Ken Prendergast

1 week ago | neo-trans.blog | Ken Prendergast

Built as a church 103 years ago, this handsome Lakewood building will go back to it roots under a new owner (LoopNet). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. Only a decade old, the Lakewood-based King’s Church has acquired its first permanent home by purchasing the former headquarters of the Roundstone Insurance Co. after it relocated to Rocky River last fall. But that former HQ is going back to its originally intended purpose.

1 week ago | clevelandmagazine.com | Ken Prendergast

The article is published as part of an exclusive content-sharing agreement with neo-trans.blog. A plan to renovate an historic car dealership with retail uses, including a new Starbucks in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood, was approved today by the city’s Landmarks Commission. But the question of whether a proposed drive-through should remain in the design was referred to the city’s Division of Traffic Engineering to decide.

1 week ago | neo-trans.blog | Ken Prendergast

The darker building at left is the proposed Row on Garden, amid several other phases of development by ALMiCo Group led by its first phase at right, the Flats on Pearl in Cleveland’s Brooklyn Centre neighborhood (Brandt). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. Different departments of the city of Cleveland are stretching a Lakewood-based real estate company, ALMiCO Group, with orders to stop and go on different aspects of its multi-phase development in the city’s Brooklyn Centre Historic District.

2 weeks ago | neo-trans.blog | Ken Prendergast

In Cleveland’s University Circle, two of that district’s tallest structures stand next to the Wade Lagoon. The district’s tallest structure, The 267-foot-tall Artisan apartments, was topping out in September 2022. But the district’s longtime height champion at 200 feet was the Church In The Circle, built in 1928 as the Epworth-Euclid United Methodist Church (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. When a church has been around for a long time, its name can often change.

2 weeks ago | clevelandmagazine.com | Ken Prendergast

The article is published as part of an exclusive content-sharing agreement with neo-trans.blog. While NEOtrans doesn’t normally devote an entire article to the planned opening of a small retail space, this is a new ice cream parlor in a high-profile location. And, of course, everyone loves ice cream, especially when it’s enjoyed before or after a show at America’s second-largest theater district, Cleveland’s Playhouse Square.