Groundbreaking Scheduled for Lakewood Downtown Development Project
LAKEWOOD, OH – On Thursday, Sept. 25 at noon, the City of Lakewood and CASTO will host a formal groundbreaking to mark the start of construction on the redevelopment of the former Lakewood Hospital campus. When completed, the development will usher in $119 million in new construction and historic rehabilitation, bringing hundreds of housing units, […]
Downtown Development Community Update, October 18, 2024
The final approval process for the Downtown Development project has now moved through two of the three required review steps – with Planning Commission providing approval in early September and Architectural Board of Review (ABR) providing approval last week (Thursday, October 10th). In addition to the plans provided to ABR at their Sept 25 meeting […]
Downtown Development Community Update, October 1, 2024
Last week, the Administration provided an update to City Council on the Downtown Development project at their Committee of the Whole meeting (Sept 23rd) while the Architectural Board of Review (ABR) met on Wednesday (Sept 25th) to continue their review of the project plans. ABR will meet again on the project at their next/upcoming regular […]
Downtown Development Community Update, September 13, 2024
Last week, at their September 5th meeting, the City’s Planning Commission (PC) provided their final approval for the Downtown Development project. The project now continues under review by the Architectural Board of Review (ABR) – still working towards advancing the project to City Council by late October. As part of the Planning Commission approval – […]
Downtown Development Community Update, August 30, 2024
Over the past two months, the final review for the Downtown Development project has gotten underway. Guided by the City’s zoning code for planned developments, this final review process has started with the project team, led by CASTO and Dimit Architects, working collaboratively in joint public meetings with the City’s Planning Commission (PC) and Architectural […]
Downtown Development Community Update, August 8, 2024
This week, the second Joint PC/ABR review meeting was held on 6 August at 6pm in the City Hall Auditorium. Casto presented an updated plan in response to the recommendations provided by Board & Commission members as well as members of the Public at the 23 July meeting. Among the substantive updates were improvements to […]
Downtown Development Community Update, July 24, 2024
Since the last update (April), CASTO continued to revise/refine their plan while working closely with representatives of a grocer to bring a new 40,000 square foot neighborhood market to the project. However, despite best efforts from all involved parties, the grocer made the difficult decision to discontinue the establishment of any additional locations of its […]
Downtown Development Community Update, April 22, 2024
Since the September 19, 2023 update, City staff and CASTO have continued to evaluate the best path forward for the Downtown Development Project. While pursuing this effort, CASTO and the City re-engaged with representatives of a grocer who previously had expressed interest in the site but could not be accommodated due to other programming of […]
Downtown Development Community Update, September 19, 2023
On Monday evening, CASTO and North Pointe Realty (NPR) provided an update to City Council Committee of the Whole on the status of the Downtown Development project. CASTO and NPR spent the summer updating estimated construction pricing and analyzing the current rental market. While there are positive signs, there are challenges related to inflation, rising interest rates […]
Mayor George’s Update on the Downtown Development
Our team at City Hall continues to work towards achieving the community vision for the Downtown Development on the former Lakewood Hospital site with our development partner, CASTO / North Pointe Realty. The City and CASTO have been diligently working through the complex layers of site planning, architecture, engineering, finance, and legislative and administrative review […]