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tradition7
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I can't find the Ohio City thread, but this is close enough. Scaffolding has been constructed around the perimeter of the building at the NE corner of Market Avenue & West 26th, and they look to be renovating the upper floors (Great Lakes Brewing Company's nwe gift shop is located on the first floor. Not sure what will be housed in the building, but it would be pretty cool to live in the unit with the corner tower. (This is an older folder that does not show the scaffolding).
Not positive but I think on the brewery tour they told us there will be offices above the souvenir shop.
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xu9697
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Building on 41st and Lorain (SW corner) has fencing around it and lots of new cement block. I said if I ever won millions, I would buy it and turn it into a killer bar/restaurant. Anyone know what is going on with this spot. Other corners have Nick's dinner (and a stupid lot full of junky cars), old Hot Dog Inn and Bodnar's Funeral Home.
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3231
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An architect is moving his offices there. I believe that he won't be taking up the entire building. the triangular piece of land on the corner will be a fancy bus stop.
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rockitect
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The offices of D.H. Ellison Architect are moving there from the present location next to CPT on Detroit Ave.
I happen to live catty corner from where he is moving in. I believe there was an article about it in the Ohio City Argus neighborhood newspaper awhile back about the move, which is partially how I think I found out (can't remember if I knew before that or not).
The corner to be concerned about at that intersection is that the owner of Bodnar has been threatening to sell his property to put in a McDonald's at that location, basically as an F.U. to the neighborhood (the owner has actually said that, on the record) after they so strongly opposed his desire to put a crematorium in his funeral home. If you happen to subscribe to the Ohio City yahoo email group, all the drama over it can be found on there.
Hopefully Ellison's presence can help keep a fast food chain out of the area that there is no need for. The garbage on Lorain from the Wendy's down by St. Ig's is bad enough.
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cle2032
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Recently a building was demolished at W26th/Lorain-across the street from the Greek store. The old building used to be a bar a couple years ago. Any word on what's going on?
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KJP
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Recently a building was demolished at W26th/Lorain-across the street from the Greek store. The old building used to be a bar a couple years ago. Any word on what's going on?
See the random demolitions thread.
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Cleburger
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Failing Cuyahoga River hillside is highlighted in bold....
http://www.cleveland.com/westsidesun/news/index.ssf?/base/news-0/1231445328181590.xml&coll=4
Cleveland submits wish list of projects for federal funds
Thursday, January 08, 2009
By Ken Prendergast
kprendergast@sunnews.com
West Side Sun News
Among $1.56 billion worth of infrastructure projects submitted by the city for federal economic stimulus funds, Mayor Frank Jackson singled out four projects as his highest priorities.
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Jackson submitted his 66-project list Dec. 22 to President-elect Barack Obama, Gov. Ted Strickland and Ohio's Congressional Delegation. In it, he highlighted these four projects:
+ $350 million for construction of a new westbound Innerbelt-Central Viaduct (Interstate 90) bridge over the Cuyahoga River valley.
+ $50 million for repair of the slumping Riverbed Road hillside in Ohio City which threatens to close the Cuyahoga River to shipping traffic.
+ $300 million for the Opportunity Corridor boulevard from Interstate 490 to University Circle.
+ $30 million for rebuilding the West Shoreway (state Route 2) between West 25th Street and Clifton Boulevard.
"The first two projects are very real public safety threats," Jackson wrote in his letter to Obama. "We seek action now to avoid tragedies such as the bridge collapse in Minneapolis."
He added that the latter two projects would score high on at least three of the Ohio Department of Transportation's new criteria for grading transportation projects. Those criteria include community development, improving access to business development and improving new employment opportunities.
The 10 biggest remaining infrastructure projects, in dollar terms, in the mayor's request are:
+ $100 million for starting passenger rail service between downtown Cleveland, Hopkins Airport, Columbus and Cincinnati.
+ $100 million to conduct design and engineering to complete environmental work for a statewide high-speed rail system.
+ $60 million for phase one of relocating the Port of Cleveland away from downtown.
+ $55 million divided among two requests to complete infrastructure, plazas and structured parking to restart the $500 million Flats East Bank development.
+ $50 million for extending Euclid Corridor-type bus rapid transit service along Buckeye Road, East 55th Street and Clifton Boulevard.
+ $40 million for two phases of storm sewer meter automation and upgrades citywide.
+ $40 million to extend the Towpath Trail from Harvard Road to Canal Basin Park downtown.
+ $40 million for construction of a new air traffic control tower at Hopkins International Airport.
+ $33 million to rehabilitate sewer lines downtown.
+ $30 million to upgrade several rail rapid transit stations.
Numerous other projects involved improving water mains, storm sewers, bridges, streets, trails, streetscapes and other infrastructure in neighborhoods citywide.
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Sorry to keep returning to the subject: 10 months since this post--any updates on the stimulus wish list? It just grinds my gears that I see SR 2 currently being COMPLETELY rebuilt and widened out in Lake County and we have trouble here in Cleveland getting the funding to fast-track rebuilding of the busiest bridge crossing in the state.....
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KJP
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EDIT: I don't follow all of these projects anymore since I'm not a Sun News staff writer (I do freelance for them, but just writing about West Park). Since I now work full-time for All Aboard Ohio, I have followed the rail projects on the above list. Here they are.....
The state submitted a $564 million request (to be decided in January) for the first item and got funding for the second item....
+ $100 million for starting passenger rail service between downtown Cleveland, Hopkins Airport, Columbus and Cincinnati.
+ $100 million to conduct design and engineering to complete environmental work for a statewide high-speed rail system.
RTA submitted for this item, but the application hasn't been decided yet by the feds....
+ $50 million for extending Euclid Corridor-type bus rapid transit service along Buckeye Road, East 55th Street and Clifton Boulevard.
RTA has received funding for rail rapid transit stations, bridges, trackwork, retaining walls....
+ $30 million to upgrade several rail rapid transit stations.
....but I don't remember the amounts. I seem to recall the figure was $60 million but don't hold me to that.
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Cleburger
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Thanks KJP.
I keep checking that Recovery.gov site and no updates really in recent weeks. Certainly none of the "big ticket" projects like the innerbelt bridge, the collapsing riverbank or the west shoreway. It's all small time loans, grants etc, which while helps, does not make drastic impacts on Cleveland that we'd all like to see.
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McCleveland
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The hillside has been / is undergoing a lot of studying from the army corps of engineers. they are slow. And the innerbelt bridge won't recieve funds from stimulus because it isn't "shovel ready" however a ridiculous chunk of the state stimulus money was earmarked for it until they were told it wasn't eligible because it isn't shovel ready... now when it happens it's basically taking place because of stimulus, even though the state will really be applying the stimulus funds to other road projects throughout the state to free up already budgeted money to now go to the innerbelt.
let's please try to keep this thread to ohio city developments... thanks.
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