Archive for the ‘Convention Center/Medical Mart’ Category
The Plain Dealer will provide weekly updates on construction of the $465 million medical mart and convention center. CLEVELAND, Ohio — Construction crews have dug holes the size of football fields in Malls B and C, exposing the existing underground convention center to snowy weather. Workers are demolishing the ballroom roof, but they’re protecting the floor, which [...]
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Traffic engineers have called the shots for decades on the planning of public space in downtown Cleveland. Mayor Frank Jackson’s Group Plan Commission wants parity for pedestrians — if not the upper hand in certain spots. A series of recommendations from the commission, set for discussion at a meeting this morning at [...]
CLEVELAND, Ohio — The Cleveland City Planning Commission signed off Friday on designs for the downtown medical mart and convention center. Seconding the opinion of its advisory board, the panel also withheld approval for the park-like malls that cover the underground convention center, asking Cuyahoga County and its private partner, Chicago-based MMPI, to reevaluate site lighting, public art [...]
CLEVELAND, Ohio — The latest design plans for Cleveland’s medical mart and convention center won approval Thursday from the city’s Design Review Committee. But panel members told architects they want more details on plans for the parklike malls above the convention center. Committee members appeared pleased with the underground convention center and above-ground showroom for [...]
Downtown Cleveland doesn’t have a suburban big box store. But evolving designs for the city’s new medical mart and convention center show that Seattle-based LMN Architectsare dealing with how to introduce something similar in the historic context of the city’s neoclassical Group Plan District. It’s a tough job, and architects from LMN, who are scheduled to share the [...]
CLEVELAND, Ohio – With the clunk of a shovel, officials this morning celebrated the start of construction on the $465 million medical mart complex. Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald, Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson and Gov. John Kasich were among the government and business leaders who symbolically kicked off the project. “We will make Cleveland one of [...]
When the backers of Cleveland’s medical martfinally announce the project’s first planned tenants Friday at a ceremonial groundbreaking, savvy observers will scan the list for the identities of big-name “anchor tenants.” The reason is simple: Those anchor tenants will be crucial to the success of the $465-million project by luring buyers who’ll also visit the project’s [...]
CLEVELAND, Ohio – A firm with ties to the Cuyahoga County government-corruption probe has won $40 million in electrical work on taxpayer-financed medical martand convention center downtown. Zenith Systems LLC, owned mainly by former employees of Doan Pyramid Electric, will install wiring, outlets and lights under one of the mart’s largest contracts, said Jeff Appelbaum, the county’s [...]
The first evidence that somebody might actually spend money at Cleveland’s Medical Mart is due to be revealed at a press gathering next Friday morning at Mall B downtown. On tap for the groundbreaking: Names of the 49 businesses lined up to lease Med Mart space will be unveiled, in addition to a list of [...]
The Seattle based landscape architecture practice Gustafson Guthrie Nichol has recently worked on the submittal for the Downtown Cleveland Plan and we are fortunate enough to share their material with our readers. Read after the break for a architects description and additional images… (go to article)
CLEVELAND, Ohio – The ceremonial groundbreaking for Cuyahoga County’s $465 million medical mart and convention center is nearly two weeks away, but construction crews descended on the downtown malls this morning. The county took ownership of the site today. Barriers are up along Lakeside Avenue. Precision Environmental is preparing to start asbestos removal, and Independence Excavating [...]
CLEVELAND — Believe it or not, construction on the Medical Mart project is already underway and it will impact traffic in the nearby area starting today. Crews were changing the sidewalk patterns and moving large amounts of concrete fixtures in the early hours of Monday morning. Concrete barricades are in place to re-direct pedestrian and car [...]
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Now that the final agreement has been reached for the city of Cleveland to sell its Convention Center to Cuyahoga County for $20 million, a nagging question remains: What should the city do with Public Auditorium? The 88-year-old building, which was once part of MMPI’s plans for the new Medical Mart and [...]
CLEVELAND, Ohio — It can be hard to see Cleveland with fresh eyes. But that’s exactly what two talented designers from Seattle are asking Clevelanders to do. Where others would see the tired heart of a shrinking city with chronic low self-esteem, they see big opportunities. The core message of the planners — architect [...]
A pair of Seattle design firms proposed some radical ideas today for the future of downtown, including bulldozing two parking garages north of City Hall and the Cuyahoga County Courthouse to create a green park facing north to Lake Erie. The designers also made more pragmatic, near-term suggestions, such as including water features, sport courts, [...]
Paris based INFLUX_STUDIO has shared with ArchDaily their design proposal for the “Connecting Cleveland” urban strategy, a multimodal center built into the infrastructure fabric of the city’s lakefront. Additional images of their strategy and a outline of their conceptualization after the break… (go to article)
Cleveland, which has poured almost $1 billion into such projects as three sports stadiums and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, is on the verge of spending $465 million in an effort to remake itself as the epicenter for the sale of medical equipment and supplies. The city’s planned Medical Mart & Convention Center, [...]
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Local architects have definitely noticed that all the big development projects planned for downtown Cleveland, including the medical mart, convention center and casino, are being led out-of-town designers. Instead of whining about it, local practitioners are making constructive suggestions. Eager to have their say on the future of the city’s core, roughly [...]
CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) - The Cuyahoga County Commissioners have authorized Commissioner Peter Lawson Jones to execute a number of agreements pertaining to the Medical Mart and Convention Center. The authorization includes the Definitive Agreement between the County and the City of Cleveland which provides for sale by the City to the County of the existing underground [...]
I’m not sure how to document this, but it’s clear from comments on this blog that many Clevelanders have “plan fatigue.” The phenomenon could be defined as a complete lack of confidence that any of the seemingly endless discussions about the future of Cleveland will result in anything concrete. It may also have to do [...]
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