Ward 6 Community News (Spring 2017)
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Ward 6 CommunitySPRING News 2017 | www.clevelandcitycouncil.org Mamie J. Mitchell, Councilwoman Development Updates for Ward 6 Community Ward 6 Teens and Young Adults ages 14-24 sign up now! Registration has begun for Youth Opportunities Unlimited (Y.O.U.) 2017 Summer Youth Employment Program. The program matches Cuyahoga County young people, ages 14-24, to meaningful work experiences in non-profit organizations, cities, schools, and retail businesses in Cleveland. To participate in the 2017 Y.O.U Summer Youth Employment Program, must register online at www.youthopportunities.org REGISTRATION CLOSES AT 5:00 PM FAIRFAX ON MONDAY, MAY 1, 2017. Innovation Square Youth are selected randomly based and New Economy upon registration numbers in their area to Neighborhood attend an eligibility determination session. Two projects coming to the Fairfax neighborhood are Innovation Square – a mixed Eligible youth must successfully complete income housing and greenspace – and New an orientation session, employment and tax Economy Neighborhood. paperwork, and be matched to a job before New Economy Neighborhood will be being hired into the program. Depending on located on the eastern most edge of the Fairfax the number of available jobs and funding, neighborhood, between East 105th Street and some eligible youth may be placed upon a Stokes Blvd. This largely commercial and light waiting list. For more information about this manufacturing section of the neighborhood program, interested youth can: is referred to as new economy because of its • Visit www.youthopportunities.org for proximity to the Cleveland Clinic, Case Western updates. Reserve University and University Hospitals. This section of the neighborhood is envisioned • Email SummerJobsProgram@ as the home to new biotech, health, education, youthopportunities.org with questions and office support operations that want to Innovation Square is a new construction, mixed-income • Call the Summer Jobs Infoline at 216- be in close proximity to Cleveland’s anchor institutions. The first infill housing development (infill development is the process 776-3900 for registration assistance. The construction will be an $11.1 million office building for IBM Corp. of developing vacant or under-used parcels within existing Infoline will be open to help with any (pictured above) which will be located at East 105th Street and urban areas that are already largely developed). Innovation Cedar Avenue. registration questions Monday through Continued on page 2 Friday from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. Work Continues on Visit OpportunityCorridor.transportation.ohio.gov for more information. Opportunity Corridor Project Phase 1 of the Opportunity Corridor roadway project, which Opportunity Corridor is partly in Ward 6, has been completed and Phase 2 of the CONSTRUCTION UPDATE three-phase project is about to begin. The $331 million project will eventually connect I-490 at East 55th A traffic shift has begun restricting East Street to University Circle, a distance of 3.5 miles. 105th Street to one lane in each direction The 35-mile-an-hour boulevard is expected to attract development, between Euclid and Chester avenues create jobs, raise property values and bring economic stimulant to a while work takes place to replace the struggling area of the city. pavement on the existing southbound The massive roadway project, primarily funded by the Ohio lanes. Department of Transportation, is expected to be completed in late 2019. The Opportunity Corridor is expected to reinvigorate transportation Traffic will remain restricted to arteries between I-490/I-77 and University Circle. The Corridor one lane in each direction through encompasses nearly 1,000 acres on Cleveland’s southeast side and is summer 2017. anchored by University Circle and the Cleveland Clinic. Department of Public Works Division of Waste Collection Important Division WE SAVE LIVES! of Waste News Join Our Team! Councilwoman Mitchell wants you to know about this important change to BULK ITEM PICK UP: Residents, please be aware that WE SAVE LIVES! Bulk Item Collection has changed to the FIRST FULL WEEK of Join Our Team! the month only. Upcoming Bulk Item Pick-Up Schedule: Week of May 1st Dreamed of a being a fire fighter? The Cleveland Division of Fire is accepting applications starting Apply Today! Week of June 4th Wednesday, March 15, 2017 thru Saturday,Apply April 15, 2017. Today! clevelandohio.gov /careers nd All applicants must also take a clevelandohio.govcivil service test. Those tests start /careersCity of Cleveland Week of July 2 Department of Public Safety on Saturday April 1, 2017 and end on Sunday, April 30, 2017. CITY OF CLEVELAND Mayor Frank G. Jackson If you need to set out bulk items other than Candidates must file an application and take theCity test of on-line.Cleveland the first full week of the month, Anyone in need of help with the application processDepartment or access to aof computer Public Safety may come to Cleveland City Hall located at CITY OF CLEVELAND you must call 216-664-3711 to schedule. 