Variances for the second phase of a micro-unit apartment project on West 14th St. in Tremont were unanimously approved this week by the city’s Board of Zoning Appeals, despite neighbors’ concerns over its use as short-term lodging.
Two Cleveland neighborhoods are set to welcome new businesses this fall. At downtown’s Tower City Center, as an ambitious effort gets underway to remake the iconic Cleveland shopping center, three new businesses are opening. And in Detroit Shoreway, the addition of five diverse new businesses including a barbershop and gaming store will add to the neighborhood’s revitalization.
Leaders in Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson’s administration provided an update today about how the city would spend its first round of $255 million in federal stimulus money. Standing in for the mayor, chief of staff Sharon Dumas outlined plans to spend the first batch of federal funding on revenue recovery, community and economic development, and public safety. She did not answer a reporter’s question about whether specific plans would be attached to future stimulus allocations.
Local leaders in the predominantly Black neighborhood of Hough aim to prove that solar can do more than lower electric bills. Their plan to leverage a 1-megawatt project to boost economic development and build wealth for future generations could be a template for other communities.
Cleveland City Council’s habit of invoking legal technicalities that alter the normal process for passing ordinances may seem mundane or bureaucratic, but it raises questions about why the rules exist if they are almost universally disregarded and how these practices bear on government accessibility and civic engagement.
Developers have announced the names of five national retailers and restaurants coming to the intersection of West 150th Street and Lorain Avenue in Cleveland’s West Park neighborhood.
A proposal to allocate $20 million to help bridge the digital divide in Cleveland by creating citywide broadband met with some opposition at Monday’s city council meeting, with some members asking why there wasn’t more community involvement or a concrete plan in place.
After his ‘Rippin Roller’ won MAGNET’s 2020 Mspire pitch contest, local fitness entrepreneur Tom Fowler has a real object that soon could be rolling into living rooms, basements, and fitness studios everywhere.
The latest step in a decades-long push to revitalize Cleveland’s lakefront got a boost Monday when Cleveland City Council approved the funding for a preliminary study into a new pedestrian land bridge connecting North Coast Harbor to the mall atop the Huntington Convention Center downtown.
SomeraRoad, a development firm based in New York City and Nashville, is proposing building 203 apartment units on Bolivar Road in the Gateway District next to an office building they recently renovated. The project would bring new residents and street activity to a part of downtown that is mostly filled with daytime office uses.
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