frangos, who owns land beneath one of the buildings, made a presentation to county commissioners during their regular meeting Thursday. His pitch: Settling a lawsuit about [...]
“Developer Doug Price has dropped his plans to renovate the former Ameritrust complex, leaving Cuyahoga County without a buyer for the collection of empty buildings at East Ninth Street and Euclid Avenue in downtown Cleveland. After more than a year of planning, wooing tenants and struggling to find financing, Price sent county officials a letter Tuesday [...]
“The decision to put a new convention center and medical merchandise mart on the Mall downtown rather than at Tower City Center could revive plans for a new headquarters for 2,000 Cuyahoga County employees. County officials acknowledged that possibility after last week’s site announcement. The site of the current county administration building could be attractive [...]
“Jacobs and Hines haven’t released more than a single image of their proposed tower, which tells us only that they intend to build a glassy, elegant slab, possibly with beveled corners. At 21 stories, the building won’t have a tremendous impact on the city’s skyline. However, it could have a very positive effect on Public [...]
“More than a year after preservationists, designers, architects and environmental advocates banded together and presented a case to adaptively reuse the Breuer Tower, K&D, the developers who bought the tower and the Ameritrust site from the county, have inked a deal for a boutique hotel to occupy 14 floors of the tower. This move promises [...]
“Construction is expected to begin this fall on the adaptive reuse of the landmark tower designed by famed Bauhaus architect Marcel Breuer. An opening is slated for spring 2010. InterContinental Hotels said the historical significance of the building will be preserved, with the 12 lower floors redeveloped into the 140-room Hotel Indigo and the upper [...]
“By spring 2010, the InterContinental Hotel Group could be running a 140-room boutique hotel on East Ninth Street, where K&D Group plans a redevelopment of the tower and adjoining buildings. The tower’s floors are too small for modern offices, but Price believes they’ll be a perfect fit for hotel rooms, topped by between 165 and [...]
“The K&D Group plans to put up a $200 million development, including a hotel, office space and condos at East Ninth Street and Euclid Avenue. K&D had a bid on the property rejected earlier this year for non compliance on bid specifications. The Willoughby company was the only serious bidder both times. Doug Price, K&D [...]
“K&D is proposing a $200 million complex that would include a new, 13-story, 300,000-square-foot office building at the south end of the block, with the existing Marcel Breuer-designed office tower converted into a 170-room hotel and 200 apartments. An earlier bid by the developer fell through in February when K&D requested that the county extend [...]
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