CPC Weblog
an annotated chronological list of links related to planning and development in Greater Cleveland
05 December 2008
The Cuyahoga County Solid Waste District dropped its plans to build a recycling center at the General Chemical site in Garfield Heights and Cuyahoga Heights, because environmental remediation costs grew beyond initial expectations.
Labels: Cuyahoga Heights, Garfield Heights, industrial, land, sustainability
04 December 2008
The City of Cleveland sued Standex International, the former owner of the Trinity property on Detroit Road, and is seeking more than $1.5 million in compensation for the environmental cleanup of the site. Meanwhile, the Ohio EPA reached a settlement with the owners of City View Center in Garfield Heights. The developers agreed to make major infrastructure improvements (PDF) and pay a $1.2 million fine.
Labels: Cleveland west side, Garfield Heights, industrial, land, retail, water
21 November 2008
The West Side Sun News describes the Cuyahoga Valley Industrial Center, the largest redevelopment project undertaken by the City of Cleveland's Industrial-Commercial Land Bank program. The site in the industrial valley was recently awarded a $5 million Ohio Job Ready Sites grant.
Labels: Cleveland, industrial, land
13 November 2008
The Ohio Department of Development awarded 12 Job Ready Sites program grants, two of which were for projects in Cuyahoga County. The City of Cleveland received $5 million for the Cuyahoga Valley Industrial Center, a planned redevelopment of a 57-acre brownfield site near the Cuyahoga River. Ray Fogg Building Methods received $4.3 million to assist in the development of an industrial park on the 80-acre PMX site in Euclid.
Labels: Cleveland, economic development, Euclid, grants and appropriations, industrial, Ohio
06 November 2008
Midwest Real Estate News spoke with four Greater Cleveland real estate professionals about the local commercial real estate market.
Labels: Greater Cleveland, industrial, office, retail
29 September 2008
Remediation of two brownfield sites in Euclid has been completed, and the Ohio EPA issued a covenant not to sue. Cleanup was finished at the 66.2 acre Euclid Business Park and at an 8.5 acre property owned by Lincoln Electric Co.
Labels: Euclid, industrial, land
15 August 2008
The Cuyahoga County Solid Waste District may build a recycling center on the 55 acre former General Chemical site in Garfield Heights and Cuyahoga Heights. A portion of the brownfield site would become a park which would include the planned Mill Creek trail.
Labels: Cuyahoga Heights, Garfield Heights, industrial, land, sustainability
08 August 2008
Geis Companies, a local industrial developer, is using the proceeds from its January sale of ten suburban industrial properties to reinvest in projects across Greater Cleveland. Through its Hemingway Development division, the company has made purchases in Brecksville, Boston Heights, Mayfield Village, and Warrensville Heights.
Labels: Brecksville, Greater Cleveland, industrial, Mayfield Village, Summit County, Warrensville Heights
06 August 2008
Ford agreed to pay a $1.4 million fine for failing to upgrade pollution control equipment at its Cleveland Casting Plant in Brook Park. When the company announced plans to close the plant last year, it stopped work on new furnaces and supporting emissions controls needed to comply with air pollution regulations.
Labels: air, Brook Park, industrial
20 June 2008
The General Environmental Management plant in the Flats will close rather than make fire safety improvements to the facility. The plant had been cited for potential violations of clean air laws and suffered an explosion and fire in 2006.
Labels: air, Cleveland, industrial
04 April 2008
Although Alcoa is pursuing permits to demolish all 28 buildings of the Ivex complex in Chagrin Falls, including the 1841 mill, the company says its intention is to sell the buildings and property for an adaptive reuse of the site. Alcoa is also planning to lower the height of the Chagrin River dam and stabilize the riverbank.
Update: Alcoa revised its application to remove references to demolitions of historic structures.
Labels: Chagrin Falls, Chagrin River watershed, historic preservation, industrial
25 March 2008
The City of Strongsville purchased an undeveloped 25 acre site on Lunn Road. The land is zoned for industrial development, and while the City plans to use it for recreation purposes, officials hope that it will eventually be developed.
Labels: greenspace, industrial, Strongsville, zoning
21 March 2008
The City of North Royalton received another one year extension to meet the job creation requirements of a 1998 CDBG grant that was used for the expansion of York Road industrial park.
Labels: grants and appropriations, industrial, North Royalton
20 March 2008
A Plain Dealer editorial says that air quality concerns in the neighborhoods surrounding the ArcelorMittal steel mill are "too big of a public health issue to ignore," and that the U.S. EPA, the Ohio EPA, and the City of Cleveland have a duty to investigate.
