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FreshWater: “Mueller Lofts will offer historic apartments”
A piece of Cleveland’s manufacturing history will be honored, writes Karin Connelly Rice for FreshWater, when the 1922 Mueller Electric Company factory building at 1587 E. 31st St. is transformed into Mueller Lofts—51 studio, one-, two-, and three- bedroom apartments in the heart of AsiaTown. In addition to creating a new residential option in the neighborhood, the developers will offer residents a way to have a portion of their rents go back into the community via a volunteer program.
Read MoreThe Plain Dealer: “Tremont project The Tappan includes apartments, bakery”
A local developer plans to build on its previous work in Tremont, writes Jordyn Grzelewski for The Plain Dealer, with a mixed-use, mixed-income project in the near West Side neighborhood’s Scranton corridor.
Sustainable Community Associates, a development group made up of three Oberlin College graduates who made a name for themselves by successfully redeveloping a blighted block in their college town, will present plans for The Tappan project to Tremont’s community development corporation next week.
Read MoreFreshWater: “Scranton listed on National Register of Historic Places”
An area of town heretofore dwarfed by the venerable Ohio City and Tremont neighborhoods is on the verge of getting a brand of its own, writes Erin O’Brien for FreshWater. Last month, the historic preservation consulting firm Naylor Wellman, LLC, presented a 120-page nomination to the Ohio Historic Site Preservation Advisory Board for the Scranton South Side Historic District to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Read MoreCrain’s Cleveland: “Area’s latest industrial rehab project”
The $15 million Fairmont Creamery rehab represents one of Cleveland’s latest creative reuses of an abandoned industrial building rich in history, writes Kathy Ames Carr for Crain’s Cleveland.
The five-story brick structure — constructed in 1930 as a national distribution hub for dairy products — has been repurposed from its recent largely abandoned state into a 106,000-square-foot, mixed-used project featuring residential and commercial space, and parking.
Read MoreThe Plain Dealer: “Ohio Awning building in Tremont set for apartment redo”
A 150-year-old Cleveland manufacturer plans to move next year, writes Michelle Jarboe for The Plain Dealer, making way for an apartment revamp of its historic building in the Tremont neighborhood.
Read MoreFreshWater: “Twist Creative to relocate, expand”
Twist Creative, a small design firm that was founded in Ohio City 15 years ago, is expanding into a larger, custom-designed space at the Fairmont Creamery in Tremont, writes Lee Chilcote for FreshWater. In part, the move was prompted by the need to consolidate its space, which is spread out over four floors in a building at West 28th and Lorain. Yet the firm also wanted room to grow, as revenues have doubled in recent years and there are plans to hire additional staff.
Read MoreCleveland Scene: “Healthy Foods Concept at Fairmont Creamery”
When the Fairmont Creamery officially opens its doors to residents and commercial tenants this fall, Anna Harouvis will be there too, writes Douglas Trattner for Cleveland Scene. The healthy foods chef has inked a deal to open Good to Go in a small space adjacent to the Tremont Athletic Club. Currently, she runs two concepts — Anna in the Raw, her raw and vegan food line and Good to Go, her fresh, healthy foods to go concept — out of one downtown space in the IMG Building.
Read MoreThe Plain Dealer: “Fairmont Creamery deal in Tremont closes”
Despite the frigid temperatures, writes Michele Jarboe for The Plain Dealer, work will start this week to turn a former creamery building in Cleveland’s Tremont neighborhood into a home for apartments, a business accelerator and other tenants.
Read MoreThe Plain Dealer: “Oberlin developer trio aims to remake former Fairmont Creamery”
Three young developers who won national attention for remaking a blighted block in Oberlin are ready to tackle their second project, a near-vacant former creamery building in Cleveland’s Tremont neighborhood, writes Michelle Jarboe for The Plain Dealer.
Read MoreThe Plain Dealer: “Oberlin College graduates bridge town-gown divide”
It’s been clear for a decade or more, writes Steve Litt for The Plain Dealer, that neighborhoods around colleges and universities offer some of the hottest development opportunities in American cities.
But it took three freshly minted graduates of Oberlin College starting in 2002 to see the potential in a vacant former Buick dealership on the tattered eastern flank of downtown Oberlin.
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