Downtown Construction Boom Looms
Ken Prendergast, NEOtrans Blog
Are you ready for some construction cranes, Cleveland? No, I’m not talking about the tower cranes that will rise next month above Sherwin-Williams’ new HQ west of Public Square or the crane soon to arrive over the City Club Apartments on Euclid Avenue. Those may be just the tip of the iceberg for downtown. And for this article we’re not even getting into the cranes above University Circle now and in the future. Or the future cranes above Ohio City. Or MidTown. Or near Edgewater Park. Or even near Gordon Park someday.
Downtown Cleveland has been a busy place for construction workers, just not from new construction. In the previous decade, downtown added 13 high-rise residential buildings ranging from 10 to 34 stories tall — nearly all by converting obsolete commercial buildings. Only two were from new construction — The Beacon and The Lumen.