Flats East Bank in the News

Cleveland native plans Flats entertainment project
May 22, 2008
Rub your eyes and look again. Is that beer bottle really emptying itself into your glass? Yes it is, but it’s not the alcohol tricking you. It’s illusionist and comedian Kerry Pollock. Pollock, a Cleveland native, signed a letter of intent Monday to open a magic-themed restaurant and entertainment venue in the Flats, where he began his career about 25 years ago at D’Poos. READ MORE

Turley’s Take Ernst & Young CEO sees future, and it’s bright
May 17, 2008
Ernst & Young’s global chief executive, James Turley, was in Cleveland recently to usher in the next chapter in the accounting firms 105-year history. Turley joined Mayor Frank Jackson and local executives to announce the company’s planned move of 1,200 workers to a new office building in developer Scott Wolstein’s Flats redevelopment. READ MORE

Wolstein names luxury '1 Hotel' and condos for Flats
May 16, 2008
A luxury hotel topped by million-dollar condos plans to open in the redeveloped Flats by 2011, becoming possibly the premier hotel in Greater Cleveland. Developers have partnered with Starwood Capital Group to open the 1 Hotel & Residences, a five-star, $48 million hotel and condo project. READ MORE

First Glimpse of the New Flats
May 9, 2008
Ernst & Young will take up six floors of the first new private office tower built downtown in nearly two decades - a tower that will bear the accounting firm's name. Company executives joined Mayor Frank Jackson and Developer Scott Wolstein on Thursday to formally announce that Ernst & Young will move from the Huntington Building, at Euclid Avenue and East Ninth Street. READ MORE

HUD to Help Finance Flats Grocery Project
May 9, 2008
Sen. George Voinovich, R-Ohio, announced that the city of Cleveland will receive $4 million from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development that will aid development of a grocery store at the Flats East Bank Neighborhood. READ MORE

Ernst & Young to move 1,200 to new Flats East Bank project
May 5, 2008
A big piece of the massive Flats East Bank project quietly went into place recently as Ernst & Young LLP made a preliminary commitment to move 1,200 employees to a planned office building there from the landmark Huntington Building in downtown Cleveland. READ MORE

Getting Ernst & Young as an anchor tenant will help secure Scott Wolstein's East Bank project and the future of the Flats: An editorial
May 8, 2008
A rejuvenation of the east bank of the Flats is moving closer to reality. Global accounting firm Ernst & Young, whose Cleveland roots stretch back more than 100 years, plans to move its 1,200 employees to a new high-rise tower there in three years from its current downtown location in the Huntington Building. READ MORE

Ernst & Young Offices Head to Flats
May 8, 2008
Ernst & Young LLP won naming rights to a 21-story office tower that will be known as Ernst & Young Tower as it committed to keeping its offices in downtown Cleveland as part of the Flats East Bank Neighborhood. READ MORE

Work to clear way for Flats East Bank picks up
May 7, 2008
Part of the old Flats begins disappearing today as wrecking crews start razing the last buildings on Old River Road north of Main Avenue in Cleveland. READ MORE

Ernst & Young to Move New Office to Flats Development
May 6, 2008
Accounting firm Ernst & Young plans to move its downtown Cleveland office and 1,200 employees to a massive development in the Flats. The firm would leave the Huntington Building for a new high-rise tower in 2011, Don Misheff, the firm's managing partner for Northeast Ohio, said Monday. READ MORE

Flats Plans Grow; Most to be Done by Late 2010
March 28, 2008
A developer's vision for the east bank of the Flats has grown dramatically, driven by demand for new downtown space for offices, hotels and other businesses. READ MORE

Final Demolition Approved for Flats Project
March 7, 2008
City planners today approved demolition permits for the remaining buildings that stand in the way of a $500 million project on the east bank of the Flats. READ MORE

Law Firm Will Move to Planned Office Building
February 11, 2008
Developer Scott Wolstein has snagged his first office tenant for a development in the Flats. Law firm Tucker Ellis & West LLP on Monday confirmed plans to move its downtown headquarters to a planned building near the east bank. READ MORE

Tucker Ellis Heading to the Flats
February 11, 2008
Tucker Ellis & West LLP is the first tenant to announce that it plans to hang its shingle at the Flats East Bank Neighborhood, the $500 million redo of the Old River Road north of Main Avenue by Wolstein Group of Beachwood and Fairmount Properties of Cleveland. READ MORE

Eaton Corp., Port to Begin Talks on New Headquarters, Campus
February 6, 2008
Eaton Corp., the biggest Fortune 500 company headquartered in Cleveland, will begin serious talks that could result in a new corporate campus on 8.5 acres on the Flats' east bank. READ MORE

Scope of Planned Flats Development Grows
October 16, 2007
The developers of the proposed Flats East Bank mixed-use project today unveiled updated plans that highlight the prospect of additional office and residential space. READ MORE

Bernie Cooking in Flats
May 22, 2007
Bernie Kosar, under center the last time the Browns were Super Bowl contenders, is now under contract to bring a steakhouse to the Flats. The Boardman native is the first announced tenant for the $230 million mixed-use neighborhood planned for the East Bank. READ MORE

Wolstein Group Seeks Permission to Raise Flats Buildings
December 8, 2006
Property acquisition may be incomplete, but Wolstein Group is scheduled to ask Cleveland City Planning Commission at its meeting on Friday, Dec. 15, for permission to demolish eight buildings on Old River Road for its proposed $230 million Flats East Bank project. READ MORE

The Son Also Rises
October 2005
It'd be easy to sit back and enjoy life if you're Bart Wolstein's son. After all, what's left to accomplish? Plenty, if you're wired like Scott Wolstein, who has unleashed his bold ideas not only on his company, but also on the East Bank of the Flats. READ MORE

Developer Unveils Bold Blueprint for Flats Office
October 10, 2005
The office market in downtown Cleveland has been so weak for so long that real estate insiders rarely talk about the prospect of someone constructing a commercial office building in the city. But that isn't stopping Scott Wolstein from incorporating a 10-story, multitenant office building in his redevelopment plans for the Flats. READ MORE

Pump Up the Jobs
May 17, 2005
"East Bank Neighborhood" would produce more than 600 new jobs on Old River Road in the Flats and have an annual economic impact of more than $50 million, according to a preliminary study the Greater Cleveland Partnership unveiled today. READ MORE

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