Labels: air, Cleveland, industrial
Environmental cleanup of the Cleveland Pneumatic brownfield site in Slavic Village has been completed, and the Ohio EPA issued a covenant not to sue. The property will be redeveloped for light industrial use and as athletic fields for South High School.
Labels: Cleveland east side, industrial, institutional, land
10 March 2008
The U.S. EPA has been investigating air pollution from the ArcelorMittal steel mill in Cleveland. Local activists want the company to reduce its emissions.
Labels: air, Cleveland, industrial, United States
15 February 2008
Fogg Corporate Properties is in the process of purchasing the 83 acre PMX site in Euclid from Commercial Development Co. of St. Louis, and plans to redevelop the property as an industrial park. The company obtained a $1 million brownfields cleanup grant from Cuyahoga County last week, and is seeking a $5 million grant from the Ohio Job Ready Sites program.
Labels: Euclid, grants and appropriations, industrial, land
12 February 2008
RPM International of Medina is considering building a warehouse and distribution center of up to 200,000 square feet at the former White Motors site in Cleveland. The 33 acre site, owned by First Interstate Properties, is north of St. Clair Avenue between East 72nd and East 79th Streets, near the Port Authority's proposed new facilities.
Labels: Cleveland east side, industrial
18 January 2008
The Ohio EPA declared that the environmental cleanup of Tinkers Creek Commerce Park is complete and issued a covenant not to sue.
Labels: Bedford, industrial, land
02 January 2008
The current and former mayors of North Royalton asked Ohio's senators for assistance in obtaining another extension for meeting the job creation requirements of a federal grant the City received in 1998 for the expansion of York Road industrial park. If the extension is not granted, the City may assess property owners to cover repayment of the grant.
Labels: economic development, grants and appropriations, industrial, North Royalton
13 December 2007
While Bedford officials consider the cleanup of the former Brush Wellman site a success, the City has two other brownfield sites in need of remediation.
Labels: Bedford, industrial, land
13 November 2007
Several recent fires at empty warehouses have highlighted the the fire risk posed by abandoned warehouses, many of which hold unmarked cans and barrels of hazardous materials. A Plain Dealer editorial says that the City of Cleveland "needs to tackle the problem [of cataloging warehouse dangers] with more vigor than it's showing now."
Labels: Cleveland, industrial
02 October 2007
Steven Litt describes the latest designs for the new CSU College of Education and Human Services building at Euclid Avenue and East 25th Street as a building that "will be a supporting player, not a star."
Labels: architecture, Downtown Cleveland, industrial
10 September 2007
Environmental advocates assert that the state needs to install more monitors for urban neighborhoods near industrial areas that experience high levels of air pollution.
Labels: air, industrial, residential
31 August 2007
If North Royalton officials are unable to generate about 100 low- to moderate-paying jobs at the York Road industrial park, the City may need to return a $181,597 CDBG grant it received in 1998.
Labels: Cuyahoga County, economic development, grants and appropriations, industrial, North Royalton
23 August 2007
Scene profiles the efforts of Ohio Citizen Action to get Mittal Steel to reduce air pollution from its Cleveland mill.
Labels: air, Cleveland, industrial
20 August 2007
The Ohio office of HUD's Community Planning and Development Division gave its 2007 CPD award of excellence to Tinkers Creek Commerce Park in Bedford, the industrial park built on the former Brush Wellman site.
Labels: Bedford, industrial, land
Two Solon residents say that City officials should have been more prepared for the construction of Diamond Business Center in Glenwillow.
Labels: Glenwillow, industrial, master planning, Solon
06 August 2007
Fred Geis, developer of the Diamond Business Center in Glenwillow, tried to alleviate the concerns of Solon residents about the development. He said that the company will screen the industrial park from its residential neighbors and will attempt to place heavier industry away from residential areas.
Labels: Glenwillow, industrial, Solon
27 July 2007
Solon officials will meet with Mayor Payne of Glenwillow and a representative of developer Geis Companies with the hope of purchasing a portion of the Diamond Business Center industrial park that directly abuts Solon. "I doubt Geis will sell it, but we're going to ask," said a Solon councilman.
Labels: Glenwillow, industrial, Solon
The City of Strongsville did not receive a requested state grant to extend Foltz Industrial Parkway in the Strongsville Business Park, and City officials plan to apply for a $4 million Ohio Job Ready Sites grant next year.
Labels: grants and appropriations, industrial, roads and highways, Strongsville
20 July 2007
Some Solon residents are displeased by the start of construction of the Diamond Business Center industrial park in Glenwillow. They are concerned about tree removal, runoff, and noise and light pollution.
