Archive for the ‘Waterfront Development’ Category
Boaters looking to make a short stop at Cleveland’s North Coast Harbormay soon have a place to call home. The city, powered by a $1.5 million federal grant and about $500,000 in matching municipal funds, will finally begin work this summer on a 53-slip marina in the harbor, at the southwest corner of the East Ninth [...]
Whatever Happened to . . .? 2010 in Review The Plain Dealer catches up with local stories published in 2010 in a year-end series of “Whatever happened to . . . ?” articles running through Jan. 4. The weekly edition of the feature, which appears on Mondays and updates stories from the previous year 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)
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 — Cleveland plans to build a long-awaited intermodal transportation center near the lakefront to link the new medical mart, convention center and Flats East Bank redevelopment. The center, north of the east edge of Mall C, would serve rail passengers, motorists, pedestrians and bicyclists. It would likely extend over railroad tracks to just [...]
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 [...]
It is the most valuable piece of urban real estate in all of Ohio; perhaps the most valuable between Chicago and Philadelphia. We’re talking about Burke Lakefront Airport, and there are two possible uses for this 480-acre parcel, with its 8,000-plus feet of Lake Erie shoreline. One is to do work tirelessly to close Burke and [...]
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 — [...]
On February 23rd ODOT and the City Planning Department held a public meeting to discuss the latest updates on Lakefront West—a project that is supposed to finally mesh the West Side’s lakefront back into the city fabric. While there are plusses to the project (e.g., a multi-use path) the negatives are nevertheless real, and include [...]
On March 15, Brian Zimmerman will become executive director of the Cleveland Metroparks, one of this region’s most effective and respected public agencies. Zimmerman’s first task, obviously, will be to maintain that excellence. But because the Metroparks system is so good at what it does, he and his three-member board of commissioners also need to [...]
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Citing a lack of maintenance, money and security, a growing chorus of local leaders is calling for the Cleveland Metroparks to take over the quilt-work of lakefront parks within the city. Most of the 650 acres of parkland, ranging from Edgewater Park to Euclid Beach, are run by the state but should be in [...]
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 [...]
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Tom Beecher was walking to his West 80th Street home after his first day on a new job when he was struck by a westbound freight train while crossing the West 76th Street railroad tracks. The 30-year-old man’s skull was fractured and his right leg severed below the knee, according to a [...]
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 [...]
I was able to attend the Cleveland Design Competition Project 2009: Lakefront Station Awards on Friday night at the Colonial Arcade. As always, Michael Christoff and Bradley Fink, the event organizers put on a great competition and an even better awards reception. It is always encouraging for the design culture of Cleveland to see this [...]
One of the holy grails of city planning in Cleveland is the desire to create a strong connection between the downtown core and the Lake Erie waterfront. A second is that of building a lakefront train station located more or less where Chicago architect Daniel Burnham proposed building one as part of his 1903 Group [...]
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 [...]
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