601 Lakeside Avenue. Human ResourcesMayor (Room Frank G. Jackson 121) and Civil Service (Room 119) personnel are available to assist. Developments Continued apartments, 27,000 square feet of commercial space, a 360-space It’s expected to be completed in 2018. The $116 million Square will be bounded by Cedar Avenue on the north, Quincy parking garage and two-thirds of an acre of public green space to the building is designed to complement Cleveland’s University Circle Avenue on the south, East 105th Street, Opportunity Corridor on city’s arts, educational and medical district. neighborhood, provide convenient and easy access to the city’s the east , and East 101st Street on the west, with limited infill along The site is a 2.2-acre parking lot on the north side of Mayfield amenities including the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit East 100th Street. This project includes the development Road, bookended by Circle Drive and the Greater Cleveland Regional Authority’s HealthLine and will be minutes away from restaurants, of a greenspace – Playwright Park –which will begin Transit Authority’s Little Italy-University Circle Rapid station. arts and cultural museums, major hospitals institutions and construction in spring 2017. The seven-story building will house a mix of studios, one- and universities. Playwright park will be located between East 101st and East two-bedroom apartments, ranging from 500 to 1,000 square feet. 103rd Streets. Fairfax Renaissance Development Corporation (FRDC) The apartments are scheduled for completion in summer of 2018. has acquired all of the private land necessary for the park and has The developers are pitching ground-floor commercial space LARCHMERE began community meetings to design the space. to office tenants and service businesses. Retail is possible, but less Sedlak Building likely. The once-condemned Sedlak Building at the corner of Larchmere Boulevard and East 127th Street is being renovated to include at Quatro least 14 suites, and one or two commercial spaces, with parking. A five-story condominium building in Cleveland’s Little Italy neighborhood is being planned to replace the low-slung industrial Senior Housing building at 2044 Random Road, northwest of the red brick Murray The city’s Landmarks Commission unanimously approved the Hill School complex. That building would be demolished and demolition of the long vacant apartment building at 2800 East 130th replaced with a 26-unit condo project that might open in late spring Street, although funding to take it down still needs to be found. of 2018. But the ruling could help to clear the way for a proposal to build Construction of the $13 million condo project, called Quattro, a four-to-five story, 55-60 unit housing development for senior Pictured above is Villas of Woodhaven in the Fairfax neighborhood could start in the spring. Buyers who work at nearby hospitals citizens and disabled tenants. in Ward 6. and other institutions will be eligible for the Greater Circle Living Woodhaven program, which offers forgivable loans to offset down payments, Woodhaven is an 80 unit market-rate housing project located closing costs or both. BUCKEYE/SHAKER between Chester and Euclid Avenues on the northern edge of the Legacy at Saint Luke’s Fairfax community. The new construction project is a mix of single A new community of homes called Legacy at Saint Luke’s is family coach homes and town homes and is currently in its last phase UNIVERSITY CIRCLE coming to the Buckeye/Shaker neighborhood near the intersection of construction. Last June, One University Circle broke ground and is the first new of Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. and East 114th St. More than 70 homes 20 story luxury residential apartment building in the city and will and townhomes, with 2 to 3 bedrooms and two-car garages, will be be situated at the site formerly housed by The Children’s Museum of constructed. LITTLE ITALY Cleveland, located south of Euclid Avenue, at Stearns Road. Legacy at Saint Luke’s is part of the former Saint Luke’s hospital Centric This high-quality, sustainable green tower will offer 280 units, site, a landmark on the National Register of Historic Places. These The large apartment project, where University Circle meets Little which will include a mix of studios and one- to three-bedroom new single family homes are near a high-performing K-8 charter Italy, is moving forward. apartments, ranging in size from a 540 square foot studio to a 2,700 school, preschool, youth club, the new Harvey Rice Elementary Centric, a $70-plus million investment that will add 272 square foot penthouse with floor-to-ceiling windows and views of School, Rice Branch library, RTA, train station rebuild, Shaker Square the city skyline and Lake Erie. and the Larchmere Arts and Antiques District. The Cuyahoga County Board LARCHMERE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION Please support your community by purchasing your plants, flowers, pots and baskets locally at the Larchmere sale.