Hundreds of workers once filled the factory floor at a General Electric Co. plant in Euclid, where the company made lightbulb filaments and other metal products. Now officials in the inner-ring suburb hope the 27-acre property, off Tungsten Road near East 222nd Street, can become an economic engine again.
After failing for decades to build a strong connection between downtown and Lake Erie, the City of Cleveland could soon have a powerful new tool to get the job done: a lakefront development authority.
On Monday April 24, Mayor Justin Bibb plans to introduce legislation to City Council to create a North Coast Development Authority empowered to raise hundreds of millions of dollars in private capital and government grants to shepherd big, complex projects to fruition across election cycles and administrations.
Ken Prendergast, Neo-Trans
Ken Prendergast, NEOtrans
Cuyahoga County Council’s approval this week of a property sale to a New York City-based developer could lead the way toward a “significant” development in the heart of East Cleveland. The site, at Euclid and Superior avenues, is just one-half-mile from the eastern edge of University Circle and set between stations on the HealthLine bus and Red Line rail rapid transit routes.
Michelle Jarboe, Crain's
When Martin Luther King Jr. Plaza opened in 1972, the unusual shopping center was the centerpiece of a rebuilding effort in Cleveland's riot-scarred Hough neighborhood.
By: Michelle Jarboe, Crain's
Cleveland hopes to devote $8 million to site assembly and cleanup along the Opportunity Corridor, in a project that could be a template for creating shovel-ready sites.
Half of that money would come from the city, which is drawing on $3.5 million in federal pandemic-relief funds to cover most of its costs. The rest would flow from JobsOhio, the state's private nonprofit economic development corporation, in the form of matching grants.
Joe Scalzo, Crain's
The last time Cleveland's baseball team completed major renovations at Progressive Field in 2016, it came within a whisker of its first championship since 1948.
The Guardians are scheduled to finish their next round in 2025, so …
Courtney Astolfi, cleveland.com
Mayor Justin Bibb is pursuing plans to make the process of obtaining building permits and other city-issued permits quicker, less cumbersome, and ideally, less paper-based.
Michelle Jarboe, Crain's
The Cleveland Clinic plans to start construction in late spring or early summer of 2023 on a pair of substantial new research buildings at the southeast end of its campus.
