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John Carney’s eyes glowed with excitement that cold December night in 2007 at a community center on East 82nd Street. An air of triumph washed over the chairman of the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority as he revealed plans for a new port that would create 25,000 jobs and $2 billion in economic development for the [...]
CLEVELAND, Ohio — The Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority will pay consultants $415,000 for advice on disposing of sludge, improving its shipping business and relocating docks. William Friedman, the authority’s new president and chief executive, told board members Wednesday that he would have preferred to keep the work in-house, but needed the expertise of consultants… (go [...]
The Cleveland Museum of Art got what it wanted from the board of the Cleveland Cuyahoga County Port Authority today – a 6-0 vote approving port issuance of $75 million in tax-exempt bonds. The vote means the museum will have access to the cash it needs to finish a $350 million expansion and renovation on [...]
A vote Tuesday by the board of the Cleveland Cuyahoga County Port Authority could launch a $75 million bond issue needed by the Cleveland Museum of Art to finish its massive expansion and renovation on time in 2013. The museum is asking the port authority for the second time in five years to be the “conduit-issuer” of [...]
The Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority has selected a maritime and development veteran from Indiana, as the CEO to continue its revival in the wake of a tumultuous year. William D. Friedman — a management consultant who was previously chief of the Ports of Indiana and an executive with the Port of Seattle — was named president [...]
CLEVELAND, Ohio — A money crisis threatens to close Cleveland’s port to millions of dollars of commercial shipping by 2015, a top administrator with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers warned in a recent letter to Gov. Ted Strickland. Lt. Col. Daniel Snead wrote that his Buffalo office will be forced to stop dredging the harbor [...]
CLEVELAND, Ohio – The Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority’s governing board met secretly today to discuss re-electing its chairman and ousting a maverick member as vice chairman. The closed-door session, the latest in a series of meetings in which the board conducted business in private, comes five months after port officials pledged a new era of openness. “Credibility [...]
CLEVELAND, Ohio — The Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority has abandoned a $10 million plan to fill in a docking slip on the lakefront and build a warehouse on port property west of Cleveland Browns Stadium. Interim port authority President Peter Raskind said in an email Friday that he made the decision to kill the project [...]
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Millions of federal stimulus dollars poured into competing Great Lakes ports over the last year, but the financially troubled Port of Cleveland missed the boat. The reason: Officials at the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority asked for only one stimulus grant — $45 million to buy and retrofit a container cargo ship — [...]
CLEVELAND, Ohio — A new proposal to close Burke Lakefront Airport and use the land for development, parks and a relocated port is being floated to members of Cleveland City Council and Cuyahoga County commissioners. Attorney Richard Knoth, a member of the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority’s board of directors, authored a 13-page memo (burke.pdf) that [...]
There’s a summit going on in Downtown Cleveland this week that’s all about dredging. That might sound a tad dry, but what they’re talking about could have a big impact on the Port of Cleveland’s potential relocation and lakefront development. ideastream®’s Dan Bobkoff dug this up for us. In order to keep the Cuyahoga River [...]
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Add another player to the already crowded field of developers dreaming of bringing a world-class aquarium to Cleveland. The latest entry, Great Lakes Aquarium of Cleveland Inc., wants to build a $70 million aquarium as part of a lakefront development project planned for land now occupied by the Port of Cleveland north [...]
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Another piece of financing fell into place Tuesday for a $278 million real estate project on the east bank of the Flats in Cleveland. A committee of the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority recommended that the full nine-member port board approve more than $34 million worth of authority-issued bonds at a Jan. 20 [...]
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 [...]
If your taste runs to cliffhangers, 2009 was the perfect year for you in Cleveland, especially in art and architecture and urban planning. Major institutions and big projects took serious hits from sheer fate or from a lousy economy, and finished the year in suspense. Will the Cleveland Museum of Artget a great new director? Will [...]
CLEVELAND, Ohio — The Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority’s governing board ended its most turbulent year in memory on a high note today with the approval of plans to proceed with the first stages of an unprecedented waterfront development project. “This is the first step toward opening up the waterfront for the citizens of this city,” [...]
CLEVELAND, Ohio — A plan to open Cleveland’s waterfront to the public by 2013 took another step this morning toward becoming a reality. Eric Johnson, the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority’s real estate director, presented a preliminary design and timetable to the port’s real estate and development finance committee, which approved it. The full board will [...]
Despite extreme turmoil at the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority, the beleaguered agency is doing at least one thing right. The port’s real estate director, Eric Johnson, has led the formulation of a strong new plan to transform 100 acres of downtown waterfront from industrial shipping to an urban neighborhood with parks, offices and a continuous [...]
CLEVELAND, Ohio — The Cleveland Planning Commission this morning voted 5-2 to approve plans to develop 100 acres of lakefront land now by used for port operations. The vote followed a presentation by the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority on a vision for promenades, parks, houses and shops for the land north of Browns Stadium. “This allows us to move [...]
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Don’t expect any new faces on the nine-member board that has overseen one of the most tumultuous years in the history of the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority. That was the message Tuesday from Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, who will pass on an opportunity to reform the troubled agency. Instead, Jackson plans to [...]
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