CDA: Cleveland Development Advisors loaning $5.5 million for redeveloping Hawthorne School into apartments

CDA: Cleveland Development Advisors loaning $5.5 million for redeveloping Hawthorne School into apartments LEVELAND, November 9, 2023 — Cleveland Development Advisors (CDA) is loaning $5.5 million for a project that will completely make over a West Park neighborhood school into reasonably priced market rate apartments. The $14.9 million historic renovation of the former Nathaniel Hawthorne School…

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In Our Backyard: MetroHealth Main Campus Transformation Project

In Our Backyard: MetroHealth Main Campus Transformation Project If you follow the Historic Scranton Corridor past The Tappan and Wagner Awning, you’ll eventually come to MetroHealth System’s main campus—which is currently undergoing a significant transformation. The hospital’s campus is nearing the finish line for the first phase of its transformation project, which adds an 11-floor…

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Resident Recipes from SCA West Side Market Challenge

Resident Recipes from SCA West Side Market Challenge Photo provided by SCA Resident Tiffany Vinson For more than 100 years, the West Side Market in Ohio City has been providing the Cleveland community with fresh meat and seafood, fruits and vegetables, baked goods, dairy and cheese products, and so much more. Vendors offer local and…

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2021 SCA Giving Tree Project

2021 SCA Giving Tree Project Following the success of last year’s Giving Tree project, we’re very excited to introduce four more local nonprofits to our communities this holiday season. In 2020, our residents came together to donate over $2,500 worth of physical goods to four nonprofits that are doing great work in our neighborhoods.  How…

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NOVOGRADAC: “Implementing Green Building Practices with Historic Preservation Requires Complicated Balance”

NOVOGRADAC: “Implementing Green Building Practices with Historic Preservation Requires Complicated Balance” An enduring challenge with historic tax credit-financed (HTC-financed) properties is a high-wire act of balancing green building practices with opportunities to restore, preserve, reconstruct and rehabilitate existing structures, writes Nick Decicco for NOVOGRADAC’s Journal of Tax Credits.  Though difficult, such challenges can also present opportunities…

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We’re Hiring: Leasing Associate

We’re Hiring: Leasing Associate Sustainable Community Associates is a real estate development firm focused on catalytic mixed-use projects across Northeast Ohio. We believe that with determination, creativity, and the willingness to challenge conventional wisdom, community-oriented development can have a transformative impact on a neighborhood. Through projects like the Fairmont Creamery, Mueller Lofts, and The Tappan,…

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Community Resources for Cleveland Voters

Community Resources for Cleveland Voters As many of the members in our community know, we have two important elections coming up in Cleveland. On Tuesday, August 3, 2021, voters will determine who is on the ballot for the congressional seat left vacant by Marcia Fudge, who is now serving as the US Secretary of Housing…

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FreshWater: “The Lincoln will have living façade”

FreshWater: “The Lincoln will have living façade” While the team at Sustainable Community Associates (SCA) is usually known for repurposing historic Cleveland buildings into hip apartments, writes Karin Connelly Rice for FreshWater, the developers are well into their second new construction, and latest, apartment project—The Lincoln at the corner of Scranton Road and Willey Avenue…

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We’re Hiring: Tenant Experience Coordinator

We’re Hiring: Tenant Experience Coordinator Who We Are Sustainable Community Associates is a real estate development firm focused on catalytic mixed-use projects across Northeast Ohio. We believe that with determination, creativity, and the willingness to challenge conventional wisdom, community-oriented development can have a transformative impact on a neighborhood. Our Need SCA’s mission is to develop…

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