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Cleveland Jewish News: “Park Synagogue project receives $10M in tax credits”
Developers behind the preservation and redevelopment of Park Synagogue’s Cleveland Heights campus recently received $10 million in state historic tax credits – the highest award in the most recent round of funding, writes Betsy Raspe in Cleveland Jewish News.
Read MoreThe Land: “Two vacant Cleveland school buildings will become apartment buildings”
For years, Cleveland residents and city council members have complained that the Cleveland Metropolitan School District has closed school buildings without a plan for maintaining, mothballing, or redeveloping them, writes Lee Chilcote in The Land. Many sit empty for years, if not decades.
Read MoreThe Plain Dealer: “Project to preserve and re-use Park Synagogue in Cleveland Heights gains momentum, and nearly $3M in grants”
The future of Park Synagogue’s Conservative Jewish congregation lies in Pepper Pike, where it is expanding a new religious and educational campus established in 2007 at Shaker Boulevard and Brainard Road – writes Steven Litt in the Plain Dealer.
Read MoreIn 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 hospital known as the Glick Center to the campus.
Read MoreThe Land: “West 17th Townhomes in Tremont will include terraced “park walk” open to all”
A proposed development from Sustainable Community Associates on West 17th Street in Tremont won high praise from the Cleveland Planning Commission for its elegant, contemporary design and incorporation of a landscaped “park walk” open to the public, writes Lee Chilcote in The Land.
Read MoreThe Plain Dealer: Park Synagogue, Mendelsohn Masterpiece, Awarded to SCA
THE PLAIN DEALER Park Synagogue, Mendelsohn Masterpiece, Awarded to SCA Park Synagogue alarmed historic preservationists and fans of mid-century modern architecture earlier this year when it listed its main sanctuary and education building off Mayfield Road for sale. But now it’s time to exhale. The 152-year-old Conservative Jewish congregation, which is centering its operations…
Read MoreNOVOGRADAC: “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.
Read MoreFreshWater: “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 in Tremont—just across the way from their 2014 Fairmont Creamery project down the street from their last new-construction project, The Tappan, completed last year.
Read MoreThe Plain Dealer: “Fairmont Creamery developer nears finish line on latest project”
More than 80 new apartment units are slated to rise in a part of Cleveland’s Tremont neighborhood, writes Jordyn Grzelewski for The Plain Dealer, where real-estate group Sustainable Community Associates has developed a sizable portfolio of rental housing, offices and retail space.
Read MoreCleveland.com: “Historic electric building reinvented”
Before it became an apartment complex, writes Anne Nickoloff for Cleveland.com, the Mueller Electric building was the working place of Cleveland electrical engineer Ralph S. Mueller.
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