Port of Cleveland will issue bonds for 298-unit Artisan apartment tower in University Circle
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A rendering shows the planned 24-story Artisan apartment tower at the Circle Square project in University Circle.
The developers behind the Artisan, a planned apartment tower on the rim of University Circle, expect to break ground within weeks for the 24-story building.
The Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority has agreed to issue up to $75 million in taxable bonds for the $109.6 million project, which will rise at the southwest corner of Chester Avenue and Stokes Boulevard. The port s board of directors approved the bond deal during a virtual public meeting on Thursday, March 11.
The Cozad-Bates House is the only pre-Civil War home remaining in the area. Author: Lindsay Buckingham Updated: 6:46 PM EST February 24, 2021
CLEVELAND The Cozad-Bates House was built for Justus Cozad by his father Andrew. It was first built in 1853, but additions were added in the 1860s and 1972.
The Cozad family settled in Northeast Ohio in the early 19th century, living along a road that s now known as Euclid Avenue. Along with other families in the area, the Cozads provided aid to freedom seekers. The Cleveland code word in the underground railroad was hope. There were a number of small five houses up and down Euclid Avenue that the residents there assisted freedom seekers as they were traveling through the United States, through the North to Canada, where ultimate freedom lied, Elise Yablonsky, planning director of University Circle, Inc., told a group of Cleveland Metropolitan School District students on a Zoom call.
Port of Cleveland to sell $75 million in bonds for Cleveland Museum of Natural History expansion
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This rendering shows the Cleveland Museum of Natural History Museum’s Transforming the World of Discovery expansion and renovation project.
The board voted on the issue Thursday, Feb. 11, during a meeting at which longtime member and former chair Chris Ronayne, who is president of University Circle Inc., announced he was stepping down from the board.
The tax-exempt cultural facility revenue bond is part of the funding needed for the latest part of the museum s $150 million expansion program that president and CEO Sonia Winner told Port board members will connect people to the natural world and make the museum the most dynamic natural history museum of its kind.
Winter worse for pedestrians in areas like University Circle
Less daylight, more walkers ad higher-profile cars are creating a crisis in the crosswalk University Circle sees a rise in pedestrian accidents (Source: Vic Gideon) By Vic Gideon | December 17, 2020 at 12:20 PM EST - Updated December 17 at 1:50 PM
CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - Cars hit 10 pedestrians last winter, including two fatally, as University Circle enters the most dangerous part of the year for walkers.
“Walking is essential to University Circle,” said Annie Pease, traffic director at University Circle Inc. “We sometimes refer to ourselves as a big school district.”
There’s less daylight in the winter for students at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland Institute of Music, John Hay High School, and the Cleveland School of the Arts, as well as patients and hospital workers at University Hospitals and Cleveland Clinic, plus patrons of museums and cultural attractions
Black leaders call for change as numbers reveal disparity of citations, arrests. Author: Rachel Polansky (WKYC), Phil Trexler Published: 10:19 PM EST December 14, 2020 Updated: 9:32 AM EST December 15, 2020
CLEVELAND It’s been called a year of reckoning.
Decades of simmering tensions in the Black community boiled over this past summer, reaching its tempest in Minneapolis and the death of George Floyd.
Closer to home, comes a self-examination focusing on the little-known private police forces patrolling our world-renown medical corridor.
A 3News Investigation shows Blacks are more likely than whites to be cited or arrested by these private police forces that work for the Cleveland Clinic, University Hospitals, University Circle Inc. and Case Western Reserve University.