Archive for the ‘Fresh Water Cleveland’ Category
Marie Kittredge recalls firsthand when the national foreclosure crisis landed in her beloved neighborhood of Slavic Village. “In a short period there were about a dozen empty houses on East 75th Street [off of Broadway],” says Kittredge, Executive Director ofSlavic Village Development (SVD), a nonprofit community organization that serves the neighborhood. For years, shady investors [...]
James DeRosa purchased the old Marshall McCarron’s bar at Randall and John Avenue in Ohio City with dreams of reviving it as a hip restaurant. Then, in 2008, the economy did a spectacular nosedive. Unable to get a loan to make even basic repairs on the dilapidated property, DeRosa and his partners put their dreams [...]
When TV crews descended on Slavic Village three years ago, the neighborhood was dubbed the “epicenter” of the foreclosure crisis. While that infamy was brief — the crisis soon expanded to other parts of the country, with California, Florida and Nevada among the hardest hit — the damage it left behind was real. However, this resilient [...]
The stately Tudor Arms building towers above Carnegie Avenue like a stone sentinel safeguarding a rich piece of Cleveland’s past. Constructed in 1931 as the Cleveland Club, an exclusive men’s club, the 11-story building was converted to a luxury hotel in the 1940s. The grand building has been vacant since 2007 when its last tenant,Cleveland [...]
Artist Nicolette Capuano has spent the past year painstakingly restoring the ornate plaster trim and low relief sculptures in the Tudor Arms building. Yet she’s doing more than simply recreating the past; she has worked closely with building owner Rick Maron and designer Cindy Rae Cohen to create her own masterpieces — original, hand-painted murals — that [...]
Last week, the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MOCA) figuratively broke ground on its new home at Euclid Avenue and Mayfield Road in University Circle. Yet much like spring in Cleveland, MOCA’s literal ground breaking, one hopes, isn’t too far off. The 34,000-square-foot facility, which will cost nearly $27 million to build, is scheduled to begin construction within the [...]
The Cleveland Museum of Natural History (CMNH) will soon break ground on SmartHome Cleveland, a passively-heated home that does not require a furnace and is designed to challenge the way that people think about the issue of climate change. The 2,500-square-foot, three-bedroom home will be presented in conjunction with the traveling exhibit, Climate Change, from June to [...]
The Rainey Institute recently moved a few doors down on East 55th from where it has been providing arts instruction for urban youth since the 1960s. The move has proven to be even more significant than those involved with the organization could have imagined. Since opening the 25,000-square-foot facility in the Hough neighborhood, Rainey has [...]
At a public meeting held last week at Market Avenue Wine Bar, planners showed off designs for the future Market Square Park, an Ohio City park slated to receive a $1.5 million makeover this year from the city. “We hope the new Market Square Park will become the de facto outdoor dining room for the West Side [...]
For years, the common trend in Ohio City was for young couples to buy homes, live there for a few years, and then flee to the suburbs when they had kids. But thanks to pioneering couples like David and Jen Hovis, who renovated a fire-damaged Victorian on West 32nd Street into a model green home, [...]
Damon Taseff’s job is scouring Northeast Ohio’s commercial real estate market to find the best deals for his clients. So it’s no surprise that as he began looking for a new headquarters for his own company, Allegro Realty Advisors, he knew exactly what he wanted. He rattles off the list with ease: “A downtown building that [...]
Just a few short years ago, Cleveland State University students who wanted a meal before a grueling, four-hour evening class had limited options, meaning if Rascal House pizza wasn’t your thing, you were limited to starving. That was before CSU’s master plan, a $300 million initiative to transform its urban campus into a friendlier, more vibrant environment with [...]
Skinny houses wedged onto small lots. Church steeples dotting the skyline. Factories and blue-collar taverns. Eastern-European accents heard on the street. These phrases might call to mind multi-ethnic Cleveland neighborhoods like Tremont, St. Clair-Superior, Collinwood and Slavic Village, but Lakewood? (go to article)
The controversy over the proposed Oakwood Commons development reinforces the need for Cleveland Heights to plan for future development, says a local nonprofit leader. “We’re being forced to react to the developer’s plan because the city of Cleveland Heights does not have a plan,” says Deanna Bremer Fisher, Executive Director of FutureHeights, a nonprofit that promotes [...]
Downtown Cleveland is ripe for new retail development. That’s the message being conveyed by two local entrepreneurs who will open Dredgers Union, a 4,500 square foot apparel and home-goods store on East 4th Street in June of this year. One part mall alternative, one part purveyor of urban chic, Dredgers Union will sell private-label men’s and [...]
A temporary gallery that was launched last year by the Cleveland Institute of Art (CIA) has now found a permanent home. The Visual Arts and Technology Center, dubbed “the Coventry Center” because of its location in a long-empty storefront on Coventry Road in Cleveland Heights, will enhance CIA’s connections off-campus, its founder says… (go to article)
Joe Miceli has deep roots in the Cleveland east side neighborhood where Miceli Dairy Products, a 62-year-old cheese producer, is located. In fact, he grew up on East 90th Street in a house that was torn down in 1963 to make room for the expanding company. Now the company is growing again, and Miceli is planting [...]
Civic booster Robert Carillio is quick to silence locals who denigrate his fair city, but walking down Prospect or Euclid Avenue can be a dismal trek for even the most devoted Clevelander. And nowhere is the evidence of the region’s economic hits to the chin stronger than along these historic thoroughfares. Pedestrians hunker into their [...]
The Flats has often been called the birthplace of Cleveland. Soon, it will gain a new tagline when it’s reborn as the city’s first green-certified neighborhood. The Wolstein Group and Fairmount Properties, co-developers of the Flats East Bank project, are using sustainable building practices in the $272 million project, which broke ground in December. The [...]
When it comes to retail, how much is too much? That’s the question being raised by residents who live near the former Oakwood Country Club, a 154-acre parcel where First Interstate Properties proposes to build a shopping mall that would rival nearby Legacy Village in size. “There are moribund, vacant retail areas all over the [...]
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