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If you follow the Historic Scranton Corridor past The Tappan and Wagner Awning, you’ll eventually come to MetroHealth System’s main campus—which is currently undergoing a significant transformation. The hospital’s campus is nearing the finish line for the first phase of its transformation project, which adds an 11-floor hospital known as the Glick Center to the campus. However, this transformative expansion isn’t just designed to increase Metro’s capacity for care and add hospital beds. Rather, the Glick Center is just one component of a billion-dollar project that serves as the cornerstone of a wider neighborhood revitalization effort.

An enduring challenge with historic tax credit-financed (HTC-financed) properties is a high-wire act of balancing green building practices with opportunities to restore, preserve, reconstruct and rehabilitate existing structures, writes Nick Decicco for NOVOGRADAC’s Journal of Tax Credits.

While the team at Sustainable Community Associates (SCA) is usually known for repurposing historic Cleveland buildings into hip apartments, writes Karin Connelly Rice for FreshWater, the developers are well into their second new construction, and latest, apartment project—The Lincoln at the corner of Scranton Road and Willey Avenue in Tremont—just across the way from their 2014 Fairmont Creamery project down the street from their last new-construction project, The Tappan, completed last year.

More than 80 new apartment units are slated to rise in a part of Cleveland’s Tremont neighborhood, writes Jordyn Grzelewski for The Plain Dealer, where real-estate group Sustainable Community Associates has developed a sizable portfolio of rental housing, offices and retail space.

A local developer plans to build on its previous work in Tremont, writes Jordyn Grzelewski for The Plain Dealer, with a mixed-use, mixed-income project in the near West Side neighborhood’s Scranton corridor.

Sustainable Community Associates, a development group made up of three Oberlin College graduates who made a name for themselves by successfully redeveloping a blighted block in their college town, will present plans for The Tappan project to Tremont’s community development corporation next week.

An area of town heretofore dwarfed by the venerable Ohio City and Tremont neighborhoods is on the verge of getting a brand of its own, writes Erin O’Brien for FreshWater.

Last month, the historic preservation consulting firm Naylor Wellman, LLC, presented a 120-page nomination to the Ohio Historic Site Preservation Advisory Board (OHSPAB) for the Scranton South Side Historic District to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was handily approved. OHSPAB will further prepare the document, and then recommend the listing to the National Park Service, which makes the final designation on behalf of the Secretary of the Interior.

The $15 million Fairmont Creamery rehab represents one of Cleveland’s latest creative reuses of an abandoned industrial building rich in history, writes Kathy Ames Carr for Crain’s Cleveland.

The five-story brick structure — constructed in 1930 as a national distribution hub for dairy products — has been repurposed from its recent largely abandoned state into a 106,000-square-foot, mixed-used project featuring residential and commercial space, and parking.