Labels: Glenwillow, industrial, Solon
11 July 2007
The Plain Dealer recently explored the 17 year saga of the former Fisher Body complex at Coit Road and East 140th Street in Collinwood. The State of Ohio spent $47 million to purchase, clear, and clean the 49 acre site, and eventually sold it Forest City Enterprises for $630,000. Forest City sold roughly half the site to the U.S. Department of Labor for $2.5 million, and it is being redeveloped as the new Cleveland Job Corps campus, scheduled to open in August. The other half remains undeveloped. A Plain Dealer editorial says that public officials "must oversee development with much more vigilance and diligence."
Labels: Cleveland east side, industrial, institutional, land
05 July 2007
Construction of the new Diamond Business Center industrial park in Glenwillow will begin this week when work starts on a 400,000 square foot building. Developer Fred Geis described the 212 acre site as "the last large land tract that we know of in Cuyahoga County."
Labels: Glenwillow, industrial
29 June 2007
Demolition of structures has resumed at the former Taylor Chair site in Bedford. It should be completed within the next 30 days.
Labels: Bedford, industrial, residential
21 June 2007
The Cuyahoga County Commissioners are creating a $13 million commercial redevelopment loan fund to promote the redevelopment of vacant commercial buildings. The program will be targeted at development in the City of Cleveland and its inner-ring suburbs.
(Update: a Department of Development press release presents more information.)
Labels: Cuyahoga County, economic development, industrial, office
15 June 2007
Demolition of buildings at the Taylor Chair site in Bedford has halted. City leaders hope that delays in the construction of the Rysar Homes Bedford Falls condominium project are temporary.
Labels: Bedford, industrial, residential
13 June 2007
The Chatter column in this week's Free Times covers increased emissions from the Mittal Steel mill in Cleveland and the discussion about the proposed demolition of the Cleveland Trust Tower before the Cleveland City Planning Commission.The Planning Commission will take up the question again on Friday, and Plain Dealer architecture critic Steven Litt feels it's likely that the City will approve the demolition.
Labels: air, architecture, Cleveland, Downtown Cleveland, historic preservation, industrial, office
18 May 2007
The Parma Sun Post profiles the efforts of southwest Cuyahoga County communities to increase their tax bases by promoting retail, office, and industrial development.
Labels: Cuyahoga County, economic development, industrial, office, retail
27 April 2007
A Plain Dealer editorial says that the newly-designated Cleveland Art Quarter is "a great idea that could have a big economic impact, especially on tourism and redevelopment."
Labels: Cleveland east side, industrial, mixed-use, residential
Frances Whitehead and Lisa Norton have proposed the idea of the "superorg" as a model for integrating the artist's perspective, ecological design, and industrual regeneration in the public planning of the Towpath Trail Extension. Their work is being shown at SPACES gallery as part of the Shrinking Cities exhibition.
Labels: Cleveland, Cuyahoga River watershed, greenspace, industrial, urban design
16 April 2007
An area that covers parts of four neighborhoods on Cleveland's near east side has been named the Cleveland Art Quarter, or The Quarter for short, because the live-work district is home to many artists and their studios.
Labels: Cleveland east side, industrial, mixed-use, residential
06 April 2007
The Paper Mill Vision Committee in Chagrin Falls supports the adaptive reuse of the former Ivex Paper Mill on Cleveland Street, and submitted four recommendations to Mayor Brick. They also suggested lowering the dam to reduce liability and remove it from ODNR's jurisdiction. The Trust for Public Land is also interested in preserving greenspace at the site.
Labels: Chagrin Falls, Chagrin River watershed, greenspace, historic preservation, industrial
26 March 2007
As part of their campaign to get Mittal steel to reduce air pollution emanating from their Cleveland mill, Ohio Citizen Action brought Lois Gibbs, director of the Center for Health, Environment and Justice, to Cleveland. She declared it one of the "hardest-hit neighborhoods" she'd ever seen. Mittal Steel officials maintained that their emissions are well within federal EPA limits.
Labels: air, Cleveland, industrial
14 March 2007
Residents near Mittal Steel continue to call for stricter emissions controls at the Cleveland steel plant. Mittal representatives again countered that the mill complies with EPA regulations.
Labels: air, Cleveland, industrial
08 January 2007
Geis Companies purchased 212 acres at Cochran and Pettibone Roads in Glenwillow from Browning-Ferris Industries for $4.3 million, where they plan to build an industrial park with a mix of industrial, office, and light manufacturing tenants.
Labels: Glenwillow, industrial
04 January 2007
Labels: air, Cleveland, Cuyahoga River watershed, industrial
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