Archive for the ‘Playhouse Sqaure’ Category

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Chalk up another building for PlayhouseSquare, an acquisition that raises Cleveland’s stature as one of the country’s top towns for culture.   Cleveland State University trustees on Monday removed the final roadblock to a $30 million deal for PlayhouseSquare to buy the five-story Middough Building, which will become part of a preschool through graduate [...]

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Behind the marquees of PlayhouseSquare, a real estate machine is chugging along. The PlayhouseSquare Foundation, which has revived historic venues and attracted Broadway shows and more than 1 million people a year to Cleveland’s theater district since the 1970s, owns roughly 1 million square feet of real estate… (go to article)  

Thanks go out to Kent State’s University Communications and Marketing office for creating this video of our opening reception held September 15, 2010. We were glad to have Kent State president Lester Lefton, the board of trustees and so many of our friends in attendance for the event… (go to article)

CLEVELAND – Kent State University is celebrating the grand opening of the Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative (CDUC) in its new location in the heart of downtown Cleveland. Kent State’s CUDC is now located 1309 Euclid Ave., Suite 200, in Cleveland, placing the collaborative within PlayhouseSquare and directly on Cleveland’s refurbished Euclid Corridor, which university officials [...]

Wow. It was gratifying to see so many comments on cleveland.com about last Sunday’s Page 1 story on the makeover of PlayhouseSquare’s Allen Theatre into a new home for the Cleveland Play House and Cleveland State University. Figuring in the e-mails and phone calls, the response was overwhelmingly positive to the plan to create a 1,000-seat, [...]

Cleveland will lose its third-largest theater — PlayhouseSquare’s 2,500-seat Allen — in September. The promised payoff, a year later: A three-venue, 1,000-seat complex for the flagship Cleveland Play House, which sold its outmoded facility, and forCleveland State University’s undergraduate drama program. All for a relative bargain — under $30 million — and preserving the 1921 Allen’s [...]

Photography majors from the Cleveland Institute of Art will have their Spring Show located on the first floor of our new building from March 26th – April 2nd. The exhibit cleverly named “it’ll last longer” will showcase the work of 18 students exploring the edges of photography using various media. The currently vacant storefront located on [...]

CLEVELAND, Ohio — After the Soviet Union collapsed, the region’s Jewish community guided more than 6,000 Russian Jews to Northeast Ohio. Before the Russian wave, it helped to welcome refugees from Vietnam, gaining insight into the art of resettlement. Now the Jewish community is poised to parlay its immigrant expertise once again. It’s assuming a [...]

The art gallery at Cleveland State University may soon see the light of day. The university administration is negotiating to buy an early 20th century office and loft building at 1901 E. 13th St. owned by Middough Inc., an architecture, engineering and management company. John Boyle, the university’s vice president for business and finance, said the university’s art [...]

CLEVELAND, Ohio — An overhaul of the eye-catching ASM International headquarters in Geauga County, a renovation project in PlayhouseSquare and a makeover of a movie theater in Oberlin received some coveted financial aid on Thursday. The three Northeast Ohio properties were among 12 projects that collectively won $23.7 million in state tax credits for the [...]

Although the economic woes of the past year have slowed them down, plans for a “District of Design” in downtown Cleveland remain, active with some showy ideas surfacing for the city’s Theater District. That’s the word from Thomas Einhouse, vice president of real estate services at PlayhouseSquare, which operates downtown’s restored theaters and supervises redevelopment [...]





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