Apartment Choice

Consider it an outside the park home run. The owner of the South Bend Cubs has plans to build 120 apartments just outside the fence at Four Winds Field. “You’re looking at two buildings that kind of begin in centerfield and them move toward the stadium and then you’re going to have more of those buildings extending to the right and kind of left field areas that will be able to look in, of course, the analogy is kind of a Wrigley Ville type feel to it,” said South Bend’s Acting Direct of the Community Investment Department , Brian Pawlowski. Some of the buildings will even feature signature rooftop seating . “And those spaces you know in right and left field are envisioned as not just private space. There will be availability for public space as well, to kind of have events on that rooftop area to look in and things like that,” Pawlowski said. Plans call for four buildings in all. Each will be three or four stories tall. The project would als...

A busy intersection in Shaker Heights is being transformed through the redevelopment of the Warrensville- Van Aken business district . The former Van Aken Center will connect with nearby Shaker Plaza to create the Van Aken District , a new downtown and community- gathering place for the city. Phase one of the $97.2 million project, under construction near the intersection of Warrensville Center Road and Van Aken and Chagrin boulevards, is due to be completed next summer. “There really has been nothing like this in Shaker Heights,” said Jack Bialosky Jr ., senior and managing principal of Bialosky Cleveland, the architectural firm responsible for planning the project and designing most of the buildings in phase one. “It’s a mixed-use, urban development which will really provide public space for the community, all organized around a central triangular park . “It’s going to be a place where the community can come, shop, dine and recreate. It will be a beautifully scaled, contained s...