ClevelandDesignCity

ClevelandDesignCity is back and almost nearly as better than ever after a couple of weeks of watching (and recovering from) the full “Death Wish” pentalogy.
If curious or confused, be assured that the Charles Bronson CDC logo will preside over this page’s sidebar for a limited time only (or until another movie is made in which the lead character is an [...]

“The project is comprised of three intertwining triggers for displacement – culturally, politically, ideologically, materially, ecologically, etc. – that afford intense modulation between the natural and cultural systems of the Cuyahoga River and downtown Cleveland, during the 48-hour period of Ingenuity Festival (Friday, July 25, 6pm, through Sunday, July 27, 6pm)…” (go to article)

“On May 6, 2008, the Cleveland Restoration Society and AIA Cleveland recognized 13 projects, organizations, and individuals that have made a difference in Northeast Ohio’s quality of life at the annual Celebration of Preservation, held at the Ohio Theatre in Playhouse Square…” (go to article)

“A brainstorming session will be held 4 p.m. Tuesday, June 17, at Cleveland State University’s Joseph Cole Center, 3100 Chester Ave. to collect ideas for improving transportation in Ohio. A task force is hosting regional forums throughout the state this spring and summer to consider strategies for all kinds of transportation - from highways, to [...]

“Construction crews could run into a costly water problem if too much digging takes place on downtown’s grassy malls, one of two favored sites for a new convention center and medical mart, preliminary soil tests show. Cuyahoga County commissioners are trying to find the best location for the complex and are beginning to worry whether [...]

“After months of financing talks, Price on Friday picked up the old Wm. Taylor & Sons department store, the neighboring parking garage and the Dollar Bank building. Property records did not show sale prices for the individual buildings Monday, but Price said the total package cost about $16.2 million.
The K&D Group, a Willoughby-based company led [...]

“Retail - both stores and restaurants - plays an important role in most of the major downtown projects in the works or scheduled to open within the next few years. But in a challenged center city - during tough economic times - developers each have their own vision of what type of businesses will succeed.
The [...]

“The Jacobs-Hines project, currently known as Public Square Tower, aims to scoop up some of these existing tenants and potentially lure other office users from outside of downtown. The companies will share ownership and development responsibilities for the project, which includes 500,000 square feet of offices, about 4,800 square feet of street-level, tenant-serving retail and [...]

“Mauk plans to buy homes in foreclosure that homeless people will work to renovate and resell. He also wants to open a drop-in shelter for the homeless.
His effort got a kick-start from a $40,000 award he received recently as part of the William E. Simon Fellowship for Noble Purpose. It’s the top award given nationally [...]

“Preservationists want to display two of the old Huletts near the lake freighter William Mather next to the Great Lakes Science Museum. Some estimates say that could cost as much as $6 million.
The Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority probably wants the Huletts to go away. Permanently. But, port authority officials are not talking publicly about their [...]

“Development plans that, late last year, included a 22-story office tower at Superior and West 3rd have taken the back seat, replaced by a broader approach to creating energy - what Stark describes as a ‘tight, European, walkable and hip’ atmosphere.
By late 2011, he hopes to build about 215,000 square feet of retail, topped by [...]

“Westlake Reed will be responsible for the final overall design plan for the AirMall. That work will include the preparation of a master plan for retail spaces and the creation of design guidelines and requirements for all retail subtenants; the design of food courts or food offerings in the main terminal, at the end of [...]

“Cleveland’s design district is getting closer to reality. A year after plans were hatched to create an area near Playhouse Square with chic studios, retail space and storefronts for design-related companies, tenants and real-estate deals are not far away.
Creating a cluster of innovation east of downtown, where designers, their customers and suppliers can congregate, won’t [...]

“Starting today, the Greater Circle Living program will offer those who work in the University Circle area forgivable loans and rent reimbursements to move into seven adjacent neighborhoods.
Officials expect 700 deals or more for new and existing dwellings, in a five-year strategy to leverage the University Circle area’s multibillion-dollar growth spurt into residential growth…” (go [...]

“The money, from the Department of Economic Development’s Urban Development Action Grant funds, will pay for overtime work from city crews and to hire Cook Paving of Cleveland to help as workers race to replace underground ducts, install wires underground and set up street lights.
Silliman said he hopes the work will be done in July [...]

“Regional planning bodies would get much more say in decisions about where to build new roads, highways, water and sewer lines and other such infrastructure. The spread of infrastructure opens the doors to development in outlying areas. That weakens older cities and spreads limited resources ever more thinly, like a pat of butter over a [...]

“Mayors in the 16 county Northeast Ohio Mayors and City Managers Association yesterday voted to accept the recommendations of phase one of the Regional Economic Revenue Study and to move forward with its second phase. The report (summary, PDF; full report, PDF) calls for revenue sharing and regional land use planning. The effort differs from [...]

“Organized by the nonprofit Community Partnership for Arts and Culture, the event was intended to raise awareness about one of the latest trends in urban development — the rise of cultural districts in struggling city neighborhoods.
Nineteen speakers described how cities from Pittsburgh to Paducah, Ky., have lured artists, galleries and cultural organizations to areas formerly [...]

“The good news is, those ecological and economic atrocities planted the seeds of an early social justice, anti-poverty, and environmental movement in the city that has of late begun to blossom into a full-fledged sustainability movement. Cleveland is one of a handful of cities in the Rust Belt — including Pittsburgh, Milwaukee, Detroit, and Columbus [...]

“So are local consumer-product companies. The concept won’t launch until five or six commit to display space along Euclid Avenue, officials said.
Prospects include Saeco, the local maker of high-end coffee machines; KraftMaid Cabinetry Inc.; American Greetings; Amish furniture makers; and the studio of the late Viktor Schreckengost, an icon in industrial design.
If KraftMaid commits, Delta [...]